Book Review: Tavarr's Mate A Dark Sci-Fi Alien Romance (Kleaxian Warriors Book 2) by Sue Lyndon

 

Book Description

I am fated to belong to a seven-foot tall alien warrior named Tavarr. He's coming for me soon.

My name is Katrina. After the Kleaxians attacked the humans on Tallia, I was captured by a cruel alien named Vonn. He claimed me as his mate, but tormented me for weeks and even tried to kill me. When he was executed for his crimes, I thought my nightmare had finally come to an end. But then his older brother, Tavarr, shows up burning with a biological urge to claim me.

Darkly handsome Tavarr's mere presence makes my body hum with pleasure, and his touch prompts a relentless ache between my thighs. But I'm worried he's too much like his brother. What if he tries to kill me too?

Despite my fears, I'm drawn to the tenderness in Tavarr's dark otherworldly gaze, and I want to believe his intentions are true. However, the flashes of primal lust in his purple eyes don't escape my notice. When it's time to claim me, I don't think he'll be quite as gentle as promised.

Publisher's Note: Tavarr's Mate is a DARK sci-fi alien romance, containing explicit scenes and themes of power exchange, as well as scenes some readers may find triggering or disturbing. If such dark subject matter offends you, please do not buy this book. This story takes place in the same world as Kenan's Mate, however it can be enjoyed as a standalone title.

My Review

Katrina was on planet Tallia with the human who she thought was a good guy at first but he turns out to be a horribly controlling man. He's a scientist and shows her awful pictures of how he and his colleagues are experimenting on the Kleaxians on the planet and think they'll get away with it because they don't think the aliens are all that smart or can fight back. But boy were they wrong. 

On the day that Katrina is ready to escape her horrible life on Tallia and board a ship back to Earth, the Kleaxians choose that day to attack the Earthlings on Tallia. But they also destroy the wormhole and the ship Katrina was about to board. Now she has no way to get back to Earth so she runs back to the man she was trying to escape, only the Kleaxians find the lab and kill all the men including the guy she was with. 

When Vonn spots her, he can smell the scientist's scent who killed his mate on her and mistakenly thinks she is the scientists mate. So he takes her as a mate in order to get revenge for his mate dying. She finds out later that the Kleaxians only killed the male humans and are keeping the females as slaves and mates. Vonn is very abusive to her and almost kills her. But one of the slaves next door tells his master what's going on and they save her. Not all the Kleaxians are as abusive and awful as Vonn was. And because of his actions, Vonn is killed. Katrina has time to heal and is told she won't be given to another mate for a year but then Vonn's brother comes to town and because of some cultural law, he is able to take Katrina as his mate. 

He's promised not to be abusive but Katrina doesn't trust him after the ordeal she's been through. I almost put this book down but I wanted to wait until Tavarr made an appearance to see what he was like and he ended up being a great hero. I loved him even though some of the customs of his people are really weird. Like the woman have to walk on leashes behind their mates. But Tavarr ends up making Katrina happy and they form the mate bond which she never had with Vonn. I realize that she's attracted to Tavarr and that makes being taken as his mate a little easier but it seemed like she would be more skittish and scared of him after what she had already endured by one of the aliens who just happened to be his brother. That was the only thing that gave me pause while I read this book. 

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars. 

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