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Liked It “The Federation Military Corps is sending a team undercover to Nondal, to find out who's leaking information to the Imperialists. Sera Ayres and Ash Walker had a mega falling-out ten years ago, but the sexual tension is still there...and it also blossoms between Sera and the third member of their...” see full review » see other reviews » |
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“The Federation Military Corps is sending a team undercover to Nondal, to find out who's leaking information to the Imperialists. Sera Ayres and Ash Walker had a mega falling-out ten years ago, but the sexual tension is still there...and it also blossoms between Sera and the third member of their team, Brandt Pela.
Tez Miller wrote this review Tuesday, September 22 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Sera starts off as a total bitch, but as the story progresses we learn why. She calms down a bit, but only in regards to Brandt and Ash. Otherwise...Nah, she's all right ;-) She even makes a friend - Rina, of whom I'd love to read more, to find out what she did after the events in Nondal. With three more Federation novels following (Relentless has already been published, but I haven't read it yet), hopefully she'll show up. Meanwhile, Kira Pela-Walker is a stereotypical rich bitch who never seems to come out of her cardboard cut-out - she could've done with more shades of grey.
The triad of Ash, Sera and Brandt is definitely more interesting than if this had just been an m/f, but I felt like it wasn't quite complete. Ash and Brandt clearly love Sera more than they love each other, and Sera loves them both equally. Whilst Sera definitely expresses her fantasy (and readers') of watching the two men shag each other, they don't. There's some hot stuff, but not full-on shagging. Kind of a disappointment. The explanation of the men both being Dominant seems reasonable, but I'm not sure.
The Family laws of the Known Universes are completely fecking annoying, and thus totally understandable why Sera is so pissed off that people treat her as if below them because she's unranked. But the 'Verses themselves are rather fascinating. Nondal has some kind of artificial environment, being under a dome...kind of reminds me of the Diamondillium in one of those multi-part Futurama specials. Only there's no genticles here ;-) But despite Nondal being mentioned as a tourist haven for its space light phenomenon, that event doesn't actually occur during the novel. Which is a damn shame, because I wanna see it! Or, in this case, read about it. (Hey, I've never even seen Aurora Borealis - I live below the equator.)
I very much so understand why this won the 2008 Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice for Best Futuristic Erotic Romance - it's pretty darn good.”
“Good Read”
Laura C wrote this review Saturday, September 19 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Sera Ayers walks into her commanding officer's office only to be confronted with a man she vowed to forget, Ash Walker. Their love affair ended abruptly after she found out he was engaged to be married and he wanted to set her up as his mistress. See in this Universe, Ash is from one of the founding families and as one of the first sons he is expected to marry for political ties. Keeping a mistress or two on the side is perfectly acceptable by societies standards. Only Sera has more pride than that and was unable to accept the arrangement. Now ten years later she finds that Ash wants to use her in an undercover operation. She with Ash and his partner Brandt are to infiltrate the Imperialists in an attempt to find a traitor, by posing as two wastrel playboys and their concubine. What first begins as a ploy to fool others turns out to be the real thing between Ash, Brandt and Sera.
Jill D wrote this review Tuesday, August 11 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
As I was reading the first chapter of Undercover, I got a little worried about the heroine of the story. When she makes her first appearance it's a violent and explosive one and these are not characteristics which I find appealing. She is bitter and accusatory towards Ash and with good reason, yet I was praying she wouldn't continue to act this way through the whole story. Fortunately Sera is one of those characters that once she has expressed her opinion she is able to move on and make the best of a bad situation and so my opinion of her went up several notches.
Usually a certain amount of disbelief is required when reading a romance between two men and one woman. I felt that Dane did a good job at explaining why and how the emotional pull between Ash, Brandt and Sera worked. Brandt was needed to sort of smooth out the conflict between Ash and Sera and was the glue that helped hold it all together. However, I do feel that much of the emotional development especially between Brandt and Sera was rushed or happened much to quickly.
While I enjoyed the story and the characters, I felt that the reader was only exposed to it at a superficial level. I wasn't as emotionally connected to the characters as I could have been. The world building itself had lots of potential, but for the most part only scratched the surface. More depth from both the characters and the world building would have made an enjoyable book an outstanding book. I would recommend this book for those readers who enjoy a book more focused on the characters instead of the world building. ”
“This is one of the first erotic books I read. I was definitly hooked on this genre after reading this one.”
baby doll wrote this review Thursday, July 23 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Undercover by Lauren Dane
Bookaholics R wrote this review Friday, January 23 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Paperback - December 2, 2008
5 stars
Lauren Dane has out done herself by creating Undercover, an extraordinary erotic futuristic masterpiece that will have you burning through the pages in record time!
