Thursday, July 16, 2020

Red Sands by Erin Tate [Review]

Red Sands by Erin Tate
Red Sands (Warlords of Atera #1) by Erin Tate
Format: ebook
Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited
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Date read: August 13, 2019

Warlords of Atera
1. Red SandsKindle
2. Hard Sands
3. Living Sands

Erin Tate (aka Celia Kyle)
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Synopsis (Goodreads):
She’s on the run from a violent past...
He solves his problems with a sword...

Fleeing a life of abuse, Sheri climbs aboard a mail-order mate spaceship bound for a distant station, but never arrives… Fate intervenes and her trip takes a quick, deadly turn when she crashes on the planet Atera. She’s surrounded by endless sand dunes, dangerous creatures, and alien beings that remind her of Earth lizards. But one particular lizard hardly leaves her thoughts - a sexy, two legged, muscular male bent on protecting and caring for her at all costs!

Drazan is a fierce warrior, the strongest Ateran of the Red Sands, he rules his dunes with an iron fist and sharp sword, and is honour bound to face all challengers to his position. During one of these battles something… strange… happens. Fire rains from the skies and a strange black metal box filled with females crashes to the sands. All thoughts of fighting are lost to the allure of these odd humans - especially one deliciously curvy female who stirs his blood. Now he finds himself with dark yearnings, strong need, and a hardness between his legs that he’s never used before!

With Sheri consuming his thoughts, Drazan may have forgotten about his last challenge but his opponent’s brother hasn’t. Now he’s determined to see Drazan suffer… even if that means killing Sheri!
Thoughts on Red Sands: This might be SUPER specific, but human survivors who are distinctly unsuited to life on the planet they crashed on, but who are plucky and don't know how to stop fighting to survive and who somehow find love and acceptance with the alien beings they meet is something that does it for me. BIG TIME.

So. Sheri and her human cohorts are thrown into a whole lot of crazy when the ship they're on malfunctions and ends up depositing them (in a fiery blaze of broken ship parts) on a desert planet populated by a lizard-like (but humanoid in all the right ways) species. Sheri's a fighter, but she's also dealing with the aftereffects of abuse and the Aterans' warrior-based culture puts her in a bad place a time or two.

Fortunately for her, Drazan takes a shine to her. And by "shine", I mean she stirs his blood and riles up all his mating instincts. Which leads to some awkward times because humans don't have mating instincts and all that.

Buuuut...everything works out. Eventually. There's a little fighting. A lot of sexy. Cultural differences. Close-lipped warriors who aren't good at explaining things at times. You know, the usual.

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