Baby for the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips [Review]

Baby for the Alien Warrior (Treasured by the Alien #14) by Honey Phillips
Format: ebook
Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited
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Date read: November 17, 2025

Treasured by the Alien
1. Mama and the Alien Warrior
2. A Son for the Alien Warrior
3. Daughter of the Alien Warrior
4. A Family for the Alien Warrior
5. The Nanny and the Alien Warrior
6. A Home for the Alien Warrior
7. A Gift for the Alien Warrior
8. A Treasure for the Alien Warrior
9. Three Babies and the Alien Warrior
10. Sanctuary for the Alien Warrior
11. A Miracle for the Alien Warrior
12. Hope for the Alien Warrior
13. Legacy for the Alien Warrior
14. Baby for the Alien Warrior - Paperback | Kindle

Honey Phillips
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

A warrior with nothing left to give. A woman who’s lost too much. A miracle that changes everything.

Dr. Corinne Vale thought her life of quiet study ended the day she was abducted and sold across the stars. Now, she’s on the run with a traumatized teenage girl and a baby she risked everything to save. When she encounters Commander Selik, a huge Cire warrior with haunted eyes, she expects another cage. Instead she finds a hero.

Selik has done his best to bury the past and the family he failed to save. He doesn’t expect the fierce, beautiful human he rescues to awaken feelings he thought long dead. But when a night of shared grief leads to a moment of passion, the impossible happens.

Now Selik will risk everything for his fragile new family.

Because sometimes the most powerful bonds are the ones you never saw coming.

Thoughts on Baby for the Alien Warrior: We're back with another Cire warrior who's given up on ever finding happiness and BOY does he get hit in the feels. Selik is stoic, does his duty as he feels he must, and absolutely resigned to living out the rest of his life alone. After all, he had a mate and a child he lost to the Red Death and he's both grieving and convinced (thanks to the Cire council) that with no Cire females left, bonding again is out of the question.

GUESS WHAT? These human ladies change things for all the Cire warriors they meet and Corinne is no different. Selik is drawn to her from the first. The fact she's adopted a Cire infant (which is an impossibility according to what he's being told by the council) and is fiercely protective of her stepdaughter awakens something in him. That she would continue fighting when the odds are against her stirs him in ways he never expected to be stirred.

As for Corinne, she has a teenage stepdaughter and a baby depending on her. She doesn't have time for breaking down or giving up. That said, she's teetering on both the emotional and physical edge when Selik crosses her path and it's either trust this proud warrior or let the desert world they're stranded on swallow them.

No surprise, she chooses the warrior. And what an excellent choice it is. Selik is kind and patient and willing to give up everything to keep her family together.

A little danger, a baby who shouldn't exist, a new life on a distant world, a warrior who will defend his new family with everything inside him, and a lady who never expected to find love among the stars. *thumbs up*

RtP's Week in Review (03/22/26)

Reading the Paranormal's Week in Review

• Alien Orc for Christmas by Ursa Dax [Review] - Alien romance!
• Hot Monster Summer by J. Ever [Review] - Monster love!
• Healed by My Hyde by Honey Phillips [Review] - Back in Fairhaven!
• Hunted and Knotted by the Wolf by Imani Jay and Siena Stone [Review] - Wolfy love!
• Grim by Layla Fae [Review] - Monster love!
• Frankie's Funhouse by Beatrix Hallow [Review] - Animatronic love!

Bookish Delights

• Books added to the pile
• Nothing? OMG!
• Currently reading
• Gearing up to head out of town, so nothing at the moment!

Frankie's Funhouse by Beatrix Hallow [Review]

Frankie's Funhouse (Umbra Valley #0.5) by Beatrix Hallow
Format: ebook
Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited
Disclaimer: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
Date read: November 8, 2025

Umbra Valley
0.5. Frankie's Funhouse - Paperback | Kindle
1. Meet at Midnight

Beatrix Hallow
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

Desperation for cash has led me down a rainbow painted hallway to Frankie’s Funhouse—a children’s gambling casino. Or as my boss likes to call it, a pizza arcade.

The coworkers are strange, the patrons are disturbing, and the animatronics are possessed. Which I was willing to put up with until my boss died.

Well, he was murdered, actually.

Now I have to serve pizza and birthday cake while thinking about burning down the mall to hide a body for an animatronic that keeps hitting on me.

Drug dealings in the backrooms, puddles of blood seeping out from the storage closet, and parents threatening to talk to my (dead) boss if I don’t get their screaming kids' pizza was all manageable...

Until I realized I didn’t mind Frankie’s possessed tongue in my mouth.

Thoughts on Frankie's Funhouse: Going to be honest, a circa-1980's mall is already setting the stage for some serious carnage, so when a possessed animatronic gets thrown into the mix I just figure that ALL BETS ARE OFF. And I was right.

Ramona has taken a job that would probably steal the soul of anyone given enough time. Roller skates, rainbow booty shorts, and barely cooked pizza served to sugar-hyped kids (while their parents are busy getting busy in the back room). As if that's not enough, the animatronics are giving her the creeps. Well, one animatronic. And, umm, it might not actually be the creeps. I mean it is, but it maybe also isn't. Like, maybe she likes being chased by a possessed animatronic coyote who sing-songs her name while hunting her through the arcade.

