Tempting Rever by Laurann Dohner

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Brenda spent four years trapped in an unhappy marriage. She’s so desperate to start a new life somewhere safe that she’s agreed to go to another planet with a handsome alien stranger. When he’s killed, she finds herself in the home of a Zorn warrior willing to protect her until the fallen warrior’s brother arrives to claim her.

Brenda never believed in love at first sight until she gazed into the gorgeous blue eyes of Argis Rever. He’s tall, dark, sexy… the kind of guy she’s always dreamed of finding – and already bound to another human woman. She could have lived with letting the man of her dreams slip through her fingers, except he isn’t happy – the horrid woman doesn’t even want him, and will never love him.

Brenda has lost a lot in her life but she’s not willing to lose the one chance at finding happiness with a man she’s falling in love with. She’s more than ready to start tempting Rever into finding his own happiness… with her.

Tempting Rever

I had a few issues with this romance!

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

The heroine: Brenda – she was in an abusive marriage for four years, so when she met up with a handsome alien man from the planet Zorn, who wanted to take her with him to his planet, she agreed. However, by the time she got to the planet, nine days later, the warrior was dead, and she was told that his brother, Volder wants to claim her as his and it was his right to do so. Though he was more than a week away. In the meantime, she was told by the leader of the planet, that she would have to

The Hero: Rever – After his two brothers got human bond mates and were very happy with them, he wanted one as well. He picked a female named Tina that was sweet to him and brought her back to Zorn, though ever since he got her home, she has been a holy terror. She complains about everything, berates him on the regular and even flirts with other men right in front of him.

The Story: The leader of the Zorn assigned bodyguards to Brenda for the seven days that it will take Volder to arrive. Though he tells her how females from Earth are very prized on the planet, so even they may be dangerous to her. So he is having her stay with one of his sons, Rever, who already has his own female so will not be a danger to her.

Brenda is attracted to Rever right away and feels bad for him since he got stuck with a real witch. She has gotten along with his ‘house helper’ Ollie, who only does cooking and cleaning since Rever bonded to a human. Though one night when Rever and his bond mate are fighting, she kicks him out of her bed and tells him to go to the ‘house helper’.

Rever ends up having an intimate encounter with the ‘helper’ despite saying that after he got bound, he gave up other women. I didn’t like this because Brenda sees the whole thing and is turned on instead of disgusted with the fact that he swore to be only with his human but barely took any convincing to get licked like a lollipop by the older woman. Then later while Rever is still bound to Tina, he and Brenda hook up.

Also, one thing I hate in romance novels is when the two main characters stop in a suspenseful moment, when they are in danger or in an inopportune place and decide to get intimate. Especially when they are being chased or are on the run. This happens more than once in this book and it drives me crazy. I’m just like “hurry up you idiots, you couldn’t wait till you were safe and in a better place?”

This book was told via solo narration and was narrated by Simone Lewis. She is doing a good job and has a very pleasant-sounding voice. I like her narration style, though I do wish this was done in dual or duet narration with a male and a female narrator.

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