Fractured Souls by Anna Carven

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Alexis Carter is a long way from home, and she doesn’t quite understand how she got here. All she knows is that she died once, and now she’s alive. 

She’s woken into a nightmare, trapped on a dark ship full of terrifying aliens. With their silver skin and fire-colored eyes, they look a lot like the monsters that once attacked her on Earth. 

One Kordolian in particular stands out…. He’s huge, he doesn’t talk much, and his job is to guard her. 

From what, exactly? 

The voices inside her head?

Fractured Souls

A crazy alien world!

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

The Hero: Nythean – 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. The general assigns him to guard the revenant, a woman who was brought back from the dead when a Tharian was put into her.

The heroine: Alexis – she was a detective on Earth who had come across some Kordolians that had been gruesomely murdering, torturing and enslaving humans. She was abused by one of the monsters and barely escaped with her life. She left Earth on the starship Malachi and was on her way to a new life when the ship was bombarded and smashed by meteorites. She died and her body was taken by the Kordolians who were still loyal to the now defunct Kordolian empire. Her body and one of the other women were rescued by the mercenary Kordolians.

The Story: Enki from Shattered Silence, had a Tharian consciousness inside him and the only way to get it out was to let it move to a better host. That host was Alexis. She is now alive again and sharing her consciousness with the Tharian. She remembers nothing from her old life. The Tharian inside Alexis is determined to return to Tharos. Also, Alexis left Earth because of the Kordolians. She has some past trauma at the hands of a Kordolian.

This one wasn’t my favorite, but it wasn’t bad. I just didn’t really like the whole Tharian storyline as much as the first two books. Though I did really like the character of Nythean. He was a big brute of a man, but a genuinely nice guy and I liked how he cared for Alexis. One thing I do love about this series is the focus on the story, with the steamy parts not overwhelming the book.

This audiobook was done in dual points of view via Solo narration. Like the first books 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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