Destroyer by Anna Carven [Review]

Destroyer (Hidden Planet #1) by Anna Carven
Format: ebook
Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited
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Date read: August 26, 2018

Hidden Planet
1. Destroyer - Kindle
2. Catalyst

Anna Carven
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

A hair-raising ambush.
A malfunctioning ship.
A distant, uncharted part of the Universe.

Calexa Acura and her crew of misfits are lost, and their ship is in desperate need of repairs. When a massive spacecraft appears in their radius, they're helpless to resist its magnetic pull.

The terrifying ship is bigger than any craft she's seen in her life, and somehow, she doubts its occupants will turn out to be the friendly sort.

First Encounters are always better when they're amicable, but if necessary, Calexa and her crew will fight.

It's what they've always done.

Thoughts on Destroyer: A new group of honorable, fierce aliens who find humans (or at least one certain human) irresistible. Honestly, a lot of that irresistibility comes from their willingness to fight for what they believe in. And how they keep pushing even against impossible odds.

Humans, man. You gotta love 'em.

Simply put, Calexa is as human as a person can get. And by that, I mean she's spunky and doesn't back down from a fight and she listens to her gut when it tells her to do something. Even when the something it's telling her to do is to save the big, brooding, kinda scary alien dude from a horde of not-so-nice other aliens.

Ares, on the other hand, is very not human. Well, wait. He has the honorable thing going for him. So, there's that. I guess I'm trying to say he's even more inhuman than his cohorts since the living ship bonded to him and is busy doing some very weird things with his physiology. No worries, big guy. Everybody likes wings.

And a tail. *thumbs up to that*

As an aside, I'd like to point out I'm always excited to end up on a literary adventure aboard a (kind of) derelict space ship. Fill it with a few bloodthirsty aliens and I'm ALL IN. Basically, this book hit all my hot buttons (well, except for the amnesiac vampire thing, but I didn't really go into this book expecting that, so I'm cool. I'm cool. Oh, and I guess there wasn't an incident where our couple got snowed in and had to share body heat, but AGAIN...that's kinda a specific THANG I like so...where was I going with this? I have no idea.) so I'm coming away from it a very happy reader.