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Wings of Artemis #1
Kidnapped By Her Husbands
Alone in prison.
No recollection of the past.
A baby growing inside her.
In a futuristic world where women are scarce and only the wealthy can afford a wife, Melissa Alexander is trapped in a prison rehabilitation center with no memory of who she is. The unborn child growing inside her is all that keeps them from making her pay for the sins she's committed--sins she cannot recall. But when five sexy strangers claiming to be her husbands kidnap her and bring her to safety, Melissa fears she can’t trust them. All she can remember is what she was taught under the prison’s watchful, vengeful to hate them. But how can she hate--or love--what she can't remember?
Content Intense, Polyamory
No recollection of the past.
A baby growing inside her.
In a futuristic world where women are scarce and only the wealthy can afford a wife, Melissa Alexander is trapped in a prison rehabilitation center with no memory of who she is. The unborn child growing inside her is all that keeps them from making her pay for the sins she's committed--sins she cannot recall. But when five sexy strangers claiming to be her husbands kidnap her and bring her to safety, Melissa fears she can’t trust them. All she can remember is what she was taught under the prison’s watchful, vengeful to hate them. But how can she hate--or love--what she can't remember?
Content Intense, Polyamory
135 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 18, 2016
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December 30, 2023
Reverse harem in space with amnesia!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💚❤️💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌎
Character development: 😚😔🤓🥰
The heroine: Melissa - she was locked up in a prison called The Master’s Center for the Betterment of Sinful Women, and she had no memory of how she got there, why she was there or even her own name, also no memory of how she became pregnant. When a woman arrives, she finds out her mind was intentionally wiped. She is told her name, age and that the Noble class, who are in charge, had changed things after the post nuclear war age, when whores like her would have been strung up and stoned. Melissa was lucky to be where she was.
The Story: Melissa was told that after the nuclear wars, humans fled the desolate planet Earth, though most of the females had been lost in the wars and afterwards, only one in two thousand babies is born female. The Nobles rose to power and live on Ochoa and that they are a “beacon of light to everyone�. That the universe would be perfect if not for the Rebels who attack, abuse women and turn them into prostitutes, which is apparently what Melissa was until she was caught and taken to the rehabilitation center. She was there for over three months while they taught her all the laws and expectations regarding the behavior of women. She basically learned to be completely subservient to her husband.
The Heroes: Geoff, Cooper, Nolan, Dane, Wes, C.J. - Melissa’s husbands.
Geoff - he was a guard at the Master’s Center for the Betterment of Sinful Women, he paid special attention to Melissa and one night during an alarm, he comes in and kidnaps her from the center. He is a rebel who is proficient with explosives. He is muscular and has dark hair and dark eyes.
Cooper - he is a Noble Prince, one of the royal family that lives on Ochoa. He is tall and has black hair and blue eyes. All the other husbands seem to hate him and want to kill him.
Nolan - he is angry, tough and muscular. He has a bald head and tattoos. He met Melissa first before any of her other husbands.
Dane - he is a brilliant doctor on board the Artemis. He is detail oriented and is tall with blond hair and blue eyes.
Wes - he is a bit of a hot mess but is also very intelligent. He is tall with strawberry blond hair. He is good with mechanics and keeps the ship running.
C.J. - he is friendly and nice, also massively muscular with brown hair, brown eyes and a scar on his right cheek. He has known Melissa his whole life and has always wanted her.
The story is original and good. It turns out that the Rebels aren’t really Rebels, they are Nomads. They aren’t wealthy like the Nobles, and they have developed family units with multiple males for each female. Females choose who they want to be with and aren’t completely subservient to the males like with the Nobles. Though Melissa was taught to hate the Rebels and to want a Noble husband because it saved her from being a whore. So she doesn’t know how to feel when she learns all that.
I really like reverse harem romances, but I have to say, when there are more than three or four Heroes, it just gets a bit too confusing for me. It is hard for me to keep track of who is who and when the heroine is with one of the guys, I have to keep looking back to my notes to see which one it is. This one was also weird because Melissa with her mind wiped was so completely different from her before, but I liked her. It was hard to see that she was very likable before, actually when her memories were coming back, she seemed very unlikable. Though it was weird because they were coming back in her dreams which she didn’t remember, so they weren’t really coming back for her, just for the reader. Though it all kept things very interesting.
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The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💚❤️💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌎
Character development: 😚😔🤓🥰
The heroine: Melissa - she was locked up in a prison called The Master’s Center for the Betterment of Sinful Women, and she had no memory of how she got there, why she was there or even her own name, also no memory of how she became pregnant. When a woman arrives, she finds out her mind was intentionally wiped. She is told her name, age and that the Noble class, who are in charge, had changed things after the post nuclear war age, when whores like her would have been strung up and stoned. Melissa was lucky to be where she was.
The Story: Melissa was told that after the nuclear wars, humans fled the desolate planet Earth, though most of the females had been lost in the wars and afterwards, only one in two thousand babies is born female. The Nobles rose to power and live on Ochoa and that they are a “beacon of light to everyone�. That the universe would be perfect if not for the Rebels who attack, abuse women and turn them into prostitutes, which is apparently what Melissa was until she was caught and taken to the rehabilitation center. She was there for over three months while they taught her all the laws and expectations regarding the behavior of women. She basically learned to be completely subservient to her husband.
The Heroes: Geoff, Cooper, Nolan, Dane, Wes, C.J. - Melissa’s husbands.
