Baby For A Kingdom Where Barbaric Traditions Make It Difficult To Separate Lust From Love!
With rippling muscles and devastatingly sexy looks, Aris Corell, is the future king and the only hope for Sertapa. While the ruthless warrior may be good in the battlefield, Aris may bot do very well in the field of love. After all, the emotionally closed-off alien doesn’t believe in finding the latter.
So, when Aris discovers that the kingdom needs an heir, he seeks his father’s advice. After all, Aris doesn’t know many females who could look past the throne to care about the man.
Then why not follow the king’s advice?
“If you don't want to pick one of our eligible royal females, pick a slave, I don't care. Just find someone.”
Buying abducted females and using them for pleasure is just one of the many savage traditions that make Sertapa the barbaric planet it is. And, Helena is one such human who was kidnapped from Earth and locked in a steel cage only to be sold off as a sex slave.
But, the naïve human slave least expects to get any attention from the tall, reserved and breathtakingly attractive future-king. Nor does she know what Aris really wants from her. After all, the planet’s future depends on the alien’s baby!
This content contains hot romance with some scorching sex scenes, adult language and possible violence. Only for 18+!
This means one of two things: I liked it so much and it was such an awesome read that I ended up as devouring it, or...
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Do you know that moment when you like the secondary character more than the main one?
Main one is called Helen. Her only ability is to whine, complain, bitch, and generally be incapable of being even remotely smart for more than a maximum of 5 seconds. She also fails at wisely keeping her mouth shut while staying put.
Secondary character is called Cindy. Cindy is smart, knows her place, knows how to stay safe, be quiet and not annoy the people that might kill her/torture her/ whip her or other nefarious alternatives. Cindy gives good advice, knows the rules, understands her predicament and her status as a slave because you don't have many options after being kidnapped by aliens and then sold like cattle to a bunch of people who believe slaves are a very useful commodity.
Unfortunately Cindy is not the main character that gets to marry the prince of the alien race, have his babies and ultimately become queen. No, Cindy is the future queen's companion/maid/fellow slave. The future queen and the one that gets the D from the very hot (but unfortunately slightly me->man=you->female->alien->slave->obey slow brain) prince is Helen.
I get it that this is SF and it has aliens and some intergalactic kidnapping, but I have yet to agree with the fact that all these combined in a book makes it justifiable for the characters to be written as abject dimwitted fools. There is no sane soul on this planet with an ounce of intelligence that would have dared do the shit this missus did from about second 1. And all this, after she had also seen that talking when not asked and generally doing anything at all when not asked means that you get your tongue cut off at the very least.
She does all that because she is a special snowflake and the main character and future love interest of the prince and of course they must have wild monkey sex, cute babies together, and make him fall madly in love with her because she is simply that amazing and special
To prove my disgust in regards to her very existence in this book, if such a thing applied in real life she could have possibly and single handedly signed the death warrant of the entire human race due to being labeled as a bunch of abject retards on the grounds of uncommon race stupidity.
Only because of her.
The moment special snowflake Helen gets sold as a slave - A SLAVE, mind you; No rights, no nothing, just a piece of property - she rapidly finds out - *cough* immediately *cough*- that her purpose is to bear heirs for the future king AND become a queen that should support her husband and help him as much as she can.
You know what she shouldn't do?
Defy him in public. Obviously because royal couples must present a united front especially if said royal couple will rule a fucking entire nation.
Normal reaction: oh.my.fucking.God. I'm to become a broodmare, still be a slave, if not a very elevated one and spend my life as a doormat million years away from home and with no chance of EVER seeing my family again or my planet for that matter.
Good point to normal reaction: at least i won't wash floors and get whipped for putting a flower vase two centimeters to the left than where I should have placed it.
Bad point to normal reaction: I'll be queen, still a slave, marry someone against my wish and simply exist as a viable womb for my dear owner/husband/king and possibly be the first targeted in future assassination attempts because if I die, so does the chance of getting an alien baby heir.
In one word, shitty. Shitty options, no matter how you look at the entire situation.
