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Summary: Hot
Review: As steamy as all Jaid Black's other books, "The Fugitive" propels us into the future Earth, which is following major genetic manipulation of the human race, is not exactly a desirable place to live in, particularly for women. Nellie Kan is a scientist, attempting to discover a serum to cure a hideous disease. Kerick Riley is an escaped convict. The common links are his obsession for her and, unbeknowest to them both, his mother (also a scientist). There is also the fact that both their mothers died fo the same disease. The premiss is good, the book is hot and erotic (and definitely not for those who do not appreciate erotica). However, it is very obviously the first in a series and the story is nowhere near over. To tell the truth, I would have preferred the author to come to some sort of "end" before publishing. As it is, I get the feeling that the entire trilogy will be concentrating on Nellie and Kerrick (truly Part I, II and III of the same book).
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Summary: HOT HOT HOT!!
Review: As usual with Jaid's work, this is sizzling. Definitely erotica. The reader should be prepared though, this is a serial.
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Summary: Timeless Tales review
Review: By TT reviewer Brenda EddeAltun Ha, former Belize 2249 AD
Kong Penal Colony Kerick Riley, the infamous Dr. Margaret Riley's son, has been in prison at the Kong Penal colony for 15 years, 7 months, 3 weeks and 5 days. Today was to be his execution day. His mother, however, taught him to control his mind and his body, and he learned his lessons well. He's been planning his escape for a long time and he won't be dying today. Kerik and his fellow prisoners and assassins, Elija and Xavier, will be escaping the mighty Kong prison instead of dying. Then they'll find out who really killed his mother and justice will be done. Dr. Nellie Kan is a rarity in these times, an unclaimed female. Nellie is a scientist working to find a serum that will reverse the infection that has caused the mutation of humans into violent and deadly sub-human beings. Unbeknownst to anyone, she has a copy of Dr. Margaret Riley's journal, the famed scientist who had almost completed the serum when she died. Keeping her freedom to work on the serum is a daily battle in this world, where men outnumber the women because of a genetic manipulation started two hundred years ago. Now there are so few women that men have the right to claim any woman they can find, while women are forced to submit to and service any man who can keep her. Nellie plans on being the one to find the serum, help save the sub-humans and, in doing so, insuring her future freedom. Is it irony or fate that leads Kerick to the same biosphere where Nellie works to look for information about his mother's killers? The lack of a woman's touch for 15 years and seeing the luscious Nellie fondled by her former mentor definitely leads to his kidnapping Nellie. The first story in the Death Row trilogy is a fast paced trip through the year 2249, where genetic manipulation has caused major problems for both men and women. The questions regarding the doomed sub-humans and the dangers of living outside the biosphere in the jungle are riveting and bewildering. I was enthralled thru the whole story, trying desperately to figure out when the revelation would be made that both Nellie and Kerick were working towards the same goal. Alas, how that will be worked out has to wait for the sequel, Death Row: The Hunter.
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Summary: First of a Series
Review: Death Row: The Fugitive begins the saga of a futuristic earth where science and bio-engineered humans are in the forefront and sub-humans run wild in the jungles, killing as monstrous animals to survive. Kerick Riley has served over 15 years in a prison where he is slated to be executed. A prison that no one has ever escaped from before. But Kerick and fellow Death Row inmates Elijah and Xavier do escape and vow to finish their mission to assassinate those in the Hierarchy for their crimes against humanity.
Nellie Kan is a bio-engineered female scientist in a world where women are for pleasure and few are privileged enough to be allowed a career. Her life's work is perfecting a serum that will keep those humans infected from turning into sub-humans. This serum was began by Margaret Riley, Kerick's mother who succumbed to the infection herself.
Now Nellie faces danger from all directions. Many would kill for the serum yet Nellie must continue her work on it. She is abducted by Kerick who wants her for a mate and will stop at nothing to master her and claim her as his own. She must convince Kerick for the greater good of humanity that it is imperative she be allowed to finish the serum.
Faced with no choice Nellie escapes Kerick and must journey to the Underworld as Margaret Riley's journal leads her to either salvation or doom. I am not a big fan of serials that do not tie the ends up in each volume and require the reader to wait for subsequent volumes to find out the answers. But Jaid Black has written the exception. This dark, satirical tale has subtle humor and fast-paced action in every chapter. The world of the future is male dominated and highly sexual with good versus evil blurring the lines and the consequences of man manipulating nature will hold readers in its grip till they read the sequels.
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Summary: Too Expensive
Review: I own the MS reader version, which I bought for [money] or something. The story is usual JB, and it definitely steams, but there is no way I am going to pay [money] for the book. I would have given the book 4 stars, because although it's good it isn't the best JB I have read (I own all her books), but the price is way too much. If you can still purchase this book in eformat do it. The entire book is is probably less then 120 pages. Ask yourself if you want to spend [money] on that!?
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Summary: Amazing Talent
Review: If you've never read a Jaid Black book you have no idea what you've been missing. Her stories are original, erotic with a capital E, and full of surprises. Her heroes are to die for, her heroines are strong and a far cry from the usual insipid young ladies you're used to finding in romances. If you're faint of heart or used to recyled romantic mush this book is not for you. However if you're looking for a great way to spend an evening with some chocolates and cooling fan you have to read Ms. Black's work. This book is one of her best, but be prepared for a cliff-hanger ending!
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Summary: What a Rip Off!