Geoff - he was a guard at the Master’s Center for the Betterment of Sinful Women, he paid special attention to Melissa and one night during an alarm, he comes in and kidnaps her from the center. He is a rebel who is proficient with explosives. He is muscular and has dark hair and dark eyes.
Cooper - he is a Noble Prince, one of the royal family that lives on Ochoa. He is tall and has black hair and blue eyes. All the other husbands seem to hate him and want to kill him.
Nolan - he is angry, tough and muscular. He has a bald head and tattoos. He met Melissa first before any of her other husbands.
Dane - he is a brilliant doctor on board the Artemis. He is detail oriented and is tall with blond hair and blue eyes.
Wes - he is a bit of a hot mess but is also very intelligent. He is tall with strawberry blond hair. He is good with mechanics and keeps the ship running.
C.J. - he is friendly and nice, also massively muscular with brown hair, brown eyes and a scar on his right cheek. He has known Melissa his whole life and has always wanted her.
The story is original and good. It turns out that the Rebels aren’t really Rebels, they are Nomads. They aren’t wealthy like the Nobles, and they have developed family units with multiple males for each female. Females choose who they want to be with and aren’t completely subservient to the males like with the Nobles. Though Melissa was taught to hate the Rebels and to want a Noble husband because it saved her from being a whore. So she doesn’t know how to feel when she learns all that.
I really like reverse harem romances, but I have to say, when there are more than three or four Heroes, it just gets a bit too confusing for me. It is hard for me to keep track of who is who and when the heroine is with one of the guys, I have to keep looking back to my notes to see which one it is. This one was also weird because Melissa with her mind wiped was so completely different from her before, but I liked her. It was hard to see that she was very likable before, actually when her memories were coming back, she seemed very unlikable. Though it was weird because they were coming back in her dreams which she didn’t remember, so they weren’t really coming back for her, just for the reader. Though it all kept things very interesting.
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August 19, 2019
*** Book #1 in the Wings of Artemis series ! ***
It's a new universe of planets, rules, and renegades and uncontrolled elites.
Melissa, pregnant and confused, has been rescued by her husbands, but she has no memory, so she thinks she's been kidnapped.
Plus, now her personality is different than she used to be.
The men discover an implant in her heart and that she's having a girl.
Big new, because they are scarce these days !
Will she begin to remember her husbands, CJ, Dave, the Doctor, Nolan, Wes, and Geoff? They are each a bit different from the other, each still willing to die for her and the baby.
She was brainwashed, and doesn't trust her own judgment. We get lots of action, strange happenings, a rebellion, deals made and broken, etc.. She's slowly re-learning her men one at a time while they talk, tell her stories, and she dreams of her "old" self, and doesn't like her.
If she regains her memory, will she be disappointed or will the men be.
Of course we get super sexy times with each man and Melissa,
but not all together, not in this episode.
There is a huge twist and upheaval; we learn so much as we move along. This is a great beginning for a series, with action, more loving, and new discoveries. And, what about Cooper?
Oh, it is a cliffhanger ! WOW !
Rebecca Royce gives us everything we like and want. We love these guys, and like Melissa, but she's growing on us.
Looking forward to the next one !
ENJOY !
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a free copy given for a honest review...
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It's a new universe of planets, rules, and renegades and uncontrolled elites.
Melissa, pregnant and confused, has been rescued by her husbands, but she has no memory, so she thinks she's been kidnapped.
Plus, now her personality is different than she used to be.
The men discover an implant in her heart and that she's having a girl.
Big new, because they are scarce these days !
Will she begin to remember her husbands, CJ, Dave, the Doctor, Nolan, Wes, and Geoff? They are each a bit different from the other, each still willing to die for her and the baby.
She was brainwashed, and doesn't trust her own judgment. We get lots of action, strange happenings, a rebellion, deals made and broken, etc.. She's slowly re-learning her men one at a time while they talk, tell her stories, and she dreams of her "old" self, and doesn't like her.
If she regains her memory, will she be disappointed or will the men be.
Of course we get super sexy times with each man and Melissa,
but not all together, not in this episode.
There is a huge twist and upheaval; we learn so much as we move along. This is a great beginning for a series, with action, more loving, and new discoveries. And, what about Cooper?
Oh, it is a cliffhanger ! WOW !
Rebecca Royce gives us everything we like and want. We love these guys, and like Melissa, but she's growing on us.
Looking forward to the next one !
ENJOY !
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a free copy given for a honest review...
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May 6, 2018
Great Premise. Downhill after that
This book was a great start to the series. It also had a very unusual premise that I loved. Melissa starts the story with her mind wiped. She's a blank slate and undergoes programming to make her the perfect, compliant wife. The problem being she already has 6 husbands. Now normally, you the reader would all be just waiting for her to get her memory back to be normal again. The problem with that is that this Melissa is such a better person than the last one. This Melissa brings her family together in a way that makes them all more loving and so much stronger and tightly bound, which it appears they are going to need desperately when they discover the ultimate betrayal. I loved her getting to know her husband's and them getting to know this Melissa. They are all great guys and very individually unique. It was neat that they were already a family unit, but we got to watch them fall in love.
