Dark Planet Warriors (Dark Planet Warriors #1)
by Anna Carven
This book contains the first three Dark Planet Warriors books, Invasion, Taken and Escape (which were originally released as a three-part serial) in one single volume.
Warning: This book contains swearing, violence and steamy sex scenes. It's recommended for readers aged 18 and over.
Blurb
Abbey
Some scary looking aliens have just boarded Fortuna Tau, our little asteroid mining station. Kordolians, by the looks of things. What the hell do they want with this floating rust bucket? What are they even doing here?
In the grand scheme of things, Earth is a total backwater, and the Solar System is the galactic equivalent of Hicksville. That's why aliens rarely bother to come to this corner of the universe. And Kordolians are usually too busy conquering the important parts of the nine galaxies to bother with us.
But it looks as if their battle cruiser is broken. Probably shot up in a firefight. They're going to use every means necessary to fix it, even if it means putting Fortuna Tau on lockdown. I just hope they don't decide to enslave us and ship us off to some remote alien planet.
Come to think of it, I've never seen a Kordolian up close before. They're huge, with strange silver skin and pointed ears. They have freaky nano-armor. And they're packing a serious arsenal. Our human technology has no chance against their weapons.
When I encounter their General, I find him insufferable. Arrogant. Domineering. He won't tell me anything.
I guess that's what happens when your race is kicking ass across the nine galaxies. You get pigheaded.
So why do I keep running into him? Why is he looking at me funny? And what's with this weird feeling I get when he's around?
I really hope these guys fix their ship and go away soon, because I get the feeling they could be major trouble.
Tarak
Sucked into a wormhole during a fierce skirmish with an enemy ship. Spat out near a human mining station in a remote corner of the nine galaxies. Stuck with weak humans who operate with inferior metals and technology.
This mission couldn't get any worse.
We need to fix our craft before the wormhole collapses.
We need to hunt the cursed Xargek monsters that have infiltrated this human rust-bucket.
And these infernal headaches of mine are getting worse.
I don't really care about these humans. Their existence makes no sense to me. All I care about is killing Xargek and getting back to my home planet, Kythia.
This situation is tiresome. The light of the star humans call the Sun burns my eyes. I crave Kythia's darkness.
So why has this crazy human female captured my attention? She's messy, awkward and she babbles nonsense half the time.
These humans are crazy. I don't understand them at all. Especially this female. Why do I keep coming back to her?
I need to leave this place before I go insane.
Vick’s review
I picked this up last year - pretty much when it was released - purely as I needed a change from the YA genre I had immersed myself in and thought I may as well give it a go as I like Science Fiction. There are some terribly trashy alien sci-fi books out there which just appear to be an excuse to write as much smut as possible, and I do not like these at all, so I was fully prepared to ditch DPW at the first hint of this.
However, I was genuinely surprised by how well-written the book was and the fact the author was clearly setting up plots, sub-plots and themes that would extend beyond the first book and into a series. The main characters of book 1 were rounded out nicely and Carven introduced, sometimes very briefly, other characters who would go on to have their own books in the series.
Yes, there is sexual tension, and yes these utterly terrifying Kordolian warriors are also extremely smexy, but the book is by no means dominated by gratuitous sex scenes. All in all I was very happy to find this series - but not so happy to realise I would have to wait for each subsequent book to be released. I now continually stalk Anna Carven’s facebook page waiting for any crumbs of information.
