Wed to the Alien Brute by January Bell

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

My dreams of marrying a hot alien came true—except the grumpy brute can’t stand me.

I am the only one excited—okay, delighted—at finding myself married to a hulking, alien warlord. I’ve always been into scales and tails, and this big green beefcake is right up my alley. Except, he’s not into me. But I want my fun, and that’s the very least I can get out of this arranged marriage. I’m determined to get my way, and I’m sick of being ignored.

When my grumpy husband leaves for the capital, I have an evil plan: stow away on his ship and wear him down with my sunny disposition.

Except, he’s not going to the capital. He’s scoping out a secret base, and he is furious with me. When the enemy—Roth—board our ship, endangering his mission and me, his grouchy front cracks. If we want to survive, he’ll have to realize there’s more to me than sunshine and rainbows…and I’ll have to figure out if I’m brave enough to give him what he wants: love.

Wed to the Alien Brute

“He puts the grump in grumpy.”

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💜🩷💙💚
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌎
Character development: ☹️😍😋😤🥰
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Rebecca (a.k.a. Bex) – she was the only one of the all-female mission to Suevan territory that wasn’t very upset when she found out that what they thought was a welcoming ceremony, was actually a wedding ceremony and she was now married to an alien. See Bex was a huge fan of alien and monster romance novels, and she was more than happy to be starring in a real-life version of one of her favorite novels. She had fantasized about falling for a monster for years. Though she wasn’t too happy about the fact that their choices were taken from them by their own government, she thought her new husband was all that and a bag of chips.

The Hero: Warlord Dergoz (a.k.a. the brute) – he chose Bex when the females first landed on his planet and was more than attracted to the curvy female. Though when he heard her refer to him as a ‘monster’, he was completely disheartened. He had always been called ‘the brute’ by his colleagues and he wasn’t fond of being thought of that way, so when his own wife called him a monster, he took it to heart. He was grouchy and broody and refused to spend time with Bex.

The Story: The human women were each implanted with a symbiont translator, but they each started working at different times, so Bex still could not understand the Suevans. Though she had Gen, to translate when she went to Dergoz’s home to give him a batch of cookies she baked. He was grumpy again and wouldn’t talk directly to her, but he mentioned that he had to go to the capital that evening, so Bex came up with a plan to stow away aboard his ship and go with him. Little did she know that the warlord commander had cancelled the trip to the capital and was instead sending the brute, who was one of the best warlords, on a dangerous mission to a databank of their enemies, the Roth.

I have enjoyed this series quite a bit so far. Each book is different, the first had an attack on the planet by the Roth, the second was an Indiana Jones-like adventure through the jungle, and this one is a space adventure. The characters are great, and the world building is also pretty good. I like that for a change; the female isn’t all butt-hurt about being on an alien planet and being mated to an alien. I like it when the females take things in stride and see their new life as a big adventure. I mean if I was in space, or on a new planet, and paired with a tall, handsome warrior that I was attracted to, I would hope that I would see it as a new adventure, though I would miss my family on earth, and probably some of the things I like about Earth, I would still try to enjoy myself.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Mason Lloyd and Hollie Jackson, both of whom I like very much. They are expressive and natural sounding; you definitely can’t tell they are reading.

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