Update: I loved the first book, but the second was beyond awful and I would have given it minus 5 stars if I could. It was such a let down and betrayed the whole point of the story. They were rebels fighting to take down the Nobles who were committing atrocious crimes, genocide on undesirables, stealing women from their husbands and mind wiping them then selling them to the highest bidder. She spent her when life fighting these awful people, but when she overthrew them and had control, she walked away. Decided the job was too big and let the Nobles have it back! Yep, you read that right. Her and Cooper both became whiny children who want that shiny toy until they get it then they don't anymore. So what if the Nobles killed millions of abused and sold women. It's too big a job. Let's just run off and let them have it back! WTH? Seriously I wanted to slap them all for the completely juvenile selfishness. Okay, so you don't want to run it. At least stay long enough to set up a democratic system of some kind to stop things. What better life can they give their daughter than a free and democratic place that she could be raised safely. Instead they take her to what's supposed to be a wild and dangerous place to avoid responsibility. The entire second story was one idiotic move after another. I hated every part of that book. And so you know, Melissa's story ends at the end of the next book. We never really see what happens to them. The next book starts with the grown daughter away from home. So my verdict is to run like crazy from this really bad series. I won't be reading anything else by this author. That tells you how bad that second book is because I liked the first one and if I normally got a not that great second book, I would have kept reading giving the author the benefit of the doubt. But that one was just so so bad. I actually felt like the author got lazy or bored and just decided to walk away. So I'm joining her and walking away.
This book was a great start to the series. It also had a very unusual premise that I loved. Melissa starts the story with her mind wiped. She's a blank slate and undergoes programming to make her the perfect, compliant wife. The problem being she already has 6 husbands. Now normally, you the reader would all be just waiting for her to get her memory back to be normal again. The problem with that is that this Melissa is such a better person than the last one. This Melissa brings her family together in a way that makes them all more loving and so much stronger and tightly bound, which it appears they are going to need desperately when they discover the ultimate betrayal. I loved her getting to know her husband's and them getting to know this Melissa. They are all great guys and very individually unique. It was neat that they were already a family unit, but we got to watch them fall in love.
Update: I loved the first book, but the second was beyond awful and I would have given it minus 5 stars if I could. It was such a let down and betrayed the whole point of the story. They were rebels fighting to take down the Nobles who were committing atrocious crimes, genocide on undesirables, stealing women from their husbands and mind wiping them then selling them to the highest bidder. She spent her when life fighting these awful people, but when she overthrew them and had control, she walked away. Decided the job was too big and let the Nobles have it back! Yep, you read that right. Her and Cooper both became whiny children who want that shiny toy until they get it then they don't anymore. So what if the Nobles killed millions of abused and sold women. It's too big a job. Let's just run off and let them have it back! WTH? Seriously I wanted to slap them all for the completely juvenile selfishness. Okay, so you don't want to run it. At least stay long enough to set up a democratic system of some kind to stop things. What better life can they give their daughter than a free and democratic place that she could be raised safely. Instead they take her to what's supposed to be a wild and dangerous place to avoid responsibility. The entire second story was one idiotic move after another. I hated every part of that book. And so you know, Melissa's story ends at the end of the next book. We never really see what happens to them. The next book starts with the grown daughter away from home. So my verdict is to run like crazy from this really bad series. I won't be reading anything else by this author. That tells you how bad that second book is because I liked the first one and if I normally got a not that great second book, I would have kept reading giving the author the benefit of the doubt. But that one was just so so bad. I actually felt like the author got lazy or bored and just decided to walk away. So I'm joining her and walking away.
September 19, 2021
Sci-fi reverse harem. Interesting plot.
April 17, 2021
Pages: 260
My rating: 3.5
I started this series with Palomas story which was part of the Falling for Them Anthology. I liked the novella very much and then read the other books about Paloma too. After that I wanted to start the series at the beginning and here I am, reading the first Book of the Wings of Artemis Series.
I think the first two books are some time before the third book and the rest of the series, because Paloma is friends with Melissas kid. And in this book the kid is not born.
I liked the story but I liked Palomas story better. I stoped after the first book and need to pick up the next book to see what will happen there.
The Characters: Names and descriptions of the persons
Summery: detailed, lot’s of spoiler
My rating: 3.5
I started this series with Palomas story which was part of the Falling for Them Anthology. I liked the novella very much and then read the other books about Paloma too. After that I wanted to start the series at the beginning and here I am, reading the first Book of the Wings of Artemis Series.
I think the first two books are some time before the third book and the rest of the series, because Paloma is friends with Melissas kid. And in this book the kid is not born.
I liked the story but I liked Palomas story better. I stoped after the first book and need to pick up the next book to see what will happen there.
The Characters: Names and descriptions of the persons
Summery: detailed, lot’s of spoiler
November 4, 2023
Over 12 B’s long, and I already want to kill some of them! Byyyeeeee.
Nope.
I struggled with this initially because it read more like B2.
You felt like you were constantly playing catch-up, trying to fill in all the blanks that would have been apart of B1.
However, this really is B1, and the style was all just a plot device.
So, it was a matter of waiting out the author, to dole out the info, a drop at a time.
Moreover, we begin with a conditioning scenario, that we are obviously supposed to sympathise with the FMC over, but haven’t been given enough for that to occur.
So instead, have to fight the annoyance that is her whiny seeming personality, and obtuse behaviour.
It’s not her fault, but we aren’t given the background to feel that, until much later.
At which point, the A-hole is verbally and psychologically abusing her, and now we are supposed to empathise with him, cause, you guessed it, details we are not given, only hinted at.
Truthfully, even once we are told, I’m not good with him.
That someone has had a shit past, doesn’t make it okay for them to be abusive.
It might explain things, but doesn’t justify it.
