Monstrous Hunger by Joely Sue Burkhart
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I accidentally mated an alien dino-shifter, and now the rest of his squad want a piece of me too.
Having hot, wild sex with a stranger was always on my bucket list. My guy just happens to be an alien super-soldier I found in a Guatemalan jungle who shifts into a massive raptor-tyrannosaurus-rex creature. After one incredible night, he declares that we’re mated. For life.
When I get a nasty concussion at the butt end of a drug smuggler’s rifle, Kroktl not only kills a bunch of the bad guys, but also calls his squad for help. Each dynos is a unique genetically engineered combination of million-year-old monsters perfected to be killing machines. What one dynos thinks—or feels—is shared by the rest of the squad.
If Krotkl’s in heat… and he brings the rest of his squad to my aid…
I’m going to find myself mated to not one but four dino-shifters in a breeding frenzy that may kill us all.
Monstrous Hunger
Terrific story!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🩵🖤💜💚
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏🌍
Character development: ☺️😆😎😚🥰
The heroine: Natalie – she was an archeologist grad student who went to the guatemalan jungle to find a lost city. However, she ended up being left alone in the wilds by her smarmy professor where she found out that he was employing a cartel of drug smugglers to make money on every trip he made to guatemala. She was rescued by an alien super-soldier and dinosaur shifter, who told her she was his mate.
The Hero: Kroktl – he was a Dynos (alien dinosaur shifter, genetically enhanced soldier, and part cyborg), who came to Earth with his squad on a mission. When his squad was suddenly called home to for decommissioning (terminated), his squad leader betrayed them and left them in the jungle. He went into heat, even though it was not supposed to happen outside a lab at certain times. Then he found out his mate was a human female. Kroktl when shifted is a tyrannosaurus mixed with a velociraptor and he has super-speed and the ability to read heat signatures.
The Story: Kroktl had to contact the rest of his squad when Natalie was hurt by the drug smugglers. He didn’t know how his team would react to finding him mated to a human and wasn’t sure if they would be in heat as well. Though he did know that if Natalie didn’t want them as mates as well as him, that he would end up killing them for being so close to his mate. Kroktl wasn’t made to function alone; he needed his squad because they each had different skills. Rizan can fly and use echolocation for sonar mapping and estimate the number of targets at a location, Snryx is a medic and can read temperatures by touch, Lohr is a xenobiologist and has a long snake-like tongue and can also read temperatures and analyze data he gets from his tongue.
I don’t know why, in so many alien romance books, that the aliens always walk around naked. I mean, is it because it is a romance, and authors think it is sexy to be naked all the time? Because I don’t think it is. I just want them to put on some clothes. The whole time the alien males are walking around naked, I keep thinking, I hope they put on some clothes soon. Maybe romance authors are nudists and it doesn’t bother them. Well, it bothers me.
Other than that, the story was as good or better than the first book. We find out a lot more about the Dynos and their capabilities as well as the squad as a whole. I was very interested in why Axxol, the squad leader who betrayed them had done what he did, and where he went when he left. Also, I wanted to know why their squad had been suddenly called back to be decommissioned and if that had anything to do with what Axxol did. We didn’t get all those answers yet, but the world building was terrific. The world of the alien super soldiers had a lot of depth and was explained well. This book ended in a cliffhanger, and I can’t wait to read the next.
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