Captured by the Alien Warrior by Viki Storm

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

DROKA 
A warrior owns what he is able to take. And I take her. 
She’s trembling in a closet, hiding from the raiding party invading her human settlement. Hiding from me. 
I collar her. I own her. She’s mine by law. 
As the Captain of the Imperial Guard, I’ve sworn a solemn oath to have no mate, sire no offspring. 
Oath-breakers are traitors, executed without a second thought. Let them try. I’ll beat them all for a chance to claim my mate. 

AREN 
I just want to go home. Except, I don’t have one. These alien bastards burned it to the ground. 
And the biggest bastard of them all put a collar around my neck. He parades me around on the end of a leash like I’m his newest pet. 
My clothes are torn and my body is exposed and there’s about a hundred alien warriors looking at me like they can’t wait to have a turn. 
He keeps me safe from the horde. I’m his lawful captive, his property—and he doesn’t want to share. 
But will he fight this hard to protect me when he finds out who I really am? 

Captured by the Alien Warrior

Good story!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙💚❤️
Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌏🌎
Character development: ☹️☺️😒😍
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Aren – when she was very young, Earth was invaded by the Craks, a scaly humanoid people who were cruel and impervious to most weapons. Much of the Earth was decimated, until the Zalaryns came and destroyed the invaders. They didn’t do this out of generosity, but because they wanted fertile virgin females that are compatible with their species which are mostly male. When Aren was twelve, she was tested and was marked by the Zalaryn as one of theirs. Her parents sold everything and moved the family to a small off-world settlement on what turned out to be a barren planet. Aren’s parents have since died, and she struggles to grow crops on the cold and desolate planet.

The Hero: Droka – he is the head of the Imperial guard and is on a mission from the Zalaryn high prince to find and execute the traitor to their world who is working with the Craks. He is undercover as a mercenary for the traitor Noxu. Though he got on the wrong ship and ended up with a Zalaryn admiral who has set up a raiding party for Noxu’s son to lead. It is not a real Zalaryn raiding party, it is a bunch of privileged kids raiding and killing on a small bleak planet of human settlers who have no means of defending themselves.

The Story: Aren is on her land when she sees a Zalaryn ship. She runs into her home and hides; she has a trap door in her closet which lets her hide under the house in a small hole that was made for that purpose. She has only a knife, which her parents had left for her to kill herself if she is found. However, when Droka enters her cabin and starts destroying things, she comes out and attacks him. He had wanted to try to save her by making her hide again, but another of the raiders enters the cabin and Droka is forced to claim Aren as his property.

The story on this one is better than the first book, though the first book did set the stage for Droka to be where he is, undercover and searching for the traitor who is planning to lead a rebellion against the high prince and the Zalaryn people. The world building was good, if a bit gross. For an advanced society, they are strange. They eat protein bricks made from the larva of a large crab-like creature. Yuk! Is all I can say. They only care that it fills their belly and provides energy for them. I suppose the bars are their version of our hot dogs… 😉

This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration. It was narrated by Justine O’Keefe and Tristan James. Justine has a terrific voice, soft and feminine and she is pleasant to listen to. The same holds true for Tristan who is a fantastic narrator with a soft yet manly voice.

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