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Alien Gladiator's Mate: A Sci-Fi Alien Romance, Celestial Mates
Can these two mates live in together in harmony?
Carina is tired of working hard with manual labor to help serve the now broken down Earth's society. She wants to have new experiences. She knows the only way off the planet is through Celestial Mates, the mail order bride service, so she decides to sign up.
She finally gets selected and gets picked up by a spaceship to take her to her new life. Little does she know, one of her friends who has always had a crush on her, climbs aboard the spaceship as a blind passenger since he doesn't want to lose her. But he's captured and sold as a slave for the gladiator arena for the aliens.
Gar'zul was once the commanding warrior officer in the Delgar forces. But when his own family is killed in family fire, he decides to leave the force and become a gladiator in the interstellar fighting arena.
He misses his family and since he can never get his own family back he decides to create one of his own. Though he has no intentions of looking for someone himself. So he decides to go through Celestial Mates to find him a human wife from Earth.
Carina needs to figure things out with her new mate, the big blue warrior, Gar'zul. Getting adjusted to the new life in the new world isn't easy.
Will Gar'zul be able to get along with Carina enough to keep her as his mate and wife? Will Carina be able to tolerate her mate's career choice? Will she be able to save her friend from his likely death inside the arena?
Alien Gladiator's Mate is part of the Celestial Mates series and is a standalone, full-length science fiction romance novel. There are no cliffhangers, no cheating, and a guaranteed happy ending!
Carina is tired of working hard with manual labor to help serve the now broken down Earth's society. She wants to have new experiences. She knows the only way off the planet is through Celestial Mates, the mail order bride service, so she decides to sign up.
She finally gets selected and gets picked up by a spaceship to take her to her new life. Little does she know, one of her friends who has always had a crush on her, climbs aboard the spaceship as a blind passenger since he doesn't want to lose her. But he's captured and sold as a slave for the gladiator arena for the aliens.
Gar'zul was once the commanding warrior officer in the Delgar forces. But when his own family is killed in family fire, he decides to leave the force and become a gladiator in the interstellar fighting arena.
He misses his family and since he can never get his own family back he decides to create one of his own. Though he has no intentions of looking for someone himself. So he decides to go through Celestial Mates to find him a human wife from Earth.
Carina needs to figure things out with her new mate, the big blue warrior, Gar'zul. Getting adjusted to the new life in the new world isn't easy.
Will Gar'zul be able to get along with Carina enough to keep her as his mate and wife? Will Carina be able to tolerate her mate's career choice? Will she be able to save her friend from his likely death inside the arena?
Alien Gladiator's Mate is part of the Celestial Mates series and is a standalone, full-length science fiction romance novel. There are no cliffhangers, no cheating, and a guaranteed happy ending!
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April 16, 2019
***1.0 "Embarrassingly Horrible!!!" Stars
Some of my brain cells imploded while reading this mess.
I can't comprehend how this crap has a 3.4 star rating?
Writing is so elementary. There was no plot. The characters were stupid, unlikable, and their actions had zero logic.
There was no world building or character development. The sex scenes were freaking odd as hell, not sexy and one scene was just gross!
I don't understand the 4 and 5 star ratings or how this book was ever published!
Some of my brain cells imploded while reading this mess.
I can't comprehend how this crap has a 3.4 star rating?
Writing is so elementary. There was no plot. The characters were stupid, unlikable, and their actions had zero logic.
There was no world building or character development. The sex scenes were freaking odd as hell, not sexy and one scene was just gross!
I don't understand the 4 and 5 star ratings or how this book was ever published!
June 19, 2018
Seriously might be one of the worst books I ever tried to read! I did not finish. It was so horrible. The heroine was absolutely awful. There was zero chemistry. This author should just stop if she thinks this is at all enjoyable to read.
July 15, 2018
Quit at 37%
Ok first chapter confused me...in book one the warrior king is the main character but in the end of the book it made it seem there was peace in the territory and the king is promoting equality. Now move on to this book and you have warriors storming an enemy ship, all kinds of people die, they make it to the bridge and find out the whole thing was a diversion so the government (aka the king from the last book) could raid their territory and kill every man, woman, and child so they can kill the “rebels.” Seriously WTF! There is no way the king would condone the mass murder of women and children! Ok, trying to over look this and moving on...
