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Willow

(The Chronicles of Erla #2)

Kat Brewer (Goodreads Author)

3.88 · Rating details · 24 ratings · 7 reviews

A brilliant Physicist and a tough as nails Marine Captain team up to retrieve their friend Cassie from the other world.
Willow, Nelson and Cassandra were friends from childhood and had remained close their whole lives. When Nelson believes he has discovered the secret behind his friend's disappearance he recreates the phenomenonin his lab.
Willow agrees to go through the P ...more

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Jul 15, 2016 Tiblu rated it did not like it

Nothing new to see here......

Aaaaaaaaaa,what to say,what to say,what to say ;( I can't describe how much "Here She Rules" meant to me, I Sooo LOVED that book,it took me months to get over and sparked many a very happy fantasy for me! ;) I'd soo love a set up like Willows and like Willow I'd want to know they laid w/me because the enjoyed and desired me not just because it was their "job" per say.... I loved that Willow cared soo deeply for Ravens feelings and actually asked him about Freedom and Nothing new to see here......

Aaaaaaaaaa,what to say,what to say,what to say ;( I can't describe how much "Here She Rules" meant to me, I Sooo LOVED that book,it took me months to get over and sparked many a very happy fantasy for me! ;) I'd soo love a set up like Willows and like Willow I'd want to know they laid w/me because the enjoyed and desired me not just because it was their "job" per say.... I loved that Willow cared soo deeply for Ravens feelings and actually asked him about Freedom and what he'd like, you know like it was a ' real person' and not just a bit of sexy flesh ? I realize the men were treated like property and rather degraded at times in Cassie's story but w/Cassie there ACTUALLY was a story ( plenty of action and adventure and romance) and between that and how much Cassie seemed to love and regard her men and the fact she was living out a personal fantasy of mine it was something I ( right or wrong) over looked... But here, here there wasn't a story, Willow came,Willow settled in , Willow acquired some men, a few minor skirmishes later .... The End... TBC... And along the way we got to see Cassie's ( total lack of better words) twin baby daddy and Darien from last book make a totally unneeded appearance.... Deep sigh.. I loved the other story Sooo MUCH!!! I was soo excited for more but more of what? Males being treated like nothing but very sexy commodities to be bought,sold,traded or degraded ? These "women" might not have abused them but they had no respect for the sweet,kind, overly willing to please men,all the men were to them were beautiful sex toys and nothing more... Seriously we'd all be beyond disgusted to read a book where women are treated like this or at least I'd hope we would be.... When the other book ended it made sense at the time for Cassie to stay in Erla but 2 years later ? Aaaaaaa No, she has a man she supposedly "loves" so she can what ? Fight wars ( when she has 2 young children) and sleep w/every piece of pretty male flesh that strikes her fancy ? Instead of being a family w/the man she supposedly loves,she stays in Erla to keep her six men and then still sleep w/every man she can.... Sorry if Cassie was say Cassin maybe and Cassin was a guy and doing this to a woman,we'd call that woman a HUGE doormat and TSTL ( too stupid to live) , soo why is it ok for Cassie to super slut,and string Nal along and sleep w/every piece of pretty male flesh she desires? Slut ,heck yeah!! She has 6 , count'em 6 supposedly gorgeous men ( one for ever night the week almost) and still coveted every man Willow got and every other one she seemed see.... No nothing really happened at all in this book except for my disgust to grow towards Cassie... Reverse Harem fantasies or not I was always disappointed Cassie NEVER tried fight the slavery or change the way ppl are treated at all,but not drunk on the kook aid of power when Willow is disgusted by her,her attitude is " it's ok they like it".... Aaaaaaa No,not really Cassie there's a difference between slavery being all you've ever know and breed to point of uber submissiveness,where all you can think of/hope for is a kind and hopefully master and " liking it"... Willow actually seemed to care,like Cassie used to seem to,while Cassie just seemed to run around like a bratty beyoch in heat ;( You'd think having a son of her own might make her think of all the sons she looks at like there nothing but sexy pieces of meat but no... Seriously nothing new to see here and I'd give this 2 1/2 stars if I could :( Willow comes to Erla and they try to teach her that men are nothing but beautiful sex toys to be passed around or used for stud service for more toys... Almost makes me hate myself for loving the 1st book soo much. Grateful this was KU,NO more for me... Too disgusted.. As much as I love the idea of a reverse harem I wouldn't want to read about women treated the way these men were.... Soo,no thanks .. Sorry this just hurt my feelings and left a bad taste in my mouth... 1st book great,this sucked... ...more

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Jul 03, 2016 Lady Elizabeth rated it really liked it

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Aug 05, 2017 Randy Harmelink rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: sf-sword-and-planet

Once again, I'm shocked I enjoy this series as much as I do. So much of the dialog between the warrior and her men sound like something I would expect between a dog and his owner, if the dog could talk. And that thought gets reinforced when the warrior hand-feeds her "pets" with "morsels of food". I'm not even finding the sex scenes titillating. Just tedious.