Especially when the one they are abusing is an innocent, who is doing all they can to get along.
So initially, didn’t think much of the FMC, but was intrigued by the story’s potential.
Then got frustrated with the story and the MMC’s, but liked the FMC, and where it might all lead.
Then just got frustrated.
For the most part, the writing is technically well done, the world building is going somewhere [though not there yet], and the dialogue readable.
I’ve read waaay worse, and this I was able to read through.
However, this is the first out of what is supposed to be 12 books long, and 2 or 3 novella’s.
All that, and a major cliffy here that made this book feel incomplete.
Nope, nope, nope.
I’m not that patient, and this book didn’t intrigue me enough, nor did I like any of the characters enough [those I did get to know, and they were few and far between].
While the first half was a sci-fi space opera, with a RH theme, the second half was the opposite, and overtaken with too many cliché assed tropes, that bored or frustrated me.
In particular, the ‘loving the guy who is bullying and abusing you, with absolutely no reason WHY!�.
Also, all those who supposedly love her, just doing nothing about it, in fact, trying to convince her to forgive and understand him, despite his never having apologised, and continuing to be cruel.
IN FRONT OF HER, one of them tells him he needs to accept she isn’t who he wants her to be, but is still his wife 😱🥱🤬
Then try’s to emotionally blackmail her in to being okay with all of this. GFed!
She of course gets all sappy and sad for him, and the moment he shows her any kind of interest, is all good with it.
Even when he tells her, he can ‘be� with her, and still be mad at her, ‘that’s okay isn’t it?�.
This is for someone else, not me.
Nope.
I struggled with this initially because it read more like B2.
You felt like you were constantly playing catch-up, trying to fill in all the blanks that would have been apart of B1.
However, this really is B1, and the style was all just a plot device.
So, it was a matter of waiting out the author, to dole out the info, a drop at a time.
Moreover, we begin with a conditioning scenario, that we are obviously supposed to sympathise with the FMC over, but haven’t been given enough for that to occur.
So instead, have to fight the annoyance that is her whiny seeming personality, and obtuse behaviour.
It’s not her fault, but we aren’t given the background to feel that, until much later.
At which point, the A-hole is verbally and psychologically abusing her, and now we are supposed to empathise with him, cause, you guessed it, details we are not given, only hinted at.
Truthfully, even once we are told, I’m not good with him.
That someone has had a shit past, doesn’t make it okay for them to be abusive.
It might explain things, but doesn’t justify it.
Especially when the one they are abusing is an innocent, who is doing all they can to get along.
So initially, didn’t think much of the FMC, but was intrigued by the story’s potential.
Then got frustrated with the story and the MMC’s, but liked the FMC, and where it might all lead.
Then just got frustrated.
For the most part, the writing is technically well done, the world building is going somewhere [though not there yet], and the dialogue readable.
I’ve read waaay worse, and this I was able to read through.
However, this is the first out of what is supposed to be 12 books long, and 2 or 3 novella’s.
All that, and a major cliffy here that made this book feel incomplete.
Nope, nope, nope.
I’m not that patient, and this book didn’t intrigue me enough, nor did I like any of the characters enough [those I did get to know, and they were few and far between].
While the first half was a sci-fi space opera, with a RH theme, the second half was the opposite, and overtaken with too many cliché assed tropes, that bored or frustrated me.
In particular, the ‘loving the guy who is bullying and abusing you, with absolutely no reason WHY!�.
Also, all those who supposedly love her, just doing nothing about it, in fact, trying to convince her to forgive and understand him, despite his never having apologised, and continuing to be cruel.
IN FRONT OF HER, one of them tells him he needs to accept she isn’t who he wants her to be, but is still his wife 😱🥱🤬
Then try’s to emotionally blackmail her in to being okay with all of this. GFed!
She of course gets all sappy and sad for him, and the moment he shows her any kind of interest, is all good with it.
Even when he tells her, he can ‘be� with her, and still be mad at her, ‘that’s okay isn’t it?�.
This is for someone else, not me.
May 18, 2016
*on sale for .99*
3.5 stars.
Ends on a huge cliffhanger.
At times I was lost reading but I was never bored. I loved the premise to the story. I'm just not sure why all the H's loved the h before her memories were erased. I didn't see that much to love but we're still learning about who she was. As it stands I do really like the h & all her men.
This is a M/F/M/M/M/M/M story. There is a good story mixed in. More story than sex.
Book is only told in hpov. The last chapter of 2 pages was told in a H pov.
3.5 stars.
Ends on a huge cliffhanger.
At times I was lost reading but I was never bored. I loved the premise to the story. I'm just not sure why all the H's loved the h before her memories were erased. I didn't see that much to love but we're still learning about who she was. As it stands I do really like the h & all her men.
This is a M/F/M/M/M/M/M story. There is a good story mixed in. More story than sex.
Book is only told in hpov. The last chapter of 2 pages was told in a H pov.
May 30, 2017
3.5 stars BUT not quite good enough to round up to 4....
April 19, 2020
I’ve been hearing amazing things about this series for a couple years now, but I think I was intimated by how many were in the series so I put it off.. but WOW I wish I had read it sooner. This is such an unexpected and awesome premise for a book. It’s kinda like a mix of the Handmaid’s Tale and the SciFi show Dark Matter with some awesome RH romance thrown in.
