"When a bounty hunter returns to her destroyed planet on the hunt for an escaped alien, the last thing she expects to find is love. "Jarana Gothbrun is the number one Tracker in the galaxies, famous for tagging Replicants-shape-shifting aliens who can take on humanoid forms once they have someone's DNA. She has two more Replicants to catch in her current job, ones who escaped from a high-security prison planet. Unfortunately, one of them is currently on her home planet, Kithra. She hasn't been back since a Replicant kidnapped her and took her off planet prior to its destruction.
Maska is engaged to Erik, who has no idea the love of his life is an escaped prisoner. Or male. When Jarana uses an untested device to force Maska's shift to his native form, it puts him in danger and pisses off everyone on the planet. Her plan to fly in and out with her prisoner is put on hold as she has to deal with the people who've come to love Maska. Not to mention her own grief at the destruction of Kithra...and everyone she loved.
Review:
Replicant is the second book in the Kithran Regenesis
series.
Jarana was born on the planet of Kithra but was captured by
a slave ship run by Replicants and while held captive, there was an explosion
on her planet that killed her whole family. Seven years later, she is a
hardened woman and is working as a Tracker to hunt down escaped prisoners,
mainly Replicants. When one of her jobs sends her back to Kithra, she runs into
some people from her past, Lux and Egan from the first book Kithra. Jarana ends
up hitching a ride to Kithra with Lux and her crew where she encounters Erik
whom she feels a powerful pull to and tries to come on to, but he refuses her
because he’s in a committed relationship.
Upon arriving to Kithra, Jarana encounters Maska, Erik’s
fiancé, and can tell right away that she is not who she appears to be and
reveals her to be a Replicant (male), as they can change shape. This causes a
lot of conflict between Jarana and the others she’s currently living with on
the plant, not to mention a lot of confusion for Erik. As Jarana spends more
time on Kithra, she becomes more vulnerable and less numb of feelings as
memories of her lost family resurface. As she’s drawn to Erik, she also finds herself
drawn to Maska, and as she feels as she’s the one who messed up their
relationship she tries to help them put it back together.
I enjoyed this story and the struggles that Jarana, Maska,
and Erik have to overcome in order to find happiness and security in their relationships.
Jarana has the most to overcome, and she’s able to learn from her past and work
to make things right, at least what’s in her power to do. I enjoyed getting to
see the characters from the previous book in this story and how they had a
significant part in it instead of just seeing glimpses of them. It had been a
while since I had read Kithra that it took me a little bit to remember what was
going on in this world, but then it all came flooding back after I got a good
start in Replicant. I recommend this series to those who enjoy Sci-Fi, an
emotional story, happy endings, and steamy scenes ;)
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