Review: Kerick "the Grim Reaper" Riley and his two friends, Elijah "The Slayer" Carter and Xavier "Romeo" O'Connor had just managed to do the impossible - escape from the impenetrable Kong Penal Colony. The three fugitives were incarcerated for rebelling against the Hierarchy and killing those who had harmed the people they loved. In the year 2249 in the region of Altun Ha (former Belize), part of the United Americas of Earth, life is very grim for any but the few very wealthy males who control every aspect of life. Scientists had played God by manipulating genes to breed more males, but, after a short period of time, the scientists lost control and there soon was an extreme shortage of females in the population. Women were quickly relegated to the status of a type of slavery. They were taken at 16 and auctioned off to the highest bidder in the marriage market where men who had saved their whole lives tried to buy a wife to have a real woman to make love to instead of the robots that most men were forced to use. Because women were so expensive, it was even common for one family - father, sons, uncles, etc. to share one wife. Scientist Nellie Kan was an exception to the status quo. She had refused to get married because she knew that she was a gifted scientist. She was so close to developing the serum to cure the sub-humans disease - a viral infection that turned rational human beings into rabid, flesh-eating monsters. Because Nellie was unclaimed, any man could fondle her breasts and her old mentor could bring her to climax in public, inviting associates to help him. Nellie was used to it, but it still rankled her that she was not taken seriously. But then a strange, grim looking man started following her. Before Nellie knew it, she was kidnapped and in some system of caves with this strange man (Kerick) who said to call him Master... This book is super short at only a little over a hundred pages and ends very abruptly with the second book beginning just as abruptly. What the Death Row series really is is one book that the publisher/author split into three to make 3 or 4 times the amount of money than they usually would. This world is pretty hot, but very, very sexist with the women walking around naked or nearly so. If they are claimed they wear nipple chains to signify to other men that they are taken and not to be touched. The women really are slaves, bought and sold because they are rare. They have no rights once they are claimed and have to do everything to please the men in their lives. I found quite a few aspects of the world repulsive and would think that someone as strong willed as Nellie would rebel more against most of these societal dictates, but she seems to take it as part of life and not really try to do anything to change it. This book costs so much money (although it is a few dollars cheaper in e-book format) that it just isn't worth it. Go read a book by Dara Joy or C.J. Barry or someone who actually writes a book for the cost of a book.
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Summary: What a Rip Off!
Review: Kerick "the Grim Reaper" Riley and his two friends, Elijah "The Slayer" Carter and Xavier "Romeo" O'Connor had just managed to do the impossible - escape from the impenetrable Kong Penal Colony. The three fugitives were incarcerated for rebelling against the Hierarchy and killing those who had harmed the people they loved. In the year 2249 in the region of Altun Ha (former Belize), part of the United Americas of Earth, life is very grim for any but the few very wealthy males who control every aspect of life. Scientists had played God by manipulating genes to breed more males, but, after a short period of time, the scientists lost control and there soon was an extreme shortage of females in the population. Women were quickly relegated to the status of a type of slavery. They were taken at 16 and auctioned off to the highest bidder in the marriage market where men who had saved their whole lives tried to buy a wife to have a real woman to make love to instead of the robots that most men were forced to use. Because women were so expensive, it was even common for one family - father, sons, uncles, etc. to share one wife. Scientist Nellie Kan was an exception to the status quo. She had refused to get married because she knew that she was a gifted scientist. She was so close to developing the serum to cure the sub-humans disease - a viral infection that turned rational human beings into rabid, flesh-eating monsters. Because Nellie was unclaimed, any man could fondle her breasts and her old mentor could bring her to climax in public, inviting associates to help him. Nellie was used to it, but it still rankled her that she was not taken seriously. But then a strange, grim looking man started following her. Before Nellie knew it, she was kidnapped and in some system of caves with this strange man (Kerick) who said to call him Master... This book is super short at only a little over a hundred pages and ends very abruptly with the second book beginning just as abruptly. What the Death Row series really is is one book that the publisher/author split into three to make 3 or 4 times the amount of money than they usually would. This world is pretty hot, but very, very sexist with the women walking around naked or nearly so. If they are claimed they wear nipple chains to signify to other men that they are taken and not to be touched. The women really are slaves, bought and sold because they are rare. They have no rights once they are claimed and have to do everything to please the men in their lives. I found quite a few aspects of the world repulsive and would think that someone as strong willed as Nellie would rebel more against most of these societal dictates, but she seems to take it as part of life and not really try to do anything to change it. This book costs so much money (although it is a few dollars cheaper in e-book format) that it just isn't worth it. Go read a book by Dara Joy or C.J. Barry or someone who actually writes a book for the cost of a book.
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Summary: Too short & too expensive
Review: The only complaint I have is that it's too short and too expensive (hence my rating of 3 out of 5). I love the story about Kerick and Nellie but when I visited Ms. Black's web page, I found out that in the near future you can buy all three stories in one book...meaning one price. Bummer for all the Jaid Black fans who bought all three at an outragious price (me included):( Buyer beware, if you want to read this series (very good I might add) PLEASE WAIT UNTIL "THE DEATH ROW" 3-IN-1 BOOK.
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Summary: Too short & too expensive
Review: The only complaint I have is that it's too short and too expensive (hence my rating of 3 out of 5). I love the story about Kerick and Nellie but when I visited Ms. Black's web page, I found out that in the near future you can buy all three stories in one book...meaning one price. Bummer for all the Jaid Black fans who bought all three at an outragious price (me included):( Buyer beware, if you want to read this series (very good I might add) PLEASE WAIT UNTIL "THE DEATH ROW" 3-IN-1 BOOK.
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