Hunter’s Bounty by Lynnea Lee

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

SAMMIE
On the run in a brand-new world.

Luck has been on my side since the space bugs came and destroyed everything I knew. Now, my luck has run out. Cast out into a dangerous new world with a psycho on my tail, I have to adapt fast to survive.

To add to my problems, I’ve caught the eye of a purple monster, and everyone knows the alien warriors are bad news. But this one comes barreling in on a clearly man-made war machine, then claims he lives with the very people I’m trying to reach.

Should I believe him? Or is this all just a trick?

DRAK’L
I’ve finally found her, and I’ll never let her go.
I’ve watched as each hunter in my group found his mate among our human allies, but I know my mate is not one of them. Eager to meet the female who will be the center of my universe, I set out in search of her.

When I finally find Sammie, she’s terrified of me. Unlike the females at the clubhouse, she still believes the lies that are spread about us. Desperate to prove that I live with the very humans she wishes to join, I return in one of the humans’ war machines, with gifts to woo her.

Can I convince her to come of her own free will? Or will dangers force me to steal her away?

Hunter’s Bounty

Centicreeps hunting the hunters!

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

The heroine: Sammie – since the bugpocalypse began, she had been living in an underground bunker with a religious family who allowed her to live with them because she was the same age as their oldest son Lucas. They had originally thought that she and Lucas would marry one day. Though while in the bunker, Lucas slowly went crazy and displayed psychotic tendencies. They eventually locked him up, but he escaped and started killing them all. Sammie and the youngest brother Billy ran away together but Lucas found them. Billy told Sammie to go and try to make it to the nearest settlement while he faced Lucas.

The Hero: Drak’l – he is a Xarc’n warrior who works in the mountains. He lives in the settlement called the Clubhouse. They were large and had mostly humans but were closely aligned with the Xarc’n warriors and their mates that lived in the lodge on the ledge of the mountain. Drak’l is the only unmated male Xarc’n warrior left, though new ones are being found and coming to their settlements all the time

The Story: Drak’l had been following Sammie and Billy for a few days, and he figured Sammy was his mate because she smelled so good to him. When Sammie left Billy to head for the Clubhouse settlement, he offered her a ride. She was wary of him since he was an alien warrior, and humans were initially told that the warriors were on earth for nefarious purposes, even though the warriors had explained that they were only there to help with the bug problem. It wasn’t long before Drak’l won Sammie over and they started traveling together.

This was another terrific Xarc’n warrior story. I like this Mountains spin-off series as much as the original. Though I do still have a few of those left to read and I plan to do so very soon. These all have a nice romance, steamy intimate scenes, and good storylines which usually come to a head with some big conflicts. The bug fighting is always interesting, and the world building is terrific. The descriptions of each of the bugs are awesome as well, they were like dog sized or bigger and were usually a sort of mishmash between two or three of Earth’s bugs. There are Flyers, Scuttlers, Lungers, and Centicreeps and they had blades, pinchers and poisons. I also like the descriptions of their technology and love the fact that a lot of the technological advancements come from the human tech wizards, who seem to be great at not only computing, but mechanical engineering as well.

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