Vanished by Evangeline Anderson

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Harper Wilde is sitting on the beach, minding her own business when a huge, muscular Kindred warrior with black hair and blazing white eyes demands that she accompany him into the future. Harper has no choice–she is dragged against her will into a dystopian nightmare–the world as it might become if something isn’t changed.
And that something that needs changing is Harper herself.

As a ten’sora, she is of special interest to the Hive, an insectile race of beings bent on taking over the Earth. By using her, they can conquer both the Mother Ship and the human race. Unless she herself is altered so the Hive cannot make use of her, the grim future Harper finds herself in will become reality.

Shad is a Shadow Twin–a Kindred male destined always to walk alone with very little chance of forming a bond with a female. Yet, he alone is able to make use of the looper–a time travel device which allows him to move back and forth between the past and the future to try and save Harper. Falling in love with her isn’t part of the plan but the big Kindred can’t help himself. But he knows he must put his feelings aside and do what is necessary to change the past… unless he wants the future to Vanish forever.

Vanished

Alien and human save the world in a time loop!

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

The heroine: Harper – she recently broke up with her fiancée, who wanted nothing more than to hang around the apartment eating pizza and playing video games with his friends. She had to sign up for the Kindred bride program now that she was single, but hardly anyone got picked to be the bride of one of the aliens who lived in their mothership which orbited the earth so they could help protect its inhabitants.

The Hero: Shad – he is a shadow twin, a Kindred male who was fated to try and save the Kindred and the people of Earth. He was the only one who could control the looper, a time travel device which he used to jump back and forth in time. He has been through hundreds of loops, trying to save Harper each time and the looper was dying. He may only have one more loop left and this time he had to save her. Every other time, he lost her, and he can’t fail this time.

The Story: an alien insect-like species called the hive had taken over the universe. They had nearly died out and disappeared, until they were able to kidnap Harper who is the only female, they found with a special characteristic which allowed her to successfully carry their young, she was called a ten’sora. They used her to incubate hundreds of thousands of their grubs. It is a death sentences for any female except a ten’sora. Shad went back in time and grabbed Harper before the hive could intercept her.

The story was pretty intricate, which you would expect from a story with a time loop and multiple iterations of the loop, with the Hero trying and failing to get it right after hundreds of tries. Though we only see this last try, he mentions previous tries more than a few times. The romance was good, especially given the fact that we know Shad is in love with Harper, but failed to save her so many times before that he is more than hesitant to give in to his feelings again.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view via solo narration. It was narrated by William Martin. William Martin has a great voice and is a very good narrator. Though I am not that fond of his female voice. Also, he has this habit of whispering to indicate when the person is thinking to themselves, which bothers me a bit.

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