Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Her Cold-Blooded Mercenary by Lea Linnett [Review]

Her Cold-Blooded Mercenary by Lea Linnett
Her Cold-Blooded Mercenary (Levekk Invaders #3) by Lea Linnett
Format: ebook
Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited
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Date read: January 1, 2020

Levek Invaders
1. Her Cold-Blooded Protector
2. Her Cold-Blooded Master
3. Her Cold-Blooded MercenaryKindle
4. Her Human Bodyguard

Lea Linnett
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Synopsis (Goodreads):
He’s a lover. She’s a fighter.

Taz has always fought; for herself as a child, for her sister as an adult, and for her people as a rebel. And the levekk—the aliens who invaded her planet centuries earlier—have always been her enemy.

So when her leader hires a levekk mercenary from off-planet, Taz knows she can’t trust him. It’s bad enough that he’s a mercenary, but with his wandering eyes and teasing tongue, it’s obvious he’s the worst kind of levekk: a tourist.

But there are humans missing from New Chicago, and Kamanek is the only one who’ll help her get them back. If she wants to keep fighting for her people, she might have to ask the very alien she should hate the most for help—one who makes her blood boil in more ways than one.



Kamanek is on the run and desperate—why else would he come to a fringe planet with such archaic laws about who he’s allowed to take to his bed? But CL-32 does have its perks…

And the fiery human who greeted him with a blade to the face might just be the greatest one. She’s as explosive as fireworks and hot enough to burn, but he’s been trained from childhood to keep his attachments skin-deep. Skin and scales can heal, after all.

But the feelings she awakens in him are dangerous—more dangerous than anything his life as a mercenary can throw at him—and if they run deep enough, they might just be fatal.
Thoughts on Her Cold-Blooded Mercenary: Forcing Taz to team up with a Levekk mercenary when she's practically the poster child for angry rebellion against the aliens who invaded and subjugated earth seems like cruel and unusual punishment. To be fair, Taz was on probation after what she did in the previous book, so mayyyybe it was meant as punishment, but Taz being Taz even managed to rebel against taking her punishment as punishment.

WHAT A LEGEND!

Seriously. The lady just can't stop fighting. She might be having doubts about how far and in what direction she's willing to take the fight against the invaders personally, but she just keeps pushing forward when she thinks it's the right thing to do.

Kamenek, however, throws all her preconceived notions about the Levekk as a whole on their head. He's not the brutal figure she expected for all he's a hired merc. He doesn't force or push her into anything she's not interested in. He's slyly funny and protective of those he thinks need his help (and of Taz in particular even though she DOESN'T need his help in that way) and all that works to let him creep inside her defenses and settle in.

The biggest obstacle as far as I could see for the two of them to get together was Taz's own stubbornness and her desire not to upset her sister by hooking up with one of their "enemies." (Spoiler: Not all alien invaders are the enemy. NOT AT ALL.)

I'm digging these cold-blooded aliens and the warm-blooded humans they find to complete them. AND...Niro. I want to see him score with a certain prickly human woman who seems like she might be changing her stance on the aliens who've invaded her planet.

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