BR with my fellow junkies Shelly & Jaime. Because we're Jax addicts. There's no hope for us at this point. On and on and on it goes. BAM! 5 stars again. Yep, you got that right. Four books. Four 5-star ratings in a row. English-speaking pigs are now flying. So are Spanish donkeys. And French hens now have teeth. This is the stuff of legend.(view spoiler)[Confession time: to be honest this instalment probably deserved a 4-star rating. No wait, that's too drastic. Let's say a 4.5-star rating. Main...

Man oh man, did this book ever annoy the crap out of me. While I still enjoy the series, this book has my fangirl status on hiatus. Much the same way that March places his love life at every possible turn.So this story revolves around the growing Morgut threat, and how Jax, March, and everyone else (plus some random new guy who I can't figure out but seems to be all powerful) set out to fight them. The alliance with Ithiss-Tor is a go, and the Conglomerate is trying to make a comeback after bein...

God. God. I just finished, and... I don't even know where to begin. How do I rate this book?This book left me smoking pissed. Part of me wants to give it a bad rating because of that, just out of spite. But when I think about it, this visceral emotional reaction I am having, it is a reaction to the story. To a well-told story. How can I give that a low rating?There are a lot of decisions that frustrated me in this book. I honestly found it hard to read, because parts of it were pretty upsetting....

When I reach the end of this series, I anticipate a period of mourning coming on. I don’t see how it can be avoided, because I am in deep. These characters have me in their grip. I feel like I know them. I laugh with them. I cry with them. I worry and anguish and exalt in time with their tragedies and triumphs. And then I say very bad words when I am left with their fates hanging in the balance.This story begins with Jax and her crew headed home from their successful mission at Ithiss-Tor. But t...

Why, oh, why can't we give books 10 stars? If it were at all possible, I would. I would give this book one hundred stars. I finished this today and already I'm in withdrawal. I didn't want to stop. I tried, I tried very hard, to read Killbox as slowly as possible, to savor the story. But like any attempts of mine to savor a rich piece of chocolate, to let it melt on my tongue and slowly infuse my senses with its deliciousness, I failed miserably. From the first page, I got so caught up in the st...

Ann Aguirre knows how to carry her readers on a roller-coaster ride of emotion. Throughout Killbox, I was tensing up, holding my breath, crying…needless to say, the story gets intense. In the wake of Farwan’s collapse, humanity is fighting to survive against several threats: raiders, slavers, and Syndicate heavies are all taking advantage of the Conglomerate’s lack of defensive forces. However, nothing can beat the terror the man-eating Morgut horde inspires. The alien race further encroaches up...

Killbox would have been a beautiful 5-star book, but the cliffhanger-ish ending ruined it a bit for me. Still, I can honestly say that Ann Aguirre hasn't failed me yet. I postponed reading this book for as long as I could, trying to get closer to the release date of Aftermath. Today I needed an author I could trust and and a world I felt comfortable in.This is one of my favorite series in the world. What I love most about it is the growth of the characters: not just Jax and March, but Dina and H...

No updates + no review (yet) = No spoilers. Cos, I'm a nice guy. That ending though...

The good stuff:The plot of this book is back on track after the diplomatic detour of the last book. There's action galore; Jax is back in her element aboard ships and in the thick of galactic drama. Also, the Morguts are terrific bad guys. They're not only very scary by design, but also because of Aguirre's skilled writing in confrontation scenes. She makes them into a truly frightening foe, which heightens the drama considerably.The supporting characters are very well done. Aguirre is fantastic...

4.75 stars. This is one of my favorite in the series, although warning -- it ends with a cliffhanger. I enjoyed this installment of the Sirantha Jax series. Jax's friendship deepens with everyone around her, including Vel and Dina. Jax continues to grow as a character and as a result, makes decisions that place her at bodily risk. Jax still bears the tatoo Vel gave her on his planet but the meanings of the markings is vague -- although March wishes the tatoo was not there. Old friends are back i...

