Saturday, February 13, 2010

Dating outside your DNA by Karen Kelley Reviewed

Dating outside your DNA
by Karen Kelley
Brava/Kensington Books

Review by Marcia Corbett
My Rating:  4 ½ out of 5

Set Phasers To Sizzle...
Synopsis
Special agent Roan Hendrix is a straight shooter with weapons and women, so he doesn’t appreciate it when his boss throws him a curve. But what a curve. A half-human, half-Nerakian who needs a one-on-one crash course in how best to channel her powers. And while Roan’s usually a master at separating business from pleasure, one glance into Lyraka’s green eyes is enough to spark scorching fantasies of seriously close encounters with the tall, tanned temptress... 

Lyraka’s trying not to mind the way Mister Macho Special Agent keeps barking orders, but it’s impossible to ignore Roan’s rough-and-ready appeal. The sensitive ponytail guys Lyraka grew up with didn’t have a clue how to handle her outsized sex drive, but Roan looks like he’d be up to the task in every way. Better still, he never got the memo that Lyraka’s human side makes her—ahem—“special talents” even greater than the average Nerakian’s.… Synopsis by Kensingtonbooks.com http://www.kensingtonbooks.com/finditem.cfm?itemid=15283

Review-
This is the fourth book in Karen Kelley’s Planet Nerak series and depends on the reader knowing at least something about the previous story lines.  She pulls in all of the main characters from the previous books, at least marginally, while adding several new characters.  That said, this book contains a really hot new hero, some “killer” love scenes, a really sick and perverted bad guy, some minor torture, bondage, sex slaves, space travel and plenty of action.

Although not apparent until well into the story, this is kind of a “Men in Black” view of the universe with a bit of “Star Trek” thrown in since Roan works for an agency that polices aliens on earth as well as earthlings on other planets with the beginnings of a group of worlds joining together to keep peace among their members and protect them from attack by non-member nations.

I really enjoyed the back and forth in Lyraka’s feelings for Roan.  Does she love him or hate him?  Does she want to jump his bones or never see him again?  Does she trust him……. Or not?  Then, when her mother Aasera’s old enemy decides to take his revenge on the daughter and comes to earth to search for Lyraka, things not only get dangerous, but a bit on the freaky side!  

.If you like fast-paced What the #%$#^ is going to happen next?” stories with plenty of sex and a bit of fun mixed together with dangerous situations, you really need to check out this book and the entire series, starting with “Close Encounters of the Sexy Kind”, followed by “Earth Guys are Easy” (previously published as “Cosmic Sex”) and “Bad Boys Guide to the Galaxy”  

Everything I’ve read of Karen Kelleys work is sexy and fun.  You can learn more about Karen and her books at her website, http://www.authorkarenkelley.com/

Labels: , , , ,

1 Comments:

Anonymous Terry Kate said...

Me want!
I think the book sounds great - I love the review and I want to welcome Marcia to the Backseat Reviewers.

So would I date out side my DNA? It feels like I do already!
Terry Kate

February 13, 2010 at 11:40 AM  

Post a Comment

Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]

<< Home