Hunted by the Alien Assassin: Mates of the Kaluma, Book 1 by Ella Maven

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I always take out my target . . . until her.

I have many talents and they’re all for hire. My best skill is hunting the dregs of the galaxy, and when I find my prey . . . let’s say no one ever hears from them again. My latest target is a human trafficker, and the kicker is . . . she’s human. Selling her own kind? I’ll relish this. But when I find there’s more to her story than I’ve been told, suddenly I’m not sure who’s hunting who.

I’ve heard of the big Kaluma with a spiked bat, so I know evading him won’t be a cake walk. As my assassin, he’s ruthless. Until he finds out my truth. Now he’s sticking by my side, claiming me as his mate, and I can’t believe it but . . . I think I’m falling for the cocky alien with glowing blue eyes.

Hunted by the Alien Assassin

Enjoyable relationship!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💚💜💙❤️🩷
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏
Character development: 😒🥺😀🙂
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Karina – she wasn’t optimistic about living another day. She was a human who was abducted from earth, spending time at a dive bar in a crappy space station that was nicknamed “bad seed”. Her disguise was melting away and she was panicking while listening in on the conversation of two large green horned aliens who were loan sharks. Since she got free of her initial captors, she has upgraded her translator to be able to understand all types of alien species. They were talking about a Kaluma assassin that was out looking for her and his reputation was that he never failed.

The Hero: Bosa – he is an assassin and bounty hunter, whose favorite weapon was a spiked bat, and he is the best at what he does. He is from a race called the Kaluma, who were massive. His latest assignment was to go after a trafficker of human females. He held no mercy for someone who would do that, and his hatred grew even more when he found out that she was a human herself.

The Story: Karina was letting the legend of the assassin mess with her head. She wanted off the station and had been gathering credits by cleaning up for a few of the businesses. She went back to her lodging to get her necklace, the one possession she always took with her, since it was from her grandmother. She got rid of her disguise, because the one person who would take her off the station, only knew her as her human self. That was when the Kaluma found her. Bosa was stupefied when he saw her pendant and paused long enough for Karina to run.

Bosa eventually caught up with her and told her why he was bringing her to the council, though she had no clue what he was talking about when he said her crime was that of capturing and selling other humans. The two ended up running together from the aliens that Karina had escaped from and was sabotaging, and they got to know each other slowly.

I really liked this story and the two main characters. There was plenty of steam and one great thing about aliens, is that they can have some pretty great attributes. Bosa had a vibrating, whirling, twirling, pulsing appendage, and a tongue that opened up like a flower with some sort of sucking mechanism. All in all, he had the best of today’s intimate toys all in one big sexy male package.

This audiobook was told in multiple points of view and was narrated in dual narration by Jillian Macie and Todd Mclaren. Jillian has a nice, expressive voice and always does a great job, especially with alien romance. Todd Mclaren has a decent voice, but definitely not one of my favorites, I like a stronger, deeper voice for a massive alien.

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