Seduce Me in Dreams: A Three Worlds Novel [Mass Market Paperback]

I've finished "Seduce Me in Dreams" the 1st book in her Three Worlds series by Jacquelyn Frank.

Product Description

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Nightwalkers and Shadowdwellers series, Seduce Me in Dreams begins a sexy new futuristic series featuring an elite group of military heroes.

Dark. Mysterious. Sensual. When Bronse Chapel, the commander of a specialized unit of the Interplanetary Militia, begins to dream about a beautiful and exotic brunette, he wants to dismiss it as being induced by lack of sleep . . . or perhaps lack of sex. But his instincts tell him it’s something different, something far more dangerous.

Ravenna is the leader of the Chosen Ones, a small group of people from her village born with extraordinary powers. She doesn’t know that draws her to Bronse’s dreams night after night, but she senses that he and his team are in jeopardy. Ravenna can help him, but first Bronse must save the Chosen Ones from those who plan to use their powers for evil. Together, Bronse and Ravenna will be unstoppable. But Ravenna is hiding something that could endanger them all.

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books (March 22, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0345517679
ISBN-13: 978-0345517678

My Review:

Commander Bronse Chapel is the head of a unit that's the best of the best of the Interplanetary Militia's first response teams who get sent into situations where no one else gets results. He's been having fleeting dreams warning him that he's in danger and dreams that seem to have proven correct since he's carting his new communications officer who's been critically injured, across miles of black sand to their waiting ship, from a mission the two were on that went completely, inexplicably wrong. When they rejoin his team, his odd behavior draws their attention and he confesses to his second-in-command, Lasher that he has a gut feeling that he's going to die on a mission and asks him to warn the team to be on alert. Later on he has his first real dream where he sees the beautiful woman who's been warning him.

Ravenna is the leader of the Chosen Ones a group of young people with special gifts who live in a temple and are protected and working for the people of their village as healers, telepaths, etc. Ravenna and her brother Kith were sold by the villagers to a vicious warlord as an offering to their god because Ravenna is a precognitive among other things and she's foreseen danger to Bronse as well as his role in her rescue. She's been trying to warn him, but didn't know she'd be able to appear to him and was as shocked as he was to find herself standing in front of him in his dream.

Not long afterwards Bronse and his crew find out that they've been betrayed from within the IM and Ravenna's warnings becomes clearer that Bronse must not be separated from his team. She's also desperate for him to fulfill the second part of her vision and rescue her because she's being tortured for her captor's amusement.

Ravenna's precog abilities aren't in doubt. Bronse rescues her and there's a situation where her warning serves him well. His attraction to her from his dreams and her fascination with him explode when they finally meet in the flesh.

Bronse was also a great leader because he always thinks of his team but he loses his cool when it came to Ravenna.

Ravenna is great leader, level-headed and strong woman who was forced to be the leader of the Chosen Ones and to do what's best for them. Even when she was working out a way to be with Bronse she was thinking of them too.

Kith was a smart-alec kid who seems to hate Bronse.  He's also a great fighter and he's a telepath.

I really liked all the characters because they all had personalities and weren't maidens in distress who needed the big strong man to save them all the time.

3.5/5