Erun by Erin Tate [Review]

Erun (The Ujal #4) by Erin Tate
Format: ebook
Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited
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Date read: October 30, 2018

The Ujal
1. Vados
2. Tave
3. Rhal
4. Erun - Paperback | Kindle
5. Dashing Through the Stars

Erin Tate (aka Celia Kyle)
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

He’s an Ujal who knows he’ll never have a mate. She’s a human who doesn’t want to take another chance on love. One small child doesn’t give them a choice.

With her toddler in tow, Vanessa Walker travels to Tampa, Florida to begin her new job at Ujal Station Tau. Then problems arise—her daughter is ill, and a sexy, demanding, overwhelming, purple-scaled Ujal is determined to do whatever he can to save Tabitha. When they realize Tabby isn’t ill, she’s Ujal, plenty of people don’t want Vanessa raising her newly tail-sporting alien daughter. Ujal royalty may support her, but only one person—one Ujal male—makes her feel safe: Erun fa Arex.

Erun fa Arex earned his position through blood, sweat, and scales with a trident as his constant companion. On Earth, he is the captain of the principessa’s elite guard, a worthy Ujal warrior matched by few. On Ujal, he grew up as a child slave forced to fight for sport and others’ pleasure. Fighting left physical and mental scars while the master’s growth-hormone injections left him unable to father younglings.

Erun never considered mating and having a family of his own until he meets Vanessa and Tabitha. Now he realizes everything he rejected—a mate and family—is exactly what he desires. And he will fight to keep them… to the death.

Thoughts on Erun: I think this is my favorite book in this series. Erun was just so...I don't know. I liked him. He was a little damaged and a lot angry (at first) and he made some snap judgments about Vanessa before seeing the whole picture and yet everything he did made perfect sense to me. Given his past, he was quick to jump to the defense of a vulnerable child and I LIKED that.

I liked it a lot.

I liked Vanessa, too. She had more than her fair share of issues to deal with and Erun's obvious disdain for her parenting when they first met stung her. Badly. The shock of her daughter's surprise transformation was the cherry on top. Throw in a little danger and a few close calls and suddenly Erun is the only one she trusts to protect them.

Like I said, probably my favorite of the series. The Ujal males are still dangerous and part-feral, but they're taking on a few human characteristics that work for me. *thumbs up*