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Date read: August 20, 2021
Mail-Order Brides of Crakair
1. Vork - Paperback | Kindle
2. Bryk - Paperback | Kindle
3. Jorg - Paperback | Kindle
4. Kral - Paperback | Kindle
5. Wulf - Paperback | Kindle
6. Lyel - Paperback | Kindle
7. Axil - Kindle
Mail-Order Brides of Crakair - Kindle
Ava Ross
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Synopsis (Goodreads):
He’s cocky, seven-feet-tall, scaly, and green.Thoughts on Vork:Hoo-boy! Human mail-order brides in a strange new world! I do enjoy how befuddled they get when aspects of their new honey's culture get revealed (because these human women are NEVER given the whole picture and there's ALWAYS something to shock and awe them). I also enjoy how quick they are to try to adapt to said new cultures. Sometimes with hilarious results.
She’s been burned in the past.
Can an alien and human woman find true love together?
Burned by an ex, the last thing Evie wants is a husband, especially a seven-foot-tall, scaled, green-skinned alien. But when she applies to the Extraterrestrial Matchmaking Service on a dare, she’s paired with Vork. He’s big and dangerous, and he hits all her buttons. Passion sparks between them, but does she dare trust this sexy alien with her heart?
As a career spacefleet commander, the last thing Vork has time for is a mate. But after a mix-up, he’s matched with a human female. He decides he’ll produce a child with her, and then get back to his life in the stars. Until he touches Evie and a matebond flares on his palm. When a rival warlord challenges Vork and Evie is the prize, Vork will have to decide: Give Evie up or battle to the death to claim her as his bride.
This time around, Evie accidentally gets her dude embroiled in a vengeance fight. Whoops. She also sort of hijacks his courting and jumps straight to the good stuff. Because human ladies go after what they want, amirite?!?!
Fun, sexy, and out of this world!
Synopsis (Goodreads):
Will a hot-blooded, seven-foot-tall, scaly green alien meet his match in a feisty woman from Earth?Thoughts on Bryk: Vork's friend (and the dude who always has his back), Bryk has entered the Selection and now has Evie's BFF as his intended. Things move quickly for Bryk and Sadie. As in, they do the matebond lightshow thing with their hands after their first meeting. Which is good, but also a little scary for two people who have both lost their significant others in the past.
After losing her husband, Sadie is afraid of getting her heart broken again. On a dare, she signs up for the Extraterrestrial Matchmaking Service, and she's paired with Bryk, a seven foot tall, scaled alien from a distant world. At their first touch, a gleaming symbol appears on her palm. Bryk tells her it's a matebond, and she's his destined mate. He makes her pulse sing, but does she dare take a chance with someone new?
When Bryk applies for the Selection, he's matched with Sadie. At their first meet-up, his matebond ignites and now he'll do anything he can to win her heart. But Sadie has been hurt in the past and is afraid to trust. Refusing to admit defeat, Bryk talks her into giving him seven days to convince her she wants to stay. Bryk will need to pull out every Crakairian trick he can think of to win her heart.
Can two very different souls find love with each other on a planet far from Earth?
But what the matebond wants, the matebond gets. Or something like that. Let's just say that these two dive into courting (bypassing a few of the courting signposts along the way), have fun in the wilderness, and get embroiled in a kidnapping attempt. The good news? All the danger and excitement cement their bond in the best possible way.
Onto book 3!
Synopsis (Goodreads):
Can a scarred alien warrior and a human woman find love together on a planet far from Earth?Thoughts on Jorg: It's Lily and Jorg's turn to find their happiness and...well, things get off to an unconventional start. Mostly because Jorg gets bit by the love bug (read: matebond) before ever meeting Lily in person and just can't stop himself from seeking her out while she's still on her way to the planet. Things work nicely there AND THEN pirates (or whatever they are) attack and suddenly Lily is being held captive!
When animal shelter assistant Lily is selected as a mail-order bride in the Extraterrestrial Matchmaking Program, she dreams of starting a new life with her computer-matched alien groom. But on the way to Crakair, she’s kidnapped and caged on one of the planet’s moons. Her future appears hopeless.
