Hunter’s Price by Lynnea Lee

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

XIK’N
My mission is simple. One: retrieve the shuttle. Two: don’t get caught.
The tiny human female who answers my transmission is just a bonus. Every ounce of my being tells me to take her, touch her, and taste her. I earn her trust instead, and we talk for hours through our shuttles.

When hostile humans turn on May and her friends, she steals the shuttle for herself. Now she’s out there on a mountain full of deadly scourge with armed males at her heel. May is mine, and I must find and claim her before they do.

MAY
Xarc’n warriors walk around their shuttle in their birthday suits. Ask me how I know.
When the hulking alien warriors first came to Earth, I was terrified of them, but this purple protector makes me feel safe. Besides, after surviving through the bugpocalypse, I’ve learned the Xarc’n warriors are our allies, even if they do have sharp teeth and horns.

The people I live with aren’t so friendly though, and when I realize I’ve outstayed my welcome, I steal their shuttle and save my friends from certain doom. Now we have armed mercs searching for us, hordes of bugs eager to eat us, and a twice-stolen shuttle. What have I gotten myself into?

Hunter’s Price

I just love the bugpocalypse!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💚❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌎
Character development: 😔🤨😛😁🥰

The heroine: May – when the scourge of alien bugs came to Earth and started killing and eating everything from animals to humans, May traveled from Canada to the United States, she and her traveling companions moved into the mountains after having heard the bugs seemed to be staying away from there. Though she thinks the group of raiders she is now living with set a trap for her group to separate them and took her when she couldn’t find her group again.

The Hero: Xic’n – he is a Xarc’n hunter in the mountains. He lives in the huge mansion they call The Ledge, because it was built on the edge of a mountain and looks out over the the entire mountain and valley below. He lives there with two other Xarc’n warriors and their human females and they are three of the warriors that work to keep the space bugs off the mountain. Xic’n has been tasked with retrieving the Xarc’n shuttle that the human raiders found and took into their cave.

The Story: The raider group treats the women like slaves and would just as soon feed them to the bugs or throw them in the arena to fight against the bugs if they said the wrong thing. These are the same raiders in the first book in this series, that went to Morgan’s home and stole her supplies and took her hostage, before she was rescued by her Xarc’n warrior mate. That changed things for the women in the camp, the newbies were now kept deeper in the cave and were locked up. Though the women like May who had been there a while were no less prisoner and weren’t allowed to leave the cave.

One of May’s new responsibilities was to watch the video screen in the Xarc’n shuttle because it showed where other Xarc’n shuttles were located. She was supposed to tell the leader if she saw any nearby. The screen and the doors were the only things the raiders could make work on the shuttle. Though the shuttle’s ran on solar power, so the power was slowly draining as long as they kept the shuttle underground. During her new duties, May sees an icon on the screen and it is a video call from Xic’n, who codes the shuttle to May’s bio-signature and asks her to fly it out to him. The escape was pretty exciting.

I just love these Xarc’n Warriors. They not only came to Earth to kill all the huge, gross and toxic alien bugs with their fancy space shuttles and weapons, but they are over 7 feet tall, pretty indestructible and are complete badass’ aliens that can handle pretty much any enemy that comes at them. I bought and listened to all eight books from the Xarc’n Warriors’ series on audiobook and loved every one of them. I don’t usually purchase audiobooks that are not full series or at least 8 hours of listening pleasure, and most of these were between 4 and 5 hours, but I did because the stories were so good, and the world building was terrific. So, I was genuinely happy to see this spinoff series set in the mountains even though it isn’t available on audiobook as of yet.

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