Grim by M.K. Eidem

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

King Grim Vasteri is the strongest, most feared warrior in the Tornian Empire. He has been sent by his Emperor to find and retrieve compatible females for their dying civilization. Lisa is a widowed mother of two little girls who finds herself and her daughters suddenly in high demand. Will the most feared warrior in the Empire keep and protect them? Or will he allow another to claim them?

King Grim Vasteri is the strongest and most feared warrior in the Tornian Empire. He is the King of Luda, blood brother to the Emperor and his line will die with him. He will have no offspring for no female would join with him for once he was scarred he was considered ‘unfit’. The Tornian Empire has been dying ever since the great infection caused the birth of females to become a rarity. Since then they have been searching the known universes for compatible females. The Emperor’s discovery of a compatible female on a slave ship changed that. He’d ordered Grim to find his Empress’ home world so more ‘unprotected’ females could be obtained, knowing Grim would never be allowed to Join with one.
Lisa Miller is a widowed mother of two little girls, Carly and Miki. Her husband died just a year ago, after a long battle with cancer and she misses him immensely. Friends want her to start dating again but in her heart, she knows there isn’t a man on the planet she could love like her Mark. Who could love their girls like their own. Therefore, she’ll stay alone.
When Lisa is discovered ‘unprotected’ at her husband’s grave, she wakes on an alien ship heading for an alien world. Refusing to accept this she confronts the large males, demanding she be returned to her children. Seeing his chance to have a female, Grim agrees to accept and protect her offspring, if she agrees to Join with him and only him. Realizing this is the only way she can retrieve her children Lisa agrees and the Tornian Empire changes forever.

Grim

Not my favorite from this author.

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙❤️💚
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎
Character development: 🙂🥰😎🤩
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Duet Narration

The heroine: Lisa – she was visiting the grave of her husband who died of cancer a year ago, when she was knocked out and abducted by aliens. She woke up to find that her and a bunch of other women were taken by a race of alien called Tornians, who went through something called the great infection. For generations, their females mostly gave birth to males and their species was dying out until they found they are compatible with human women. Lisa has two girls from her marriage and told the aliens that she couldn’t leave Earth without her children.

The Hero: Grim – he is brother to Emperor Wray, who made him King of a planet called Luda. Though Grim had been scarred in a battle and now feels that no female would ever choose him to be mate and bear children. This was enough to put his role in jeopardy and his rivals were actively working to remove him from power. Grim was given a task by Wray, to go and find Earth, and take about 20 unprotected females to bring to Tornian, he hopes that doing this will resolve unrest and keep many Tornians from trying to find Earth to claim their own females.

The Story: When Lisa complains that she had children on Earth and her, and the other females tell the Tornians that they will not comply with what the Tornians want unless they retrieve Lisa’s children. Grim offers to get the children if Lisa agrees to mate with him. He tells her he will protect her and her children. However, when the Tornians find out that Lisa’s children are female, and that having a mate and two female offspring will raise Grim’s status, they know that he might be challenged for her.

I thought I would like this book a lot because it was the first in the series and I already listened to the second book and liked it, but this one bored me a little. I finished it, but got a bit sick of the storyline and the characters weren’t as interesting as I expected. Grim kind of struck me as someone who felt sorry for himself because he was scarred and suffered from low self-esteem and Lisa was a bit too independent and pushy for my tastes. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind independent women, but she was new to his world, and I wanted her to gradually put herself in a good position as queen, not demand to be acknowledged like she did.

This audiobook is in dual points of view and narrated in duet narration. Commodore James and Laura Jennings are the narrators. I love the fact that this was done in duet narration. Commodore James does a good job, and I like the fact that he is good at doing different voices for different characters. Laura Jennings sounds a bit old for Lisa, but overall, she does fine. These two are not in my list of favorite narrators but they don’t annoy me like some narrators.

Blog|Goodreads|Facebook|Instagram|Pinterest|BookBub

View all my reviews