A mercenary, Jorg’s a seven-foot-tall, scaled green alien with scars on his face that make others flinch. Abandoned as a youngling and forced to raise himself, he’s learned not to expect much from others. He finds satisfaction in rescuing kids who have been stolen and returning them to their homes. But when he watches Lily’s introduction video, his matebond ignites. Maybe fate will give him a chance at love after all.
Then Lily is stolen by other aliens. With his blood rage igniting, Jorg’s determined to rescue her. But once he does, will she choose to stay with a wounded alien warrior or return to her safe life on Earth?
No worries, though, because Jorg is up to a quick rescue. Which isn't to say Lily doesn't pull her weight during said rescue. Because she does. She's making friends in odd places and those friendships come in handy when she and Jorg (and their tagalong friends) need it most.
I'm enjoying this series! Much fun!
Synopsis (Goodreads):
A stoic Vikir warrior meets his match in a spunky Earth woman determined to show him what he's been missing.Thoughts on Kral: It's Mila and Kral's turn to find their matebonds and do the mating thing. Mila, the 2nd of the lady-napped humans who were on their way to meet their intendeds when things went sideways, has managed to free herself from her captors, but she's stuck on their space station with no way off. She's on the run and hiding as best she can, but things aren't looking too great for this human.
After she's kidnapped on her way to Crakair, Mila's not sure she'll ever meet her arranged mail-order alien match. Until Kral falls--literally--on top of her during his heroic rescue mission. Who wouldn't be attracted to a gruff, scaly green alien doing all he can to save her from the bad guys? But with space stations and ships exploding around them, it soon becomes clear someone is determined to make sure she and Kral don't reach Crakair.
Kral has settled into his role as Kral the enforcer and Kral the loner, the person he had to become after his father was murdered and he was forced to assume leadership of his clan. He signs up for the Selection, never expecting to develop feelings for his Earthling female match. Despite the danger they're in, she makes him laugh and shows him that life doesn't always have to be serious. But with an enemy chasing them across the galaxy, Kral will have to tap his Vikir warrior skills to protect his Earthling bride.
Then Kral puts in an appearance (kind of literally since he basically beams into her hidey hole) and suddenly her terrible chances of survival are looking up! YAY! Let the sexy times commence!
And they do commence. Because both Mila and Kral are feeling the matebond and HOO-BOY DO THEY WANT TO GET BUSY WITH ONE ANOTHER!
New (somewhat dangerous) friends, enemies practically crawling out of the woodwork (or space station siding), sexy-time customs, and steamy kisses that lead to other things. *thumbs up*
Synopsis (Goodreads):
He’s a rough Vikir warrior. She’s a mostly proper librarian. Can an Earthling woman and a green-scaled alien find love together in the stars?Thoughts on Wulf: Wulf and Taylor get their chance at a HEA and their courting is chock full of a dangerous planet that would probably devour them both whole if it could get away with it. I mean, this planet has person-eating plants and person-eating animals and aliens who are VERY NOT NICE. On the plus side, it also has some kindly (yet dangerous in their own right) glowing aliens who strongly believe in repaying debts.
After she’s kidnapped by blue-skinned aliens, Taylor escapes and bails from an alien space station in a shuttle she has no clue how to drive. She crash lands on a nearby planet made up mostly of jungle. Once she finds her way off the planet, she’s determined to return to Earth. Until Wulf, her Crakairian “mate” comes to her rescue. He says he won’t fight her if she wants to return home, but that doesn’t stop him from trying to change her mind. He’s gruff and scaly and much too appealing. And his kisses? If she could keep her hands off him, she might be able to think straight. But with jungle creatures trying to eat them, going home might not be an option.
As head of his Vikir clan’s warrior regiment, Wulf is scarred and unrefined, the exact opposite of his sweet female mate who speaks in a sophisticated manner and loves books. When she tells him she’s thinking of returning to Earth, he decides to show her what she’ll be missing, even if he can only do this in a rough and bumbling way. But with jungle creatures hunting them, their biggest challenge will be escaping the planet.
