Wicked Mate by Zoey Draven

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Cara Call never expected her life to take such a dramatic turn after she fell in love with her wicked alien captor, Devix. Now, after escaping Sarkon’s grasp, they are building their lives together on the peaceful colony of Rozun. 

Then, their lives change forever when Cara discovers she’s pregnant.

With a difficult and potentially dangerous pregnancy ahead, Devix takes Cara to the only place he knows they can get help: his home planet of Luxiria. The same planet he was wrongly exiled from, accused of a heinous crime he didn’t commit. 

But Devix will do anything to protect his fated mate…even if it means confronting the wrath of his species and the ones who betrayed him. 

WICKED MATE is the direct sequel to WICKED CAPTOR and concludes Devix and Cara’s story. It features the same spirited and sassy human female and the same seven-foot-tall alien warrior with naughty fantasies and even naughtier -ahem- equipment.

Wicked Mate

Nice ending to Devix and Cara’s story!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙💜❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏
Character development: ☹️🥲😋😘
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Duet Narration

The heroine: Cara – she was a human chef on Earth, but had gotten somewhat bored and quit her job when she was taken captive by alien slavers. She thought all she wanted was to get home to Earth, until she was sold to an alien mercenary to be taken to some wealthy alien’s harem as his newest sex slave. On the journey there, she fell in love with the mercenary and he ended up taking her to his home on Rozun where she found that she was his fated mate.

The Hero: Devix – he was a former warrior of Luxiria, one of the most feared and brutal warriors in the galaxy, until he was banished from his home world. He had been working for an alien named Sarkin for the last six years, and his last job was to take Sarkin’s newest pleasure slave to him. Though Devix knew from the first moment that she was his fated mate. He took her to his home instead and when Sarkin came to get his property, they fought to the death with Devix coming out as the winner.

The story: Cara had opened a restaurant in the market on Rozun. Devix farmed some sweet fruit from the trees on his farm and sold them at the market on the weekends as well. So they got a small dwelling in town for those days and lived at the farm during the week. Everything was going so well for the pair, and they find out that Cara is pregnant with a hybrid baby. They find that nobody on Rozun has any experience with a hybrid pregnancy and since the Luxirian gestation is three months and human is nine, they are not even sure a human female can handle that difference. It seems they need to go to Luxiria to get help. Unfortunately since Devix was banished, he may get imprisoned or put to death for returning.

I liked the story and this was a good ending to the tale of Devix and Cara. I was glad to see that he was kind of forced to see his brother again and to make peace with his past. Like the first book, this one was somewhat steamy, apparently the two of them have very high sex drives which has to do with them being fated mates. They go at it like three times a day, though that is just mentioned in passing, every instance isn’t detailed, thankfully.

This audiobook was told in multiple points of view via duet narration and was narrated by Tristan Josiah and Sierra Grace. Both of these narrators have pleasant voices, but they both speak in a way that you can tell they are reading, something about the pauses in between words makes it sound that way. Though overall they are pretty good and I have definitely heard much worse and I like both of their voices.

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