Review + #Giveaway: Alien Contact for Kid Sisters by Edward Hoornaert @GoddessFish

Alien Contact for Kid Sisters

by Edward Hoornaert

GENRE: Science fiction

BLURB:

Marianne Harmon is sick and tired of being just the kid sister of the famous queen of Kwadra Island. Although she daydreams about being a warrior, when rebels bomb the royal ball she’s shunted to one of the many tunnels that honeycomb Kwadra, where she awaits a captain of the valiant Royal Guardians.

Quinn Lebatarde, a scam artist fleeing the police, dons the uniform of a Royal Guardian killed by a tunnel collapse. When Marianne mistakes him for her bodyguard, Quinn can’t decide whether to save the feisty maiden, fall in love with her—or kidnap her. With bloodthirsty rebels pursuing them and a treasure map in his pocket, what will he choose?

Excerpt:

"Fifty, fifty-five, sixty," the white-haired tourist said. "There you go, chief, paid in full."

Chief? Quinn Lebatarde's lips tightened at the insult, but almost immediately, he grinned. The tourist's Rolex watch shouted money to burn, as did his expensive digital SLR camera. Quinn pocketed the money but held onto the cheap, plaster replica of an ancient Kwadran woodcarving the man and his wife were buying.

Time for some fun. Hordes of tourists crowded the streets, celebrating the birth of the heir to Kwadra's throne. Business was great. Only three more 'carvings,' a mask, and some miniature totem poles remained on his rickety street-side table. And now the prospect of conning this man made Quinn's day even brighter.

"All original," he said in the thick accent and broken English dumb tourists expected. If you spoke too well, they didn't believe you hailed from an alternate Earth. "Historic. Maybe I sell too cheap."

Instead of giving them their mythological monster from Kwadra's distant past, he clutched it to his chest. Not hard, though. The trashy fakes broke under the least pressure.

"Too cheap, ahha. Thirty dollah more."

"We had a deal," the tourist's wife said.

With a loving fingertip, Quinn stroked the carving's ugly, wide-open lips. "Fifty dollah more."

"Now wait one minute," said the man. "Isn't this against the law or something?"

"You no on America now. Merkin law useless." Merkin was Kwadrans' slang nickname for Americans, with sexual connotations most of them didn't know—despite English being their native language, not his. "Where you from you no know that?"

My Review:

Marianne is the Queen’s sister not only is she her sister she is her kid sister. Everywhere she goes it is like oh you’re the queen’s kid sister; oh look it’s the queen’s kid sister; make way for the queen’s kid sister. Well Marianne is so tired of being the queen’s kid sister she wants to be recognized for her own self and her own accomplishments.

While Marianne is attending a royal ball it is bombed by rebels so Marianne is sent underground into the tunnels by her ex-boyfriend the king’s brother to meet with a captain of the Royal Guardians. He tells Marianne to stay with the captain and obey him. But of course Marianne is not too good on obeying anybody. She is too head strong for that. She is her own person and will not tolerate it.

Quinn is a guy on the run from the Royal Guardians which pretty much sums of his life as he is a scam artist. After the bombing Quinn runs into the tunnels himself to hide and to stay out of the lime light for a while. Quinn finds a Royal Guardian that has been killed during the bombing. He likes his uniform so decides to take it. After dunning the uniform he runs into Marianne who then mistakes him for the Royal Guardian that she was supposed to meet.

Now when old Quinn finds out who Marianne is he don’t know where to help her, fall in love with her or kidnap her especially after finding out that she was told to obey the captain that he is impersonating. What is a man to do?

But it is not long before Quinn and Marianne has company. Eleven year old Lady Delfina joins them. They find Elfy alone in the tunnels she has been sent there by her maid and told to stay put but after Elfy sees Marianne whom she calls Aunt Marianne because Elfy is a cousin to the king which happens to be Marianne’s brother in-law.

Elfy is a strong and smart little kid who is just like most kids her age she always wants to do just the opposite of what she is told to do and talks up a storm as they say but she is a good kid. The banter between Elfy and Quinn is just hilarious; well and Marianne too. 

Alien Contacts for Kid Sisters is not what I expected when reading the summary it was way more and then some. It had you guessing from the beginning and kept you hanging on right up until the end. It was full of mystery, love and funny as well from beginning to end you never knew what direction you were going in next.

If you have not read it then let me suggest that you give it a try I don’t think you will be disappointed in the least. I can’t wait now to give Alien Contact for Idiots book #1 a try. These aliens are unlike any aliens I have had the privilege of meeting before.

AUTHOR BIO:

What kind of guy can write romance? A guy who married his high school sweetheart a week after graduation and is still living the HEA decades later. A guy who’s a certifiable Harlequin hero in his own right—he inspired Vicki Lewis Thompson’s Rita Award finalist Mr. Valentine, which is dedicated to him.

Ed started out writing contemporary romances for Silhouette Books, but these days he concentrates on science fiction and sf romance. In addition to novelist, he’s been a teacher, principal, technical writer, salesman, janitor, and symphonic oboist. He and wife Judi live in Tucson, Arizona. They have three sons, a daughter, a mutt, and the galaxy’s most adorable grandson. Visit him at http://eahoornaert.com.

Website/Blog ~ Goodreads ~ Amazon ~ Newsletter

 Alien Contact for Kid Sisters will be Free during the tour.

 Buy links:

Amazon US ~ Amazon CA ~ Amazon UK ~ Amazon AU

Smashwords ~ Kobo ~ Barnes and Noble ~ iTunes

Giveaway:

$10 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC
 

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Follow the tour and comment; the more you comment, the better your chances of winning.