Seduce: The Sky Clan of the Taori, Book 3 by Tana Stone

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I thought being kidnapped by vile, alien slavers was bad enough. Then I woke up on a lust moon.

I know all about the Xulonian recreation moons, but I’d hoped to end up on the hunting one. As a security officer for the empire, I know how to fight. I am not prepared to wake up practically naked on a strange island.

It doesn’t take me long to figure out that the hedonistic island I’m trapped on isn’t what it seems—and the voyeurs who pay to watch aren’t easily satisfied.

With no weapons and no way off, hiding is my only option. Until I run straight into him.

The massive Taori isn’t willing to put on a show for our captors either. He’s determined to escape. Teaming up with him makes sense until the carnal lust surrounding us triggers his mating fever. Now the only way to escape may be to give the alien voyeurs—and the Taori warrior—what they so desperately want.

Seduce

Strong female lead!

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

The heroine: Carly – she was an officer in the imperial forces, always having to work harder than everyone else because she was a woman. Carly was a widow and determined never to get close to another man. 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 destroyed their planet and liked to escape their reality through escapism. They held reality games on their different moons. One was for lust; one was for hunting and there were others as well. Carly ended up on the Lust moon where Xulonians sat in their homes and watched frail human females get together with vicious alien males.

The Hero: Skard – he was the youngest male in the immortal army of the Taori. He was the navigations officer on board their ship. The males on his ship have dedicated their lives to the destruction of their enemies, the swarm of Scythians. However, they ended up in a temporal wormhole and ended up 500 years in the future where the Xulonians bombed their ship. The sky clan warriors had to launch the escape pods and ended up on the various moons of the Xulonians. Skard ended up on the Lust moon and his mating heat had begun.

The Story: The males of the Taori only go into mating heat every ten years, but when it happens, they need a woman to help them end it. If they are not able to end the heat, they go into a mating frenzy and can eventually go mad and if it gets bad enough, they fear they will even turn into the Scythians that they hate so much. Skard’s pod landed in a body of water on the moon, though not far from land. Carly woke up and she heard noises and knew instantly that she was on the lust moon. Skard and Carly ran into each other soon after and he knew that the mating fever was upon him.

I wasn’t too fond of the descriptions of Carly and the ways she described herself. She is over 6 feet tall and says she can probably beat most men in a fight. She reminded me a bit of a latina Brienne of Tarth from Game of Thrones. Though Skard was turned on by the thought of sparring with her, and he was from a large warrior race, so was much taller than her either way. I have really enjoyed this series so far, especially the adventure, danger and suspense involved in each couple trying to find their way off the moons they ended up on. Each book offers fresh challenges, adding variety to the overarching adventure. The layered stakes, survival themes, and forbidden dynamics keep things gripping, especially with the tension between Carly’s hardened independence and Skard’s warrior instincts.

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. Duet narration really elevates the emotional range, and it’s great that both narrators brought distinct voices to their characters. Marcio Catalano’s voice added a smooth intensity to Skard’s presence.

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