Bryk by Ava Ross

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Will a hot-blooded, seven-foot-tall, scaly green alien meet his match in a feisty woman from Earth?

After losing her husband, Sadie is afraid of getting her heart broken again. On a dare, she signs up for the Extraterrestrial Matchmaking Service, and she’s paired with Bryk, a seven foot tall, scaled alien from a distant world. At their first touch, a gleaming symbol appears on her palm. Bryk tells her it’s a matebond, and she’s his destined mate. He makes her pulse sing, but does she dare take a chance with someone new?

When Bryk applies for the Selection, he’s matched with Sadie. At their first meet-up, his matebond ignites and now he’ll do anything he can to win her heart. But Sadie has been hurt in the past and is afraid to trust. Refusing to admit defeat, Bryk talks her into giving him seven days to convince her she wants to stay. Bryk will need to pull out every Crakairian trick he can think of to win her heart.

Can two very different souls find love with each other on a planet far from Earth?

Bryk is book 2 in the Mail-Order Brides of Crakair Series. This standalone, full-length story has on-the-page heat, aliens who look and act alien, a guaranteed happily ever after, no cheating, and no cliffhanger.

Bryk

Great world building and terrific story!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙💜❤️🩷🤎
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌏
Character development: 🤓😀😘🤩
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Sadie – she is a human woman from Earth, and she lost her husband when a virus went through the galaxy. The same virus that killed of most of the human males also killed the females on the planet Crakair. Recently the Crakair males made a deal with Earth for technology and in exchange they opened an agency to send brides from Earth to Crakair. The brides are matched with a male from Crakair and when they arrive on the planet they have ten days to decide whether to stay or they can return to Earth. Sadie’s friend Evie had already gone to Crakair and is happy with her mate, she bet Sadie that she couldn’t do the same and that was the reason Sadie signed up for the service.

The Heroes: Bryk – He lost his wife and the mother of his son Weld from the virus. They were not a love match, but they had cared for each other, and he mourned her loss. He was a space fleet commander prior to the death of his wife, but since she died, he resigned his commission and became a farmer to raise his son, who is eight yaros, and a very smart kid who is adept at fixing engines and other machines.

The Story: Sadie had first seen a video of Bryk, when they were matched and thought he was kind of small and thin for a male Crakairan, as most were very tall and well muscled. So, when she arrived on the planet and didn’t see him, she was bereft. Though a very tall and muscular male came up to her and immediately some sort of golden tattoo appeared on their palms, she was surprised when he threw her over his shoulder and took off for the space port entrance. Luckily her friend Evie was there and stopped him and introduced him as Bryk. She wasn’t exactly sure why he looked nothing like his video, but she was willing to give the whole experience a try for the ten days.

I really enjoyed the first book in this series and this one was just as good. The world building is much better than many alien romance books. The technology and settings are well defined and especially the descriptions of the alien foods and beasts. I thought it was funny how the translators had to get used to each of their speech patterns before they worked fully. So, at the start, Sadie would hear Bryk’s sentences kind of like the way Yoda talks, with the first part of the sentence at the end.

This audiobook was narrated from multiple perspectives, done in dual narration by Teddy Hamilton and Tawnia Murray. Teddy Hamilton is one of my favorite male narrators and he always does a terrific job. He is one of my go-to narrators. Tawnia Murray is not one of my favorites, though she is not bad and has a pleasant voice.

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