Holiday Abduction: Alien Abduction, Book 6 by Eve Langlais

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

When you wish upon a star…you might get a purple alien from afar.

Vhyl is determined to acquire a certain lost artifact, but when he lands on the forbidden barbarian planet known as Earth, he finds more than expected. An attractive human female is in possession of the priceless object, and she’s agreed to hand it over – for a price.

Apparently she doesn’t know of his reputation…or doesn’t care.

Intrigued by her fearless nature – and her luscious cocoa skin – this acquisition expert can’t resist stealing a kiss. But before he can take more, his enemy arrives to stake a claim.

It seems Vhyl isn’t the only one interested in Jilly’s treasure – and Jilly herself. On the run not only from Earth forces but his enemies, too, they must fight to survive and evade capture.

However, he can’t escape the effect the human has on him.

In the end, Vhyl has to make a choice – Jilly or the priceless treasure he came for?

Holiday Abduction

Terrific story and very original for alien romance!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙❤️💚
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Chemistry: 🧪🧪🧪🧪🧪
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏
Character development: 🙃🙁😀😋
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Solo Narration

The heroine: Jill – she owned her grandmother’s farm, and she was going broke with her mortgage and penalties for delinquent payments coming due soon, not to mention it was nearing Christmas time. She didn’t have the money and didn’t know where to get it, she would surely be homeless soon. The orchard hadn’t produced for over two years after it became infested with butterfly larva. She thought she might be able to make the money working in a strip club, but she didn’t want to do that. Suddenly she sees something in the sky and makes a wish on the falling star, but it turns out to be an alien spaceship, or at least an escape pod from one, and it landed in her yard.

The Hero: Vhyl – he is a mercenary that focuses on acquisitions and is on a mission to the barbarian planet of Earth to obtain an object worth a lot of money. If he coveted something, he acquired it, and it was put into his well guarded treasury. He has a thought to speech voice modulator that allowed him to speak every known language, so when he lands in Jill’s yard, he is able to speak to her and understand her. He is a bit surprised when she invites him into her house for some food.

The Story: Vhyl is looking for the XIIX stone, and the energy signatures showed him that it was somewhere in her house. It is an artifact that has been lost for millennia. He tells Jill that he won’t hurt her if she hands it over, but she has no idea what he was talking about. He knew it was made of one of the rarest minerals in the universe, but he had never seen a picture of it so didn’t know how to describe it to her. He tells her he has a device to read the energy signatures of the items in her home, and he can find it that way. He can’t understand that she wants him to get on with it and get out because she has bigger things on her mind. He can’t understand that because he knows that the world revolves around him and thinks she should be wanting to be in his presence.

Vhyl reminds me a bit of the main character in the last book in this series in that he had a huge ego and thinks he is the bee’s knees and all that. When Jill ignores him, he decides that it is because she is a barbarian and can’t handle his greatness and needs a break. Though Jilly is extremely attracted to the handsome, muscular alien, she knows she still has to figure out what to do about her farm. Vhyl keeps getting into her personal space though, and she was aware of him as her body wakes up, especially after Vhyl tells her he is enjoying the feel of her body against his. The Feds arrive and the two of them end up being questioned by authorities.

This setup has some compelling elements—Jill’s desperation makes her an instantly relatable character, and Vhyl’s arrogance creates delicious tension. His utter inability to grasp that he’s not the center of Jill’s universe is particularly fun because it sets the stage for a satisfying dynamic shift. I also like that her financial hardship isn’t just a backdrop; it actively influences her decisions. It makes her initial response to Vhyl much more layered—her attraction to him is there, but survival takes precedence.

This audiobook was narrated from multiple perspectives, done in solo narration by Marie Smith. I really dislike solo narration, but I bought this book in boxed set and three narrators were listed so I hoped there would be dual narration for each of those books. I was not happy to find out that only the first of the four books was dual narration. Though I like the author and she does good stories, so I listened to this anyway, since I already paid for it. Marie has a decent voice, but it isn’t one of my favorites.

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