Secure Dark Deeds (Class 5, #2) Originated By Michelle Diener Accessible In Copy

great story, the world building is truly well done and the details about each step taken well thought, Some "technical" informations seemed a bit off,
I rally wished the romance wasn't as subtle, It would be perfect if we could have more emphasis on the emotional/social interactions between different species and also if the romance content was a bit heavier overall.
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Another really good space romance, this one with no graphic sexy times, It furthered the long arc of the story and continued the exceptional world universe building, though, and left me wanting to just dive right into the third one.
Also, I wasn't as side tracked by the editing as I had been with the first one, There were still bits of typos and the like, but it wasn't as glaring as the first book so it didn't interrupt the story flow.


These are good books, They have a one couple per book format that most romance readers will be familiar with, but they have a long arc that is more developed with each offering.
Well done. Far from home

Fiona Russell has been snatched from Earth, imprisoned and used as slave labor, but nothing about her abduction makes sense.
When shes rescued by the Grih, she realizes theres a much bigger game in play than she could ever have imagined, and shes right in the middle of it.


Far from safe, . .

Battleship captain Hal Vakeri is chasing down pirates when he stumbles across a woman abducted from Earth, Shes the second one the Grih have found in two months, and her presence is potentially explosive in the Grihs ongoing negotiations with their enemies, the Tecran.
The Tecran and the Grih are on the cusp of war, and Fiona might just tip the balance,

Far from done, . .

Fiona has had to bide her time while shes been a prisoner, pretending to be less than she is, but when the chance comes for her to forge her own destiny in this new world, she grabs it with both hands.
After all, actions speak louder than words,

An ARC was given in exchange for an honest review, Thank you to the writer and the publisher for the opportunity to read this,

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There was no sex in this book, I repeat, there was no sex, Hell, Fiona and Hal didn't even get to second base, And oh, the sexual tension between them only surfaced at around themarker before that, everything was all space opera drama, What the hell


If I was a lesser nerd, I would have hated this, But the fact is, I'm not, I'm probably one of the biggest scifi fanatics you'll ever meet, and this just satisfied me on a nerdgasmic level.
So much so that the fact that the romance left me hanging didn't bother me as much,

Maybe it was the Star Wars and Star Trek feels that I got when I read about the different alien species, the intergalactic politics of the United Council, and basically everything about the universe that was setup here.
Maybe it was because Hal was so adorable when he finally realised his feelings for Fiona, Maybe it was because Fiona was able to remain strong, despite all the shit she went through she was abducted, forced

into slave labour, and then got beaten up by alien pirates.
But yes, I enjoyed this very much,


That being said, I want to point out that while I really liked this book, I'm reluctant to recommend it to the general public.
I feel like this is something only a hardcore scifi fan would like, The focus is really on the space opera drama, and less on the romance, In fact, the firstwas just about the rising tension between the Grihs and the Tecrans, and about finding out what the Tecrans were up to.
So if you're looking for something similar to Ruby Dixon's Ice Planet Barbarians series, you're in the wrong place,

Same song, second verse, a little bit louder and a little bitJUST AS COMPLETELY AWESOME AS THE FIRST!!!!!!!!

screams in glee I hit my side in happiness and excitement when I finished reading.
Gah, I want the next book so very, very, very badly,

Okay, so worldbuilding great! Characters lovable! Plot pretty freaking awesome! I read it and I loved it with my whole entire heart.
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srsly next book pls

edited to add:

Gah!!!!! I want to know what happens with all the different alien groups!!! GAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAaaaaAaaaaah!!!!



Read it again, it remained good.
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I really enjoyed this light sci fi romance, There were good guys, bad guys, Intelligent thinking systems, space ships and lots of adventure,
I liked this book enough to go right out and buy the next two in the series, I wanted to check this author out and found I like her style, I would rate all three books the same, I found myself wanting more romance, what Come on! Oh me, I am never happy, well except for in romance, then there is enough romance, But when it comes to books toeing that line between being romance or not being romance I am always too little! Too much!

I did not have enough to say about that in book, hmm, maybe enough romance there then Or maybe I just did not feel that Fiona and pointy ear alien got enough time together.
There could be another book, ohh, nah, a short story, where Fiona and her pointy ear elf, I mean alien, finds the romance.


Instead we have Fiona being rescued, Oh these aliens, kidnapping human women head shake, She meets pointy eared aliens and other ones, She meets her own Classspace ship, People are trying to silence her, see it's not good going around kidnapping sentient beings, The others frown upon that, So yes there is action and some snark and laughs thrown in,

But the romance, eh, that was lacking, I could have it cut out entirely, since I did not feel they had enough time to fall in love, or even fall in lust.
I need to feel they belong, here, eh, maybe they will have fun and then not see each other anymore, I am fine with that, I'm sensing a pattern here but at least we still don't get insta love, just lust and companionship, I understand feeling a connection with someone who has helped or rescued you, especially when it's a life and death situation,

I still feel weird about them not wanting to try to go back to earth, Also the elf ears reaction will never stop being hilarious!,