Book Review: Embers Ignite by Alana Khan and Aria Vale

 

Book Description

Bound by passion, shattered by deceit.

Marissa

The Others have been on Earth for 25 years, but I’d never met one until the huge orc Fire Chief landed in the ICU as my patient. He’s rude, snarly, and covered in tattoos. A girl would have to be out of her mind to want someone like him, right? I guess I’m out of my mind.

Actually, I’m obsessed.

It’s hard to see past his snarls to find the squishy guy he hides inside, but I do. One kiss leads to another, and before I know it, well, I discover he’s not snarly all the time.

Until he learns my secret. I never meant to hurt him, but now he won't have a thing to do with me.

Brokka

Being dragged through the Rift and spit out onto this planet with nothing more than the clothes on my back wasn’t the worst thing in my life. Losing everyone and everything I’d ever cared about was far more crushing.

Tender Marissa with her courage, caring, and delicious curves is the perfect reason for me to let go of my past. Until I discover our relationship is built on a lie. How can I love a woman I will never be able to trust?

Enjoy this age-gap, second-chance romance as Brokka and Marissa battle people in both their worlds, risking everything they hold dear to be together.

Written by USA TODAY Bestselling author Alana Khan.

No cheating or cliffhangers in this steamy, enemies to lovers romance. There’s phone s*x and much more for Marissa, who, it turns out, is a very good girl. Guaranteed love and happiness ever after.

For Readers 18+.

My Review

Marissa is a nurse and Brokka comes to her hospital after he's hurt in a fire. He's an "other", an alien that came to Earth 25 years ago. The government hasn't exactly made them feel welcome in that time either and so Brokka is the first "Other" that Mariss has met. Most of the time the Others stay in their zone and aren't seen out where the humans are and they are taken to their own hospital inside the zone. But little by little the Others are being given more rights and are being seen outside the zone. 

Brokka is used to humans being rude to him or being interested but cautious so after he's released and Marissa seeks him out at the Others fire department where he works, things don't go well and he knows he messed up. So he does the only thing he can think of, he goes to her and tries to apologize. After a while they start spending more time together and find that they really like each other. 

When I saw the cover for this book, I thought, "Now that's an alien!" I love it when the aliens in these romance books actually look like aliens. But Brokka turns out to be quite a nice guy even though there's a huge misunderstanding between them right when things were going so good between them. But something else happens to bring their relationship back to life and I was really happy about that. These two are so different but are so made for each other. They made such a great couple and I loved the secondary characters as well. I really hope that more of the Others from the Fire Department get their books as well because I can't wait to read more of this series now. 

I give this book 5 out of 5 stars. 

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