I’m actually surprised by the mixed reviews. I’m usually pretty reserved in my ratings and in my opinion this book is underrate on goodreads. I think this story is really creative and I loved the plot development and set up for book 2. I guess I can see how maybe people want more action in the book instead of the flashbacks and relationship building that occurs through the majority of the story. I think this was totally necessary though, it can be difficult to set up an RH and I imagine it’s even more challenging when the characters all have a history but are also kinda meeting for the first time. Very well done in my opinion.
I’m super impressed and excited to read the rest of the series.
I’m actually surprised by the mixed reviews. I’m usually pretty reserved in my ratings and in my opinion this book is underrate on goodreads. I think this story is really creative and I loved the plot development and set up for book 2. I guess I can see how maybe people want more action in the book instead of the flashbacks and relationship building that occurs through the majority of the story. I think this was totally necessary though, it can be difficult to set up an RH and I imagine it’s even more challenging when the characters all have a history but are also kinda meeting for the first time. Very well done in my opinion.
I’m super impressed and excited to read the rest of the series.
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October 20, 2016
Reviewed by SFF Dragon*
What an absolutely fantastic start to this action packed and steamy sci-fi romance. I absolutely loved it.
I'm a big fan of Rebecca Royce, she's one of my favourite authors and I've been reading her books for years. I've never found one I didn't love and 'Kidnapped by Her Husbands' is another winner, but she writes the majority of her books as series' with the storyline and characters evolving and growing as the series progresses and with each new novel-length book, you get to know them better until they become like old friends. Generally each one has a complete romance with it's own happily ever after for two of the characters, but with the main storyline continuing into the next book, usually at a convenient point that's not quite a cliff-hanger and if you're only interested in the romance, they can easily be read as stand alones. This one is a little different, firstly because the series, Wings of Artemis, is only two books long, secondly because it does end on a very definite cliff-hanger and thirdly, the nature of the story means that the happily ever after has to regained.
At first glance, this story does seem to be about a woman with no memories, alone in prison, pregnant and wondering what happened to her, but as you read, it becomes apparent that virtually nothing is quite what it appears to be. The only thing that is what it seems to be is that Melissa Alexander's mind has been wiped by the Nobles, the rulers of their part of the universe and by the end of the book you know something about why, but there's an awful lot of story between the beginning and the end, and that's only half of it. I was so totally engrossed in this fantastic sci-fi romance that I was oblivious to everything else and really didn't want to put it down.
In a distant future where war and disease have reduced the female population to almost none, and with very few female children being born, women are scarce and to be granted one as a wife is a rare and special thing. With their memories wiped and then brainwashed by the Nobles, women are turned into a version of the subservient ideal of the 1800s and their entire existence revolves around their man, except there's another way of living, out there in space, and it's the way of the Nomads, where women have minds of their own and control their own lives. The people the Nobles call rebels and outlaws, but they've seen the evil the Nobles do and have chosen to fight it. The Nomads create family groups where a woman can choose one or more men as her husband(s) and live happily with them, but these relationships aren't necessarily of the menage variety and in the case of Melissa and her husbands, her relationship with each man is strictly one-on-one and private. But something went wrong and whilst Melissa is being brainwashed on the planet Master's by the Nobles, her husbands believe she's dead, and has been for the last six months, then one of them, on the planet for supplies and purely by chance, sees her picture as a woman up for sale as a wife. It takes him a while, but he gets her out of the Master's Center for the Betterment of Sinful Women, loads her onto a stolen shuttle and takes her back home to Artemis, their ship.
There's so much story packed into this book and I don't want to give spoilers. It has it's share of love and steamy bits as well as friction, anger, confusion, action, kidnappings galore, and betrayal, but exactly who betrayed whom and why is still a missing piece of the puzzle. By the end of this part of the story, it's obvious that although their personalities and backgrounds are very different, the men have one thing in common - they're all head over heels in love with, and totally devoted to, their wife. It's also obvious that she loves them, even though she has no memory of them, and she's a very different person to the one she was before but as circumstances change, becoming more dangerous, so does she. By the end of the book it's hard to tell exactly who the good guys and the bad guys really are, and until Melissa regains her memories, there are no answers to the questions being asked by everyone, including her. And me. Each new revelation brings another piece of the puzzle to light but there are so many pieces missing...... I was totally hooked by this terrific story, really didn't want to put it down and I absolutely loved it. Worth so much more that the 5 star limit, and I really can't wait to read the second book.
April 17, 2017
Kidnapped By Her Husbands Wings of Artemis Book 1
by Rebecca Royce
⭐⭐⭐⭐
Oh my I enjoyed this story so much, that its hard to say enough that will do it justice! Rebecca Royce always have me so excited with her all series, but this one is a phenomenal series! It has me so engaged and I didn't want to stop reading or come up for air. Each story is a stand alone and you can read them how ever you wish but I would start at this one Kidnapped By Her Husbands Wings of Artemis Book 1. Rebecca Royce has created a fantastic beginning to what promises to be an amazing futuristic sci-fi series. I am totally enjoying this reverse harem. I loved how she put this concept in the story and how it just becomes believable in my mind, the feelings that you get when you read it is absolutely amazing. I wanted to be and I was HOOKED from the start! I really enjoyed this story!!! It's well written with amazing characters. It pulled me in from the beginning and held me until the very end. There are a few twists in this story that I didn't see coming. In this first story Melissa Alexander is pregnant but her mind has been swiped clean. But of course her husbands ( yes I said husbands as in four) I can't help but to smile. Rebecca Royce created a series that pulls the reader into the story. Her characters are believable, infuriating,
enthralling and awesome. they will have you laughing, crying and screaming right along with them! This story is sizzling hot and super emotional. This is the third book in the series I have read and I can't say who my favorite family is, or who I enjoyed the most because I love the entire cast of characters they are all so memorable! There is so much passion between characters and making this series to be one that I would recommend for all us who loves futuristic sci-fi romance and anyone who is a true romantic at heart, this story will have you loving it before it's over. I highly recommend this book! I voluntarily reviewed this book. Because I like sharing my thoughts with my fellow readers.