Story moves on, 3 years later, girl is slave in the mines, she’s kind meek and scared from getting beat all the time; understandable. She gets out by becoming a bride, warrior turn gladiator gets her, skip ahead 3 weeks and all of a sudden girl is acting like a privileged brat screaming at the husband about how she’s hungry and she won’t clean and why are you late...what the what? Ok, I get you grew up in slavery and all of this is new but how the hell did you suddenly turn into this? Getting very frustrated and this point...moving on.
Skip another week and blue dude confesses to fellow fighter about what a bitch the girl is and what advice does this married man give? Just rough her up a bit, you know they really only act like that because they want you to smack them around and basically rape them. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK! NO! NO! FUCK NO! I’m done. I’m soooo done!
Ok first chapter confused me...in book one the warrior king is the main character but in the end of the book it made it seem there was peace in the territory and the king is promoting equality. Now move on to this book and you have warriors storming an enemy ship, all kinds of people die, they make it to the bridge and find out the whole thing was a diversion so the government (aka the king from the last book) could raid their territory and kill every man, woman, and child so they can kill the “rebels.” Seriously WTF! There is no way the king would condone the mass murder of women and children! Ok, trying to over look this and moving on...
Story moves on, 3 years later, girl is slave in the mines, she’s kind meek and scared from getting beat all the time; understandable. She gets out by becoming a bride, warrior turn gladiator gets her, skip ahead 3 weeks and all of a sudden girl is acting like a privileged brat screaming at the husband about how she’s hungry and she won’t clean and why are you late...what the what? Ok, I get you grew up in slavery and all of this is new but how the hell did you suddenly turn into this? Getting very frustrated and this point...moving on.
Skip another week and blue dude confesses to fellow fighter about what a bitch the girl is and what advice does this married man give? Just rough her up a bit, you know they really only act like that because they want you to smack them around and basically rape them. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK! NO! NO! FUCK NO! I’m done. I’m soooo done!
April 1, 2023
The story was just okay it had a few highlights
June 23, 2017
The absolutely worse book I have ever read. First he abandoned his homeland after someone told him his family is dead..not, let's go make sure this guy isn't lying!! Then the former slave heroine becomes a diva overnight! THEN he starts treating her like shit...and she likes it!!! Third book I have read by this author and third disappointment, time to stop reading her.
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June 5, 2017
I lost so many iq points trying to make it through this garbage. Ugh.
July 12, 2018
There wasn't much to like about this story or the characters, at least for me. Tragic backstories are supposed to lead to overcoming the emotional pain, not doing everything in your power to cause pain to others. The author seems to take great joy in bloodshed, so much that the couple make love covered in blood. Carina vacillated between a whining harpy and a bloodthirsty submissive, and Gar'zul is both a thoughtless killer and a cowed boyfriend. I didn't find either of them particularly likeable, nor did I think their relationship made any sense. There's no way this fits into the Celestial Mates series.
May 26, 2017
Dumb
Out of all the books in this series, this one is just dumb. No plot, no story line, just slapped together to make enough words for a book. Plus it's not even a full book, I am tired of authors dumping a short story at the end of a book. If you can't write a full story then say it's a novella!
Out of all the books in this series, this one is just dumb. No plot, no story line, just slapped together to make enough words for a book. Plus it's not even a full book, I am tired of authors dumping a short story at the end of a book. If you can't write a full story then say it's a novella!
February 10, 2020
I was really disappointed in this one, I just could not like the H/h in this story. Our gladiator was just so wishy-washy and the h was a spoiled little brat after she gets out of the mine. And Marco goes from being whining, to cunning, to stupid and I think he got the best HEA of the story.
January 27, 2022
I am very confused...The book started out ok. Not a lot of backstory for the aliens. it was glossed over that their home was destroyed so they had to migrate somewhere else (but they just kind of took someone's word for it and didn't care to confirm or anything which was odd), but i was interested in the h because she seemed to have a lot to overcome and of course a big gladiator would have been an interesting story if it was done right. I expected them to relate over their past hardships.
