Reader Abduction by Eve Langlais

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

An alien fantasy brought to life… 

It should have been a simple volunteer job. Keep the events for the Romancing the Capital convention running smooth. But from the moment Brigitte lays eyes on the male model dipped in purple, hired for the galactic party, she is thrown into a tizzy — mostly because of his stolen kiss. 

Imagine her shock once she realizes he’s not an actor. This purple alien is for real! 

And Phyr didn’t come to RTC alone. He brought a bunch of his mercenary friends to help him abduct all the single ladies. These readers are about to go on a galactic adventure wilder than anything they’ve ever read in a book — and hotter than anything they could have imagined.

Reader Abduction

Alien abduction at a romance reader convention!

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

The heroine: Brigitte – she is a huge fan of romance books, especially alien romance, and she volunteered to run the Romancing the Capital reader convention. She hired some actors to attend the first event as purple aliens. When one of the actors arrives early, she is surprised at how hot and authentic looking he is. He is fully purple, huge and even has fake pointed teeth. When he kisses her, she is more than impressed with him. He even fakes an alien dialect. She tells him to come back when the even begins and gets back to her preparations for the event.

The Heroes: Phyr – After some of the other males of his race find human mates, he and some of his friends travel to the barbarian planet of Earth. They are from a mercenary race who gets everything by stealing and murdering. So, going against the galactic order against interfering on the barbarian planet, is nothing to them. He is an acquisition specialist and plans to make a lot of money auctioning off the human females so he can upgrade his ship.

The Story: Phyr returns to the event in time to rescue Brigitte from the actual actors she had hired to be the aliens. They looked so fake compared to Phyr and she was trying to fire them, after they acted like jerks. Phyr played his part to perfection at the convention, by putting Brigitte over his shoulder and carrying her into the ballroom full of romance authors and readers. He tells them all that he and some of his friends are looking for unattached females to take to his world. When the aliens handcuff twelve volunteers, including Brigitte, they think that it is all part of the show.

This premise had so much potential, I didn’t think I would like it at first, but the minute they abducted the women I was all in! The contrast between Brigitte’s playful enthusiasm for alien romance and Phyr’s mercenary pragmatism makes for an electrifying dynamic. The setup at the convention is clever—what better way for a real alien to blend in than by masquerading as an actor in an over-the-top reader event? I could already sense a mix of humor, danger, and sizzling tension. Phyr starts off purely self-serving, not intending to take one of the abducted women as his own, but something about Brigitte’s presence ends up challenging his worldview.

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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