Ensnared by Tiffany Roberts

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

He’s spent years as a hunter, but now he’s the one ensnared in a creature’s trap.

Ketahn did not want a mate. Fate has a different plan for him. When the queen he despises declares her intention to claim him, he retreats into the jungle.

What he finds there changes his world.

Small, delicate, and pale skinned, Ivy Foster is nothing like the females Ketahn has known. She’s not of his kind at all. Yet, the moment he sees her, he knows the truth in his soul—she is his heartsthread.

And now that he has her, he won’t let anything take her away. Not the jungle, not the gods, not the queen and her warriors.

Whether Ivy agrees or not, their webs are entangled. No one will ever sever those threads.
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Book one of three in The Spider’s Mate Trilogy.

Ensnared

Interesting alien romance story!

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

The Hero: Ketahn – he was son to the queen before she died years ago. He not only lost his mother, but his sire and eight of his nine brothers and sisters. These days he spends above ground in the tangle and hasn’t been home for seven years. But this year he came home for offering day, making his offering to the eight. He had a special offering for the queen who wanted him for a mate. Though she had taken everything from him, and he was determined that she does not take anything else unless it was on his terms. His offering was something that would send a message to the queen.

The Story: Ketahn and his friends are not happy with the world the queen had created since the death of his mother. The queen and her closest allies had an abundance of food while many of the others suffered and starved. They wanted to end her reign of terror but feared even talking about things aloud in case someone might overhear. Ketahn knew he would face consequences for what he was about to do. Though he had a very intense confrontation with the queen, he was able to go back to the tangle. The queen vowed that his time in the tangle was short for he would be her mate.

The heroine: Ivy – she grew up poor and often hungry, but eventually she decided to apply to the home-world initiative, to go into space on a large ship to find a new world. She trained hard in many ways and underwent physical and mental evaluations in a pool of tens of thousands of applicants and was chosen to leave earth. When the ship crashed on an alien planet, she was in a cryo-chamber like the hundreds of other humans aboard the ship. Many of the cryo-chambers were broken and the people inside died.

Ketahn found the crashed ship after falling into a deep and dangerous pit in the jungle. He accidentally opened the pod that Ivy was sleeping in, and he carried her out and took her to his home. They were very different physically and couldn’t speak to each other due to language barriers. This book was a slow burn romance. The story about Ketahn and the queen was a good one and very interesting. Though the physical differences between the two main characters was a bit too much for me and I really dislike in alien romance when the characters have trouble communicating. Many alien romance books solve this with a translator, but that wasn’t the case in this book. Though I was glad that it didn’t take them long to understand each other.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration. It was narrated by Macie Miller and Marcus Rayne. Marcus Rayne has a deep, breathy voice and is a good narrator. Though he is not one of my favorites, I still liked him. Macie Miller has a soft feminine voice which is pleasant, but you could definitely tell she was reading from her tempo and pauses. One thing though, I bought this without checking the rest of the books in this series, and unlike most alien romance books, the entire series is about this one couple. I like it best when each book is about a different couple, so I was disappointed that Ketahn and Ivy’s story wasn’t finished at the end of this book.

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