Savage Prince by Alison Aimes

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

He’s a notorious crime lord—and he’s on the hunt for her.

Maxheim Skolov is mafia royalty. Worlds above her. Ice-cold and merciless. Driven by duty and dark secrets.

Tess is property. Expected to submit. Imprisoned by ruthless criminals determined to break her for information she can’t afford to give.

Because she’s got a secret that could change everything—and the last thing she wants is to put it in the hands of her enemies.

Except there’s something different about the heir to the Skolvo crime family that awakens long buried instincts within Tess and draws her toward the man inside the beast.

A force more dangerous than anything she’s faced to date.

So, she runs. But she won’t get far.

For mafia prince Maxheim Skolov, hunting down the rebellious, spirited female is a certainty. He’ll do whatever it takes to possess her secret.

The real question is what he’ll do with her—and to her—when he catches her.

Savage Prince

Good alien romance omegaverse story with duet narration!

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

The Hero: Maxheim Skolov – he was born an alpha male in the Anarcheim Alphaverse. Maxheim is brother to Nikolai Skolov, the head alpha boss of the Skolov clan in the Brotherhood syndicate. At the end of the last book, they all found out that their twin siblings whom they thought were killed in a fire when they were babies, were instead stolen and are probably still alive. They also found that some unknown alpha was behind a failed coup attempt on the Brotherhood.

The heroine: Tess – she was born an omega and grew up as a slave. She and her best friend Rav lived on the streets, the forgotten. They were born of alpha males without a house name. After they were caught, Tess was drugged in an attempt to bring out her gift to demand a higher price. Her friend Rav later turned out to be the same silver skinned man who took the Skolov twins years ago.

The Story: Maxheim was always the dependable right-hand man to his older brother Nikolai, he was the fixer of the family. Though recently he has been a bit scattered. He had been trying to track down the silver skinned man who took their twin siblings over fifteen years ago and who was working for the man behind the coup attempt on the Brotherhood. When Dahlia had a vision of Tess and Rav as children, Maxheim immediately showed signs of being fated mates with Tess.

I liked Maxheim, he was complicated and brutal. He had a former relationship with an omega who was killed and though he wasn’t in love with her, he felt guilty for her death since it was by a gang that did it to get back at the Skolov family. Also, he just committed to a deal with a rival family from the Brotherhood in which he would make one of their daughters his prime omega. He didn’t want to find Tess, though he did find her at a rowdy slave auction.

Tess was a slave, sold at auction over and over by her owner, for short amounts of time. She still had her gift, and it was a doozy. For every bit of pain an alpha caused her, the alpha got unimaginable bliss, but the bliss was short lived, and they ended up paying the price with their lives. She wanted nothing more than to save the young omegas and Rav who were also owned by Aldar, the same man that owns her.

The story was really good, and I liked both characters. I saw quite a few reviews where the reviewers didn’t really like Tess, but I thought she was interesting and genuine. Like the first book, this one was super steamy, though after listening to the two audiobooks in a row, it was a bit too much for me. I ended up fast forwarding through many of the intimate scenes. I wanted more story and less smut.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view via duet narration and was narrated by Jason Clarke and Stella Hunter. They are two of my favorite narrators. Jason has a deep gravelly voice which is perfect for a mafia boss, and he is fantastic at dirty talk, which I love. Stella has a soft but clear voice which is very pleasant, and she she is great at showing emotion through her voice.

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