Thursday, March 11, 2021

The Lonely Orphan by K. Webster and Nicole Blanchard [Review]

The Lonely Orphan by K. Webster and Nicole Blanchard
The Lonely Orphan (Lost Planet #5) by K. Webster and Nicole Blanchard
Format: ebook
Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited
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Date read: January 20, 2020

The Lost Planet
1. The Forgotten Commander
2. The Vanished Specialist
3. The Mad Lieutenant
4. The Uncertain Scientist
5. The Lonely OrphanPaperback | Kindle
6. The Rogue Captain
7. The Determined Hero
8. The Arrogant Genius
9. The Runaway Alien

K. Webster
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Nicole Blanchard
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Synopsis (Goodreads):
Our planet has hope.
Still decaying and barely inhabitable, but ours.
With the arrival of the females, we’re no longer lonely.

Well, some of us aren’t.

For the rest, we ache for what they have.
Peace. Happiness. Love.
But where the other unmatched Morts want a mate to call their own, I’m different.

Life cruelly made me fall for the one person I’m not allowed to have.
Bitterness and jealousy are my mates now.
I’ve resigned myself to the fact that I will always be alone.

Until my commander sends me on a mission to rescue someone very important to his mate—her sister.
A woman so different. So imperfect. So maddeningly defiant. Someone I have no interest in whatsoever.

This feral female will never own my heart.
Or so I thought.
Love always has a plan of its own.
Thoughts on The Lonely Orphan: Hadrian's puppy-doggish devotion to Aria has always been sort of sweet to watch. Until, you know, you see it through his eyes. Then it's kind of sad. Because he really does have feelings (or so he thinks) for his commander's mate and he knows it's never going to go anywhere because Aria's as devoted to Breccan as Breccan is to Aria.

As it turns out, his (mild) obsession with Aria had more to do with her relationship to his actual mate than any actual romantic feelings he had for her (in my opinion, at least). Because once he meets Lyric, he starts to get the feels for her. In a BIG way. She might be prickly and snarly, but she lights him up something fierce.

As for Lyric, she's done some crazy things in her quest to find Aria. Getting herself incarcerated in the prison on old Earth is pretty desperate, but helping lead a revolution to take the prison from the guards takes the cake. Considering how little she and her fellow former inmates know about the planet they're now on, they were lucky they didn't run into problems before the morts arrived.

Which brings me around to the issue Hadrian and the others have to deal with...illness on Mortuus is no laughing matter. The morts quick thinking and their past experience with the sickness is the only thing that keeps a bad situation from getting even worse.

I'm hardcore digging these morts and their world and all the crazy they have to deal with on a day-to-day basis. Finding the prison has opened up even more chances for the formerly doomed morts and their special lady friends and I am HERE for that.

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