A Bride Worth Fighting For by Tracy Lauren [Review]

A Bride Worth Fighting For by Tracy Lauren
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Date read: January 5, 2021

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Alien
(Find all the books in this related series on the 1st review)
1. Alien Instinct

Tracy Lauren
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

Abducted by aliens, Evie thinks the only thing she has to strive for in her hellish new life is survival. Dragged halfway across the galaxy to the newly colonized farming world of Ipoch, she’s intended to be awarded as a prize to the winner of a barbaric gladiator fight. She hopes the champion isn’t cruel, she hopes he doesn’t have the capacity to harm her, but never once, does she hope to fall in love.

Serif is done with fighting. He’s done with the threat it poses to his people. When he sees the beautiful Evie, however—there’s no turning back. He’ll agree to one last tournament to save the girl, and when he wins she’ll belong to him. Because this is more than just a battle, he soon realizes. This time, Serif is FIGHTING FOR HIS BRIDE.

Thoughts on A Bride Worth Fighting For: Brides, man. Some alien cultures (specifically Serif's culture) consider taking a Bride as a stepping stone to taking a permanent mate. It's more like dating for them, not marriage as humans know it. And these aliens tend to skip the step where they explain that to the human they'd claimed. Which leads to some misunderstandings sometimes of an epic nature.

For Evie, she's been abducted, imprisoned, and told she's going to go as a prize to whoever wins the upcoming tournament. Since passivity has kept her alive up to now, she rolls with it. Sure, she's terrified, but she's doing whatever she needs to do to stay alive and that means not fighting against what happens to her.

Fortunately for her, Serif is an upstanding dude. Sure, he doesn't explain the whole "Bride" thing to Evie, but most other alien cultures seem to understand it already so I do get that. (Still, a little explaining would go a long way, wouldn't it?) Once the bumps in the road regarding that get straightened out, it's just a matter of Serif winning his bout against a guy who's bigger and potentially meaner than him so he can claim Evie permanently.

A little danger, a little steam, and a little possessiveness from Serif when it comes to keeping his human honey safe. *thumbs up*