Revealed (Brides of the Kindred) [Kindle Edition]

Evangeline Anderson (Author), Leo Anderson (Editor), Reese Dante (Illustrator)

Book Description

Book 5 in the Brides of the Kindred series
This book is a plus length novel--around 130,000 words long

Nadiah has the Sight—the ability to see into the future. But the one thing she can’t see is how she’s ever going to be free of the blood bond her parents forced her into when she was only six. Her fiancée is an evil bastard who delights in torturing her and her only way out of a loveless marriage is for a Kindred warrior to challenge the hated bond. But Nadiah has no warrior to challenge for her—she just has Rast.

Adam Rast doesn’t know why he feels so protective and possessive of Nadiah, only that he’s willing to kill or die to protect her. When the chance to set her free arises, he takes it without hesitation, even though his lack of Kindred blood could mean his defeat or even his death. But Rast has a secret, one even he doesn’t know he possesses. When he undertakes Nadiah’s quest, the truth comes out in a strange and provocative way.

Can Nadiah and Rast live through their ordeal? Will the truth about Rast set them free…or kill them? You’ll have to read Revealed to find out.

Product Details

• File Size: 566 KB
• Print Length: 353 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Evangeline Anderson Books; 2 edition (February 24, 2012)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B007DCYR3O
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,181 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars 4.5 star really February 26, 2012

By Lunaticlulu

Format:Kindle Edition

This is really not a stand alone book, none of them are in the series so it is highly recommended to read the other four before beginning this one. I absolutely love all of the 'Kindred Bride' books. This is the only one that I couldn't give 5 stars to and the reasons aren't really much of a criticism on the actual story since I loved Rast and Nadiah in this book. There were 3 reasons that kept it from being a 5 star rating for me.

1. The Y'dex character. This is supposed to be a story involving the Pure Tranq people of Tranq Prime, specifically Nadiah's horrid fiance Y'dex. In 'Hunted' with Sylvan and Sophia we learnt a lot about the Tranq people, both Kindred and Pure. They were a very cool, rational, rather frigid race that hid there emotions. Kind of like Vulcans in Star Trek, at least I always thought so. Y'dex was supposed to be a prime example of this race of people since he was of a Pure bloodline. So not so in this book. He was portrayed as an evil bastard who took quite a bit of enjoyment and satisfaction out of torturing Nadiah through their blood bond, which let me just say involved a lot of sadistic emotion on his part. It was just hard to remember that he was Pure Tranq with his irrational behavior throughout. I think his cruelty would have been much more effective if he had been written with the cool restrained emotions instead of the raving lunatic. But I will admit to quite a bit of satisfaction with his final fate, even though it did make me really squeamish to read that chapter.

2. Rast and Nadiah fell in love just a little too quickly for me in this book without much interaction or talking at all. By the time I was half way through the book though it really didn't seem as important, it just had to be mentioned.

3.... The grammatical errors throughout. This is a personal pet peeve of mine because it seems ever since spellcheck was invented publishers, in both print and ebooks, have not bothered to have anyone actually physically proof read the books the old fashioned way before publishing. A word can be spelt right but be in the wrong place in a sentence very easily and unfortunately it happens quite a lot in this book. Since the previous books in this series have had a very minimal amount of grammatical errors I am just going to assume that Evangeline's proofreader was on vacation. If not than she really needs to fire the person and get a new one. Sorry, Evangeline but it just had to be said, and if you don't hate me too much after this review I would be willing to volunteer for the position! LOL This is the real reason I had to knock the review down a star.

Enough of the negative points about this story let's get on to what I loved about this book!

I kind of knew from the beginning where Evangeline was going with the Rast character but even though much of it was quite predictable she writes in such a way that the journey to get there is just so much fun to read! I also loved the new story arch and the new bad guy is going to prove to be an amusing, yet completely evil character. The All Father was a sick, slimy bastard but this new guy Draven is going to be even worse I think because of his twisted sense of humor. I admit he won points with me after the Epilogue and what he did to a much detested character. Can't wait to see where she goes with him!