by Rebecca Royce
⭐⭐⭐⭐
Oh my I enjoyed this story so much, that its hard to say enough that will do it justice! Rebecca Royce always have me so excited with her all series, but this one is a phenomenal series! It has me so engaged and I didn't want to stop reading or come up for air. Each story is a stand alone and you can read them how ever you wish but I would start at this one Kidnapped By Her Husbands Wings of Artemis Book 1. Rebecca Royce has created a fantastic beginning to what promises to be an amazing futuristic sci-fi series. I am totally enjoying this reverse harem. I loved how she put this concept in the story and how it just becomes believable in my mind, the feelings that you get when you read it is absolutely amazing. I wanted to be and I was HOOKED from the start! I really enjoyed this story!!! It's well written with amazing characters. It pulled me in from the beginning and held me until the very end. There are a few twists in this story that I didn't see coming. In this first story Melissa Alexander is pregnant but her mind has been swiped clean. But of course her husbands ( yes I said husbands as in four) I can't help but to smile. Rebecca Royce created a series that pulls the reader into the story. Her characters are believable, infuriating,
enthralling and awesome. they will have you laughing, crying and screaming right along with them! This story is sizzling hot and super emotional. This is the third book in the series I have read and I can't say who my favorite family is, or who I enjoyed the most because I love the entire cast of characters they are all so memorable! There is so much passion between characters and making this series to be one that I would recommend for all us who loves futuristic sci-fi romance and anyone who is a true romantic at heart, this story will have you loving it before it's over. I highly recommend this book! I voluntarily reviewed this book. Because I like sharing my thoughts with my fellow readers.
June 1, 2016
She's Melissa 'f'ing' Alexander and she doesn't know who she, where she is or whose baby she carries. What she is sure of is that she's going to do whatever she has to do to reform herself and become the proper lady for a husband. Or at least that's what she thought.
Yep, the name says what the story is about (literally) but this is a very entertaining tale with a cast of dreamy secondary male leads that the reader is never lacking from male attention. Melissa is the Rebel Princess and as readers we get to journey with her as she discovers who she is and rediscover who she was. Between her unsightly ship and her five ... wait six husbands she has her hands full. Will there be a way for this heroine to combine both halves of herself and save her family?
Wait! Will she be able to take down the empire? Who knows. But our heroine is a pissed off pregnant lady with good aim who will leave a trail of dead bodies if she doesn't get what she wants. I must say that this entry has a really descent storyline where I wanted to know what was really going on with all the other components of this story. Especially, the social structure where the treatment of women on both sides (rebels vs empire) is completely different. Good entry and I am looking forward to reading the next installment.
Yep, the name says what the story is about (literally) but this is a very entertaining tale with a cast of dreamy secondary male leads that the reader is never lacking from male attention. Melissa is the Rebel Princess and as readers we get to journey with her as she discovers who she is and rediscover who she was. Between her unsightly ship and her five ... wait six husbands she has her hands full. Will there be a way for this heroine to combine both halves of herself and save her family?
Wait! Will she be able to take down the empire? Who knows. But our heroine is a pissed off pregnant lady with good aim who will leave a trail of dead bodies if she doesn't get what she wants. I must say that this entry has a really descent storyline where I wanted to know what was really going on with all the other components of this story. Especially, the social structure where the treatment of women on both sides (rebels vs empire) is completely different. Good entry and I am looking forward to reading the next installment.
June 17, 2019
I loved this book, I slept less than 3 hours before work to finish it. And the length is more about 300 pages, not 135.
I didn't have big expectations for the book but I got excited at the prospect of 5 husbands one wife. How would that work? And I got very pleasantly surprised by the deep developing plot line that kept me going, each husband had his own time for us to get to know him and each was different which is also something that gets neglected in menage books.
Can't wait to read the next one.
I didn't have big expectations for the book but I got excited at the prospect of 5 husbands one wife. How would that work? And I got very pleasantly surprised by the deep developing plot line that kept me going, each husband had his own time for us to get to know him and each was different which is also something that gets neglected in menage books.
Can't wait to read the next one.
September 16, 2019
I actually did like this book. I originally thought this would be more of a "sexually-active" book but it actually had a plot. Now that being said I did not care about the plot obviously and only wanted to really read about the character development. It was interesting to see what the author did with "Melissa Fucking Alexander" and how she behaved after losing her memory. It was a refreshing twist to the typical amnesia trope.
January 9, 2019
MAJOR SPOILERS THROUGHOUT:
I really liked this book. It was fast paced and it was a constant mystery. I was always trying to figure out Melissa's past and the boy's roles in it. I had a lot of fun while reading it.
I liked Melissa. She was fascinating to me. She had her memory wiped so she was always trying to figure out her place and more about her past. She did frustrate me in the beginning because of how quickly she believed the rhetoric of facility she woke up in. If I woke up somewhere and these people told me they took away my memories "to make me better", there is no way in Hell I would listen to anything they had to say. It was astounding to me how quick Melissa was to believe what they were telling her. For the first seven or so chapters, I was constantly shaking my head at her wanting to escape from the boys and rolling my eyes at the fact that she couldn't see what was right in front of her.
