Review: Treyjon

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Angela left her parents’ lavender farm with dreams of becoming a professional dog trainer. Getting kidnapped by slavers from outer space was not part of the plan. Fortunately, Angela and a few dozen other women were rescued by Star Guardians. She isn’t quite sure how she's going to get back to Earth, but these Star Guardians aren’t looking too shabby, especially a hunky one named Treyjon. He trains svenkars, four-hundred-pound predators that make pit bulls look like squeak toys. Angela is curious about the animals--and about him. The problem? He doesn’t seem to know she exists. For Treyjon, the women staying as guests aboard the Star Guardian ship are off limits. The captain has made that clear, so he hasn’t allowed himself to admire their feminine assets. But when one of them shows an interest in the powerful predators he trains, animals that scare most women out of the room, he’s intrigued. When she proves a knack for working with one of the creatures, he’s more than intrigued. He starts wondering how he’s ever going to let her go home.

Genre: science fiction romance

Publication date: June 2017

Mature content: yes

Review: Treyjon is book two in the Star Guardians series by Ruby Lionsdrake, and closely follows book one (Orion). While it's a very close follow up of the adventure that started in Orion (and yes, this means it is not meant to be read as a stand-alone, even though the author provides a bit of insight about what happened before), I didn't feel that there was a lot happening in this second installment. 

 

 

 

 

 

The romance is rushed (just like in book one) and a bit unrealistic in some places, but more than that, the whole story seems rushed. The only really important thing happening is that Angela and the rest of the Earth women have not been allowed to return to their home planet, but the captain of the Star Guardians ship decided to take them anyway.

What happens afterwards? No idea, because by then Treyjon ends and you need to read book three to find out.

So, while these books are sort of addictive - because, of course, you end up wanting to know if the women do get to return home or not - Treyjon felt more like a novella or a just a chapter of the main story, and not really a full sized book with its own plot. If not for the fact that it provides a link to the rest of the series, you could almost skip it and not lose all that much.

 

I have by now moved on to book three and post a review of that one as soon as I finish it.

Happy readings otherwise,

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