I love the way she interwove the characters from previous books. My favorites of course are Xairn and Lauren from 'Found.' I mentioned it in my review of that book that even though authors seems to be writing a lot of BDSM in romances now it really doesn't do much for me, yet in 'Found' she really made it work. After the steamy scene between Xairn and Lauren in 'Revealed' let's just say that Xairn can Master and collar me in the bedroom anytime he wants to! And his reaction to some exciting news was just so adorable! Though I'm not sure if Lauren will be getting any in the bedroom anytime soon. I know Evangeline will explore that dilemma with, I am absolutely certain, totally delicious results in the next book!

The newly introduced Touch Kindred. I think I can see a future story with the Priestess Lissa and perhaps her 'older brother' who stood up for her. Sounds very intriguing to put this new addition into the series. Especially since they are kept away from all the other Kindred and not allowed on the Mother Ship. Who doesn't love the obvious underdog!

Merrick and Elise. I so cannot wait for their book! Just write really fast Evangeline. Who needs to eat and sleep anyway?

Then there was the mud worm in the Challenge. Uck. I've always said that Evangeline has an incredible imagination in this series and she really amps it up with the yuck factor in that particular scene. Very well written and so descriptive.

Something else I noticed in this book compared to the previous ones was the added level of erotica involved in the sex scenes, or at least it seemed so to me. Anyone who has read Evangeline's earlier 'erotica novels' know what I mean. Though all of the previous Kindred books have had some really hot and steamy love scenes I think she outdid herself in this one (and no I am not complaining). She was definitely dipping her pen deep into the well of her erotica muse throughout. Not a book for those faint of heart or easily embarrassed with certain words used in erotica story lines. This book was definitely rated XXX on the steamy factor! I'm assuming anyone reading this series already knows this and won't be taken by surprise, or easily offended, in this book.

I also wanted to thank Evangeline for self publishing this book. On my e-reader it was 603 pages and I only had to pay $2.99 for it. I don't think anyone can complain about that price. I'm getting really tired of overpaying for books a lot shorter in length when purchasing through the publishers. I know everyone has to make money but I feel the publishing houses are getting really greedy with what they are charging. I'm pretty sure the authors aren't making anymore on each book whether in print or paperback, yet the publishers keep charging the same no matter how you buy the book. An example, I recently purchased a novella of 36,000 words for $5.50. Evangeline's book was 130,000 words and only $2.99. Does that tell you whose raking in the dough on these books? Certainly doesn't seem like the authors to me. So please don't try to save a few bucks and download these self published books illegally. I think the authors are doing us a great favor by offering them at such an incredibly low price already and they deserve to be rewarded for their efforts. Having said that I will get off my soapbox now.

So after finishing that rather lengthy review I will sum it up for you. Buy this book, and if you haven't read this series yet start with the first one and read them in order. You really won't be disappointed you took the time. Read more ›

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Kindred Series 2.0 February 28, 2012

By GoddessPhD

Format:Kindle Edition

I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who loves sci-fi romance and action (YES, please!) and secondary characters you will want to follow in the future. This series (start from Book 1!!!) is definitely an emotional and enjoyable investment. I thoroughly enjoy travelling through the stars where Mrs. Anderson's imagination takes me.

As other reviewers have mentioned, this is not a stand-alone book - I felt that because "Revealed" is the start of a new story arc, Mrs. Anderson had to spend some time introducing us to new characters (good and evil), providing essential character backstory to our hero and heroine, and interweaving beloved characters (e.g., Sophia) into this one book - whew! Makes me tired thinking about how she did it.

