Tornn’s Mate by Sue Lyndon

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Given to an alien brute. Forced to become his bride…

The rundown human worldship is a bleak place, but it’s my home and it’s where all the people I care about live. My mother, my sister, my students, and my sweet fiancé, Nathan. I never imagined I’d be forced to leave… forced to become the mate of a barbaric Darrvason admiral.

But the survival of humankind hangs in the balance, and I’m not the only woman whose life has been upended. Over two thousand young women are set to be handed over to the powerful aliens in exchange for fuel, repairs, and assistance in reaching a habitable planet. Payment. That’s what we are, and we have no choice.

My new husband, Admiral Tornn, is a huge, musclebound beast who expects my absolute obedience. In his culture, I’m little more than his property. But to my shock, he awakens a yearning within me unlike anything I’ve ever known, and his firm punishments and savage lovemaking are causing me to question everything I’ve been taught.

Publisher’s Note: Tornn’s Mate is a dark romance that includes power exchange, spankings, and intense sexual scenes. Please do not purchase or read this book if such material offends you.

Tornn’s Mate

Steamy alien smut, with a fun package!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗
World building: 🌏🌍
Character development: ☹️😮😋
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Ellie – she is one of the 50,000 human passengers on a world ship, which is a ship with all the remaining humans who left Earth and have been searching for a habitable planet after Earth became uninhabitable. Her uncle is the captain of the world ship and is not a good man. Though Ellie lived on the upper floors with the wealthy, she and her mother and sister, didn’t have any control over their lives. The world ship has been traveling for too many years and is breaking down and has run out of many resources. The bottom floors are no longer habitable.

The Hero: Admiral Tornn – He is the Darrvason Fleet Admiral. The fleet is a bunch of world ships that are traveling together to find a new home for the Darrvason people since their planet was destroyed by their greatest enemy. Their ships are in a much better state than the human ship, they have plenty of resources and keep their ships in good condition. Though they are a dying species since they have a lack of females to breed with. So the Darrvason Emporer makes a deal with the human captain to exchange resources and workers to fix the ship for human females to breed with and marry.

The Story: Ellie’s uncle agrees to the terms and plans to give 20 human women to the aliens right away, then another 200 after the Darrvason’s help with the world ship and when the aliens help the humans find a habitable world, then another 2000 women. The leaders of the humans tell people that the females are chosen via a lottery at random, but everyone knows that is not true, most of the females are those that spent time in the brig and Ellie knows that the choice to include her was anything but random. She had already been engaged to a guy named Nathan when she was chosen and her uncle was threatening her mother and sister if she didn’t act like she was happy about it.

Tornn and the Darrvason people are nearly all males and are very large and dominant. They are at least two heads taller than most human males, muscular and they have special packages. Including dual phalluses and vibrating testicles. They are also into punishment kink with their females, so you know from the start that this is going to be heavy on the alien smut and it didn’t disappoint in that aspect. As a matter of fact, by three hours in, I was ready for a story and had enough of the steamy scenes. They didn’t stop though, and there wasn’t much of a story in the end. Just a lot of sizzling alien porn. I definitely didn’t like how Tornn took control of Ellie’s life and held her captive, punishing her whenever she did something he didn’t like. Not the kind of book boyfriend I like.

This audiobook was told in multiple points of view and was narrated in dual narration by Tor Thom and Heather Firth. I really like Tor Thom’s super deep voice for these huge and dominant alien males. He does a great job and his voice is perfect for Tornn. Heather Firth has a nice voice that is expressive and is enjoyable to listen to.

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