Audiobook Review: Ral’s Woman (Zorn Warriors, #1) by Laurann Dohner. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Ral’s Woman by Laurann Dohner

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Ariel never knew aliens existed until she finds herself kidnapped and taken from Earth. When the Anzon declare humans useless, she learns her fate-prize for the winner of a brutal fight between large, muscled alien men.

Ral is a Zorn warrior. He has also been kidnapped by the Anzon, along with his crew. Forced into slavery, he’s got one thing on his mind-freeing his people. That is, until he sees the small human woman he’s willing to fight to win. He doesn’t just want her body, he wants her heart forever.

In the hands of a hot alien, Ariel is about to discover how pleasurable captivity can be.
Ral’s Woman

Sexy alien romance!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: ❤️💙💚❤️💖
Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌏
Character development: 🤓😉☺️🥰
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Solo Narration

The heroine: Ariel – she was abducted from Earth, taken captive by the Anzon race of aliens. It feels like forever since she has been taken. She has been abused and feels that death is imminent when the Anzon decide humans are worthless and would die if they tried to mate her. So they decide to award her to one of the miners that are also slaves to the Anzon. The miners look like her though are much bigger.

The Hero: Ral – he is a Zorn warrior and a Prince, he and his crew were taken captive by the Anzon and had been working as slaves in the Anzon mines ever since. He plans to escape at the first opportunity. Whenever there is a chance to win something in a fight, he often competes and wins and gives away his prize but this time is different. When he sees Ariel, he wants to keep her.

The Story: The Anzon chained Ariel up in just her bra and panties, and told the miners, which included the Zorn warriors, that they were to fight for the right to have her. They fought in groups of four until only one was left from each group, then the winners fought each other until only one remained. The fights were brutal, with bones broken and blood spilled until a man named Ral wins.

This was definitely insta-lust. Ral immediately knows that Ariel is his and he wants to keep her forever and she is bound to him for life. Ariel is a bit more skeptical since she is from Earth. This book gets steamy right away and though it is fast, I liked that they talked about what would turn her on and their differences between the species (the Zorn females have a bundle of nerves in a different place than human women).

There were a bunch of intimate scenes early on in the story, but it got more interesting when they planned an escape. This was quite different than any other alien romance I have read before. They got translators when they were captured so could understand each other from the start, but later their translators had to be removed so they were already in love but couldn’t understand each other for a while.

The society was a bit to male centric for my tastes and even a bit misogynistic. Men kept two or three women at least and only paid attention to their women when they wanted sex. They could go out with the guys without bothering to call and let the women know they would be late, and much more. Ral behaved differently with Ariel, but also kept her home and kept secrets from her and didn’t want her to work when most other women did.

This book was told via solo narration in dual points of view and was narrated by Simone Lewis. She has a soft, feminine voice which is very pleasant to listen to. I have really liked Laurann Dohner series and have binged a few of them over the last month or more. She always has a solo female narrator and a different one for each series, but so far they have all been pretty great narrators.

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