Hunter’s Promise by Lynnea Lee
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
GABBY
Hunter’s Promise
A good girl gone awol
I knew when I Ex-Laxed our leader’s food that they’d send me to the arena if they caught me. It was worth it to get some of my friends out of this dump. What I didn’t expect was the seven-foot-tall Xarc’n hunter who has come to my rescue.
My horned and fanged savior isn’t like any other alien warrior I’ve heard about. He dresses in furs, lives in a cave, and there isn’t a shuttle in sight. Every word sounds like a growl, but my body reacts to him like we belong together.
But I can’t just hide in his den forever. I have to get back to my friends!
TAL’N
A hunter on the run
When I found out about Earth and the compatible females living here, I abandoned my mission to come to this blue-green planet. Hunted by my own kind, I did all I could to stay hidden.
Now I’ve found the female whose scent called to me all through the cold season. Gabby is mine, and I’ll stop at nothing to claim her. Her people are searching for her, and mine now know I exist, but I will level this entire mountain if they try to separate us.
This post-apocalyptic alien romance is filled with action, adventure, and tons of steam. Can be read as a stand-alone or as a part of a series. HEA guaranteed.
Bug fighting alien gods!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💚❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌎
Character development: 😔🤨😛😁🥰
The heroine: Gabby – like May from Hunter’s Price, Gabby was a prisoner in the raiders camp which was located in a cave system in the Rocky Mountains during the bugpocalypse. For those that don’t know what that is, it is when everything on Earth went to Hell after giant alien bugs infested the planet. Some of them had venom tipped razor sharp claws and appendages, some of them spit venom and others were even worse.
The Hero: Tal’n – he and his kind were clones of the Xarc’n warriors who were once feared from the far reaches of the galaxy. His race created the bugs, which they soon lost control of when the bugs decimated their home world. They created clones to go from planet to planet trying to save each one from the scourge of alien bugs. Sometimes they succeeded and sometimes they failed, but when some of the warriors went to Earth, they found that they were compatible with the females and found their fated mates. Tal’n was from a contingent of Xarc’n hunters that were assigned to another planet. Though that planet was a lost cause, so they came to Earth to find mates. There are also some faulty clones from one specific original warrior that have no use for mates, and they have come to find these AWOL hunters and drag them back to their mission.
The Story: Tal’n had been chased relentlessly by the same hunter that chased Xic’n in the last book. He had to abandon his shuttle and move into a cave. So this storyline was much different than any previous one I had read. The Xarc’n hunters and their mates are generally very safe inside their shuttles as the shuttles have cloaking technology and the bugs can’t penetrate the armor on the shuttles. So Tal’n and Gabby were in more danger than most pairs in this series.
“One lunger spotted me and advanced. A lunger looked like a cross between a killer ant, a praying mantis, and a grasshopper, except it was the size of a bear, and its front claws were edged with a deadly toxin. It also had a taste for human flesh.”
I did like this story quite a bit. Gabby was definitely a captive of Tal’n at first and it took him a while to get her some translators since the pair he had saved for her got caught behind a cave in when the bugs started coming into his cave before he saved her. Though the language barrier wasn’t too bad since he could understand her, and he could at least reply to yes/no questions.
Like all the previous books in this series, and the original Xarc’n warriors’ series, the world building and descriptions of everything from the bugs to the Xarc’n technology was on point. The characters were well developed and likable and the storylines in each book differ enough that I don’t feel like I am just reading the same thing over and over again. I plan to read every book in this series since I really love these bug fighting alien gods.
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