DREAM BOUND by Kate Douglas
In this erotic romance story, extreme, hot, sexual fantasizing is used as an energy source to attempt to save an alien race of people, the Nyrians, from a lifetime of imprisonment and at the same time save Earth from being stripped of all its resources and left as a dead rock floating in the universe.
In the first story in this series (Dream Catcher in the NightShift anthology) , Mac Dugan met Zianne, a time-traveling alien from a spaceship in orbit near Earth 20 years in the future, and fell in love with her.
Together they formulated a plan to save her people, the Nyrians from slavery and at the same time, save the Earth from alien invasion and certain death. The Gar are a cruel race of aliens, keeping the Nyrians as prisoners to power their star cruiser. When they are near a planet with abundant natural resources, the Gar attack the planet, strip the resources and store them in the ship for their own uses, leaving the planet dead.
Mac, a computer engineer has spent the last 20 years building a huge satellite array capable of sending energy as well as identifying energy pulses coming from outer space. Now Mac is taking his team of 6 people to the array to begin trying to communicate with the Nyrians. The team all have extrasensory perceptions/abilities and the capability of mental telepathy, as well as admitting to extreme sexual fantasies and open sexual lifestyles.
This story is rich with sexual fantasies using mind games the 6 humans play with each other, the actual physical sexual interactions between the humans, and also with the Nyrians, when they are able to come to Earth in human form. All this sexual energy being created is intended to be used to rescue the Nyrians and their soulstones from the alien ship.
Add in basic human nature which fears the unknown, a government unwilling to believe such outlandish ideas such as an alien ship hiding behind the moon about to attack the Earth, and the Media, who would love a story to end all stories, and this novel of the first known aliens coming to Earth comes to life.
This was a very enjoyable read, with some suspense within the story, and of course, lots of sexual tension. The characters were believable, even the aliens came to life on the pages of this book. Lots and lots of hot, steamy sex with emotional connections coming together, and this book kept me sucked in until the very end. This is Part 2 of a series, and the conclusion was perfectly timed to lead into the last book, which will be out later in the year.
Review By Lady Godiva
Way to go Lady G! Great review!
Goddam Pat how the hell do you comment so fast? Your reviews are next so send me as many as you have if you haven’t already
It appears in my e-mail……magic!
I think I sent you all I have for the moment. I’m about to start Salena’s book. Then will send that to you…..
Holy shit! You put it on the main blog page
It’s on both pages LG. That’s how it will be from now, more exposure that way
It’s like magic. Two places at the same time. Keep this up and you might become computer literate someday.
I’m just like Sigfried and Roy except I’m not gay and didn’t get eaten by a tiger.
I love the exposure. Now, if she’d said it sucked, maybe not so much! LOL…love the review, Lady G!
Great pimping, Lady G! See, you are a great beta!! WTG!
Dammit Wolf Pimpette what is up with the avatar
I’ve given up, RM. Sigh.
Gravatar couldn’t help you?
Try putting your settings to public then go back in and take out what you don’t want anyone to know. After I did that my avi showed up.
They seem to be confused as I am, RM.
Granny, I don’t have my profile on private that I know of, either in gravatar or here.
It shows up as my wordpress avi but doesn’t show in my comments.
I have emailed my tech guy maybe he can help
Thanks, RM.
Make sure the email addy is the same for gravitar, here and wordpress. That should work. (hoping)
Yup, Granny, it is all the same email.Thank you for trying to help, too.
I hope they get it fixed soon. Wish I could help more.
this is from my tech guy
Here’s the issue:
Registered on your site: jaymietaka@yahoo.com
Registered on Gravatar: jamietaka@yahoo.com
They have to match. So, she needs to either update/add jaymietaka@yahoo.com on Gravatar (you can register multiple addresses), or else she needs to change her email on your site to jamietaka@yahoo.com
WP i took care of everything all you have to do is verify the email that was sent to you
Okay, please Internet gods let it work.
Boo!
Doh! I finally figured out that autocorrect on Ipad was putting my name in place of my email address. Sigh. Thanks for putting up with this lolo wahine.
I’m really disappointed you didn’t pick the white wolf
well just because you were gracious enough to help me, i will change it.
Thanks WP, I need all the positive strokes right now, cuz I’m new at this and not really sure about it. It is so cool though to have someone actually interested in my opinion
You did a great a job
For a newbie–even a regular reviewer, ya done good. Gave a great synopsis w/o giving away any of the surprises (I HATE plot spoilers) and gave your opinion in clear and very readable writing. I’ll add a link to my website, but thank you SO much!
Kate says it so eloquently.
Meanwhile I’ll just say again. You rocked, LG!
You, my friend, I want to come to the islands and meet you (oh, how I wish!) (maybe you’ll come to the 9th island. do you know where that is? thats where I live)
Thanks!!
**Sniff*, that is so nice of you to say **sniff*. I appreciate it. I hate to fish for compliments, but I really don’t know what I’m doing. To me, the review feels stilted and awkward. So thanks for letting me know its up to par
I might very well come there.
We islanders go there a lot. Lol!
You did wonderfully. No, to stilted and awkward. just the right amount of info to make people curious enough to pick up the book and take a look inside.
We leave it up to Kate’s prose to do the rest. Take a bow and accept the accolades. ((Hugs))
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
Thank you Kate Douglas so much
Great review LG.
I so need to win the lottery so I can stay home and catch up on all the books and series’ I’m behind on.
Now that my husband is back on second shift I can read more.
You are so right Granny!!!! I’m on a ” fixed income” so I have to take it slow!! Damn!
