Each story was well written, fun, exciting, sexy and a story unto it’s own. ~ Kitty, Guilty Pleasures
Description:
From the darkest parts of the underworld, to aliens hunting on Earth, to planets far away, each of these capture-themed novellas by six bestselling authors takes you on a wild ride that will heat up your fantasies and keep you up all night long…reading.
From Holly S. Roberts – Sergeant Kelly Myers fights a war that humans are losing but there may be a way out. Can she sacrifice her blood and body to a vampire to save her country or is Talon worse than the evil trying to kill them all?
From Angela Castle – For alien King K’marr, time is running short, he captures and claims the human Ashlyn Sawyer as his. Yet Ash objects to his methods of persuasion. Can K’marr convince Ash they are Soul Bonds or will she let him succumb to the abyss of madness?
From Cari Silverwood’s new Preyfinder series – A Preyfinder is trained to withstand hardship and pain, but Jadd would rather kneel before a firestorm than leave his captive, Brittany, to be stalked and killed. The choice between love and loyalty to his soldier brothers may tear him in two.
From Sorcha Black – Lying tangled in her sheets each night, dreaming of sex, virginal Shiloh never means to tempt the spying succubus. Even so, the accident of their mutual infatuation won’t save Shiloh or Moth from the Council’s wrath.
From C.L. Scholey – Lost in a forest, poison ivy for an unwanted companion. Two hot aliens take the form of friends and spirit her away aboard their alien vessel. Can life get any stranger for Cali? It can. Add some mind blowing sex and hang on!
From Leia Shaw – After accidentally turning off a device that could destroy earth, Maggie finds herself abducted by Baen, a man with an accent as sexy as his rugged looks. As he drags her to Scotland to fix it, chemistry between the two explodes, but is it enough for a happily ever after?
Publication by WC Press, March 2014
Review copy provided for an honest review
Anthologies are hard to review … do I review each book separately or should I review the book as a whole? My decision is to review the “book” itself, not break down each story but comment on certain things that caught my attention.
Honestly, I smiled throughout this anthology. I enjoy capture fantasies because they take me away from the normal grind of life, they don’t make me wish it was me and I know that none of them would be my book boyfriend. Well, I can’t say that … Leia Shaw’s Baen definitely had me wishing for a Scottish Brogue … Talon could take my vein anytime and if a Preyfinder wants to find me, I will personally put my coordinates into his GPS. I have to give Sorcha props – even though I don’t usually like straight f/f (I do enjoy f/m/f or m/f/m) she caught my attention with Shiloh and Moth and held it throughout the story. Then we have our Aliens … both stories were hot, steamy and outrageous. I honestly loved all the books in the anthology even though they were all so different from each other.
With that being said, Capture Fantasies can be a hard read. You have to open your mind to the possibilities, look the other way at what could be illegal or immoral in the real world, and hold on for what could be a wild ride through space and time. It’s a touch of paranormal mixed with some BDSM and then topped with the HEA – sometimes in a weird, round-about way. Each author had their own style of writing, of telling a story. I was familiar with 3 of the authors and the other 3 were new to me so I was looking forward to this sampling of new and old. I am always a little hesitant in reading a new author and am usually pleasantly surprised, and I was not disappointed in any way. Each story was well written, fun, exciting, sexy and a story unto it’s own. They didn’t overlap and no two stories were alike – it was like reading 6 different books in one shot. So, enjoy Kept and keep an open mind … you never know when an alien, Scottish lord or vampire may come to you at night and sweep you away to an alternate universe.
Thanks Kitty