The Alien Warlord's Wild Ride by Kate Rudolph [Review]

The Alien Reindeer's Wild Ride (A Winter Starr #5) by Kate Rudolph
Format: ebook
Source: purchased

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Date read: December 28, 2019

A Winter Starr
1. The Alien's Winter Gift
2. Miracle of the Beast
3. Their Winter Miracle
4. Alien Warlord's Miracle
5. The Alien Reindeer's Wild Ride - Paperback | Kindle
6. The Alien Reindeer's Bounty
7. The Alien Reindeer's Joy
8. The Alien Reindeer's Redemption
9. The Alien Reindeer's Christmas Package
10. The Alien Reindeer's Escape
11. The Alien Reindeer's Winter Cabin
12. An Alien Reindeer's Christmas Miracle
13. An Alien Reindeer's Wish
14. An Alien Reindeer's Flight

Kate Rudolph
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

She’ll be home for Christmas… even if she has to steal a ship to get there!
Rowan has missed out on the last three big family holidays, and she’s determined not to miss another. Holiday travel is always a mess, and even worse when she needs to get from Mars to Minnesota. Every flight is booked through the New Year and things aren’t looking good. Until someone whispers the name Dashiel Blitz and gives her a bit of holiday hope.

He just wants to spread good cheer…
Dash makes a life shepherding sick children from planet to planet so they can be with their parents or get medical treatment. Rowan isn’t like his usual passengers, but his soul sings when they meet and he can’t say no. She’s on his ship for a ride, but he wants even more.

One tiny problem…
Dash isn’t just a pilot. He’s a reindeer shifter and he needs to keep that a secret if he wants to stay safe. But if Rowan is his mate she needs to know the truth. And when a delay in their trip threatens to strand her on the wrong side of Earth, he may have to reveal himself in the most dramatic way possible.

Could a determined human woman want an alien shifter for a mate? Or will their wild ride end with a crash and burn?

Thoughts on The Alien Reindeer's Wild Ride: So Ro is...uhh, sort of determined to get home in time for the holidays and she's...well, she's not terribly pushy about it, but she still kind of is at one point and I'm super happy Dash squashed her demands right off because No, Ro. The world doesn't revolve around you no matter how much you might think it does.

Except she ended up with a hunk of an alien reindeer for her pushiness, so maybe it DOES revolve around her. (I'm still glad Dash stuck to his guns about delivering the sick kid to her family, though.)

So. Rowan has a few issues of the family variety she needs to work through. She's a workaholic whose absentee father did a real number of her and her sister and she's in danger of falling into his patterns if she's not careful. Her sister's hurtful words on just that subject are sort of the push she needs to make a concentrated attempt to actually make it home like she said she would. Which, quite fortuitously, puts her in the orbit of Dash and his small ship.

One pint-sized intimacy-blocker keeps things chaste between them until they hand her off and can GET DOWN TO BUSINESS. Sexy times, yessssssss.

Alien reindeer shifters, man. It's such a weirdly fun idea.