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Seduced by the Stryxian by Ella Blake
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Mazak is a cyborg mercenary set to turn in one last bounty for his debt to a deadly trade lord to be paid. He is furious to learn he first must complete one last job—to deliver a human female to a dangerous space station to complete an illicit transaction. The clock is ticking, however, and the female lights a fire in Mazak’s synthetic hearts like no other.
Cora Fleming curses every choice she made that landed her at the mercy of an alien trade lord. So much for a harmless adventure after a sheltered life. Now she’s in the hands of a gorgeous cyborg who holds his feelings close and his secrets closer. They are in a race against time to get this done and win both their freedom, but learning what the transaction will pay for changes everything…as does their deepening bond.
Mazak’s choice is not easy: try to stop the destruction of an innocent species at the risk of losing those he cares about, or remain a mercenary to save Cora’s life, but lose her love.
Seduced by the Stryxian
Another good one from this alien romance series!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙❤️💚
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌏
Character development: 🙂🥰☺️😂
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Dual Narration
The Hero: Marzak – he is a Stryxian cyborg. He helped kill the Vanyi overlord Sleer and take down his network of mercenaries. Though he is also a mercenary. He has been working for Agar, a crime boss that runs a dangerous space outpost. Agar has been holding Marzak’s sister in stasis, who had been undergoing a change to cyborg when the war with the Mortt’a ended. He just finished his last job for Agar and was going to get his sister back and a large payment so he could finish her transition.
The heroine: Cora – she was a human woman, who formerly was in service to the UEA (United Earth Alliance). She had been in the lottery for women to travel to Stryxia to try to find mates, though she never found one. She met a Stryxian called Bartok who was a merchant who traveled the galaxy, and they got along well so she decided to travel with him for adventure. Though when they were on a dangerous space outpost, Bartok was killed, and she was taken by the squid-like leader Agar.
The Story: Agar didn’t want to let his best mercenary go, so he kept Marzak’s sister and forced him to do one more job for him. He had to take a message to another very dangerous outpost and deliver it to a merchant there. It turns out that the message was inside Cora, and would dissolve in 4 days, so they had to make it to the outpost and have the message on her arm decoded before it dissolved in her blood. If he was able to do that, Agar would unfreeze Marzak’s accounts, and give him his sister.
This book was another from this series that was different than all the rest. I liked the fact that Marzak was a cyborg, and he thought that no human female would want him since cyborgs were looked down on in Stryxian society. These two were good together and they started bonding before they got to the station. There was plenty of action and adventure including the fact that they couldn’t let Agar get what he wanted from the Merchant whom he sent the message to, and there was plenty of risk because Cora was a human and every other alien species seemed to want human females for one thing or another.
This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Elle Sonali and Zachary Johnson. Zachary has a nice deep voice which matches Marzak well. He has a good tempo for an alien, a bit stiff and formal, which is what I think an alien male would sound like. Elle Sonali has a nice voice and sounds very natural. You can’t tell she is reading.
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