Sera Ayers, a decorated lieutenant with the Federation Military Corps has little time for recreation much less love. Initially shocked to be pulled from her squad to serve in a covert operation, the shock turns to anger when she learns that she will be working under her former lover, Ash Walker.
Ash was the love of her life, until he left her disillusioned and bitter when he unexpectedly revealed his pending marriage to another woman and insultingly asking her to be his mistress.
Ash made the worse mistake of his life when he allowed family pressure to result in the loss of Sera. Although he has tried to forget Sera, when Ash’s latest mission requires a female officer with her skills he realizes this is the perfect opportunity to get her back into his arm in any way possible.
Sera struggles to keep her attraction under control by rushing through the job so that she can return to her normal, safe life. Unfortunately, even though she attempts to deny it, she still has not recovered from Ash’s betrayal.
The only thing that makes working under Ash bearable, is having his sexy partner Brandt as a buffer. When Sera is informed that her mission is to pose as Ash’s mistress, she rebels into posing as Brandt’s mistress instead. This is where the story really starts to heat up as Sera finds herself attracted to Brandt and that attraction is mutual…
Undercover is an enthralling read and I savored every word. Sera is a powerful woman that I can definitely identify with. In fact, I wish I was her! Ash and Brandt are fantasy men that any woman would find exciting.
Lauren Dane could have written a book sketchy on details and storyline, filled with meaningless, hot sex, as it plays-out in so many erotic books. However, this is not the case. The world she creates is as real and intriguing as her characters.
Undercover is a riveting novel of action, romance and well conceived characters. In addition, the extremely sexy scenes (Warning explicit sexuality and ménage) had this reader HOT under the collar! This book blew me away! There is nothing that could be added to make this romance experience better – except a sequel!
Reviewed by Steph from Bookaholics Romance Book Club
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“This is my first book by the author Lauren Dane and it is one amazing first book for me to read especially since it is a really large ARC of her first Berkley Heat December release. I was lucky enough to have one this ARC of Undercover and I knew it was going to be very different from any other books I've read because it is Futuristic, Erotic Romance, Menage and BDSM all rapped up in one very excitingly awesome novel. I've read futuristic books since I'm a fan of J.D. Robb's In Death series but I haven't read many erotic romances before especially with Menage and BDSM so this is going out of my relam of reading experience. I was warned by the author just in case because she didn't want me to feel uncomfortable reading and reviewing this novel and I told her not to worry because I love reading new things every chance I can get since I want to become a romance writer one day. First off I have to say I'm super glad that I won the contest because I was only one of a very long, long, long list of readers and authors who wanted to get their own ARC of Undercover. Now onto the very honest review of this book that I promised to deliever to the author Lauren Dane.
Phoebe Jordan wrote this review Saturday, November 29 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Sexy, pulse-pounding, arousingly erotic and another world with restrictive laws and a dangerous truce between the Federation and Imperialist. A world with a social cast like any other but one that can ruin the lives of those who love above or below their station in live. This is a fast past novel that I enjoyed from the start to the end because it had one strong woman and two very sexy and different men working together to save their way of life. The heroine, Sera Ayers isn't your typical woman since she lives in a very harsh society that looks down on her kind for being unranked and a woman. Sera's life isn't one filled with joy and blissful happiness not since her heart was broken by a ranked Family man who had held her heart in his hands but crushed it when he had to marry politically to save his family. To make it worse he even dared to ask her to be his mistress and so she left him as cruelly as he broke her tender heart.
Now 10 years later Ash Walker the man she had loved is back in her life along with Brandt Pela who are there to recruit her into their 3 man team to bring down Federation traitors. I had fun reading about Ash Walker and Sera Ayers past relationship because it gave them the personalities that they have in the present of the novel but also to understand what they were to one another was great to read. I had a bit of trouble with some of the new words that are used in this futuristic world but it didn't stop me from enjoying all the adventures that Ash, Sera and Brandt go through in the novel. There were a lot of very erotic sexual encounters between the three of them that I enjoyed to read especially since they feel such emotions that make their threesome relationship work so well for them all. It was nice to see that the men weren't jealous of one another because of their love for Sera and I liked that they all have an unexpected but much enjoyed Happily Ever After. I recommend this book to all Laren Dane readers and to anyone who likes trying out different types of romances and isn't afraid of what people will think about your reading material because this is one novel you can't miss out on. I have this book on my wishlist even though I have my Advance Readers Copy because I love the cover and the copy I have is a bit too large for me to carry around.”
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