Treyvon by M.K. Eidem

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

General Treyvon Rayner is the Supreme Commander of the Kaliszian Defenses. He is the cousin and trusted friend of the Kaliszian Emperor, Emperor Liron Kalinin, in spite of Treyvon’s ancestor being one of the causes of the Great Infection so many centuries ago. It is never far from Treyvon’s mind, and he vowed he’d spend his entire life trying to make things right.

Chef Jennifer Neibaur dreamed of traveling to exotic places, of experiencing different cuisines, and learning how to prepare them. Her dream came true, but at a high price. She lost her sister. Her husband died. And she was severely injured. All that was enough for her to welcome death. But for a chef to end up in a place where food was just sustenance, and never something enjoyed, was the ultimate punishment.

Two strong, honorable people are both trying to find forgiveness and redeem themselves for things that were out of their control. Neither is looking for love. But if they can accept it, the forgiveness they find might be for more than just themselves.

Treyvon

Great story, terrific narration, plenty of action and romance!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💚🖤❤️💜🩵
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏🌍
Character development: ☺️😊🙃😋🥰
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Duet Narration ✨Full Cast✨

The Hero: General Treyvon Raynor – he is the supreme commander of the Kaliszian defenses. He had been in hundreds of battles and was a feared leader. It had been two weeks since the Zaludians attacked the base on Pontuse. He found that a human female had fought in that battle to try to save her friends, and it may have cost her life. She has been in the deep repair unit for weeks, and the unit also discovered that she had suffered many prior injuries.

The heroine: Jennifer Neibaur – she was a chef on Earth and went with her husband Todd to some guys combat weekend in the mountains. He wanted her to cook for him and his friends, so she agreed, even though they had been fighting because her little sister Kimmy was living with them. Jen was abducted by aliens called Ganglians. The Ganglians sold the abducted people to the Zaludians who put them to work in the mines on Pontuse. The men from Earth tried to protect her and Mac, the only other female, but they weren’t able to do so for long and Todd was killed. She was badly hurt before they were rescued by the Kaliszians.

The story: Treyvon felt the need to protect Jennifer from the first time he saw her during the rescue. His ancestor used to rule Pontius which was an important base that dealt in fresh food and energy crystals. Though he was greedy, and his greed set off a chain of events which the Kaliszians were still paying for today. It set off the great infection which killed everything on Pontuse and later on other planets and by the end, males outnumbered females two to one. Treyvon still wants to make up for what his ancestor did.

The storyline about Jen being a chef and the fact that Kaliszian’s didn’t know how to cook was a good one. The Kaliszian’s had all kinds of meats and vegetables, as well as staples similar to sugar, salt, flour, etc. but didn’t know how to use most of it. They assigned a soldier to do the cooking of the one meal a day that wasn’t packaged (similar to our military MRE’s). The soldier basically just boiled the meat and threw in a few vegetables every single day.

I also liked the slow burn romance between Jen and Treyvon. Jen fascinated Treyvon, though he thought he would never find love because of his ancestor. Jen loved her husband and was grieving even though she looked back on her marriage and found her husband a bit lacking, especially since Treyvon treated her so well. Though there was one thing I didn’t like at all. Jen had been scarred on her face from being beaten in the mines when she tried to save her husband, and though the Kaliszian technology could fix her scars, she didn’t want that. Even though the scars obviously bothered her greatly and made her insecure.

This audiobook was done in multiple points of view via duet narration. Ian Gordon, Jennifer Gil, Griffin Murphy, Amanda Hendricks and Rosalyn Hicks narrated the story. None of these are near my favorite narrators, but it was duet narration and done by a full cast, so it is hard to complain. I mean I search out audiobooks that are done in duet narration and I almost always pass over audiobooks done by a single narrator. So, any author willing to do a full cast duet narration, has me saying yes from the start. The narrators for this book did a fine job, so I am happy.

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