But wait! That comes later. First, she has to get through her first shift (on her own, for the most part), deal with her now-deceased boss's body (yeah, things happen in those employee only rooms), and try to save the screaming kids from the bloodbath she's pretty sure is coming. You know, because of the possessed animatronic and the chainsaw it's wielding and all that.

A whole lot of creepy vibes (not all from the animatronics, thankyouverymuch), a little chase or two, way more blood than one would expect as a pizza arcade, an animatronic that wants to get its hands on Ramona, and a lady who just wanted an okay job, but ended up wearing rainbow booty shorts and finding out she might not mind the big metal creature stalking her through her work. Bloody, wacky, and pretty darn fun!

Grim by Layla Fae [Review]

Grim (Monster Ever After #2) by Layla Fae
Format: ebook
Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited
Disclaimer: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
Date read: October 24, 2025

Monster Ever After
1. Jack
2. Grim - Paperback | Kindle
3. Satan
4. Orc
5. Crow
6. Full Sack
7. Mr. Jingle
8. Bunny
9. Thick Beef
10. Jack 2

Layla Fae
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

When I’m hanging over a cliff and getting ready for death, the only way out is to promise the Grim Reaper anything he wants.
Because what’s a girl to do when her arms are going numb and she doesn’t want to become a pancake? Also, he is kind of gorgeous. I mean, apart from the terrifying skull he has instead of a head, his eye sockets filled with fire, his horns, and his prehensile tail.

When I fall to my death and Grim catches me to whisk me off to his lair, I am ready to look past the skull and the horns. But then, it turns out I’m not really saved. The only way for me to stay alive is to drink his essence. The essence that shoots out of the sinfully monstrous thing between his legs. Yup. That essence.

It tastes nothing like what I’ve expected.

Thoughts on Grim: Faced with an ignoble end, Beth does what anybody who's about to expire thanks to falling off a cliff while trying to help an abandoned goat would do. She tells her Grim Reaper she'll do anything to survive. He, quite naturally, sees this as a binding agreement and now Beth has to complete her side of the bargain since her Grim DID save her.

Well, he didn't actually save her. But she also isn't quite dead. And if she wants to keep being not dead, she needs to get a little physical with the dude who facilitated this. Which isn't as much as a hardship as one might think. Because her Grim? IS HOT.

He's also hot for Beth. In fact, binding the two of them together is kind of one of those things he's very happy to do.

A not so great trek up a mountain, a whirlwind seduction, a tasty surprise, a Grim who knows what he wants, and a lady who is willing to grab onto the best thing to happen to her with both hands. *thumbs up*

Hunted and Knotted by the Wolf by Imani Jay and Siena Stone [Review]

Hunted and Knotted by the Wolf (Knotty Fairytales #1) by Imani Jay and Siena Stone
Format: ebook
Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited
Disclaimer: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
Date read: November 11, 2025

Knotty Fairytales
1. Hunted and Knotted by the Wolf - Paperback | Kindle
2. Knotting Cinderella
3. Knotted by the Beast
4. Hunted & Knotted by the Minotaur King

Imani Jay
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Siena Stone
| Amazon |

Synopsis (Goodreads):

Red’s plan is to drop off treats at her grandmother’s cabin, and maybe catch a glimpse of the Wolf everyone’s warned her about. But she’s about to discover that some legends are dangerously real—and impossibly tempting.

The Wolf doesn’t just want to catch her…he wants to claim her.

One sniff of her scent, and this alpha’s primal instincts roar to life. This curvy girl is his fated mate, his omega, and he’s ready to chase her down, knot her tight, and show her exactly what it means to be caught by the big bad wolf.

Thoughts on Hunted and Knotted by the Wolf: I enjoyed this book overall, but I did think there was a lot of repetition in how often both Red and Wolf thought of how she'd been claimed and was his now. Like, I absolutely get that this is supposed to be primal and a deep, driving urge and maybe both of them were lost in the moment and what was happening, but there was a lot of how he had claimed her and marked her and was now his.

Did it detract from my overall enjoyment of the book? The repetition took me out of it a little because I kept focusing on how he'd thought this exact same thing two paragraphs before (or the chapter before or the page before, you get the point), but I'm really here for Red getting caught by a big, bad wolf and I was definitely given that. So did it detract? Minimally, I'd say although I did notice it. (and I also get that there are only so many variations on how someone can claim the other is theirs, so take this entire review with a grain of salt.)

Enjoyable and I'll likely see how Cinderella fares so *thumbs up*

Healed by My Hyde by Honey Phillips [Review]

Healed by My Hyde (Fairhaven Falls #8) by Honey Phillips
Format: ebook
Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited
Disclaimer: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
Date read: November 16, 2025

Fairhaven Falls
1. Trouble for My Troll
2. Fireworks for My Dragon Boss
3. Mistletoe for My Minotaur
4. Valentine for My Vampire
5. Gift for My Ghost
6. Wedding for My Werewolf
7. Kiss for My Kraken
8. Healed by My Hyde - Paperback | Kindle
8.5. The Botanist and the Beast
9. Brownies for My Grumpy Bunny
10. Guarded by My Gargoyle

Related books:
(Part of the Sweet Monster Treats series)
Cupcakes for My Orc Enemy
The Single Mom and the Orc
Protected by the Orc
Bidding on the Orc Outcast

Honey Phillips
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

He’s the one man in town she’s been warned about. So why does he feel like the only safe place to be?

