Kidnapped By Her Husbands by Rebecca Royce

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Alone in prison.
No recollection of the past.
A baby grows inside her.

In a futuristic world where women are scarce and only the wealthy can afford a wife, Melissa Alexander is trapped in a prison rehabilitation center with no memory of who she is. The unborn child growing inside her is all that keeps them from making her pay for the sins she’s committed–sins she cannot recall. But when five sexy strangers, claiming to be her husbands, kidnap her and bring her to safety, Melissa fears she can’t trust them. All she can remember is what she was taught under the prison’s watchful, vengeful eye: to hate them. But how can she hate–or love–what she can’t remember?

Kidnapped by Her Husbands

Reverse harem in space with amnesia!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💚❤️💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌎
Character development: 😚😔🤓🥰

The heroine: Melissa – she was locked up in a prison called The Master’s Center for the Betterment of Sinful Women, and she had no memory of how she got there, why she was there or even her own name, also no memory of how she became pregnant. When a woman arrives, she finds out her mind was intentionally wiped. She is told her name, age and that the Noble class, who are in charge, had changed things after the post nuclear war age, when whores like her would have been strung up and stoned. Melissa was lucky to be where she was.

The Story: Melissa was told that after the nuclear wars, humans fled the desolate planet Earth, though most of the females had been lost in the wars and afterwards, only one in two thousand babies is born female. The Nobles rose to power and live on Ochoa and that they are a “beacon of light to everyone”. That the universe would be perfect if not for the Rebels who attack, abuse women and turn them into prostitutes, which is apparently what Melissa was until she was caught and taken to the rehabilitation center. She was there for over three months while they taught her all the laws and expectations regarding the behavior of women. She basically learned to be completely subservient to her husband.

The Heroes: Geoff, Cooper, Nolan, Dane, Wes, C.J. – Melissa’s husbands.
Geoff – he was a guard at the Master’s Center for the Betterment of Sinful Women, he paid special attention to Melissa and one night during an alarm, he comes in and kidnaps her from the center. He is a rebel who is proficient with explosives. He is muscular and has dark hair and dark eyes.
Cooper – he is a Noble Prince, one of the royal family that lives on Ochoa. He is tall and has black hair and blue eyes. All the other husbands seem to hate him and want to kill him.
Nolan – he is angry, tough and muscular. He has a bald head and tattoos. He met Melissa first before any of her other husbands.
Dane – he is a brilliant doctor on board the Artemis. He is detail oriented and is tall with blond hair and blue eyes.
Wes – he is a bit of a hot mess but is also very intelligent. He is tall with strawberry blond hair. He is good with mechanics and keeps the ship running.
C.J. – he is friendly and nice, also massively muscular with brown hair, brown eyes and a scar on his right cheek. He has known Melissa his whole life and has always wanted her.

The story is original and good. It turns out that the Rebels aren’t really Rebels, they are Nomads. They aren’t wealthy like the Nobles, and they have developed family units with multiple males for each female. Females choose who they want to be with and aren’t completely subservient to the males like with the Nobles. Though Melissa was taught to hate the Rebels and to want a Noble husband because it saved her from being a whore. So she doesn’t know how to feel when she learns all that.

I really like reverse harem romances, but I have to say, when there are more than three or four Heroes, it just gets a bit too confusing for me. It is hard for me to keep track of who is who and when the heroine is with one of the guys, I have to keep looking back to my notes to see which one it is. This one was also weird because Melissa with her mind wiped was so completely different from her before, but I liked her. It was hard to see that she was very likable before, actually when her memories were coming back, she seemed very unlikable. Though it was weird because they were coming back in her dreams which she didn’t remember, so they weren’t really coming back for her, just for the reader. Though it all kept things very interesting.

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