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3.46 AVERAGE
3.46 AVERAGE
Overall: 3.75⭐️
Romance: 3.75🩷
Characters: 3.50👤
Plot: 3.50💥
World: 3.50🌎
Spice: 4.25🌶️
Romance: 3.75🩷
Characters: 3.50👤
Plot: 3.50💥
World: 3.50🌎
Spice: 4.25🌶️
Today is my wedding day, and all I can think about is just how annoying Asteron is. At night he can't get enough of me--the aching burn in my thighs and stomach confirms this. But during the day? I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of conversations we've had. It's as if I don't exist.
3 stars
I chose this quote on purpose as I really did not understand or feel the 'fated mates' connection between Asteron and Ginny. Asteron did not act like a king who was in love with his mate; he repeatedly avoided telling her things that were important to know as his queen and others around him continually asked him WHY HAVE YOU NOT TOLD HER THIS YET? I agree with Ginny here; I feel like they never really had meaningful interactions other than hot smutty sex, which is fine, but I prefer more storyline and substance to a fated mates plot.
Another big hang-up for me was how non-monstrous Asteron felt. Other than his horns and hooves (which were only brought up when he and Ginny were having sex), the fact that he was a minotaur never seemed to be addressed. Like was his nose wet? Did his muzzle have soft peach fuzz? Was his tongue rough? Was his fur soft? What about his ears? And how the hell did Asteron and Ginny kiss?? I've read other minotaur books which I felt addressed this better, so to me it felt like the author picked a minotaur just for fun and then promptly forgot what Asteron was supposed to be...unless they were having sex. This was my first story by Hattie Jacks, and overall I was left disappointed.
Tropes: mail order bride, monster/alien romance, aloof hero, down-on-her-luck heroine, arranged marriage, breeding kink, knotting, lactating kink (new one for me tbh), smutty smut
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
I loved the story line to this book, I just wish they dove into the characters a little more! Some background and build up to the meeting moment! But definitely a good easy read!!
3.5 stars
The spice was fun and the whole mating in a stall thing was very unique. I wish we’d gotten more getting to know each other moments, instead of having most of that off page. They had their rough patches (but no 3rd act breakup), but fell in love pretty quickly.
Spice: 5/5
Triggers: pregnancy, childbirth, explosion, mentions of parent death, poverty/malnutrition, kidnapping (not by MC), drugging, violence, death
The spice was fun and the whole mating in a stall thing was very unique. I wish we’d gotten more getting to know each other moments, instead of having most of that off page. They had their rough patches (but no 3rd act breakup), but fell in love pretty quickly.
Spice: 5/5
Triggers: pregnancy, childbirth, explosion, mentions of parent death, poverty/malnutrition, kidnapping (not by MC), drugging, violence, death
funny
Superspicy story, hot as hell and sweet as sugar at the same time. How the author manages to make the main characters feel real and fleshed out and squeeze in so many hot, hot spicy scenes amazes me!
Some elements remind me of “hucow” stories I’ve read and since I like those, that is a good thing for me.
Would recommend and will be reading it again and again!
Some elements remind me of “hucow” stories I’ve read and since I like those, that is a good thing for me.
Would recommend and will be reading it again and again!
I never knew SciFi could be sexy until I stumbled upon Hattie Jacks books. I swear she can really write some good intergalactic smut; these stories make you want to leave earth altogether and find yourself an Alien Bae.
Ginny figured there couldn't be anything worse than working in the most disgusting job on an alien ship until she caught wind of her sneaky boss selling their supplies to an alien troll. To keep Ginny quiet and complacent she is sent off to partake in the Starlight Lottery where human women are sent to be married off to an alien. As luck would have it Ginny is not only matched perfectly to an alien, but she is matched perfectly to an alien minotaur who happens to be King.
King Asteron needs a wife, but he never imagined finding his fated mate in the Starlight Lottery and now that he has found his mate, he will stop at nothing to claim and protect her by any means necessary.
Expect to find:
Growly Alien Minotaur
Violence
Knotting
Pregnancy
An Abundance of bodily fluids
Witty Banter
Abduction
Fated Mates
HEA
Ginny figured there couldn't be anything worse than working in the most disgusting job on an alien ship until she caught wind of her sneaky boss selling their supplies to an alien troll. To keep Ginny quiet and complacent she is sent off to partake in the Starlight Lottery where human women are sent to be married off to an alien. As luck would have it Ginny is not only matched perfectly to an alien, but she is matched perfectly to an alien minotaur who happens to be King.
King Asteron needs a wife, but he never imagined finding his fated mate in the Starlight Lottery and now that he has found his mate, he will stop at nothing to claim and protect her by any means necessary.
Expect to find:
Growly Alien Minotaur
Violence
Knotting
Pregnancy
An Abundance of bodily fluids
Witty Banter
Abduction
Fated Mates
HEA
adventurous
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Yes
Not a Writing style I like, and things move so fast I don’t even know why things are happening.
Why doesn’t he kill her? Why she going along with it What’s going on with the program? Wtf is going on?!
So yeah. It goes so fast it’s on fast foreword.
Why doesn’t he kill her? Why she going along with it What’s going on with the program? Wtf is going on?!
So yeah. It goes so fast it’s on fast foreword.