Alpha Claim 1 - Punished

Brutal Futuristic Fantasy • Hybrid Bounty Hunter • Untamed Monsters

De: Tamara Rose Blodgett, Marata Eros

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

🔥 Blade, True Blood and Underworld collide in this gritty, dystopian paranormal from NYT, USA TODAY, Amazon Top-15 and #1 Dark Fantasy bestsellers Tamara Rose Blodgett & Marata Eros.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Unputdownable from start to finish!"
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "...enthralling! A unique take on vampires..."
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Awesome book!"

• 💥 Narah Adrienne is a bounty enforcer in a fractured future where justice is genetic—and monsters don’t always hide in shadows.

She’s fast, lethal, and one kill away from quota—until the hunters turn on her.

Marked by the Magistrate. Watched by two powerful males—Aeslin, a vampire Turner with his own code, and Matthews, a hybrid ally with secrets of his own—Narah becomes the hunted.

Her bloodline is changing.

And change, for someone like her, demands surrender... or death.

🗝️ Tropes you will Crave:
✅ Fierce heroine & shadowy supernatural males
✅ Brutal protection, forbidden temptation, tangled loyalties
✅ Genetic danger, shifting identities & emotional grit
✅ Complete arc with crossover leads into the next book

⚠️ Start your descent into the savage world of Alpha Claim, where blood runs hot, trust is a weapon—and monsters always want more.

The virtual voice was awful

I listen to a lot of books on virtual voice because they are included in the membership and because it sometimes has more unique stories or takes on common tropes.

The premise, about an hour into it, seems to be really interesting. Although I’m not certain how the genetics actually works there - like, how are there *any* full-blooded vamps? Or are there not any? It’s confusing.

But this (male) narration voice is just terrible. It would have been a little better, I think, if they did a male and female voice, since there are chapters from the male character and female character. (Future of virtual voice?) Because the voice has no depth, it makes the female POV chapters even more discordant.

I will likely go read the actual book since this is difficult to follow with the VV, and the premise has my attention.

The story itself is really good and catching

So I loved the book and storyline, but the narration is just painful. I thought I could give this a chance since I have used alexa to read books to me in the past but it did not work for me.
The story itself is interesting though. I find it fairly original and the world built within is easy to visualize.

Great story, not so great vocals

This would be so much better with an actual voice actor. It’s a great story.