~ Lei ~ Reading Is An Adventure ~'s Reviews > Hers to Captivate

★★★★★ ~ 5 Stars
*A copy of this book was provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.*

This is book 5 in the Verdantian series and Ms. Knights continues to write this series with inventiveness, interesting characters and sexy times.

We revisit Ram and Steffania [Vixen} who rescued Dr. Angelica [Pansy] from Hers To Cherish who's been working on neurologically remapping the kidnapped noblewoman who were turned into sex slaves.

Tristan has been assigned as Angel's bodyguard because the slavers have put out a bounty on her head and finds himself just as attracted to her as he is to Mage, the ship captain who's all grown up in the eight years since Tristan last saw him and abruptly turned him down when he was just 16. Mage isn't 16 anymore and he wants answers from Tris and more from Angel.

The plot doesn't really move forward in this story but Tris, Mage and Angel get to know each other much better, would have liked to see a bit more Tris/Mage action, and the assassins sent to kill Angel are pretty nasty.

There's a sexy scene of Ram teaching Tris his shibari skills to use on Mage and Angel. The world-building in this series just gets better and better and the writing is impeccable.

Even though this is book 5, I think you could read this as a stand-alone but this has been such an excellent series, I think it would be worth it for new readers to read the whole series.