/* Some Spoilers */
Another reviewer mentioned that Rast and Nadiah fell in love too quickly. I reluctantly agree, however some of their romantic development started in book 4 "Found". I felt this book highlighted the personal growth of Nadiah and Rast (Mrs. Anderson comments on the character growth several times from Sophia's perspective). In book 2, we are introduced to Nadiah as a precocious young lady and in book 3 we meet Rast as a single-minded and loner private detective, however by book 5 they have to grow very quickly to represent lost Kindred royalty (and communicator to a Goddess!). The onus of this newfound responsibility (seems like the responsibility of the entire free universe) is lightened and motivated by their selfless love for one another (which they demonstrate many times).

Mrs. Anderson has also utilized her Scheherazade-like (Can I use this phrase as an adjective?) skills by providing some background to Book 6 (Merrick and Elise's story).... Based on their character descriptions, these are two adults with a history of physical and emotional abuse. Mrs. Anderson has written about abuse in her earlier works (e.g., Sophia and Sylvan in Book 2) and I hope she spends more time (in Book 6 - YEA!) establishing the emotional and physical relationship between these two characters. I have grown to expect some extensive `alone time' between the romantic leads in her books and felt that that time had to be rushed over in Book 5. Every couple we have met so far has had the opportunity to be together for an extended period of time - whether by marriage contract, cash landing on Earth, abduction by alien overlords - which give us (the reader) and them (the characters) a chance to make their romantic development more believable.

Another reviewer also reported a few grammatical/spelling errors. I found 3 or 4 typos, but it didn't detract from my reading. Her writing is so fluid and her descriptions are so realistic that my eyes eat up every page (even descriptions about mud worms)!

Mrs. Anderson has hinted at FOUR MORE BOOKS in the series! I am so excited and eagerly anticipate a book about Priestess Lissa and her `older brother'. I enjoyed meeting Lissa in Book 5 and can't wait to learn more about her and her story. I also look forward to learning more about Elise (I felt like I was just getting to know her character, when Book 5 ended - hopefully, she'll be more conscious in Book 6?). The fate of Lauren's clone was also cleverly placed as a reminder - as if we loyal readers could forget? So, I think I guessed 3 books so far, who is #4? The new villain is also an ominous change - Draven is an intelligent and driven sociopath who will challenge our past and future heroes and heroines and keep us up reading until the story is finished. I can't wait for more sleepless nights! Read more ›

24 of 31 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Cheesy as Hell March 14, 2012

By shyviolet

Format:Kindle Edition

SPOILER ALERT...there will be spoilers in this review!

I don't even know where to start! Initially I was somewhat excited to read it, as I didn't know it had come out, and even though I think the series is ultimately kind of stupid (it's sci-fi lite and I have too many problems with the books to really call them good), I still enjoy my doses of Evangeline-erotica. No one does dirty talk better, I swear.

But the story...damn it was a huge cheese-fest. The whole thing played out like a bad Disney movie. And the characterization was markedly poor in this one. The antagonists were straight up evil, with no shades of grey, no explanation for why they did what they did. I found Nadiah's parents in particular, to be especially hard to believe. Their apathy at their daughters abuse at the hands of her equally awful fiancé just didn't ring true for me. And Rast's mother's explanation of his adoption and why they didn't care about him much was nearly as bad. It wasn't written in a way that I could buy into it. People don't pick out a baby like a dog and then give it to their daughter to play with. That's absolutely absurd. Also, why couldn't the very psychic Nadiah fight her fiance back by pulling the bond between them, like he was doing to her? I don't think that was ever explained. I suppose Anderson thought she would have had too much power and wouldn't be "damsel in distress" enough, since she'd be able to help herself out sometimes. We can't have that now, can we?

The heat between Rast and Nadiah was there, but their romance played out so predictably and it was so traditional, that I felt like I was reading a child's fairytale with some sexy stuff thrown in.... Nadiah even has to remain a virgin until she's permanently bonded, or she'll become a social pariah on Tranq, because when Tranq women lose their virginity, their eyes change color a shade or two, so everyone knows. While this culture is portrayed as being primitive and insensitive to women, it doesn't seem that much worse than the drafting of brides from various planets, including Earth. The women don't have much of a choice there, either.