I will say that Melissa is the first female character I have ever encountered that I am actually happy that she lost her memory. The brief glimpses I got of her past self, I hated. She was so cold and borderline cruel to the boys. I honestly have no clue how they dealt with her. She came off extremely narcissistic and selfish. ALL of those guys deserve better than the way she treated them. I was horrified and actually ashamed of her actions toward them. No one deserves the person that claims to love them to treat them that way. If Melissa never got her memory back, I wouldn't care. I like the new Melissa and I feel like she actually deserves them all now.
I liked the boys. For such a small amount of time we got with each of them, I felt like they all had an amazing amount of character development. I like all of them for different reasons and I can definitely see why Melissa chose each of them. I had a lot of fun trying to figure out what role they each played in the relationship. I am very eager to see more of them all in the future.
Overall, I really liked this book. I am very interested in where this story is going and I am eager to find out what is going to happen next. I will definitely be continuing the series. I hope all of the future installments are as good and entertaining as this one was.
I really liked this book. It was fast paced and it was a constant mystery. I was always trying to figure out Melissa's past and the boy's roles in it. I had a lot of fun while reading it.
I liked Melissa. She was fascinating to me. She had her memory wiped so she was always trying to figure out her place and more about her past. She did frustrate me in the beginning because of how quickly she believed the rhetoric of facility she woke up in. If I woke up somewhere and these people told me they took away my memories "to make me better", there is no way in Hell I would listen to anything they had to say. It was astounding to me how quick Melissa was to believe what they were telling her. For the first seven or so chapters, I was constantly shaking my head at her wanting to escape from the boys and rolling my eyes at the fact that she couldn't see what was right in front of her.
I will say that Melissa is the first female character I have ever encountered that I am actually happy that she lost her memory. The brief glimpses I got of her past self, I hated. She was so cold and borderline cruel to the boys. I honestly have no clue how they dealt with her. She came off extremely narcissistic and selfish. ALL of those guys deserve better than the way she treated them. I was horrified and actually ashamed of her actions toward them. No one deserves the person that claims to love them to treat them that way. If Melissa never got her memory back, I wouldn't care. I like the new Melissa and I feel like she actually deserves them all now.
I liked the boys. For such a small amount of time we got with each of them, I felt like they all had an amazing amount of character development. I like all of them for different reasons and I can definitely see why Melissa chose each of them. I had a lot of fun trying to figure out what role they each played in the relationship. I am very eager to see more of them all in the future.
Overall, I really liked this book. I am very interested in where this story is going and I am eager to find out what is going to happen next. I will definitely be continuing the series. I hope all of the future installments are as good and entertaining as this one was.
February 14, 2019
Normally I don't care for memory loss storylines but that aspect ended up being my favorite part of this book-I found the situation the heroine (Melissa) was in really thought-provoking as I read. The differences between what we learn of Melissa pre-memory loss and who she is in the present were super interesting to me. I like space and sci-fi stuff but these things weren't super prevalent for people who do not. The book could use one more proofread, and I almost always want more on-page relationship building in RH's, but even so I enjoyed this one quite a bit more than other RH's I have read, and am pleased that due to my being so late in reading this series I don't have to wait to see what happens next, since the next book is already out.
3.5 ⭐️
3.5 ⭐️
July 11, 2018
This is an awesome, well written story and start of a series about Melissa, she is pregnant and alone on masters learning to be a good wife waiting to be married off
When she is kidnapped she has no idea what is going on and Is scared, her lack of memories is hampering her and she has no idea who the men who kidnapped her are.
With excitement and danger throughout we learn about Melissa at the same time she does, we meet her men who although they are all different they all work well together.
This is such an exciting and gripping read, I highly recommend and am looking forward to reading book two
When she is kidnapped she has no idea what is going on and Is scared, her lack of memories is hampering her and she has no idea who the men who kidnapped her are.
With excitement and danger throughout we learn about Melissa at the same time she does, we meet her men who although they are all different they all work well together.
This is such an exciting and gripping read, I highly recommend and am looking forward to reading book two
January 23, 2019
Loyalty
This was so crazy with her husbands. I loved the interaction and the way they handled things. At times I couldn't stand Melissa but then she would surprise me by her understanding. She realized how different she was then before. I liked that she wanted to be better. Her husband's were completely in love with her because of their loyalty. This was cool
This was so crazy with her husbands. I loved the interaction and the way they handled things. At times I couldn't stand Melissa but then she would surprise me by her understanding. She realized how different she was then before. I liked that she wanted to be better. Her husband's were completely in love with her because of their loyalty. This was cool
January 29, 2021
Interesting
First time reading this, though the long series is fully complete. It runs the gauntlet of emotion, introducing a space age universe changed by the ravages of time and war. Women are few, the elite rule and even the rebels have plots and machinations. It’s dicey, intriguing, and pretty hot.
First time reading this, though the long series is fully complete. It runs the gauntlet of emotion, introducing a space age universe changed by the ravages of time and war. Women are few, the elite rule and even the rebels have plots and machinations. It’s dicey, intriguing, and pretty hot.
August 3, 2017
I absolutely love this book. I literally couldn't out it down
September 9, 2020
I seriously dislike books that end on major cliffhangers like this. But the amnesia is actually a well done plot line here, and Melissa finding herself is something I'm invested in.
