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A review by rjordan19
Fated To The Alien Healer by Erin Hale
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.25
Overall: 3.5 rounded to ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Readability: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥
Humor: A touch
Perspective: first person from both hero and heroine
More character focused or plot focused? plot
How did the speed of the story feel? slow to medium
When mains are first on page together: he sees her on page at 15% but they know each other from prior books.
Cliffhanger: No, this ends with a happily ever after
Epilogue: There is a labeled epilogue but it’s more of a preview for a future book – Rojtar’s POV
Format: read an e-book version through kindle unlimited
Why I chose this book: I read the first 4 or so in this series and wanted to continue it
Mains: This is a M/F relationship between a cishet alien hero and human heroine
Should I read in order?
I’d say yes. These books flow chronologically and some things are touched on in earlier books but not covered here so you’ll get the best world building and character depth by reading in order.
Basic plot:
Kyler finds he can’t help but lead the charge to rescue Zara when she’s taken captive – he’s been drawn to her since she arrived on the planet.
Give this a try if you want:
- futuristic time line (Earth has grown into a tier population with major classism issues)
- alien setting – planet Tavikh
- hero nurses hero back to health
- healer hero and forge working heroine (she makes passable arrowheads
- age gap – she’s mid 20s and he’s ‘seen 40 winters’
- fated mates
- never been kissed hero
- light other man drama
- medium steam – 2ish full scenes (in a shorter page count)
Ages:
- heroine is 27, hero has lasted 40 cold seasons on their planet, but I can’t recall how that relates to Earth years.
First line:
I really fucked up this time.
My thoughts:
I stepped away from this series for a bit but I am happy to return to it! And in this novel, I LOVED that you got some background about the heroine, Zara, and how she kind of ended up on the planet and her home life before she left. I wish all the books in the series had that. I think they need it because it can feel a bit random in some of the books wondering about more of their back story. I think it would make a nice prologue to the story.
I liked that more characters were introduced in this one including some aliens that they mains trade with. I liked the opening up of the world a bit in that way. But I would like to have seen more with the prior characters in the series too. Like the characters from Lost Warrior I thought returned but there just hasn’t been much interaction between all the characters of the series. Not that I want a bunch of time away from the mains, but I just would have liked them briefly revisited here and there.
My biggest issue with this series is it just doesn’t feel well planned out. Some books include things that others didn’t (like their fated mate spark wasn’t even mentioned in the first book/prequel novella I don’t believe and then started being more and more of a plot point in further books) and I feel like it’s kind of getting more developed as the series goes along instead of having a solid plan from the beginning. Events that I think should have been mentioned from the beginning are brought up in later books out of nowhere. I also think they can feel a touch repetitive (though I feel like that about quite a few scifi series, like Ice Planet Barbarians too). I just wish more was about the characters having depth and having more detailed interests and character traits than we get. Maybe this series is just a bit more plot lead instead of character lead and that’s a personal thing I prefer.
Few random reading stats for this author
# of books read: 6
Average rating: 4.33 stars
Favorite book: Fated to the Lost Warrior
Cock/Hero Stats/World Building:
- The Tavikh have tails and purple skin. Yellow eyes with feline-like pupils that are dark purple.
- When they touch their mates, they get mating marks branded on their skin
- Tavikhi warriors are virgins because they don’t have casual affairs – so they wait until bonded.
- Zara talks about how Earth is overpopulated and people built over all the land and needed credits to build up leading to a class system of upper and lower tier.
- The hero has mating nodes that have fluid that
Endearments
The hero calls the heroine ‘keeshla’
Content warnings: (This should be taken as a minimum because I could have missed some!)
- Zara’s parent’s cut her off and exile her
- scenes of fighting and violence including on page death/murder
- some elements of religious tone – the Tavikh believe in the goddess Deeka
- sibling death
- rape of a side character discussed
- scenes of broken bones and resetting
- heroine remembers her ex boyfriend getting her drunk and recording them having sex and live streaming it
Author given content warnings: discussion of SA, discussion of suicide, violence, anxiety/panic attacks, nightmares about blood and death
Locations of kisses/intimate scenes, safe sex, consent, pregnancy/child in the story:
Safe sex: No
How’s the consent? I’d say it’s pretty strong consent in this one – he frequently asks
Pregnancy/children in story? Mention of maybe pregnant in the future, the hero imagining her pregnant during sex and a side character announces a pregnancy
34% - kiss
53% - kiss
67% - 🔥 kisses, dry humping, handy for him
85% - kiss
88% - 🔥 oral for her, missionary
Readability: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥
Humor: A touch
Perspective: first person from both hero and heroine
More character focused or plot focused? plot
How did the speed of the story feel? slow to medium
When mains are first on page together: he sees her on page at 15% but they know each other from prior books.
