Cathian (The Vorge Crew, #1) and Dovis (The Vorge Crew, #2) by Laurann Dohner

Cathian by Laurann Dohner
SUMMARY

When Nara Barns and her tiny crew find themselves with a choice between jail or the sex-slave auction block, it’s an easy choice. Especially when they plan to escape their buyers as soon as possible, anyway. Even better, Nara’s buyer wants her for just six days, long enough to get him through his heat until women from his planet can come to his aid.

Six days and then freedom? Sign her up.

However, Nara’s completely unprepared for the impact Captain Cathian Vellar has on her body. To survive his heat, the Tryleskian must feed—and Nara is his favorite meal. Her body can barely withstand the rapture. Soon, her heart is just as engaged. But enduring the pinnacle of Cathian’s heat he could kill Nara, and he refuses to risk her life. 

MY REVIEW

The first time I read this story was in the anthology Something Wicked This Way Comes, Volume 1 and it was a shorter version. I actually got this anthology just to read this story. 

This new standalone version is not much different. It mainly includes a few conversations of Cathian with his father who wants to mate him with a nice female from his own planet and definitely not with a human.

So, Cathian is a captain, a Tryleskian and an ambassador for his race. Lately he is in trouble because he needs “feeding” and there is not any Tryleskian female available. Unless Cathian is “fed” fast, he will get crazy. 

Nara is also a captain, a human and a trader. Lately she is in trouble because she is in jail and the only way she has not to be there anymore is to sell her body for a period of time. Cathian seems to be her easiest choice (at least she won't be eaten by him literally.....but she doesn't know that maybe she will be eaten by him figuratively).

I enjoyed the story once more but I think if you have read it before, it will not add anything to the original story. Still it is great to have such an interesting beginning in the new sci-fi erotica series.

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Dovis by Laurann Dohner
SUMMARY

Sold into slavery as a child, Mari was raised on a vessel repair station, growing up to become a highly prized engineer. So she’s surprised when her owner not only grants her freedom, but finds her a paying job aboard The Vorge. Mari’s determined to impress her new captain and crewmates. It’s the only way she’ll remain free, safe from the hands of other slavers. But there seems no impressing Dovis, the ship’s head of security. He’s huge, hairy, scary, and seems to hate humans. 

Dovis finds humans weak and annoying at the best of times. They don’t need another one aboard The Vorge. Especially a female who works hard enough to make everyone else look lazy. He wants Mari gone—until he meets her. The tiny human is sweet, shy, timid…beautiful. Now Dovis really wants her gone. He isn’t happy about his attraction to a human. Especially when he can’t be certain Mari’s desire for him is from the heart…or an accident of his own making.

MY REVIEW

After I finished the first book of the series, i.e.“Cathian”, I was expecting more stories about Tryleskians and their strange feeding rituals when they are in heat. Surprisingly, we got a story about another member of the Vorge spaceship. And he is entirely new species. So there are different customs about his mating. Dovis is huge, scary and very very hairy. He also dislikes humans. Mari is an ex-slave who was raised on a vessel repair station. And she is very much human. She is small, timid and very good at her job. When she starts working at Vorge she gradually learns all Dovis' secrets. Dovis likes isolation. He feels free and he can be himself when he is in his own cabin alone. And then he realises that Mari had witnessed all the changes that happen to his body when he thinks that nobody is looking. And moreover he likes her. A lot. And he wants to protect her. How did this thing happen to him? Soon Mari will prove her trustworthiness and her loyalty to the captain and the crew of Vorge and Dovis will not be able to let her go. Well, this story is truly fantastic. Lots of sci-fi elements and wild imagination. You may consider it as an alternative of the werewolf myth in space.