*hums to herself*"This is war And it’s on tonight So get up and fight Get up and fight You had all your life To run and hide Now step up, now step up Let’s do this"So here comes war. Everything is dark, no planet is safe anymore, people are dying all over the place and March is hot as hell. You would think this as an awesome book. I know I did *winks* And it was (kinda) at least for some parts. See the beginning was ok but I wasn’t impressed. A bit too boring for a good Sirantha Jax book. But t...

And this is the reason I wait for an entire series to be released before I embark on it. You never know when an author is going to leave you hanging at the end. What a cliffhanger! I am so, so glad the next book is already out. This installment takes a while to get warmed up, but once it gets going, all hell breaks loose. It's war now, and the scale is exploding. I've gone from learning to care about a small crew of a rogue ship to fearing for their lives as the fate of all known races takes pri...

Diplomacy has never been Jax's biggest strength so she's relieved to have resigned from her role as Ambassador and trying to figure out what to do with her life next. Then March gets an offer from the Conglomerate that he can't refuse, they want him to recruit a military fleet for them and marshal their forces against the human-eating Morgut who are currently plaguing the most vulnerable human outposts in the far reaches of space. Jax jumps at the chance of being in the action again and is more

Magnificent! Adrenaline-pumping & heart-breaking! And what an ending! I'm still reeling from it!This is the fourth book in the series and it is definitely one of the best so far. Jax and March are enlisted to gather a force to defend the planets from the Morguts – a flesh eating race of aliens. March is now the Commander with Jax as his subordinate: this creates difficulties for Jax as March is now both her lover and her boss. The other members of the close-knit crew are separated from March & J...

4.5 Stars. My favorite one yet. I'll get to the loss of a 1/2 star at the end.The writing was superb, with little repetition that plagued the previous books in this series, nearly poetic in many places.Jax has become the heroine that I've been yearning for. She's strong and independent, and still beautifully connected to those she loves and cares about.In the end this series is all about the relationships for me, all the connections between the characters, and the depth of emotions that it pulls...

Originally posted at WickedLilPixie ReviewsOne of the reasons that I prefer Urban Fantasy, and now Science Fiction Romance, series to stand-alone novels is because if they are done correctly, you get to experience and enjoy the growth of the heroine throughout the duration of the novels. The Sirantha Jax series is a spectacular example of this! It has become one of my most favorite series to look forward to.Killbox is the fourth book in the “Jax” series and boy, did this book deliver. We find ou...

Synopsis: Sirantha Jax is a “Jumper,” someone who possesses the unique genetic makeup needed to navigate faster than light ships through grimspace. With no tolerance for political diplomacy, she quits her ambassador post almost immediately after leaving Vel's home world so she can get back to doing what she's knows best; being a navagator.Her abilites are needed more than ever. Morgut (Flesh-eating aliens) are attacking stations on the outskirts of space at an alarming pace, and for many people,...

This is the only series that reddeems the "sci-fi" romance genre, probably because it's NOT a sci-fi romance novel, it's a sci-fi series with a strong romance arc, and so readable by boys and girls.I inhaled this latest in the series because it was SO GOOD! Wow, what character arcs for the two lead characters, I feel like they really have matured together and become different people from book one. They have GROWN, it's so believable and so gratifying to see a relationship and where it goes AFTER...

"I am Ramona Jax," she tells the universe. "And I do this because this is my world." Ann Aguirre has fraggin done it again!!!! I'm amazed at this romantic Sci-Fi fantasy world she has created. Killbox is a book about War, Love, Loss, Sacrifice, and being Heroic at the risk of losing everything. Chancellor Tarn has put March in a position to build Starships offering protection to tier worlds as the Morgut threaten to take over. War has begun. Jax, March, Vel, Dina, Doc, Hit, are now aiding Tar

Killbox , the 4th in Ann Aguirre's Sirantha Jax series, was one of my favorites of the series. One downside ... the wait until September for Aftermath #5 following a cliffhanger. I knew and still I read it, so I only have myself to blame. ;)This edition finds Sirantha and her merry band of space warriors dealing with slavers, pirates and the continued battle between the Syndicate and the Conglomerate post-Farwan collapse. Sirantha also finds herself dealing with the fact that she's slowly, bu