Helen's reaction to the news?
"So you want to marry me, a slave so that you would be sure that I will only be a piece of property and have no say in anything you say and that you are doing this because it's your duty and you need to be married in order to ascend the throne? But don't you want love?"
*promptly proceeds to feel hurt when he says that such a thing is useless when having the responsibility of governing an entire race*
Are. You. For. Real?
I can't even...
I would have been in fucking stupor. I would have walked as if on eggshells not to mess anything up and wake up with my head at my feet. I would have always remembered that all choices have been taken away from me and that at every living moment I would be making the best out of a very shitty situation which leaves me with no maneuvering around and no escape.
And I'm pretty sure that you never quite forget that you have been a slave at one point. Which means that it would have remained at the back of my mind like a disease for years even if by any crazy chance I would have fallen in love with my husband and he with me.
Now you might be wondering if I hate these kind of characters so very fucking much, why do I keep on reading books I know even from just looking at the cover and the blurb, that I would hate and feel the need to destroy via a scathing review?
Because I cannot always be lucky enough to pick up masterpieces. And let's be real; most blurbs, covers and reviews vehemently assure me that what I'm about to read is a gem, when in reality I get less than decent offerings. So bad actually, that my post Covid book standards have lowered to i>"please make this book slightly better than a random teenager's ao3 fanfiction"".
This is... not a lot.
And somehow even this fails, which does not leave me with an ocean of choices to pick from.
The thing with writing a book is that as much as it is fun to create some pretty one dimensional characters, announce their gender, species, facial characteristics and that's about it and then proceed to recite what they're doing, it is much better to deliver the minimum modicum of effort and construct something called world-building.
You know... that thing where which is which, why that is that, why that is different than that, and so on and so forth actually explain what's happening in the book.
Furthermore, I cannot stomach a foolish, stupid heroine. It's fine if you're weak. It's fine if you have problems. It's fine if you are uncertain. It is NOT fine to be so idiotically stupid.
And this is where Helen excelled. The only other character that made me loathe her this much is probably Chelan from
The only difference is that while I've tried to show some restrain with my Ribus 7 review, I could not in good faith guarantee the same with my review for
At least in this book no one called Helen "a brilliant young woman", so there's that...
This was a really enjoyable book to read. There were a few minor spelling errors, etc, but not much. Some books have so many it's hard to pay attention to the book. This was romantic, and I thought well written. Now I am going to read book 2.
I was actually excited about the cincept of the story -romance with human-like aliens -but was very disappointed. I find it boring and a waste of time.
This wasnt the worse I've read. Not great either. Development and world building is the biggest issue. We don't really get to know this world much. What it looks like and what the people are like or their history. This book was all over the place. Its partially old school from like arranged marriages from Kings and Queens type of deal. Then the slavery thing was like from harems Arabic times. She slammed two different issues together. Most of the slaves weren't necessarily used for sex but for tasks. Some were for pleasure but not all. Slaves have no say in anything and have no rights. Also, the men are allowed to have many slaves as well as their wives for pleasure which rightfully Helena was against and asked him not to do. We missed a bit of history on how Helena got kidnapped etc. She seemed kind of immature at times. She wasn't that strong of a heroine at first. It took her some time to get into her role as a supportive wife to be to Prince Aris. Prince Aris was a jerk through most of it. He wasn't nice and very cold to her. One of those guys who think showing emotions is a weakness. There is no real consistency in the story. Aris was really unlikable sometimes. This didnt seem like an Alien Romance. This type of story could have been even a contemporary romance. Also, what did his father the King have? I mean he was killed off. I believe this race to be sorta unfeeling and use women and dont hold them at a very high regard. Borders on disrespect more or less. Helena was bought by him as a slave. Even if she married him she is still considered a slave. She doesnt get anything really in return except he will take care of her. Her slave friend Cindy was a little odd. I saw no real reason to have her in the story as much as she was. They werent best friends or even good friends. Cindy eye screwed every male she could find. So, I didnt necessarily think she was a positive in the story. Made no sense to me. I think this would have been better had it been better developed character wise and world building. It wasnt written smoothly and didnt flow. I hope the next book is better.