April 14, 2020
Intense
I think I read this book ages ago. I'm pretty confident that I enjoyed it more this time around. I love Melissa's heart and compassion. I can't wait to read the next book!!
I think I read this book ages ago. I'm pretty confident that I enjoyed it more this time around. I love Melissa's heart and compassion. I can't wait to read the next book!!
April 24, 2016
I had a great time reading this book!
I love Rebecca Royce's voice, she's a highly talented storyteller and SO creative. I can easily relate to her characters and the sex scenes are always great! The pacing was very good.
I had a huge problem to empathize with the Melissa that was presented during the flashbacks. There's no way to know by now if this is on purpose or not - since there's a lot of things about her to be revealed yet. I did like how the heroine was able to relate to her husbands in a different way. The blurb might suggest this book include ménage, but there's only M/F scenes with different guys - and it doesn't feel weird!
I couldn't put it down! Be careful, it ends with a cliffhanger.
I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
February 14, 2018
Decent read if highly flawed premise
Overall pretty good sci-fi RH read. The ending was extremely abrupt, so you are really signing up for 2 books if you want any closure . Melissa's character is a good combination of strong and kind. She avoids being a Mary Sue. The guys are a fun bunch and mostly differentiated, but with six guys one or two personalities blend together. This is a 4 star read for plot and characterization, but I had to dock a star because the founding premise of the world in which they live makes no sense. Supposedly the birth rate for females in this dystopian world is one in ever 2,0000 births. But a population will shrink if the rate of females born is less than the average number off children born per woman. At 1 in 2000 a population of even 300B would still die off completely in 5 generations. You have whole cities and planets in this book filled with only men... who birthed them? Makes zero sense.
Overall pretty good sci-fi RH read. The ending was extremely abrupt, so you are really signing up for 2 books if you want any closure . Melissa's character is a good combination of strong and kind. She avoids being a Mary Sue. The guys are a fun bunch and mostly differentiated, but with six guys one or two personalities blend together. This is a 4 star read for plot and characterization, but I had to dock a star because the founding premise of the world in which they live makes no sense. Supposedly the birth rate for females in this dystopian world is one in ever 2,0000 births. But a population will shrink if the rate of females born is less than the average number off children born per woman. At 1 in 2000 a population of even 300B would still die off completely in 5 generations. You have whole cities and planets in this book filled with only men... who birthed them? Makes zero sense.
October 12, 2016
Rebecca Royce’s Kidnapped by Her Husbands takes the concept of a limited female population and gives it a fantastic sci-fi setting. Melissa, the main character, wakes up in a reform institution for wayward women, her memory wiped.
The way the story is told, through current events and flashbacks to Melissa’s past, provides an intriguing juxtaposition of who the character once was and who she’d learned to become.. It pushes the question of inherent personality versus learned behavior and where the two cross.
The guys are sexy, sexy, sexy, each with their own personality and functions on the spaceship Melissa finds herself on. The shadows of her past, and the hints she gains from the men, all lead to an intriguing plot that unfolds piece by piece, leaving me turning the pages to find out exactly what happened to lead Melissa to where the book began.
Eagerly buying book 2. Right now.
The way the story is told, through current events and flashbacks to Melissa’s past, provides an intriguing juxtaposition of who the character once was and who she’d learned to become.. It pushes the question of inherent personality versus learned behavior and where the two cross.
The guys are sexy, sexy, sexy, each with their own personality and functions on the spaceship Melissa finds herself on. The shadows of her past, and the hints she gains from the men, all lead to an intriguing plot that unfolds piece by piece, leaving me turning the pages to find out exactly what happened to lead Melissa to where the book began.
Eagerly buying book 2. Right now.
March 23, 2016
Kidnapped By Her Husbands will suck you in and keep you enthralled by the twists and turns this story takes. Rebecca Royce keeps you guessing past the very last page. I will warn you that this is the first in a series and will leave some things hanging at the end. Melissa is a mess. She is a strong young woman who has had her mind wiped and is brainwashed afterward and yet she still manages to stand on her own even while very pregnant. I loved this book. It has me devising all kinds of scenarios in my head and I can’t wait for answers in the next book.
Complimentary copy provided by author/publisher for an honest review.
Complimentary copy provided by author/publisher for an honest review.
July 11, 2018
This is an awesome, well written story and start of a series about Melissa, she is pregnant and alone on masters learning to be a good wife waiting to be married off
When she is kidnapped she has no idea what is going on and Is scared, her lack of memories is hampering her and she has no idea who the men who kidnapped her are.
With excitement and danger throughout we learn about Melissa at the same time she does, we meet her men who although they are all different they all work well together.
This is such an exciting and gripping read, I highly recommend and am looking forward to reading book two
When she is kidnapped she has no idea what is going on and Is scared, her lack of memories is hampering her and she has no idea who the men who kidnapped her are.
With excitement and danger throughout we learn about Melissa at the same time she does, we meet her men who although they are all different they all work well together.
This is such an exciting and gripping read, I highly recommend and am looking forward to reading book two
February 23, 2019
This was a hard book for me to want to finish. It is disjointed. I understand that in part some of that is on purpose, but some isn't. It's hard to connect with the any of the characters. I don't like the main character through most of the book because she is so weak in her effects to continue to give in to her "re-programming". When I find out what a b!tch was before she was re-programming, I like her even less. I won't be reading the next book
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