Fierce

Rogue Alien Warriors, Book 1

By: Hattie Jacks

Narrated by: Carmen Rose, Dan Calley

His to devour. His to claim. His to keep?

I only went out to the supermarket. Then I was abducted. By aliens. Freaking aliens! What the hell? So now I'm on another planet, at the mercy of one massive alien predator . . . And what an alien he is! Big muscles everywhere, handsome, winged, and with a burning desire to eat me. Whole.

Jyr is the leader of a fearsome alien species known as the Gryn. Dark and dangerous, winged and clawed, these predators need females, and he believes he already owns me.

I'm not that sort of girl. For a start I don't belong to him, or anyone. I'm not staying on this planet to produce babies for an alien male who stalks my every move. Who looks at me like I'm his perfect prey. Who makes me feel warm inside. Better than I've felt in a very long time.

But none of that matters. I don't belong here. I've got to get back to Earth, by any means possible.

Just one problem . . . This alien predator isn't going to let me go . . .

Contains mature themes.

©2021 Hattie Jacks (P)2023 Tantor

2KNOBS & A SHORT ADVENTURE

World building is alright. Could have been better. All we needed was some comedy in all these flying hunks dual glory. Still worth the purchase for me. Wish the author made a collection for the series.

Bad Angels!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙💚💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘
World building: 🌎🌍🌏🌎
Character development: 😤😠🙃
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Viv - she is taken from outside her home and wakes up with a tube down her throat in a pool of goo, naked on the floor. She pulls the tube out of her throat and sees a bunch of large bags full of liquid with tubes going into them and a woman inside each of them. All of the sudden, the rear of the room opens and she is falling from a spaceship onto a planet when something flying with claws grabs her out of the air.

The Hero: Jyr - he is the prime of the Gryn legion, the only Gryn legion left on Ustacas after the reckoning (a war between organics and machines). A legion of a hundred vicious and daunting males. They are formidable predators with wings and claws. They lost most of their females in the reckoning and need more for the species to survive.

The Story: Viv is brought to the ground after being caught, she is still naked and now covered in mud. When she looks up, expecting to see a large bird, she sees humanoid men with wings. Her inner voice calls them ‘bad angels’. The men go and get their leader, a 7 foot tall ‘bad angel’, handsome and fearsome.

Viv was burned badly in the past and has burn scars on her skin, she considers herself disfigured. I don’t know why some authors like to put disfiguring scars on their Heroes or heroines. Do they think making them less than perfect makes them more relatable? I am not sure but I don’t like it, I am also not a fan of women who are fat or “curvy”. I am curvy and I don’t want to read about curvy or scarred heroines. I like to imagine a thin and pretty heroine. I get enough of women like myself when I look in the mirror.

The story is told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Dan Calley and Carmen Rose. Both of these narrators speak with an accent. I can’t tell what accent, possibly European or South African. Either way, they both have good voices and are competent narrators, though neither are among my favorite narrators, they both are a bit monotone and don’t portray much emotion through their voices.

The world building was fairly good, though I found the story to be no more than average for the alien romance genre and the characters a bit flat. I am not sure if it was the accents, the writing or my mood, but I just didn’t get invested in the characters like I usually do. Also the book tries to be super steamy, especially because the alien male has two sexual appendages, but it just comes off a bit corny.

it was rather dull.

Why the hell does this book have such a good rating? This is mindless crap. I’m usually pretty forgiving, but nope, I can’t read this. The guy is an asshole and if she’s attracted to that then she’s not much better.

He finds her on the floor of a jail cell, naked, covered in mud, and he senses that she’s his mate. Does he ask her name? No. Does he ask how she got there? No. Does he ask if she’s okay?! Nope. Does he grab her up instantly, take her to his place, and immediately hit her with, “I’m gonna fill you with so much cum until you have all my babies”? Yes. And when she rebukes him, he leaves her there alone, naked, covered in mud, and she’s no species he’s ever seen. What. The.F? And then a few hours later she’s in bed with him, simply cause he’s hot and he accepts her scars. Oh so romantic. 🙄 Not! And STILL he’s barely shown any concern or empathy for her abduction, and when she says she wants to find the other humans that she saw captive on the ship, he says he doesn’t care about them since she is his mate and not them. Wow, nice guy. 😠

I kept reading, thinking he would eventually show some empathy or some redeeming qualities in order for her to fall for him, but then they started make out and she let him go down on her. Ugh. She was abducted, dropped from a crashing ship, locked in a cell, tossed in a cave, told that she will bear his young, and repeatedly he walked away and left her alone when she said no… and now she’s making out with him?! Girl, have some self respect! He’s an asshole! At least let him go through some redemption arc before you spread your legs!!

Sadly, not even the promise of dual cocks has me wanting to keep reading this one.