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It’s our first book club episode! Amanda, Elyse, Carrie, and I discuss a suggestion from Holly in our Patreon: Mercenary Instinct by Ruby Lionsdrake.We have a lot to talk about, and I have a few notes for you before we start.First: TW/CW for discussion of threat of rape and sexual assault off and on throughout the episode.Second: Spoilers ahoy. We can’t really talk about the book in detail without sharing the details, right?Our hope is that you read the book, too, and can follow along and respond to our discussion. But don’t worry - I’m going include a plot summary just before we start our conversation.Among the questions we answer:What were our reactions to the story, the world (and the space), the hero, the heroine, and the surrounding characters?Did the bad guy need to put out a bounty on them in the first place?Does hanging out in space make you 22% dumber because of low oxygen and bra strangulation?How many other science fiction/space ensembles can we mention in one episode? HARD TO SAY.Which is your preference: hot shower or scary horny?How many missed opportunities were there for epic poop jokes?When there’s carnivorous plants, velociraptors, a massive storm, and a spaceship crash, when is the best time to make out?We take a brief side tour into what we’re currently reading and then wrap up with our grade.What about you? What did you think of Mercenary Instinct? We’d love to hear what you thought of it!

It’s our first book club episode! Amanda, Elyse, Carrie, and I discuss a suggestion from Holly in our Patreon: Mercenary Instinct by Ruby Lionsdrake. We have a lot to talk about, and I have a few notes for you before we start. First: TW/CW for discussion of threat of rape and sexual assault off and on throughout the episode. Second: Spoilers ahoy. We can’t really talk about the book in detail without sharing the details, right? Our hope is that you read the book, too, and can follow along and respond to our discussion. But don’t worry - I’m going include a plot summary just before we start our conversation. Among the questions we answer: What were our reactions to the story, the world (and the space), the hero, the heroine, and the surrounding characters? Did the bad guy need to put out a bounty on them in the first place? Does hanging out in space make you 22% dumber because of low oxygen and bra strangulation? How many other science fiction/space ensembles can we mention in one episode? HARD TO SAY. Which is your preference: hot shower or scary horny? How many missed opportunities were there for epic poop jokes? When there’s carnivorous plants, velociraptors, a massive storm, and a spaceship crash, when is the best time to make out? We take a brief side tour into what we’re currently reading and then wrap up with our grade. What about you? What did you think of Mercenary Instinct? We’d love to hear what you thought of it!

343. Our Book Club Discussion of Mercenary Instinct by Ruby Lionsdrake

Join Elle, AR, and Paulina as they discuss Ruby Lionsdrake’s Stars Across Tme**THERE ARE SPOILERS.*****WE GET OFF TOPIC***BLURB: Can love take root in the cracks of time?Air Force pilot Andromeda “Andie” Kim dreams of being chosen to join NASA so she can go to space. Instead, she’s stolen by savage kidnappers from a dystopian future where fertile women are needed for breeding purposes. One of her kidnappers, a man named Mace, goes out of his way to protect her from the other slavers, but she’s not about to trust him. All she wants is to escape and find a way back to her time before she’s sold as broodstock and stuck in this ruined world forever.Colonel Aloysius “Mace” Theron of the Cascadian Alliance is a battlefield commander, not a spy, but after twenty years of service, he’s also trusted by his superiors. That’s why they choose him for a top-secret mission: to infiltrate an organization of thieves using a time machine to plunder the past. He’s supposed to find and destroy the machine, not fall in love with one of the captives, but Andie is as much of a fighter as he is, and he’s drawn to her from the beginning. Yet if he fights too hard to protect her, his identity will be discovered and his mission will fail, leaving criminals to terrorize the past, perhaps irrevocably changing history and endangering everyone he knows and loves.Link to the book on Amazon: http://amzn.to/2kJLuuzPosted in BookChat | Tagged AR DeClerck, Book Chat, BookChat, Elle CloFocus On Fantasy Romance RSS

Join Elle, AR, and Paulina as they discuss Ruby Lionsdrake’s Stars Across Tme**THERE ARE SPOILERS.** ***WE GET OFF TOPIC***BLURB: Can love take root in the cracks of time?Air Force pilot Andromeda “Andie” Kim dreams of being chosen to join NASA so she can go to space. Instead, she’s stolen by savage kidnappers from a dystopian future where fertile women are needed for breeding purposes. One of her kidnappers, a man named Mace, goes out of his way to protect her from the other slavers, but she’s not about to trust him. All she wants is to escape and find a way back to her time before she’s sold as broodstock and stuck in this ruined world forever.Colonel Aloysius “Mace” Theron of the Cascadian Alliance is a battlefield commander, not a spy, but after twenty years of service, he’s also trusted by his superiors. That’s why they choose him for a top-secret mission: to infiltrate an organization of thieves using a time machine to plunder the past. He’s supposed to find and destroy the machine, not fall in love with one of the captives, but Andie is as much of a fighter as he is, and he’s drawn to her from the beginning. Yet if he fights too hard to protect her, his identity will be discovered and his mission will fail, leaving criminals to terrorize the past, perhaps irrevocably changing history and endangering everyone he knows and loves.Link to the book on Amazon: <a href="http://amzn.to/2kJLuuz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://amzn.to/2kJLuuz</a>Posted in <a href="https://focusonfantasyromance.wordpress.com/category/bookchat/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BookChat</a> | Tagged <a href="https://focusonfantasyromance.wordpress.com/tag/ar-declerck/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AR DeClerck</a>, <a href="https://focusonfantasyromance.wordpress.com/tag/book-chat/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Book Chat</a>, <a href="https://focusonfantasyromance.wordpress.com/tag/bookchat/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BookChat</a>, <a href="https://focusonfantasyromance.wordpress.com/tag/elle-clouse/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Elle Clo</a><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/FocusOnFantasyRomance" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Focus On Fantasy Romance RSS</a>

Episode 019: BookChat about Ruby Lionsdrake’s Stars Across Time #SFR