Tordan: Darverius, House of DaR: Book 6 by Jennifer Julie Miller

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Luna

They stole my dreams, my hopes, my very identity, and I had no idea. Years went by and I did everything I was told, I was always the perfect specimen, and the perfect lab rat. I was dissected, even maimed all in the name of science. Then one day a strange smoky voice entered my head, and I knew things were not as they seemed. He promises me that he will never leave me, but my new memories tell me differently.

Tordan

What is it about that one person that attracts you like no other? My mind can’t figure out that riddle, but the moment I laid eyes upon her I knew my life would never be the same. When I finally held her in my arms, I swore I would never be without her again. If they think they will get me to comply by using her to control me, they’re right. What they don’t know is . . . I will tear this compound, and all that’s in it apart, to protect what’s MINE.

Tordan

Very good story!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙🩷💚
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏
Character development: 🙂🙁😀😉🥰
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Luna – she grew up on a tobacco farm with her parents. Her mother was sick, her father needed help, and she knew she wasn’t enough. She had wanted to go to art school once upon a time but knows now that will never happen. One day when she was out in the fields, she is abducted by aliens. Her father tries to save her but is not able to get near her. She wakes up on an examination table in a room with hundreds of women and girls. She spends the next few years being experimented on in an alien lab.

The Hero: Tordan – he traveled to Targus-4 to integrate himself into the system as part of a mission to rescue a female human. He is heading to scientific and farming facility that is rumored to be experimenting on other species. The scientists think they are beyond the law, and the planet is full of thieves, slavers and more. Tordan can’t just walk in and demand the human female, so he is there to investigate and try to save the human. His people think it is their duty to save all the humans they come across, especially since the destruction of earth.

The Story: Luna was tortured to the point of death, torn apart and somehow, she was turned into a cyborg. She is given new memories that she was always part machine. All she knows is that she works in the fields on Targus-5 and she does whatever she is told by the scientists. When she picks up on a conversation between Tordan and Dar, she interrupts and tells them they can be overheard even though they are using internal coms.

Luna has started to deteriorate. The scientists may soon want to get rid of her because she is not at 100 percent working capacity. Master Enak, the lead scientist AI is planning to capture Tordan and have him impregnate Luna, then use the baby to put his own consciousness into so he can become a live person. He plans on disposing of Luna and the other sentient cyborg and when he is done with Tordan, he will kill him as well. Tordan is tricked by the son of Dar, whom nobody knew existed and sent to Enak.

The story was a good one, though I have to admit, I didn’t like that she was basically torn apart by an alien and then turned into a cyborg. I liked Tordan’s backstory and his friendship with Dar. I also liked how protective he was over Luna, as well as how big he is compared to her small frame. She was a fighter, and I was rooting for her to recover her memories and her fighting spirit.

This audiobook was told in multiple points of view and was narrated in dual narration by Emily Sutton-Smith and Tor Thom. Tor Thom is one of my favorite male narrators, especially for alien and paranormal romance because he has an extremely deep, almost supernatural sounding voice that works perfectly for big, strong, muscled aliens and monsters. Emily Sutton-Smith has a pleasant-sounding voice which I also enjoyed quite a bit.

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