Alpha by Tiya Rayne
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Morgan Downs’ life is unexceptional. She’s stuck in an abusive loveless marriage and often made to feel inferior by her parents because of her speech impediment. Although as bad as her life is, she never expected to be kidnapped from her home and taken to a private military base to become a test rat for a science experiment. But things change when Morgan meets Alpha. She should be afraid, he isn’t quite human after all. Alpha is a genetically enhanced super soldier, and Morgan has been captured to bear his offspring. Yet, Morgan finds that Alpha isn’t the real monster behind those confined walls. They are both captives of the insane scientist, Dr. Ryder Strong.
Alpha
Superior super soldier story!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🩵🖤❤️💜💚
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏🌍
Character development: ☹️😮☺️😍🥰
The heroine: Morgan – she grew up in Texas, the granddaughter of the pastor of a well-known mega church. Her father is the governor, and her mother is a former Miss America who thinks appearance is everything and is a perfectionist that never seems to stop nagging at every little thing about Morgan. Morgan moved straight from abusive parents to an abusive and loveless marriage to a man she hardly knew because that is what her mother wanted. Trevor works at her father’s law firm. On top of that she has a stutter, which is worse when she is nervous which is why her mother doesn’t allow her to speak in public and tells people she is mute.
The Hero: Alpha – he was the first successful subject of Project X to survive the embryonic stage. He is the product of synthesized DNA as well as alien DNA. He is also different than all the others. He is more complex and smarter that all the rest, and a bunch of guards in tactical gear with weapons are no match for him and it takes a lot of tranquilizer darts to take him down.
The Story: One day when Morgan was home alone, two large men entered her home, grabbed her, and knocked her out. She wakes up in the lab of one of the pharmaceutical companies of a wealthy man who is a new client of Trevor’s at her father’s law firm. When they tell her they have her on medication to flush out her birth control, she figures they plan to test unapproved drugs on her. She is held there for four months before she is taken to the “compound”, finding out the real reason she was taken. Once at the compound, she becomes the obsession of Alpha.
Dr. Ryder Strong is a certified psychopath who thinks of his Project X experiments and scientific advancements above all else. He sees his subjects as creatures rather than sentient human beings and calls them “it” instead of “he” or “she”. Dr Strong is happy that his recent advancement of finding an “obsession” for each of the subjects has calmed down their rage to a point where only about 26 guards and other staff members have died this month, down from the over 110 the prior month. The “obsession” for most of the subjects is an object, though for Alpha it is Morgan. One odd thing about this book was that there were some chapters done in Dr. Strong’s point of view.
I thought Morgan seemed like quite a wimp at first, since she never spoke up to her parents’ criticism and allowed them to force her into an unhappy marriage, she also didn’t put up any kind of fight against her husband and did her best to try to placate him and catered to him to keep him from getting into a bad mood. She did have an inner strength, like the fact that she made him sign a pre-nuptial agreement and kept her money separate from the marital money. Which turned out for the best since she inherited a lot of wealth from her grandparents when they died shortly after her marriage. Her money would NOT be going to Trevor or to her parents if she died a premature death. She showed a lot of strength while she was held captive as well.
“Alpha didn’t acknowledge the lab coat man. His eyes were still on me. I waited for him to speak, to say something, but he didn’t. He took a step towards me, and I crab crawled back on instinct. I didn’t know if this man would hurt me or not, but I did see him kill at least seven soldiers with his bare hands without breaking a sweat.”
“Everything you saw today with the other soldiers, are doubled with Alpha. Those walls are five times thicker than the Hoover Dam. It is made up of a mixture of heavy metals. It is soundproof, and for added bonus, it is buried seven miles below the Earth. Down here, is the only place we can contain him. It is the only place on this compound he cannot escape.”
I really do like these stories of genetically engineered super soldiers, though one thing they all have in common are that they are created by mad scientists and guarded by men who love to torture all their captives. When that part of the story is going on, it always seems too long, and I just can’t wait for the evil captors to get what is coming to them. It is always so great seeing them get their karmic retribution. This story was excellent, and I could not put it down. I am definitely moving right on to the next book in this series.
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