Stalk: The Sky Clan of the Taori, Book 2 by Tana Stone

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The Taori warrior is mad with mating fever—and he’s decided I’m his.

I almost escaped from the alien’s twisted hunting moon. Until the Taori warrior snatched me away, convinced that he was saving me from a menacing swarm that only appears in his dark and tortured memories. Now I’m stuck with him on the deadly moon that’s crawling with mercenaries who have one goal—to kill us.

If I want to stay alive, I need to stay in the Taori’s underground lair, which wouldn’t be so bad if he wasn’t burning with mating fever and eyeing me like I’m a tasty snack. The longer he fights it, the more manic he’ll get until he might be as dangerous to me as the hunters prowling the surface.

Do I give in to the battle-scarred alien’s dominant and possessive desires, or do I take my chances with the alien hunters who wish to hunt me for sport?

Stalk is a full-length sci-fi romance novel with an HEA and no cheating. It features steamy scenes on an alien, hunting moon, deadly battles, and some serious alien mating fever.

If you like dominant and dangerous alien warriors, alien abduction to seduction romance, and hot scenes with a happily ever after, you’ll love Stalk, the second book in Tana Stone’s sci-fi romance series The Sky Clan of the Taori.

Stalk

The warrior’s frenzy!

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

The Hero: Daiken – he is from a race of warriors called the immortal sky clan of the Taori. He was aboard his spaceship away from his home world fighting their enemies when he went into the mating heat early. The mating heat usually affected males of his race every ten years, but they didn’t expect it and couldn’t find a pleasure planet where he could get what he needed. The doctor had to keep him unconscious because he would go crazy otherwise. Then the ship went through a temporal wormhole. They went 500 years into the future and the ship was taken down and he was put in an escape pod and woke up on. A strange moon.

The heroine: Valeria – she was a scientist for the federation. Her ship was captured by space pirates and she and the other females on board were sold to the Xulonians. The Xulonians were a hedonistic race that thought they were above every other race in the universe. They held reality games on their different moons. One was for pleasure; one was for hunting and who knows what else they had. Val was put on the hunting moon where Xulonians sat in their homes and used avatar bodies to hunt other races.

Val hurt her ankle and couldn’t walk. She was on the moon with Lia, who helped her by finding a cave. However, Lia had to leave the cave and when Val heard voices outside, she did her best to move to the back of the cave. That was when she bumped into Daiken, who put his hand over her mouth and pulled her further into a passageway in the cave. He promised not to hurt her, but when he started going crazy from the mating frenzy, he decided it was better to get away from Val than to lose his honor by possibly hurting her or doing something against her will.

Daiken was definitely going crazy. Right when the rest of the captives on the hunting moon were about to escape, he was sure that a swarm of his enemies was coming, so he knocked Val out and took her to the other side of the moon, deep in the underground caves. I liked the fact that the two main characters were stuck on the moon together after all the others escaped. there’s so much tension, drama, and layered dynamics between Daiken and Valeria! I love how the setup forces them into a precarious balance of survival, mistrust, and undeniable attraction. The concept of the Xulonians and their twisted hunting games was fascinating and adds an extra layer of danger. The one thing I didn’t like was how stupid Valeria was. She kept running away from Daiken and every time she ended in more danger.

The story spoke to my love for high-stakes adventure and morally complex situations—there’s rebellion, survival, and that ever-present cosmic grandeur. This audiobook was told in multiple points of view via duet narration and was narrated by Marcio Catalano and Aubrey Vincent. Marcio has a soft, deep voice which I like quite a bit. Aubrey Vincent doesn’t have one of my favorite voices, but she is very expressive and does a great job. I love the duet narration, and both are good at doing different voices for different characters. Marcio Catalano’s deep voice must have added a weighty presence to Daiken’s intensity.

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