Oath of ... by Marly Chance

Oath of Seduction: Seducing Sharon is a story I bought by chance ;). It was in The Best of Ellora's Cave along with The Switch by Diane Whiteside. I had just read The Switch and wanted a 'paper' copy of it. So I glance at the first story, it didn't seem all that and I put the book in a pile. When I finally got to moving books around to make room for new books I came across this again. I started it, probably trying to avoid cleaning. I loved it. The set up is basically an alien world (planet Shimerian) is dying out due to lack of women. So to prove that earth girls are easy females are 'encouraged' to register to become mates for the Shimerian (alien) males. Many didn't get called in fact so few did Sharon didn't think she would, something like 1 in 20,000 get picked. Once an Earth female reached the age of 30 or married an Earth male, she was removed from the register. Yes you can guess what happens... Once you are called there are three different 'oaths' the mates can take for their courtship, Seduction, Challenge, or Capture. Yes sharon goes for Seduction. Lucky girl. The characters are interesting and the world Marly Chance makes with Shimerian is creative and fun. This was the third EC book I had read and liked it. So once it was done my happy self hopped onto the net to find the next book and YAY it was out... Oath of Challenge: Capturing Kate was out in print so I was going to get walden's to order it if they didn't have it but before I made it over there I ended up at a ubs that rents EC books. I tried to buy it but the owner wouldn't let me :(. I ended up in the store for a few hours and in the end rented the book so I could read it NOW. I figured it was cheaper than downloading it then buying the print copy (which I have done with two other EC books). Well turns out I was glad I only paid 2 bucks for it. I didn't like it at all. Kate is of course Sharon's best friend. And the hot shot, smartass, in control chick of the pair. She picked challenge (yes you prolly figured that out). The book was boring. And really we didn't even get to see most of their weeks together - the time just passes. I like erotica. But the whole part of picking 'challenge' was Tair was suppose to work for it! He was suppose to challenge her body, interest, heart, mind whatever... and well hell he didn't get my interest not sure how I can believe he got hers. There is suppose to be a third book in the series Oath Of Capture: Capturing Cass. I would still like to read it, so far we have one great and one ack. So I still have hope. But I see no release date!