Releasing Maladek by Victoria Aveline

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Turns out crash-landing into love is possible…

Katie is content with her post-alien-abduction life. Not only has she found work as a royal attendant, but her current assignment on a galaxy cruise is enjoyable, too…until the ship is brought down by a malevolent species. Now she must rescue her friends and escape a hostile planet—all by herself. Then she crosses paths with a sexy stranger who changes everything…

Forced labor in an enemy prison camp was nowhere on Maladek’s agenda. But his own troubles will have to wait. Because against all odds, his mate is here. Now he has to focus on getting her to safety—and convincing her that fated mates are real. It would all be so much easier if he had more experience being a hero…

The circumstances are dire. Their timing couldn’t be worse. Even if they manage to escape their captors, is a happily ever after possible for Katie and Maladek? They’re about to find out…

Releasing Maledek

Terrific story!

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

The heroine: Katie – Katie is one of the human women who were abducted from their homes and taken to an alien planet where a race of Clecanians wanted to use them in breeding experiments. When the Queen of the race found out about it, she saved the women and though they weren’t able to send the human women home, they are now living and working in Clecanian society. Katie works for a prince and is accompanying him on a galaxy cruise. Though her assignment is pretty dull. She basically had to follow him around and make sure his clothes remained wrinkle free and he looked perfect at all times.

The Hero: Maladek – he was a prisoner, being forced to do labor at an enemy prison mining camp. Often the guards would mistreat the prisoners, he wore collar that his captors could activate with electricity at any time. His captors had a hypnotic song which was worse than the electricity because he didn’t know what happened to him or what he was made to do while hypnotized.

The Story: When the prince decided the galaxy cruise was boring, they turned around to go back home. The prince didn’t even think that others onboard the cruise’s maiden voyage might not want to cut their trip short. They also had to take an alternative route back, since the prince decided to end the voyage along the edge of the alliance borders. When the ship is attacked, Katie is able to get many of the passengers, into cryopod lifeboats and eject them to the nearest planet. Though she was barely able to get to one herself and she ended up crash landing.

I have really loved this series because every book has been completely different than the ones before. I love the fact that each book isn’t just a different version of the one before. The character development and world building has been terrific in every book in this series. I enjoyed this story of Maledek and Katie’s escape from the fish-like aliens on a desert planet. It was original and filled with action and adventure.

This audiobook was told in multiple points of view via solo narration and was narrated by Stephen Dexter who is one of my favorite male narrators. He has a soft but deep voice and is very good at showing emotion through his voice and doing different voices for different characters. He does a great job on this book.

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