The Alien’s Sacrifice by Ella Maven

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I don’t deserve her, but I’ll risk everything to save her.

Tasha: We’ve carved out a little life for ourselves on Corin—me and the other human survivors. It’s not perfect, and I miss Earth, but we could never return. Not after what was done to us. Not after what we’ve become. So we keep to ourselves, hiding from anyone and anything that would do us harm, until our peaceful settlement is raided. Suddenly I’m a prisoner, and from the looks of it, I’m also about to be a sacrifice…

Lukent: Corin was meant to be a fresh start, but I knew better. I’d always be a scarred outcast from the rest of the Drixonian males, and no way would I ever have a chance to mate with the few human survivors we’ve rescued. Far from the happy villages, I plan to live out the rest of my days securing our borders and protecting the precious families of the fortunate mated Drixonians.

Until one day, my patrol leads me off my usual path and I find my entire worldview shift the first moment I lock eyes on the fighting, snarling human female in the grips of a deadly captor. Saving her means disrupting the peace for not only myself, but the rest of the Drixonians. Still, I’ll risk it all to save her… and to convince her she’s my fated mate.

The Alien’s Sacrifice

Original for alien romance!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💚💜💙❤️
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏
Character development: ☹️☺️😍😄
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Tasha – she and other human women are on the planet Corin. They had all been abducted from earth by aliens, they were mistreated and experimented on to the point where they had been altered and each has special abilities then they were tossed out like trash. They have had to fight for their freedom every day since then, even since they had started to make a life on Corin. They have all kinds of weapons that they keep close, some made by them, some were from their former captors. Corin was a big planet with a massive population, so they had to be careful wherever they were. Tasha is the de facto leader of the group and peacekeeper.

The Story: One of the women who could see the future, said they should leave their encampment, but Tasha knew the others were tired, so she decided they would wait until the following morning. But in the night, something attacked, some kind of huge alien with massive wings, large tusks, and snouts and they flew away with the women one by one. Tasha had an enhanced sense of smell and the smell that came before the attackers was awful. Tasha felt a tremendous amount of guilt for making the decision not to leave till morning.

The Hero: Lukent – he is a Drixonian male, an outcast. His race used to live on Corin but left after a virus wiped out their female population and left Corin by choice and only now after the war, have returned to the planet. They found it much changed and other races had moved in and made it their home. The Wutarch’s are the worst of them and the Drixonians were trying to find peace between the two races, despite the fact that the Wutarch’s were an awful race that treated their females terribly. Lukent’s clavasse was different than some of the other Drixonian clavasse’s. They are the outcasts of their race, the sons of deserters, and Lukent feels that they will never find mates.

I liked that this story started out a bit different than most alien romance. Not that they weren’t captured from earth by aliens, but that instead of immediately being sold into the sex trade, they were genetically modified and then left stranded on an alien planet. Then when they were kidnapped again by a savage race, it was to be sacrificed to their god and for their enjoyment.

When Lukent hears a human female scream towards the camp of the Wutarch’s, he sees that she is being held captive by the Wutarch’s. He knows he is not supposed to be in their territory, but he couldn’t live with himself if he doesn’t save her, especially after he knew she was his all. Though it will definitely not be helpful to the peace process, and his race doesn’t have any warriors to lose in another war.

The storyline about Tasha wanting to find her friends was a good one. I also liked Lukent’s backstory about being an outcast. They were treated like second class citizens by their own people because of what their fathers did. They weren’t supposed to have mates, because they didn’t want their lines to go on. I loved the fact that Tasha didn’t care and wasn’t afraid to say it to anyone who would listen.

This audiobook was told in the main characters points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Reagan West and Gabriel Mcknight. Reagan West has an expressive voice that is a bit lower than I usually like for a female narrator, though that just means she is better at doing male voices than many. Gabriel Mcknight has a soft, not-so-deep voice, he might be a tenor or baritone and is able to use different tones for different characters.

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