Ann Mayburn

Compared to most femdom I've seen, this is 4 or 5 tar. Which says very little about this book and everything about how hard it is to find good femdom. If you are looking for femdom in a semi-decent story, you could do worse.

Sadly, by more general standards, it falls very flat.

First off, Mayburn seems to have some real trouble deciding what the main conflict is. She starts off giving the reader the impression that Dr. Sapphire, the heroine, is going to be rescuing the hero by using kink and a change of scenery to help him recover from a bad case of PTSD. I won't give away any spoilers here, but suffice to say that this is highly misleading.

While the issue that will become the main conflict is hinted at from earlier on, the change in focus is extremely damaging to the story and realy annoyed me, as it swung from promising heroine would rescue hero to a stereotypical hero rescuing heroine.

Characters are generally well developed, but their interactions and responses to each other often seem off.

Minor inaccuracies pulled me out of suspension of disbelief.

Overall, not a bad book, but I'm not sure it was worth the entrance fee and definitely not worth reading again.… (mais)

~ 4.5 Casey's Warriors Stars ~

Casey's Warriors is book one in the Bondmates series by Ann Mayburn. This was my first book with Ann Maybum and most certainly not my last. She captured me from the first to last page. I was sucked into the Alien world.

I don't read many Erotic Sci-Fi Romances, but this one caught my eye and I had to give it a try. I was blown away and became immersed in the world created. I liked how the author explained the cultures both of Earth and of the Alien race. This helps set everything up and build the characters and world. It shows us the trills the Alien men will have to over come to get an Earth woman to love and accept more than one man as her bonded mates. I thoroughly enjoyed the characters and romance. The author did a great job writing the sex scenes which range from M/F, menage, M/M, and more.

Their was one thing that I felt should have been flushed out more. The villain, which it sounds like will continue in the rest of the series, but those that don’t like the book don’t get closer on this. We are left hanging on who they are and what consequences the villain's actions will or do have.

Their was one thing I didn’t really like so much. It was very predictable that the heroine runs away when she sees something that upsets her. Really lady you are on an Alien plant and it’s very obvious you can feel your husbands emotions and they can feel you, so why not open up and talk to them instead of running away. This just made her drop down in my opinion from a character that could actually accept things, to a stupid bimbo. This action leads into her punishment/consequence. I didn’t care for how the author handled this. Casey's mates punish her with a great orgasms and a very very hot sex. This didn't work so much for me. I will say it was a hot and very sexy scene, but I felt it was silly to use sex as a means to make the heroine understand. The husbands/wife should talk; with cloths on, explain, and have a mutual understanding, then after that have outstanding fabulous makeup sex. Adding those two scenes together and it made them feel counter productive.

Casey's Warriors is an erotica romance set in an alternate world with sexy alien men and multiple partners. It’s a steamy romance. I was so captured that I ended up picking up the novella to read and can’t wait for book two to come.

*Disclaimer: I received a complimentary copy provided by Barclay Publicity via NetGalley with the sole purpose of an honest review. All thoughts, comments and ratings are my own.

… (mais)