And Rast being a Kindred was absolutely no surprise. In the final act, Rast has to retake the empty throne on First World, and save Nadiah from a sickness cast on her by a conniving priestess. This part of the story especially, was so silly and over-the-top to me, that I became quite annoyed. The evil priestess, him growing wings and flying to some magical garden high in the sky and saving Nadiah, oh and the unforgivable sin of healing Sophia so she can have kids with Sylvan...ugh. I keep hoping Sophia will be killed off, she and her twin are my least favorite characters by far, and I can't help but hope that they'll suffer in some way when the new evil really starts laying out his plans. I know, I'm sick and sadistic, but those characters are weak and pathetic, and frankly, their Kindred mates deserve much better.

We are introduced to a new couple in this book, Merrick and Elise. Merrick is a hybrid of Blood and Beast Kindred, and he has the sex traits of both as well (more mating fist? NO THANKS.) He's described as being even more huge than a normal Kindred warrior, and as having one blue and one amber eye, and scars on his face. He's friends with Sylvan but other than that, he has no one and is portrayed as somewhat of a loner anti-hero type. Elise is a human woman (or is she? hmmm) from Earth who was kidnapped by the All Father but escaped in a life pod, only to be discovered floating through space in stasis, by Merrick who brings her to the mother ship. Elise needs medical care because she was tortured and beaten, and Merrick finds himself feeling the all too familiar (to us, anyway) feelings of protectiveness and possessiveness with her, right off the bat. Elise too admits she feels something for him and wants to stay with him, but then Olivia tells her she has a call...from her fiancé and the book ends there. Cliffhanger! It's pretty obvious that the next book will be about them and I will probably read it, and probably kind of hate it. I already can't believe that Elise is a hard-ass attorney, when she whimpers and cries in her sleep and wants to be held like a baby all of the time by Merrick. Hopefully we don't have another "Sophia" on our hands. Yuck.

Thinking about it, I've realized that what bothers me most about these books, is the way that Anderson portrays men and women and the ways that they relate to one another. Her men are supposed to be alphas, but they are really only alpha in size and strength; not so much with women or with each other even. With the exception of Rast in his introduction into the series, they are written without real attitude or interesting personality traits of any kind. They never do anything too crazy, they don't argue with their mates or pull any dick moves, and therefore don't seem very real to me. They only live to supplicate their women, and their women are usually always helpless, insensitive, and/or bitchy damsels that don't deserve it and that I could never imagine would really be paired with such men in reality. And maybe we're far from reality but I'm unwilling to suspend my disbelief in this case. What's more, these men essentially believe that anything with a vagina needs to be protected and cared for, and they are willing to give their lives to do so. I don't agree with this philosophy one bit, and I say that as a woman and as a human being. It bothers me that in a time of equal rights for all (or almost all) that we are still recycling such outdated concepts. If women and men are truly equals, then why are the lives of the men so easily expendable? That's called Gender Discrimination, pure and simple. I hate the way the women in these books never do a thing to help their men, other than sex them. They never fight along side them or try to protect them. There's also the fact that all in all, sex = marriage/bonding/together foreverness, which is suspiciously puritanical in my opinion.

I don't have high hopes for the next book, but maybe that way I won't be disappointed. I really do think Anderson has talent, but I really wish she'd work on giving all of her characters more depth and personality. I also wish she'd add a little more darkness to the story, to make it more worthy of the HEA. I guess I should just try and write my own story. Maybe I will ;) Read more ›

More About the Author

Evangeline Anderson is a registered MRI tech who would rather be writing. She lives in Florida with her husband and son and enjoys reading, writing, baking, and playing Diablo II. (She has a barbarian named Giggles and a necromancer named Jimbo.) Despite her goofy hobbies, she writes smoking hot paranormal, sci-fi, and BDSM erotica.
Come visit her at www.evangelineanderson.com for free reads including an entire plus length novel or friend her on MySpace and FaceBook under Evangeline Anderson.

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