Reclaiming Isis by Selena Blake

 

Title: Reclaiming Isis

Author:  Selena Blake

Publisher:  Changeling Press

Publication Date:  2010

ISBN:  978-1-60521-458-0

Genre:  Sci-fi

Length:  Short novella

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Author Website:  www.selena-blake.com

Author Email:  selenablake@gmail.com

Rating: 5 Diamonds

Heat Level: Sensually erotic

Other: Machine sex, ménage, oral, anal

Reviewer:  Starla Kaye

Date: 9-23-10

Loves torn apart, loves found again. Two seriously hot men had their bride stolen from them and have searched for months to find her. They never gave up.

Isis knows only artificial lovemaking via machines, living on a planet of only women. But she has dreamed of men loving her, and yet didn’t think that was possible. Then one day a barbarian takes her from PrimeC and tells her she doesn’t belong there. She belongs with him and with another equally barbaric and hot man. She is their woman. Can it be true? Can she really belong with Rafe and Tristin?

For a very short story, it was nicely developed. The characters had a certain amount of depth, their external conflict is difficult, and their internal conflicts are complicated. But there was a determination to overcome obstacles and again find the loving relationship they had once shared. Wonderful, touching, and seriously hot!

 

 

 

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Rescuing Natacha by Selena Blake

Title: Rescuing Natacha

Author: Selena Blake

Publisher: Changeling Press

Publication Date: 2010

ISBN: 978-1-60521-471-9

Genre: Sci-Fi/Interracial

Length: Novella

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Author Email: selenablake@gmail.com

Rating: 4.5 Diamonds

Heat Level: Erotic

Other: Oral

Reviewer: Starla Kaye

Date: 9-9-10

Things don’t always go as planned and Halyn finds this out on a supposedly simple rescue mission. As a spacemerc, he knows trouble and how to adapt to it. Until he runs into Natacha, the woman he is rescuing from PrimeC, where women are brainwashed, held against their will, and kept in passionate dreams by the use of machines. Her reactions to him…his reactions to her…all threaten the life he’d been leading.

Natacha has been unaware of anything beyond persistent passion and overwhelming needs for too long. She is confused as a strange man rescues her. As she suffers deep lust, a side effect of withdrawal from the gases used on her when she was a prisoner, she makes Halyn’s life a kind of personal hell. She wants him; he struggles to resist. But as time goes on…

This is a follow-up book to Deep Space Encounters: Reclaiming Isis, which I, unfortunately, have not read yet. I enjoyed the characters in this book, their unusual conflicts, and definitely the intense heat they struggled with. For a short novella, it was a great read, a hot read.

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