Shared by the Monstrum by Evangeline Anderson

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Mirabella is running for her life when two huge, muscular alien warriors come to guard her. Will she lose her heart when she is…Shared by the Monstrum?

Mirabella is a reluctant ruler—she never asked to be the Ruling Member of the Sacred Seven—the governing body of Opulex. But things get much worse when all the other members of the Sacred Seven are murdered by a ruthless serial killer. Miri goes into hiding but help is on the way in the form of two huge, muscular Monstrum warriors who vow to guard her with their lives.

Saxon and Lynx are Monstrum Shifters. They can appear humanoid or Shift partially or fully into huge beast-like predators. The two have a special bond they formed as boys which enables them to be more effective warriors. However, it also means they have to share a mate…in every way. A past mating with the woman they both loved ended in tragedy, which caused them to put their hearts on a shelf and vow never to love again.

Miri feels an instant attraction to both the big Monstrum and they want her too, but the past stands in the way of their happiness. In the meantime, they have sworn to protect her no matter what. But when Miri’s fate takes her to visit the Oracle at Delphi Prime, their relationship is turned on its head. For on this strange planet, every male is required to have a “sex pet.”
When Miri pretends to “belong” to the two Monstrum warriors, will she lose her heart?
You’ll have to read this hot ménage, MFM, “touch her and die,” bodyguard trope novel, Shared by the Monstrum to find out!

Shared by the Monstrum

Audiobook had an off-putting female narrator!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙❤️💚🖤
Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌏🌎
Character development: 😊😄😘🥰
Narration: BAD
Narration Type: Dual Narration

The Heroes: Lynx and Saxon – they are bond brothers an Monstrum shifters and Kindred, they are from a parallel universe. They look like humanoid alien males but are able to shift into massive beasts. They are originally from two different clans, which is unusual for brotherhood bonds to form, they were also pretty young when they realized they were bond brothers, just ten and twelve years old. That very night they made a bond oath to each other. They now live in a whole different universe and bond brothers are able to project an aura of protection, a shield over a female held between them than almost nothing could penetrate. They were now wanted for protection of a Yonnite princess that has a killer after her.

The heroine: Mirabella – she is the ruling member of the secret seven and is on the run from a killer of females, intent on murdering her. She was caught by the killer before and barely escaped. The Yonnites were known to some across the universe as being spoiled brats, though she didn’t quite fit the mold of her people. Her upbringing made her have different morals and views, and she had always wanted to be a healer so she could help others.

The Story: Saxon and Lynx had once had a mate who died, and it basically ruined them. They still mourned the loss and if they didn’t have each other, they may have given up and died along with her. Though both Saxon and Lynx showed more interest in Mirabella than any female before. It wasn’t long before they realized that she didn’t like the way her world worked. Her father was from Earth, and she didn’t believe some of the ways of the matriarchal society she came from. They swore to her that they would protect and defend her as long as she was in danger.

This audiobook was told in multiple points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Elyse Anthony, Gregory Salinas and William Martin. William Martin has this way of speaking which is great for Alien romance, kind of stilted or something, it just works as far as I am concerned. I also like Gregory Salinas’s voice, and I love that this book has a different narrator for each of the main characters. Elyse Anthony has an extremely annoying voice that I absolutely hated. She also read with an attitude for Mirabella that I really disliked. I started and stopped this book more than a few times because of her voice.

This one was painful for me to listen to, though I don’t like to DNF audiobooks that I paid good money for. I was going to give a few stars (microphones) for narration just because I liked the two male narrators, but in the end, I couldn’t even do that. It just goes to show you how one annoying narrator can completely ruin an experience for a listener. What I don’t get is how the author and producers can listen to it and publish it with such an awful voice attached to it. I looked at the other reviews in Audible and they all say the same thing about the female narrator. I guess I should have looked before buying this one.

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