Shattered Silence by Anna Carven

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Enki Zakanin just wants peace and quiet. He’s completed his mission, and on the journey back to the Kordolian Fleet Station, he’d prefer to be left alone so he can manage the literal demon inside his head. Alone. 

So when a strange distress call breaks the silence, his first instinct is to ignore the signal. Why would anyone be foolish enough to broadcast an open signal in the Ninth? 

My name is Layla dela Cruz. I need your help. 

A human? What in Kaiin’s Hells is she doing this far into Sector Nine? Now, somehow, he has to go and get her. After all, he’s given her his word.

Shattered Silence

A Hero with a parasite!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙❤️💚💜
Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌏🌎🌍
Character development: 😊😘😟😄🥰
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Solo Narration

The Hero: Enki – he is a Kordolian and was one of ten in the first division. He is a mercenary and one of the most brutal fighters in the nine galaxies. He just completed his mission to find and detain a Callidum seller at the outlaw space station, Zarhab Groht. The seller is in a brig on a spaceship which is on its way to the Kordolian Fleet Station. Enki has a parasite which infected his body, a Tharian consciousness is inside him and nobody has been able to figure out how to get rid of it without destroying his own consciousness. So, he just tried to ignore the voice in his mind.

The heroine: Layla – she is a former VR star, drifting in the ninth sector in an escape pod. She has no idea of where she is or how to save herself. She had been preparing herself to die, nearly going mad from the loneliness and with nothing to look at besides the walls around her in the small pod. She had been on the passenger transport, the starship Malachi, en route to her new home, a secret enclave on Meridian Seven for the wealthy. Micrometeorites had slammed into the ship and smashed it up. She had checked and found no survivors aboard the Malachi and had run to her pod. She was stuck on the pod that hadn’t fully ejected from the ship.

The Story: Enki was traveling through space and since he couldn’t sleep due to the Tharian inside him, he got a notification of an open signal. He was surprised to find another ship in the outer sectors, so he accepted the signal. He heard a human female singing. The noise bothered him so he said Stop and she did. She was alone and happy to hear another voice in the vast emptiness of space in the outer sectors.

I liked the first book in this series so was exited for this book. Enki was an odd Hero, with the voice of one of his enemies inside his head. Before the Kordolian empire fell, they had been a race that subdued other races that weren’t as strong as them. The Tharian’s were one of those races and the voice inside Enki was not fond of the Kordolians, so was constantly giving Enki grief. I really liked this book because the storylines were so good. Much better than in most alien romance.

This audiobook was done in dual points of view via Solo narration. Like the first book in this series, it was narrated by J.F. Harding. Though I do like dual or duet narration a lot more than Solo narration, I really liked J.F. Harding’s narration. He has a deep voice and is very good at showing emotion through his voice and great at doing different voices for different characters.

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