Resisting Maxu by Victoria Aveline

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Being kidnapped by aliens and whisked away to another planet isn’t always a bad thing…

Meg isn’t like the other alien abduction survivors. She doesn’t missmuch of anything from her former life—least of all her deadbeat husband. Her Clecanian rescuers gave her a fresh start, and she plans to enjoy it. Being recognized as a mate is not on her agenda. Too bad a grumpy, possessive, and all-kinds-of-sexy alien has other plans for her…

Maxu never expected to find his fated mate. But he recognized Meg at first sight. Sadly, she’s not as pleased with the match as he is. She’s guarded in a way he doesn’t entirely understand and pushes him away at every turn.

Meg can run, but she soon realizes there’s nowhere to hide—not from a hunter like Maxu. But that doesn’t mean she’ll give in easily. If he wants a happily ever after with her, he’ll have to fight for it.

Good thing he’s not above playing dirty.

Resisting Maxu

I really like this series!

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

The heroine: Meg – she wanted a new life, and she got one. Meg was brought up by strict religious parents, so when she was seventeen and got caught losing her virginity to a neighbor boy she barely knew, it was immediately understood that they would marry as soon as they turned eighteen. She was married to him for 10 years and was not happy. Jeremy was controlling, overbearing, and lazy and she was ready to have a life of her own, when she was abducted by aliens.

The Hero: Maxu – he is half Clecanian and half Traxian. He lives in Clecanian society but isn’t fond of some of the rules. Most Clecanians do not find their fated mates, so they have instituted temporary marriages where they only marry long enough to have a child before divorcing. The Traxian side of him is possessive and once he is with a woman for a decent amount of time, he is not willing to give her up. So, he has started to implement a policy of committing small crimes when the time of year comes to get married. Then he is in police custody and can’t take part in the matchmaking.

The Story: Meg is rescued from the Aliens that stole her by the Clecanians and was given a job by the queen to go on a tour of the world so that the population can get a look at the humans who it turns out can be fated mates to the Clecanians. Though Meg doesn’t want to end up mated to a Clecanian, she likes the idea of having an important job and traveling the world. However, when Maxu and Meg come into contact with each other, he immediately recognizes her as his mate.

I liked this story. Though Maxu didn’t want to have a temporary marriage, a fated mate that he would have for his lifetime wasn’t something he minded so much. Meg was a different story, after being in an unhappy marriage to Jeremy for so long, she was not at all happy with the idea of being claimed by a Clecanian.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view via solo narration and was narrated by Stephen Dexter. Stephen is one of my all-time favorite narrators and one of the few narrators, I don’t mind listening to with solo narration. He is great at doing different voices for different characters and his female voice isn’t bad at all. His regular voice is deep yet soft and very pleasant, which makes him one of the best, in my opinion.

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