However, having said that, I have found the books fun and easy to read. I like the characters and world the author has created. The humor a ...more

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Nov 22, 2020 Dave B rated it did not like it

From the book,
“Willow, listen, it’s not like that. Not like Old South slavery in our world, we don’t treat them like that. It's different, I swear it is and they are different.”
So Cassie is one of those good slave owners? Yeah, keep telling yourself that. One star for having the audacity to even have a line like that. ...more

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Jan 11, 2017 Anna lost in stories *A* rated it really liked it

Shelves: arc, fantasy

I got a free copy of this book from the author in exchange for an honest review :) originally I was leaning towards giving this bok a 4,5 stars rating, but after thinking some more about it, I decided on full 4 stars instead... :) because I definitely enjoyed it, but not as much as the first one... :) ok, so let me start my review, which is gonna be a bit shorter than what I usually write, not because the book is not very long, but because it's extremely hard to tell you guys stuff about it with I got a free copy of this book from the author in exchange for an honest review :) originally I was leaning towards giving this bok a 4,5 stars rating, but after thinking some more about it, I decided on full 4 stars instead... :) because I definitely enjoyed it, but not as much as the first one... :) ok, so let me start my review, which is gonna be a bit shorter than what I usually write, not because the book is not very long, but because it's extremely hard to tell you guys stuff about it without spoiling you sooo many things... but I will try my best :) but back to the topic... ;) I will start by saying a little bit about the world and the characters in it in general and then just go straight into my thoughts and feelings about it :) so let's get started ;)

This book, and this whole series in general, is actually quite different than what I usually read... ;) the best way I can think of describing it, is fantasy guilty pleasure... :) each story in this series concentrates around a different woman who is transported through a trans-dimensional rift into the world of Erla... and that world is quite different than ours... or at least the part of it when the action was concentrated in the first two books... :) because where Cassie, the heroine of the first book, and now Willow lands, is a Queendom... which means, long story short, that women are the stronger, more powerful and dominant sex there... they are warriors... and men, well... they are slaves... I know, I know, but please, stay with me... the men of that part of Erla are... they seem different on like a genetic level... they don't crave independence and are happy with their lives... I know this part may be a big no-no for some of you and will influence you not to pick this book up, but it's really not as bad as it may sounds... but of course, we all have a right to our own opinion, and even though these particular roles of each sex did not bother me I understand why it may be a problem for you guys... both Cassie and Willow had to adjust to this whole new way of life, when they realized that there is no going back, and each book concentrates on that journey for each character... :) but don't worry, all the secondary ones we met before appear here as well :) so even though this particular story revolves around Willow, we see lots of people we met in that very first book :) a little bit of warning, although this story CAN be read as a standalone, because the explanations are there, I highly recommend to read them in order, because there are some major spoilers about the first book in this one... and I mean really huge ones about some very unexpected turns of events that surprised me when I read "Here she rules" :) so keep that in mind when deciding where you want to start reading ;) ok, now that you have some basic informations about the world and book, let me jump straight into my thoughts and feelings about :)

So first of all, I really wish there was more that I could tell you :) more details that could help me explain better why I enjoy these books... but everything else I can think of, is just too spoilerific :) so instead, let me just say that again, I really enjoyed reading this story :) not as much as I loved the first one, because in my opinion Cassie's story was much better :) it was full of surprising turns of events, action and adventures... I think I loved it more, because it took place over a longer amount of time... so not only I had plenty of chapters to get used to this completely new world, but then there was soooo much more happening :) and Willow's story... well... it was similar to the previous book, but... I don't know exactly why, maybe it's based on my personal preferences as a reader, but I just couldn't connect to Willow as much as I did with Cassie... so I still liked her, but let's just say I was very happy that there were plenty of scenes with Cassie and all other warriors I met in that previous book :) I am definitely interested in coming back to this series and to be honest, I am hoping that the next book... or the ones after that, because there are a few more available at the moment ;) will show us some different parts of that world... I would love to explore and get to know more about certain characters that I met so far... ;) overall I can definitely recommend you guys this series in general, but I would advice you to start with that first book so you'll know better what you are signing for... ;)

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Jul 24, 2016 IDGAF Reading rated it it was amazing

I read Here She Rules a long time ago as the author was writing it on fictionpress. I was curious where it would go with this sequel, whether she would continue Cassie's story or what.
I like how the author chose to make this totally Willow's story, it had a nice mix of the characters I grew to love from the first book, you get to see what is going on with them and in their lives.
I also like how we get to see how Cassie evolved and adapted to her new world and country, she settled into her life ...more

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Oct 12, 2016 Casey rated it it was ok

Shelves: fantasy, science-fiction-romance

Like another reviewer Tiblu said, “Nothing new to see here.” Thankfully the author repeated most of the good stuff from the first book, or this review would have gone different. As it is, I’m only gonna give this book 2 stars, and hope the next one brings something new because I really do like the concept of the series.

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I'm a Santa Cruz, CA native who now resides in rural South Alabama. In the grips of inspiration I can lose myself for days. I love to write stories with strong heroines that push past fear and insecurities and meet the challenges life throws at them.
I believe every woman has a fierce spirit within and that when we unite there is nothing we cannot accomplish.
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