Moonfire
Futuristic Romance: Newly elected as Ambassador to the infant colony of Treaine, Alex Mariltar has been ordered to take a wife from a race not his own. Rejecting the marriage choices of the Coalition, he settles on an elusive and beautiful creature from his dreams. Plucked from the supposed safety of a Coalition vessel, Earth woman, Joanna Chase, finds herself married to a jewel-eyed warrior with a will stronger than her own.
Moonfire Accessories
 StarJumper's Bride
The Alliance
Moonstruck (Borderlands)
True Deception (The True Series, Book 2)
Twist
Kiss of Fire (Dragonfire, Book 1)
Slave (The Cat Star Chronicles)
Shades of Dark
The Down Home Zombie Blues
Crystal Moon
Moonfire Reviews
No problem, right. But still a satisfying read and I'll look for more by this author. My compliments on that feat. Well.rather than go through the whole courting rigamarole, he'll just order them married and get on with it. The author quickly pulled me into her world and kept me there pretty much non-stop til I finished the book.
Joanna is a negotiator working to help bring about peace among warring factions in a star-system far from Earth. Alex knows he has to marry outside his world as part of the peace accords and since he hasn't been able to get the curvy (stubborn), beautiful (disobedient), and sexy (head-strong) Earth woman out of his mind, isn't it handy that she's been declared compatible by the Match Key. All of a sudden, she finds herself kidnapped via beam from her ship and married to a commanding (hunkalicious), irritating (drool-worthy), non-negotiating (gorgeous) neanderthal. Several secondary characters deserve a book of their own and I think the author means/meant. I enjoyed this book very much.
to develop this world more as I was left with lingering curiosity regarding some events in the book. When these two titans clash, it's truly marvelous. While at times I was irritated with both of them, I still heartily enjoyed their meandering path to happiness.
I thought the book was well written, and I just loved the delima of the heroine. I did not figure out the plot till then end, and I was surprised at the ending.
Anne Clarke achieves a good balance between romance and world building and has some laugh out loud humorous scenes. I was excited to see that the sequel to Moonfire has finally been published and decided to read Moonfire again before jumping into the sequel. Clarke. I thoroughly enjoyed re-reading this book and am looking forward to reading the sequel StarJumpers Bride, which is published under the name J.A. I'm a big fan of futuristic romances and always snap them up whenever I find them. Some concentrate on world building at the expense of the romance while others are romances with a bare bones future world. Once again Anne Clarke took me to an exotic future where two people from different worlds fall in love.
When at last we think they understood each other and sigh with relief, the book goes right back to "he wants her, but.", as if nothing had happened. Here are some possible entries:(a) I know that the enjoyment of reading erotic scenes doesn't always depend on good writing. I am sorry, but I wouldn't recommend this book, unless you really have nothing else to read on a train ride. I feel bad doing this, since Ms. He wants her, but is put off by her cold demeanor; she wants him, but won't yield just for the sake of it.
(c) Although the author makes it painfully clear that the "adventure" part of the plot is as crucial to the book as the dialogue to a porn movie, I was hoping that the "mystery" would be resolved, at least. The whole thing is squeezed in the last 50 pages or so (out of 300) of the book, in which we hear about a strange city, a strange being, and a strange prophecy. The reader often wishes the characters would have a long talk about it and move on to more interesting emotions. In addition to fairly formulaic and stereotypical erotic scenes, which constitute the bulk of this book, we often find stuff like: "He had a brief moment of doubt when he wondered if she would breed less easily because of her daintier size" (p.42); "While she never initiated their lovemaking, she had never refused his advances, except once on the first day of her monthly bleeding." (p.190) And more of the same.(b) The emotions of the two main characters are agonies of pointless and exaggerated misunderstandings. At the end of the book, we sort of solve the prophecy, and find nothing about the city, the being, or why the prophecy was important in the history of that planet, for that matter.
However, in the spirit of fair criticism, I have to say that in my opinion one could fill an entire term paper with what is wrong with this novel. Clarke put effort into writing a book (one would think), while I am taking the much easier route of tearing it apart. Here, however, it is most certainly hampered by crass writing.
I will be looking for more books in the future from this author. I love paranormal/futuristic romances but I am very picky and rarely find new authors that I like but Anne Clark has just been added to my list. I won't write a storyline for this book as others have done so but I thought the book was well done.
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