AvX by Jennifer Julie Miller

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Ivy
Why are the last words ever spoken to our loved ones is in anger? I knew the moment I left it was a mistake, but my stubborn pride urged me forward. I’ve awakened to unimaginable horrors, pain unlike anything the human mind could conceive, until him. Now, I’m too scared to trust my own feelings, as they have only led me astray. I push his kindness away, striking out in a rage of harsh words and unwarranted anger. As this new future is revealed to me, I crumble away inside,…slowly and insidiously. How much more do I have to lose before I realize my sole chance of happiness is standing in front of me?

AvX
She is like a wild animal, cornered and frightened, unwilling to accept any sort of kindness. A fiery soul trapped inside a mind littered with insecurities and heartache. I ache for a kind word or a gentle touch as my body reacts to her slightest touches. How do I convince her to put aside the pain she has endured and take a chance on the unknown,… on me? The fates put her in my path for a reason, and I will find a way to tame the fire that consumes her.

AvX

Strong heroine, grumpy alien!

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

The heroine: Ivy – she has had a real run of the worst luck ever. She grew up in a small town doing small things and she wanted more even though her mother didn’t want her to leave. Ivy leaves town with her her former boyfriend Tommy whom she is now more friends with than anything else. They didn’t get far before a truck full of drunk guys ran them off the road wanting to stir up trouble. The guys beat, then killed Tommy and chased Ivy until a bright light shone down and Ivy was kidnapped by aliens.

The Hero: AvX – he is one of the twenty-one sons of DaR, who fulfilled his duty to repopulate the planet by giving up his sperm to various women of different races. Though DaR went the step further and was part of his children’s lives, he raised some of his sons, visited them all fairly often and trained them to be warriors. AvX’s mother was a race of empaths. So, all his brothers are warriors for Darverius, but AvX is used for other things, like interrogations because he can tell by his impressions of people and their feelings if they are being honest, and more of the behind-the-scenes things that DaR doesn’t like doing himself.

The Story: Ivy’s luck doesn’t get any better after the aliens take her far from her galaxy, having her in stasis for many years. She wakes up after being sold to a pleasure house. She was then sold to a group of tentacled worm-like aliens that are very brutal with the women they get. Ivy is told that she most likely will not survive the night, and that she was going to experience a lot of pain, so she should do her best to go somewhere in her mind where she felt calm and safe.

Ivy ended up experiencing more pain and agony than her mind could handle. AvX finds her in a cage in a shipping port and rescues her. I liked this story, though I didn’t like all the bad things that kept happening to Ivy. I liked how spunky Ivy was when she woke up, despite all that she had gone through. She wasn’t trusting of AvX’s motives despite the fact that he rescued her. AvX was a great character as well, he wanted to stay away but had to help Ivy. The world building was terrific, the characters were well developed, and I liked the supporting characters as well, most of which were from prior books in the series.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view and 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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