When the h enrolls to be a mail order bride and is purchased by the H, i was excited to see their dynamic ...and then she COMPLETELY does a 180 and becomes a stuck up brat that is easy to hate. You'd think she'd be thankful being a former abused slave. Then she gets married to this alien guy and becomes a total diva? She complains about EVERYTHING. About house work. About food (which you'd think she would be ok with since she was half starved her whole life and had nothing) it was so confusing and so off putting. And then the H switches gears, too. From the first time he saw her, all he said was she was pretty. Then he likes her bratty attitude and says it's feisty? Awkward! And he mentions he doesn't care about sex. that he just wants to be her friend first. And then shortly after gets so sexually frustrated that he comes in all growly and demanding and she just submits. Her personality just BOUNCED ALL OVER. There was just NO consistency or real story. It just didn't make sense.
When the h enrolls to be a mail order bride and is purchased by the H, i was excited to see their dynamic ...and then she COMPLETELY does a 180 and becomes a stuck up brat that is easy to hate. You'd think she'd be thankful being a former abused slave. Then she gets married to this alien guy and becomes a total diva? She complains about EVERYTHING. About house work. About food (which you'd think she would be ok with since she was half starved her whole life and had nothing) it was so confusing and so off putting. And then the H switches gears, too. From the first time he saw her, all he said was she was pretty. Then he likes her bratty attitude and says it's feisty? Awkward! And he mentions he doesn't care about sex. that he just wants to be her friend first. And then shortly after gets so sexually frustrated that he comes in all growly and demanding and she just submits. Her personality just BOUNCED ALL OVER. There was just NO consistency or real story. It just didn't make sense.
November 17, 2017
Help--I've been laughing so hard, I've fallen and I can't get up! Of course, that's the point, if you've been looking at the Celestial Mates titles. They're engineered to make you laugh.
These short, easy-reading bits of tomfoolery are meant to entertain, and indeed they do, if you'll cast aside your prejudices against silliness and lack of serious message. They don't involve any science, expose any of our planet's moral issues, or make us do anything but enjoy ouselves. Well, there is the matter of some hot sex, but as I said, you have to keep an open mind--especially about procreation between the species.
Fast and mostly funny, these stories are a gift to us from some very generous authors. Consider them your secret Santas--we'll probably never know who they really are.
But what I want to know now is just what is Celestial Mates and where do I sign up? No, I don't want to marry an alien--already got one. What I'd like to do is try writing one of these stories myself, only I don't know where to go to get the fancy, curlicued book cover.
Anyway, have a nice holiday season and don't overtax your brain. Take two (or more) of these and see if they don't help.
These short, easy-reading bits of tomfoolery are meant to entertain, and indeed they do, if you'll cast aside your prejudices against silliness and lack of serious message. They don't involve any science, expose any of our planet's moral issues, or make us do anything but enjoy ouselves. Well, there is the matter of some hot sex, but as I said, you have to keep an open mind--especially about procreation between the species.
Fast and mostly funny, these stories are a gift to us from some very generous authors. Consider them your secret Santas--we'll probably never know who they really are.
But what I want to know now is just what is Celestial Mates and where do I sign up? No, I don't want to marry an alien--already got one. What I'd like to do is try writing one of these stories myself, only I don't know where to go to get the fancy, curlicued book cover.
Anyway, have a nice holiday season and don't overtax your brain. Take two (or more) of these and see if they don't help.
May 8, 2017
Another book in the Celestial Mates series and I enjoyed reading this one, it was a little bit different than the other books in this series and I feel this is what draws me into reading each book. It is Carina and Gar’zul 's I found myself laughing as these two tried to make their lives work.I am now going to see if there is a new book out in this series.
July 26, 2018
Not a bad book I enjoyed Carina and Gar’zuls story about two people fighting for their lives the best way they know how and along the way fall in love again and for the first time and the ups and downs that they went through made them so much stronger as a couple and weak in someways but all in all I liked this book a lot.
