4-4.5 stars
This was a really good story. I really liked Cara and Trelon and thoroughly enjoyed their story. This is part of the series but TBH, it feel like enough of a story on it’s own that I think it could be read out of order with hardly any difficulty.
Cara is a rather hyper but greatly gifted woman. She’s extremely intelligent and is gifted at mechanics, figuring things out and getting out of places she doesn’t want to be. As a kid, she lost both of her parents and her uncle took guardianship over her. Cara has been hyper and extremely curious all her life so her uncle couldn’t handle her and ended up sending her to a boarding school for gifted children. Unfortunately, Car didn’t have much happiness there either.
Trelon is a dragon shifter from an alien planet. His brother, Zoran, is the King of their people (in addition to being the hero from book #1). Trelon works helping his brothers run the kingdom (their planet) and is mechanically inclined. His dragon wants a mate and he hasn’t found his true mate so he’s considered taking a woman he knows as his mate even though his dragon barely tolerates her.
Zonran was kidnapped by enemies and he escaped but ended up injured on a primitive planet (Earth) where Trelon and his other brothers had to travel to to pick him up. When they get there, it’s to find someone kidnapping Abby (Zoran’s human mate) and in the process of rescuing her, the brothers reveal themselves to a handful of human woman that Abby was travelling with. The brothers decide that the woman have seen too much and need to be taken back to their planet with them. Cara is among the women kidnapped by the Valdier warriors and actually thought the whole thing was kind of cool. She never fit in well on Earth anyways and there’s all sorts of new gadgets for her to take apart on the spaceship…
Trelon knows right away that Cara is his…he can’t keep his eyes off of her and goes nuts when another Valdier tries to touch her. His symbiosis migrates completely over to her, abandoning him, and he can’t seem to keep track of her because every time he turns around, she’s gone again. Cara feels the attraction for Trelon but avoids it at first as she’s never had much luck with love…most guys couldn’t stand being around her long enough for a first date. Cara had even swore off love but I think that was mostly a defense mechanism that enabled her not to be hurt by men that couldn’t accept her for herself because she would never fall for them anyways. Trelon does manage to get past her barrier but staying there isn’t easy, especially when the woman he would have mated if not for Cara shows up and causes some trouble. There’s some drama and danger for both Trelon and Cara but they get through things relatively unscathed and end the story starting a well deserved HEA together.
This was a really enjoyable story. Cara was a great heroine, I found her to be very endearing. TBH, I don’t blame Trelon for being frustrated with Cara…she had no concept of discretion when tearing things apart and experimenting with stuff. Still, outside of that, I really liked Cara and would have loved to hang out with her (if she existed in RL I mean). Trelon was a good hero even if it took him a little bit to understand how to deal with Cara. Also, he had his grumpy moments but with Cara’s antics, he wasn’t exactly getting a lot of sleep and I could sympathize (LMAO). Overall, I liked the characters a lot and thought the story itself was really good and did well at keeping me interested through the end. I’d recommend this story. 🙂