While Wulf's courting was a little unorthodox (he improvised in allllll the right places, if you know what I mean), he did his thing while getting Taylor to safety. Which is exactly the thing to do, by my reckoning. *thumbs up*
Synopsis (Goodreads):
An alien warrior seeking redemption meets a captured Earth woman being treated as a pet. Will their love survive in a hostile world?Thoughts on Lyel: It's Lyel's turn to find his special someone and he's...well, because of his father's pooh-headedness, he thinks he's unworthy of a mate. Which doesn't stop his matebond from forming the moment he hears Isi sing, but it still takes a while for him to come to accept that he's not a failure and he IS worthy of finding his happiness.
Kidnapped by four-armed, blue skinned aliens, Isabelle "Isi" is sold to the head of the Al'kieern kidnapping operation. Isi has accepted she'll live and die as a songbird pet to the queen. If nothing else, performing for the Al'kieern beats being sold as a breeder. But a Crakairian warlord storms the Al'kieern compound, determined to destroy everything and everyone in his wake. When he's captured, Isi offers to free him if he helps her get away.
Scorned by Crakairian society after his father tried to murder a respected military commander, Lyel is willing to die to redeem his family name. He takes on a suicide mission to destroy the Al'kieern kidnapping operation on the moon, Mara. But as he's about to blow the place to heille, he sees Isi. As she sings, a symbol appears on his palm, telling him she's his destined mate. He'll do anything to free her, but to escape, they must cross a grueling wasteland filled with deadly traps and the Al'kieern hot on their heels. Will their growing love survive this challenge?
On Isi's end, she's the not-so-pampered pet of a self-styled alien queen and she's pretty much hating every minute of her captivity. Lyel's appearance in the compound gives her a chance to escape and then things go catastrophically sideways. Suddenly the two of them are battling for their lives and falling into serious like as they work on escaping the danger they're in.
Am I digging these aliens and their sexy courtship rituals? Indeed I am. And it looks like there's a whole slew of NEW aliens waiting in the wings. Yesssssss!
Synopsis (Goodreads):
2 Companion Novellas in the Mail-Order Brides of Crakair SeriesThoughts on Axil: We'd met Axil and Julia and Gaje and Thea in the previous books and, well, this is how it started for them. A little case of mistaken identity (on Julia and Thea's parts) and two aliens who knew what they wanted the moment they laid eyes on the ladies.
An alien prince. A spunky Earth woman. Can they find love together in the stars?
En route to meeting her alien fiancé for the first time, Julia gets lost inside the lower corridors of the alien starship. When she slams into a grease-spattered alien and he grabs her, she does what any self-respecting Earth girl would do--she stabs him. He flings her over her his shoulder, hauls her to his room, and kisses her.
No puny Earth female should dare to assault Axil, yet this one challenges him at every turn. He wants her, and he'll do whatever he can to win her. When she signals for him to kiss her, what's a hot-blooded alien to do? He captures her mouth with his own.
An Earth woman and an alien prince collide on a starship bound for the planet, Crakair. Will the seven-foot-tall, scaly alien warrior release her or claim her as his bride?
Axil is a novella in the Mail-Order Brides of Crakair Series. This standalone romance has on-the-page romance, aliens who look and act alien, a guaranteed happily ever after, no cheating, and no cliffhanger.
This book also contains Gaje, a short story in the series.
Axil and Julia have a rollicking good time getting to know one another on Axil's personal shuttle. A unexpected event lands them on Mara (the moon with the not-so-great reputation) and soon they're battling beasties and running from slavers. (No worries, it all works out in the end and these two do the matebond thing just like you'd expect them to!)
Meanwhile, Gaje and Thea are on their own adventure involving lots of courtship and a rogue meteor. You know, I like an alien who can improvise. And Gaje hits all the high notes of courtship before they get down to the good stuff.
Did I enjoy this series? I sure did! Fun, sexy, and PLENTY of alien hunks. Nice.
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