Okay. Let's start with how the girl was abducted from earth and SOLD as a slave, who gets lucky and the royal Prince decides to marry her. Who has that happen to them, and then goes 'nooooo! I can't sleep with him! He doesn't love me!' Uhm... what makes you think you have options in that situation? Remember the girl that didn't want to do chores and got her tongue cut out? Can I also note that she prides herself on being a gossip columnist in her college paper? Because colleges have gossip in their publications- it wouldn't get them sued or anything. Since she lovvvves snooping so much she thinks she should rifle through everything in the room she's placed in despite her companion asking her not to until they know they know they are allowed to because she might get them both beaten. Her response to the girl's fear of getting beaten because of the other's actions? 'Well! I'm nosy!' Let's not forget our charming Prince. He got cheated on by a ex, this was his reaction. "He'd almost killed the man with his bare hands, and had beaten Amica for her infidelity." Yup, go ahead. Beat the chick. That always rears a reader to a character. Don't believe I'll read another book from the author. DNF 36%
This is about a woman who gets abducted and a prince whose father is dying and makes him find a wife so that the crown doesn't go to his evil cousin.
It was ok. But I didn't understand why it was called The Alien's Baby. The only part of the story that had a baby in it was the epilogue. And it was basically her labor and delivery that was the end of it. The story was more about him letting himself fall in love with the woman he chose at the slave ship to be his wife.
I read it twice, kind of on accident. I started reading the beginning of this book at the end of another book that I read by the same author and I didn't even remember I read it before until I went to amazon and saw I already owned it.
It wasn't the worst I've seen but the story itself didn't help disguise the poor editing. Author, you had the opportunity to flex your imagination, to build a fantastic world and drop wondrous life forms in it and the best you could do was Earth? The main characters could be Jack and Jenny down on Main Street, USA with BFF Cindy hanging around and his dad meddling in their relationship. The only thing alien about this world is the word in the title. The same for romance. So disappointing. That's an hour of my life that I'll never get back, but thanks for the experience.
I'm glad I didn't pay for this. The blurb sounded interesting. I like the genre, but my goodness, this was a hard read. Not because it was heavy. It wasn't. It just took all my will power to not throw it away..
Instalove is pet hate of mine, so naturally it was there. It's meant to be a book with human /alien interactions the make lead came across more human than the actual the actual human. Politically it was boring and frustrating. I won't be reading the rest of the series.
Lots of unanswered questions? What did the king,; Aris Father have? What about Aris cousin? Basically the story is just Aris falls in love with his servant that he chose for a wife and they..had a baby ...the end???? As far as I am concerned it could have been a good book if it was finished.
I feel bad giving two stars there are some positive things happening but Helena was just so annoying. Yeah she doesn't want to be a kidnapped who would? But she is on an alien world. It isn't like she can just go back to her old life. She doesn't try to make the beat of her situation instead she whines.
Fate decided to these woman what they needed just a different way .
A captured earth woman wakes up in a cage an wonders where she's at the last thing she remembered was walking home . Another earth girl tells her she was captured also coming from a phrat party . She told her they were on slave ship . Their lives began now as slaves what did their lives hold for them now . 18+
The storyline would have been more enjoyable if the editing had been better. When I ran across an error it pulled me out of the story and this tended to happen too often.
It wasn't bad, I did like it but I would have enjoyed it more it more if hadn't jumped forward in time so much, they fell for each other instantly, and she came to terms with her new friend over being a slave way to quickly, this needed a lot more story!
I chose this rating because this book caught my interest from the very first chapter. I enjoyed the journey with Aris and Hellena, couldn't put it down until I finish the whole book. I will definitely be reading more of Chloe Joel's books. Looking forward to more of her creative stories.
This might have been better if the characters were more developed, and the story itself longer which would allow itself to unfold better. Everything was just to instant.