A Deal for Zeylum by Lynnea Lee

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Ashe is in trouble with a capital T. 

Stuck on a spaceship heading to an intergalactic auction as merchandise, Ashe’s future looks grim. So when a dangerous alien outlaw with a bounty on his head solicits her help to break them out of lockup, she jumps on the chance. Ashe only needs to survive long enough with the known criminal to get her end of the bargain. Marooned on a barely civilized and lawless planet, her very survival is in his hands.

As captain of an infamous mercenary vessel, Zeylum carefully cultivates his dastardly reputation with crass words and a brutish exterior. Will Ashe look past his rough facade and fall for the man beneath? Or will she leave him at the end of their adventures for a fresh new start?

A Deal for Zeylum

An adventure in space!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🩵🖤❤️💚
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏
Character development: ☹️☺️😍😄
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Solo Narration

The heroine: Ashe – she is a human woman who was kidnapped from her life, taken into space by Dominion slavers and was headed for the auctions, kept in the ships hold in cells with other humans, fighting for the little food and water they are given. Until a huge alien male was captured and taken prisoner along with the humans.

The Hero: Zeylum – he is the captain of a mercenary spaceship, he was famous, and a wanted man. When he gets caught, his captors are more than happy thinking of the huge bounty they will get. The price on Zey’s head was high, but nobody could keep him locked up for long. So when the little human female helps him out, he decides to help her as well.

The Story: When Zeylum makes his move to escape from the Dominion ship, he takes Ashe along with him and they end up in the wilderness on a nearby planet. While camping out in the rugged terrain of an unknown planet, they get to know each other and start bonding. Zeylum is afraid that Ashe will want to go to a safe planet, since Earth is no longer safe. He knew that of living with him on his ship isn’t the kind of life she might want. So, they are each a bit wary of the others feelings and motives.

I tend to really like alien romance books that have a journey or adventure in the story. This was a good example of that, they started in a spaceship, went to a city and then to the wilderness, they ended up on his ship. I really liked both of the characters and they were well developed. Zeylum was huge, strong and self-assured, but he had a good heart and he was protective of Ashe, which I really liked. Ashe had a strong character and was interesting in her own right.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view via Solo narration and was narrated by Troy Duran. Troy is one of my top five male narrators. He has a deep, sexy voice and always does a fantastic job. I rarely get solo narration audiobooks, but I don’t mind them if it is narrated by Troy. He is great at using different voices for different characters and always sounds very natural.

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