Pregnant and seeking a quiet place to start over, Chloe arrives in Fairhaven Falls hoping for a peaceful sanctuary. What she finds is Dr. Victor Jackson—a male as handsome as he is rigidly controlled. The town whispers about the darkness he keeps locked away, but Chloe sees past his forbidding exterior to the lonely male beneath.

Victor has spent his life caging the beast within him. Every emotion is suppressed, every minute scheduled. But the gentle female with the sad eyes and warm heart is a temptation he can’t resist. Her touch threatens to awaken the possessive, primal instincts he has fought for so long.

One passionate, reckless night shatters his carefully built defenses, leaving Victor convinced he has to push Chloe away to keep her safe. But when a historic blizzard traps them together in her isolated cabin, the storm outside is nothing compared to the one raging within him. And when disaster strikes, the only thing that can save Chloe is the very beast she’s been told to fear—and his monster has already decided she belongs to him.

Thoughts on Healed by My Hyde: We're back in Fairhaven Falls and Dr. Victor Jackson is up. His special someone? Pregnant, independent (although maybe not entirely by choice) Chloe who's new to town, but who finds her groove pretty quickly. Partly thanks to Flora who sets her up with a job that suits her organizational skills perfectly.

Said job also gives her insight into Victor. By which I mean she's cataloging and organizing the town archives and she stumbles over (not literally) a journal written by one of his ancestors that helps Chloe understand the immense pressure Victor puts on himself to keep his monstrous side contained. TO BE CLEAR, Victor's Hyde isn't a monster. I mean, sure, he's a little feral and he'll do what needs to be done to protect those who need protecting, but he's not out of control like Victor fears.

Chloe see that immediately. It takes time and patience AND a wicked blizzard before she gets it through Victor's head that she's not afraid of his Hyde because she knows neither side of him would ever hurt her. Let's just say that the good doc has to learn to trust himself before things can really start moving forward with these two.

Some familiar faces, Flora doing some matchmaking (as she does), a big blizzard, a doctor who keeps himself rigidly regimented, and a lady who is willing to risk everything to give her baby the best life possible. *thumbs up*

Hot Monster Summer by J. Ever [Review]

Hot Monster Summer by J. Ever
Format: ebook
Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited
Disclaimer: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
Date read: November 12, 2025

Purchase Links: Paperback | Kindle

J. Ever
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

I planned for s’mores, sunburns, and a peaceful summer by the lake.

A little solo soul-searching. A few regretful texts to my ex. Maybe a hot summer rebound. Not, uh… monster custody battles over who gets to eat me first.

(Literally. Probably. Hopefully.)

Turns out the “quaint cabin” I rented? Yeah, it’s smack in the middle of monster territory claimed by:

• A Kraken shifter who collects vintage romance novels and thinks personal space is optional.
• A forest troll with arms like oak trees and the world’s most dangerous smile.
• A jealous Dire wolf shifter who claims I’m his mate.

I wanted time to wallow.

Instead, I got monsters fighting over who gets to roast marshmallows—and me—first.

Now my “healing girl summer” looks more like: one massive monster pile-on, three possessive idiots who don’t know how to share, and about a thousand ways this could end in very questionable decisions.

Surviving the summer might require a lot of sunscreen, a lot of bad choices… and maybe letting myself get a little bit ruined.

Welcome to my Hot Monster Summer.

Where the men are feral, the cuddles are aggressive, and the s’mores are definitely very sticky.

Thoughts on Hot Monster Summer: Lily's rented an isolated, lakeside cabin in an attempt to get over her ex-fiancé cheating on her with her sister. Which is already terrible and it's made even worse when the two cheaters expect her to be happy for them. Umm, no? But thanks for playing. So. To give herself some space to deal with her heartbreak (on two fronts), Lily is looking to be alone so she can grieve and move on.

Guuuuyyyys. Lily's not exactly alone at the cabin. There's a hunky kraken in the lake, a patient troll in the forest, and a possessive wolf patrolling his territory. And they ALL like how Lily makes them feel. The thing is, she's not even doing anything to entice them. She's just being herself, dealing with her heartbreak (which she gets over fairly quickly thanks to her monsters), and trying to remember how to be happy (which also happens faster than she expected thanks to [you guessed it] her monsters).

Each of her suitors helps her see the world around her in different ways. Each makes her feel special and adored. She honestly doesn't know how she could ever choose between them and GUESS WHAT? They might be okay if she doesn't choose, at all. And Lily? IS REALLY OKAY WITH THAT.

An isolated locale, a kraken with adventurous tentacles, a forest troll with deep magic, a wolf with a bit of a possessive bent, and a lady who likes all of them just the way they are. *thumbs up*