May 16, 2017
A Good Read
It may take awhile for the story to pick up but once it does you can't put it down. You will cheer for Gar'zul champion status as you will root for Carina staying with him.
It may take awhile for the story to pick up but once it does you can't put it down. You will cheer for Gar'zul champion status as you will root for Carina staying with him.
August 29, 2017
This story was just blah. Something to pass the time. I've read and listen to other books in the series and their pretty good. So don't let my review this book stop you from grabbing others in the series.
-reviewer @ My Book Obsession
October 26, 2018
Champion
Corona finally found a way of the mines. Celestial Mates found her a gladiator of her own. Gur found a reason to live again. They had to find each other. This is a story about love and compromise. Adult theme.
Corona finally found a way of the mines. Celestial Mates found her a gladiator of her own. Gur found a reason to live again. They had to find each other. This is a story about love and compromise. Adult theme.
February 24, 2021
3.5 star
The story states out good. Then the middle comes in. I don't like Carina. It feels like she gets sex and that fixes her relationship. There just didn't seem like good chemistry with Carina and Gar. Also the ending was just blah. Not my favorite book by this author.
The story states out good. Then the middle comes in. I don't like Carina. It feels like she gets sex and that fixes her relationship. There just didn't seem like good chemistry with Carina and Gar. Also the ending was just blah. Not my favorite book by this author.
March 9, 2025
I DNFed this book about 15-20 mins in, plot & dialog were that bad. Also it was AI narrated and it was so bad. When you have a not great book to start and then add a monotone AI voice to it you lose readers, why are they still trying to do AI narration anyways its always bad
May 5, 2017
An Intriguing Read
It's a great story for those who love paranormal romance? The storyline is exciting and keeps your attention. The characters are awesome and hope to see more.
It's a great story for those who love paranormal romance? The storyline is exciting and keeps your attention. The characters are awesome and hope to see more.
July 25, 2017
Good book.
I really enjoyed reading this book.. I couldn't put it down. .off to read the next book in this series.
I really enjoyed reading this book.. I couldn't put it down. .off to read the next book in this series.
July 30, 2018
Great read to the end.
May 16, 2019
Ok
It was ok. Honestly the characters were horrible. The main female was whiny, mean and just ignorant about her friend. Not the best book.
It was ok. Honestly the characters were horrible. The main female was whiny, mean and just ignorant about her friend. Not the best book.
July 4, 2019
I think a few of my brain cells died while reading this.
August 17, 2020
Apparently I liked this story enough to listen to it twice on Hoopla, LOL. I did like it.
April 30, 2022
ridiculous story
I did not like this book. Bad storyline, characters badly developed, too much unnecessary violence. I don’t recommend it to anyone.
I did not like this book. Bad storyline, characters badly developed, too much unnecessary violence. I don’t recommend it to anyone.
May 29, 2024
I tried, i really tried but I couldn't finish. I usually don't listen to the review and see things for myself. There was no chemistry between Garzul and Carina. The story is too shallow.
April 12, 2025
Misogynistic.... That’s all you need to know
June 30, 2025
horrible, maybe one of the worst books ever.
maybe-later
January 17, 2022Yeesh.
Looking for some sexy times time between an alien and human in a short audible format.
Instead, in chapter one I get death, murder, slavery, child slavery, back whipping, a slaughtered village, wives and children murdered, children orphaned as parents are murdered before their eyes.
Um… buzz kill.
So, even when these two crazy kids get together you know they are going to have to process all that crap. No thanks.
I don’t think this book belongs in the “Celestial Mates” series.
DNF
Looking for some sexy times time between an alien and human in a short audible format.
Instead, in chapter one I get death, murder, slavery, child slavery, back whipping, a slaughtered village, wives and children murdered, children orphaned as parents are murdered before their eyes.
Um… buzz kill.
So, even when these two crazy kids get together you know they are going to have to process all that crap. No thanks.
I don’t think this book belongs in the “Celestial Mates” series.
DNF
January 20, 2020
ARC review For honest review. When presented for a way out garina a water miner she marries gar zul a gladiator . Great story.
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