LMAO, good riddance to the man who interferes with Reading Time.
I know. He was like, “what are you doing?” “want to a movie?” For the last 6months he has driving me crazy. For 28yrs we mostly have worked opposite shifts, so when we are on the same schedule he interferes in my time. Although I will miss coming home to dinner hot and ready for me. I will now have to reheat it. That to me is a good trade off.
Wonderful review Lady Godiva! I have Dream Bound in my TBR pile!!
Alix, I just saw your book on Amazon…looks HOT!
Ooh i want to know what the book title is!
Me too!
Pat – Did you mean this comment to post to this Alix? I wish it were true, what book did you see? Thank you so much for the shout out though
Thanks Luci and Sheri! I will let you guys know if I every get the thing published. I am taking a final read through and then I will see what happens out in the big scary world
Good luck Alix! It’s definitely scary! I’m at that stage myself. I don’t know if this interests you at all but, Angela James from Carina press, does an amazing course called, before you hit send. I got a lot from it, she touches on pretty much everything to do with tightening up and editing your MS before you submit. The next one starts in August if your interested, if not, just ignore me lol
Sheri – Good luck to you too! Thanks for the information. I will be checking it out!!
Great job LG!
Great review Lady Godiva just got the book today can’t wait to dig into it
Yep, I have Dream Bound on my TBR list as well! looking forward to reading it. Great review Lady Godiva
Great job Lady G
Thanks everyone.
I’m glad you’re not throwing rotten tomatoes my way
Just started it…now I really have to sit and read!! Thanks Lady G, Great Review!!!
Hey LG… Your a BBL…….we cheer for our own, we’re going to do a 21 bra salute from the bawdy ladies!
Ah…don’t wear them, wave them? Works for me!
Ah Kate, you know us… The bras are waving, and so are the “girls”.
I have this one for review for Kensington. I can’t wait to read it. Hope it comes any day! Great job!
thanks Toni. I talked to a woman at Kensington who sent me 2 other books to review, after I posted my reviews, she told me she has preapproved me for Kensington ARCs on netgalley. Is that common? or should I feel special – I really feel quite special about that!
LG, what a great review! You nailed it. Gave us just enough to whet our appetites without any spoilers. We just have to read that book right now!
I refuse to give spoilers. I hate those when I’m reading and I would never do it to anyone else
very important.
I know all authors appreciate it when spoilers are not given away. As a read as well, I appreciate it. I try to stay away from Amazon until I’ve read the book, because sometimes those people just give away too much.
Good job on the review, Lady G.
I’m sorry ladies. I am a spoiler whore. Will hunt them down.
Great review LG!!
I so wish everyone would read this! Kate is such a great story teller! Its almost not a paranormal, since its about an alien race of people who don’t live on Earth. Just trying to escape a bad situation and are kind of like refugees for Earth. But it has really hot sex scenes, sometimes it will make you laugh til you spew your coffee! Just sayin’.
Will check it out but i am anal a out reading in order. This is the second book in the series you said right? What’s the title of the first?
Great review LG. I love Kate Douglas’ writings. I just need to pick this one up and read it. The into was really good. Kate really get a lot out of her “close encounter” scenes. I need to read her with a fan and gladd of ice tea.
Dang, I gotta learn how to utilize these tools! I think I tried to post a comment to Lady G’s review on RM’s main page… Oh well.
Great review, Lady G. Thank you! Can’t wait to read it.
Congrats, Kate on a great review. Lady G, well written. Loved the way you synopsized the book without giving away any of the spoilers.
Another book on my TBR list, which keeps growing, but that’s okay, I read fast. I just write slow. LOL
WolfPimpette, that white wolf is gorgeous. You really are a goddess in disguise!
I’m playing “Catch up” tonight. Just got to our daughter’s house where I’m “puppy sitting” while she and her hubby take the kids to a really cool place called Safari West. They’ll stay in a cabin tonight and hear lions and tigers and all sorts of critters that make cool noises at night. And yes, I AM jealous!
But, I’m absolutely tickled to hear how many of you plan to read Dream Bound. I really hope you like the book–I’m reading through Dream Unchained tonight, proofing the final galleys before it’s ready to go through production, and it’s really exciting with a lot of action ALONG with all the sex! LOL…I just can’t seem to write w/o making it hot.
Must get back to work, but thank you again LG, and thank you RM for such generous use of your blog. I really appreciate it.
You are most welcome My Lady.
*big heartfelt sigh…* He even TALKS like a romance hero. Be still my heart…
You read the blog about “There is no carpet”, right?
I dig him for his cape. All men should wear them.
Swoon. Phantom of the Opera all over again. That was one sexy cape.
Kate, can’t wait to start your book!
I’m learning
BUT I’M NOT HAVING GAY WOLF SEX OR BI WOLF SEX OR WHATEVER THE FRICTION IS
LMAO! Maybe you won’t, but I just saw on FB that Tom Cruise is divorcing, so perhaps that will be his next adventure.
Gay Wolf Sex in a spaceship?
What did that Shakespeare guy say about protesting too much? Really, RM, all CAPITALS? Stop shouting your protest and accept it.
Great review LG. I’ve already read it and enjoyed it thoroughly, I’m sure the rest of you are going to love it!
“Methinks thou doth protest too much.” Hamlet. Not exactly the correct phrasing, but you get the idea.
That reminds me, the Shakespeare in the Park festival is next week here…..
And thanks to Kate’s giveaways, I am waiting for the mail to bring me my Dream Bound book and squirrel! Thank you to Kate, and RM for the promo!
I love it when one of my BBL buddies wins!