Rexor by Ella Maven

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

They thought I was dangerous before, but now that I have a female to defend . . . I’m ruthless.

Daisy: I’m a glass half-full girl, but this last week has really tested my outlook on life. First of all, aliens exist. Yeah, there’s a doozy. Second of all, they steal humans from Earth, and they’re not nice about it. Like at all. Anger issues abound in other galaxies apparently.

My situation worsens when I learn I’m the prize in some really effed-up alien gladiator games. I’m just going to admit it now—my glass is empty, and this doesn’t look good for me . . .

Rexor: Once I was a proud Drixonian Warrior. Now I’m an experiment gone bad and a former gladiator who can’t control his bloodlust.

When I see a human female with sunshine hair in danger, I can’t let her fall into the clutches of monsters who will break her. I steal her with the intention of rescuing her, not keeping her for myself. She’s beauty and happiness. I’m a hideous shadow of what I once was and losing my mind with every planet’s rotation. All I know is that while we’re on the run from our enemies, I’ll do anything to protect her. Even if I have to break myself to do it.

Rexor

I loved the characters!

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

The heroine: Daisy – she fell asleep in her bed in South Carolina one night and woke up in a spaceship. She was dressed in something sexy and brought to an arena where she was to be the prize that went to the winner. She wasn’t liking her odds with each gladiator being more monstrous than the one before.

The Hero: Rexor – he is a monster. Though he used to be a Drixonian Warrior. After being captured and experimented on by the enemy, he was sold as a slave and forced to fight in the gladiator arena. He knew his owner was planning on getting rid of him after the next fight, and he wasn’t sad about it. His bloodlust during the fights was legendary, and he wanted to die as a free male if he was going to die at all, so he decided to fight against his fate.

The Story: Rexor fights in his last fight, and wins. He goes on a rampage, killing guards and his owner Polixic, whom he hated with a passion. The crowd had been chanting for a monster, and he gave them what they wanted. Though by the time his rage started to cool, they were gone. He was able to get the key from his dead owner and free his collar. After his escape, he and some others were determined to get revenge against the entire race of the male that owned him, the Plykans. His next target was the brother of that man. He was attacking the fighting arena.

After rescuing Daisy, Rex had no idea what he had done till he got home. He knew it was a screw up since she was a human. His friends were afraid the Plykans would come after her and endanger them all. Though Rex was determined to keep her. When she had cried out in the arena, his rage grew out of control, and he had no choice but to save her. Rex and his friends live in a crashed spaceship which isn’t very nice and are always under threat from the Plykans, so they decide that Daisy will be safest if Rex takes her to his home where the rest of the Drixonian warriors can protect her.

I liked the story and the characters. The world building was pretty good as well. I enjoyed the fact that though Rex was such a strong male, and could defeat just about any enemy, he was also broken. He hated what he had been turned into, a monster. He has low self esteem and thinks that he could never have a mate like Daisy. He also suffers from PTSD and has nightmares about his time in captivity. He is a character you can empathize with and Daisy is perfect for him. She wants to help him and doesn’t see him as less. Just as her savior.

This audiobook was narrated from multiple perspectives, done in dual narration by Oliver Highpoint and Rachel Woods. Oliver Highpoint has a clear, pleasant voice. Though he isn’t one of my favorite male narrators, he is darn close. Rachel Woods also has an enjoyable voice that I like quite a bit. She is expressive and speaks with a southern accent in this one. She does a good job, though I am not too fond of a strong southern accent. I guess I am biased since I’m from the north.

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