Monstrous Heat by Joely Sue Burkhart
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I’m lost in the jungle, and something is stalking me.
Discovering a Mayan ruin in the Guatemalan jungle should have catapulted my archeology career, but I’m lost hours from camp. Worse, something is stalking me. It’s not a jaguar. It’s bigger than anything I’ve ever seen before and wicked fast. I can’t outrun it. I don’t have any weapons.
When it catches me…
I can’t help but think I’ve fallen back through time to the Jurassic Period, because the creature looks like a T-rex and raptor had a very vicious baby. It’s hungry, too. Very hungry. Though it doesn’t hurt me. Yet.
Then a naked man comes to my rescue. Not sus at all.
Kroktl says his squad is on a top-secret mission to Earth, and his outrageous physique certainly fits the part of a lab-created super-soldier alien. Who coincidentally smells exactly like the dino-predator that chased me.
He claims that I can help him through the heat. By the burning way he looks at me, he doesn’t mean air temperature. In fact, I suspect that I’m next on the menu. After he plays with his food. He’s even calling his squad to come see what he caught.
I don’t think I’m getting out of the jungle alive.
Monstrous Heat
Surprisingly good!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🩵🖤💜💚
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏
Character development: ☺️😎😚🥰
The heroine: Natalie – she was a grad student in archeology. Trying to make her mark. She researched and found the journal of an earlier archeologist who had discovered a hidden city in the Guatemalan jungle though he gave up before excavating the site. She studied his path in and out of the jungle and figured she could find the city. Her professor was financing the trip and would probably ultimately claim the find as his work, but she hoped to get credit in any article he published.
The Hero: Kroktl – he was a Dynos (alien dinosaur shifter), who came to Earth with a squad, who were ultimately betrayed by their squad leader and stranded on the planet. To make matters worse, he was in heat and there were no compatible females to be found. He had come across several human women, but he felt nothing for them. He would rather eat them in his dynos form than anything else. However, he was attracted to Natalie the minute he picked up her scent.
The Story: When Natalie found the lost city, her professor took off with the only other grad student and went back to the nearest town, leaving her with two guides to do all the work. She traipsed around the jungle all day finding different structures, but when it started to get dark she found that her guides had left her alone. On her way back to camp, in the dark, she found something was stalking her, and she came across a monster that wasn’t native to Guatemala.
“So you’re a time-traveling alien super-soldier who can shift into a dinosaur.” “Pretty much.”
This was a short book, only 142 pages, so it was instalove. The two main characters got together and hooked up in record time despite Natalie finding out he was an alien and had a beast inside him. I thought it had an interesting premise with Kroktyl and his team being betrayed and left stranded. So, they not only had to find a way off the planet, but they were also in cartel territory.
The book wasn’t only steamy scenes, and I liked the parts about Kroktyl’s squad when he explained what he was to Natalie. I was surprised when I found out that this book isn’t a standalone and it continues to the next book. I guess I would rather have one book that was about 450-500 pages than three books that are only about 150. Luckily, they are on Kindle Unlimited so I can just move on to the next book.
I was pleasantly surprised at the fact that there was steam and a decent storyline. The book ended in a cliffhanger, but also had sort of an ending, so you don’t feel like you absolutely have to move on to the next book if you don’t feel like it.
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