Cliffhanger: No, this ends with a happily ever after
Epilogue: There is a labeled epilogue but it’s more of a preview for a future book – Rojtar’s POV
Format: read an e-book version through kindle unlimited
Why I chose this book: I read the first 4 or so in this series and wanted to continue it
Mains: This is a M/F relationship between a cishet alien hero and human heroine
Should I read in order?
I’d say yes. These books flow chronologically and some things are touched on in earlier books but not covered here so you’ll get the best world building and character depth by reading in order.
Basic plot:
Kyler finds he can’t help but lead the charge to rescue Zara when she’s taken captive – he’s been drawn to her since she arrived on the planet.
Give this a try if you want:
- futuristic time line (Earth has grown into a tier population with major classism issues)
- alien setting – planet Tavikh
- hero nurses hero back to health
- healer hero and forge working heroine (she makes passable arrowheads
- age gap – she’s mid 20s and he’s ‘seen 40 winters’
- fated mates
- never been kissed hero
- light other man drama
- medium steam – 2ish full scenes (in a shorter page count)
Ages:
- heroine is 27, hero has lasted 40 cold seasons on their planet, but I can’t recall how that relates to Earth years.
First line:
I really fucked up this time.
My thoughts:
I stepped away from this series for a bit but I am happy to return to it! And in this novel, I LOVED that you got some background about the heroine, Zara, and how she kind of ended up on the planet and her home life before she left. I wish all the books in the series had that. I think they need it because it can feel a bit random in some of the books wondering about more of their back story. I think it would make a nice prologue to the story.
I liked that more characters were introduced in this one including some aliens that they mains trade with. I liked the opening up of the world a bit in that way. But I would like to have seen more with the prior characters in the series too. Like the characters from Lost Warrior I thought returned but there just hasn’t been much interaction between all the characters of the series. Not that I want a bunch of time away from the mains, but I just would have liked them briefly revisited here and there.
My biggest issue with this series is it just doesn’t feel well planned out. Some books include things that others didn’t (like their fated mate spark wasn’t even mentioned in the first book/prequel novella I don’t believe and then started being more and more of a plot point in further books) and I feel like it’s kind of getting more developed as the series goes along instead of having a solid plan from the beginning. Events that I think should have been mentioned from the beginning are brought up in later books out of nowhere. I also think they can feel a touch repetitive (though I feel like that about quite a few scifi series, like Ice Planet Barbarians too). I just wish more was about the characters having depth and having more detailed interests and character traits than we get. Maybe this series is just a bit more plot lead instead of character lead and that’s a personal thing I prefer.
Few random reading stats for this author
# of books read: 6
Average rating: 4.33 stars
Favorite book: Fated to the Lost Warrior
Cock/Hero Stats/World Building:
- The Tavikh have tails and purple skin. Yellow eyes with feline-like pupils that are dark purple.
- When they touch their mates, they get mating marks branded on their skin
- Tavikhi warriors are virgins because they don’t have casual affairs – so they wait until bonded.
- Zara talks about how Earth is overpopulated and people built over all the land and needed credits to build up leading to a class system of upper and lower tier.
- The hero has mating nodes that have fluid that
Endearments
Content warnings: (This should be taken as a minimum because I could have missed some!)
- Zara’s parent’s cut her off and exile her
- scenes of fighting and violence including on page death/murder
- some elements of religious tone – the Tavikh believe in the goddess Deeka
- sibling death
- rape of a side character discussed
- scenes of broken bones and resetting
- heroine remembers her ex boyfriend getting her drunk and recording them having sex and live streaming it
Author given content warnings: discussion of SA, discussion of suicide, violence, anxiety/panic attacks, nightmares about blood and death
Locations of kisses/intimate scenes, safe sex, consent, pregnancy/child in the story:
Safe sex:
How’s the consent?
Pregnancy/children in story?
34% - kiss
53% - kiss
67% - 🔥 kisses, dry humping, handy for him
85% - kiss
88% - 🔥 oral for her, missionary