The Alien’s Bounty

Outcasts of Corin, Book 4

De: Ella Maven

Narrado por: Reagan West, Gabriel McKnight

She's something I didn't want, but everything I crave.

Lu: This planet is the pits. I'm being handed off to different aliens one after another like I'm a dog-eared novel. My latest captors are about to take me off planet when a big blue alien botches the rescue mission. Now we're both prisoners of a fierce lizard species who will let us free on one condition, and I think our life span is looking bleak.

Axton: I know my way around swords, enemies, and blood, but this human is something else. She never stops talking, asks too many questions, and makes my blood hot. All we need to do is find the missing offspring of the lizard king. Between my muscles and her sporadic ability to tell the future, I figure we might just make it out alive.

While battling for our lives, I'm also fighting to keep my hands off the fiery human. But time is running out, and if I want a future with her, I have to complete the hardest hunt of my life.

Contains mature themes.

©2022 Ella Maven (P)2024 Tantor

another good book

love how the plot changes and continues. make it interesting. this book was refreshing and good.

it's a good story

the characters are likable, the female narrator does a good job. The male narrator kind of over did it but it's ok. The adventure is good.

Another good one in this series!

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

The heroine: Lu - she and other human women were abducted from earth and experimented on as lab rats. They each ended up with an “alter”, which was some kind of ability. Hers was the fact that she had visions that always came true. After they escaped from the Uldani, they formed a small settlement on the planet they were on, but one night they were all captured by warthog looking aliens and taken to different places, she ended up in a cage next to her friend Maisie. She foresaw a big blue flying alien coming and taking her away from Maisie. She did not want that to happen, but she knew it would. Maisie had been slowly slipping away.

The Hero: Axton - he is a Drixonian male and is in the outcast clavasse. The outcasts are sons of deserters and are looked upon as if they were the ones that deserted. His race used to live on Corin but left after a virus wiped out their female population and they left Corin by choice. Now, after the war ended, have returned to their home planet. They found it changed and other races had moved in and made it their home. The outcasts are now back with and accepted by the rest of the Drixonians.

The Story: Axton had been sent to find some of the human women who had been kidnapped by the Wutarch. He found Lu and rescued her, but he lost his translator updater so they she couldn’t understand him, and he hadn’t known there was another female until it was too late. Lu fights him at first but eventually becomes too tired and stops. Axton is a bit of a grumpy, growly alien who doesn’t want a mate, but he starts having feelings for Lu not long after he rescues her. They end up far from the lands where the Drixonians stay. Lu is a talker; she finds that her constant talking isn’t the greatest when the Priadans attack because they are a territorial species and Axton and Lu are on their land.

Lu's ability to foresee events adds a compelling tension, especially since she knows she’ll be separated from Maisie but can’t stop it. Axton’s position in the outcast clavasse adds another layer of societal complexity, making his reluctant feelings for Lu even more interesting. The way their communication barrier plays into their initial struggle is such a great trope—it forces them to rely on actions over words.

This audiobook was told in multiple perspectives, done in dual narration and was narrated by Reagan West and Gabriel Mcknight. Reagan West has a terrific voice which I like very much. She is great at showing emotions through her voice. Gabriel Mcknight has a soft, voice and is great at doing different voices for different characters. I wasn’t too fond of the voice he used in the last book for the main character. In this one I liked his voice, and the narration in general.