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Ensnared by Tiffany Roberts
Release Date: May 26, 2021
Content Notes
Spider humanoid MMC
Stranded FMC
Spider silk shibari
Violence
Death
Low-tech alien society
Matriarchal alien society
There is something that Tiffany Roberts did with Ensnared that makes me want to say “This is Romance AND….” Adventure? Action? Definitely sci-fi. Completely fun.
I absolutely enjoyed the sweet pain of Roberts creating a bed of stress and tension for a main character pair you WANT to root for. There are very good stories out there where the stress of the secondary plot doesn’t seem to penetrate the primary romance storyline too deeply. This is not one of those stories. The secondary plot is in deep with the main Romance plot.
Be aware that this book won’t give you a story you can just call “done”. I am grateful I read the second and third books in The Spider’s Mate Trilogy are out. I need to know where this story is going. What are they going to do with the humans? How can the spider dictator queen get taken down? I got questions! I’m looking forward to reading the answers.
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