A Monster’s Treasure by Lynnea Lee

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

CLARA
Unfairly convicted of a crime, I’m sent to serve the Kadrixan males for their rutting season.

The Kadrixans. Even their name inspires terror. Fiery-skinned and devil-like, they stand head and shoulders taller than any human man. Our colony made a terrible bargain with these monsters. The Kadrixans give us precious ore in exchange for the one thing they need.

Women. Like me.

When we meet our Kadrixan captors, I come face to face with a massive, brawny beast who claims I belong to him.
And not just for the rutting season. He wants me forever.

KRXARE
I never expected to claim a human mate, but one look at the curvy female and I know she’s mine.

Hunger claws at my mind and that of every other warrior in my regiment. All of us are on the brink of the rut which makes us more belligerent with each passing day. Without females, we’ll tear each other apart with rage.

We depend upon our bargain. Human females for Kadrixan ore.

The females arrive and there is one who stirs my primitive desire: Clara. She thinks I’m a monster; I see it in her eyes and scent it in her fear. She vows to return to her people after the rut is over, but I vow to claim my mate, to woo her and prove she’s mine.

A Monster’s Treasure

Crime and punishment!

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

The heroine: Clara – she was arrested because it was illegal to be homeless in her city, and she was evicted from her apartment. In Nova Vita, it wasn’t just illegal to be homeless, basically it was illegal to be poor. Her cellmate was in because she missed three payments on a medical bill. There are two options for them, disappear into the colony’s Utopia project or being given to an alien that looks like an old earth demon for their rut. The Kadrixan’s give the colony the ore they need in exchange for female prisoners during their rut.

The Hero: Krxare – he waited for this year’s females in a shuttle from Nova Vita. He is a commander, he and all the males under his command were about to go into rut. They were all exiled from their own solar system and the warriors had made a home on Vokira. They lost a bunch of warriors to the first rut on the planet, and they found the colony of humans on Nova Vita in time for the next rut. The first year of the treaty, the females were sure they were being sent to their death, there were only four dozen females which wasn’t nearly enough, and nine had found their mates. Some had formed triads.

The Story: Krxare was not happy to see that there were not enough females once again. He knew the humans thought of them at demons. The females were all sedated and dressed in a fancy gown. Krxare had no idea why, since they only came from the colony across the ocean, not from space. When one of the females woke and looked at Krxare, he was immediately attracted to her. When their eyes met, his knees felt weak.

The book was fairly good, there were some pretty steamy scenes, and the world building was terrific. There was a lot of description of what happened during the rut in general and in some past rutting seasons. The relationship between the two main characters was built up nicely and I liked the dilemma that Clara had. She was treated so well by Krxare and his people, she was given plenty of food and clothing and everything she needed, which she didn’t always have access to at home because she was so poor and the wealthy control everything and treat the poor so terribly, but staying wasn’t easy either because she had a brother at home.

One thing I thought was really awesome was when Krxare said that females of his race couldn’t conceive without orgasms. Just think how well controlled our population growth would be on Earth if that was the case. I was divorced with two kids and in my thirties before I had my first. I know from the men I have dated since that most are not like the ones we read about in romance novels, and could care less if the woman finishes or not.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view and narrated in dual narration by Wen Ross and Kai Kennicott. Both of these narrators are good; they have nice voices and are expressive. Definitely voice actors, not just readers, which is a must as far as I am concerned. Wen Ross has a nice, deep voice that I really liked. I definitely would listen to more from both of these narrators.

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