Savor Me Slowly is book #3 of the Alien Huntress series but the first one I picked up. After reading this one I am very interested to start the series at the beginning get the entire background to what led up to this novel. The simplest way to describe this novel is to think; MIB meets Anita Blake and their love child is the killer cyborg Mishka (Le'Ace) of Savor Me Slowly.
The novel begins with Jaxon Tremain hanging from a rack, having been tortured for days by an alien race intent on gathering information about the Schon. Jaxon is part of A.I.R.; Alien Investigation and Removal for New Chicago. Enter an assassin known as Mishka (Le'Ace). Jaxon believes, as do the aliens who have him captured that she is there to continue the torture. Instead she rescues Jaxon and takes him to a hideaway where she is ordered to find out what he knows.
It is Mishka's mission to find out about the Schon herself. The Schon are an alien race who have taken on the appearance of incredibly attractive human beings. In doing so, they are infecting the humans with a disease that drives them to violent madness. As well as all the infected becoming pregnant with the alien seed.
What they find out together is more evil and deadly than what they thought they were facing alone.
In Mishka (Le'Ace), Gena Showalter has created a complex character. Part human, part alien and part machine. She has been engineered and genetically mutated as a child. Trained to be the perfect killing machine. Kept in line by a chip inserted in her body that brings excruciating pain.
"...Men could do any dark deed, and it was for the good of mankind. Yet with the slightest hint of a woman's malevolence, no matter the reason, she was utterly wicked. Eve with the apple. Pandora with her box..."
As with the Vampire hunting Anita Blake series there is a lot of violence and sex to go around. Only it is not with vampires or werewolves but with aliens from another world. The storyline is crisp and fast paced and the violence and sex are just another extension of the strong storytelling.
A good read!
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