(Re-read: now)
Enslave Me Sweetly
She has the heart of a killer. And
the body of an angel...
Cold-blooded assassin. Hot-blooded
passion... Edan Black always gets her man.
Prod Dets:
Alien Huntress series, book two
Pub: 2006,
Author: Gena Showalter
Format: paperback; 306 pages w/ 30
chapters
Whose:
Edan & Lucius
Age range:
Adult (5)
Synopsis:
Edan Black walks among humans, protecting them from the murderous evil of
other-worlders who abduct and enslave. And though she appears to be human
herself, Edan is an alien, a Raka, distinguished by her golden hair and skin,
and gifted with the ominous ability to kill without remorse – and with total
accuracy. That is, until the fateful night she has one shot to eliminate her
target, a human slaver – and misses.
“Failure” is not in Edan’s vocabulary.
Neither is “partner” – but that’s what she is forcibly assigned after
recovering from disastrous mission. A sexy, steel-nerved human agent, Lucius
Adaire enjoys nothing more than sparking the fury – and rousing the desire – of
the fiery female assassin too proud to admit defeat. Locked in an assignment
they cannot afford to lose, Lucius and Edan find themselves bound in two
high-stakes, heart-pounding games: the sensual web of kill or be killed, and
the erotic dance of seduction.
Review:
this book, to me, was a long time in loving. Mostly because I didn’t particularly
like the words, the whole alien thing just isn’t my thing, so saying that her
world is actually really well done. But...
I loved Edan; she’s a kickass woman who knows
what she wants and what she doesn’t even if her body is saying she does. It’s
one of those books that seems more about lust, but when things get down to it,
you can really see that Lucius is a perfect male for her.
Okay, so mostly this book is about them both
really, really wanting each other but that’s it, sex. They don’t want it to be
anything else, even though it’s clearly there. Though saying this, it’s in
first person, Edan’s thoughts, and so, we don’t really know what Lucius is feeling.
I loves the situation too, loved the fact
that Edan was like so many other woman out there, the harder ones that can’t
quite seem to measure up, or at least that’s how she sees it. and that
character, the harder, need driven character works so well with both the plot
and the lover, there isn’t anything soft about Edan, she wants what she wants
and in a way that’s all feminine.
I loved her and even though the world did
nothing for me, this book defiantly did.
Other books in series: Awaken Me
Darkly, Savor Me Slowly, Seduce the Darkness, Ecstasy in Darkness, Dark Taste
of Rapture,