Alien Warrior's Captive Bride

Draconian Warriors #1

by Miranda Martin

Every now and then, when all the planets are in proper alignment, fate smiles on one lone warrior...

Hope

Earth is no longer able to support human life and trying to scratch out a meager existence is nearly impossible. Hope is reluctantly forced to sign up for the intergalactic brides program. Just as she’s getting desperate, she finds a tolerable species willing to purchase her contract...

Because nothing is ever that easy, her ship gets hit by raiders and Hope can’t manage keep her big mouth shut when their alien captors begin tormenting one of the younger women. Jettisoned into space, her one and only chance at survival, is in the hands of a Draconian warrior...

Larok

Larok is a lone sentinel, standing guard for his mother ship. When he comes across a frail human queen, his world tilts out of alignment. Saving her means a nasty death if his vicious Draconian queen finds out he rescued her. Risking his own life is one thing, but risking the life of his entire family and small son is another!

Snagging the beautiful human out of harm’s way results in battling against the Draconian fleet, destroying a planet and stealing a wormhole device that's their only chance at escape. Larok finds himself forced to reach his hand into the dragon’s mouth, desperate to pull victory from the jaws of defeat. By the time it’s all finished, he will either die in the glorious battle of a lifetime, or end up mated to the most attractive human female in the galaxy!

Genres: Science Fiction, Aliens, Romance, Science Fiction Romance, Dragons, Paranormal, Erotica

242 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 21, 2018

About the author

USA Today bestselling author Miranda Martin writes fantasy and scifi romance featuring heroes with out-of-this-world anatomy that readers call 'larger than life' and smart heroines destined to save the world. As a little girl, she would sneak off with her nose in a book, dreaming of magical realms. Today she brings those fantasies to life and adores every fan who chooses to live in them for a while.

Though born and raised in southern Virginia, Miranda Martin is a veteran who's traveled to places like Korea, Hawaii, and good 'ole Texas. She's since settled in Kansas, the heart of America, with her husband and daughters, a cat, and wishes for a pet dragon or unicorn. When she's not writing, you can still find her tucked away somewhere with a warm blanket and her nose in a book.

Visit her website http://mirandamartinromance.com and subscribe to her newsletter for new releases, special sales, and a FREE ebook!

Reviews

[Beatriz · Rating 2 out of 5]

Creo que lo único que me gustó fue ese tipo de humor absurdo que disfruto tanto. Por lo demás, una novela muy superficial. No creo que continúe con la serie.

[Sai · Rating 1 out of 5]

I had trouble enjoying this book because of some things that took me out of the world long enough that I could no longer suspend disbelief.
I have 4 examples of what caused me the most problems:
1 - wrong tense
36 % of the way through: "The other women began slowing coming forward." -- Umm, I think it would make more sense as 'slowly' not "slowing".
2 - not enough information to go on or to convey the why of something.
42 % of the way through: "Few Yuroba vessels can have Nalisite for their hulls. It leaves us vulnerable." -- this one really threw me off. The wording of that whole scene is just not very good. It dose not clearly convey that the Yuroba want this Nalisite metal to make their ships out of, but are unable to make very many ships with it due to its rarity in their part of space.
3 - missing words.
62 % of the way through: "Seeing him person is amazing." -- Missing the word 'in'. Should be 'Seeing him IN person is amazing.'
4 - Just not believable to me.
63 % of the way through: “The translation program is selecting the word taneka for the word love, but I am not your child.” --- This is just one example of many such sentences. My problem with it is that it is a translation program. As such they would not Know which words are being 'selected' for which words. They would know that something was off in the translation though. (If you don't believe me translate something with an online translation program.) It would have played better to do the lost in translation thing instead.
** - This last one was not a reoccurring incident, but was connected to #2 and 4. It was also a big WTF moment for me. About 88% of the way through the book Hope is asked "“If I may ask, what is a father?” Hope’s hand flew to her mouth." She then goes on for some time about how she did not know she was using a translation program...
My problems are that at no time is it explained Who asked that question, nor is that person answered, and all this time people have been pointing out problems with the translations from the program and she just now figures out about the translation program.
If these kinds of things Do not bother you than you may enjoy the book.

[BJ · Rating 2 out of 5]

I disliked this book for some many reasons. The dialogue was awful, long winded with every detail explained, ridiculous colloquial language and tedious character descriptions. The humans are written as so kind, so smart, so perfect but robotic in their desire to live in harmony. I struggled to finish the book - it took 4 attempts and a huge amount of persistence. Did not like this at all.

[Bubbles The Book Pimp · Rating 3 out of 5]

100 girls in space leaving earth to become brides.. find them selves captured by squid dudes... after separating a younger girl from an abusive squid dude, hope finds herself stuffed into an escape pod and jettisoned into space.

Rescued by a draconian warrior, Larok and instantly given queen status. Each has a lot to learn about the other species... including that male draconian warriors have babies! Or rather hatch young!.. yeah I wasn’t expecting that!

What follows in a massive rescue mission of the remaining women an ‘planet harvesting expedition’ a symbiont removal a show down with a younger draconian queen and a rescue of another ship filled with draconian warriors... SO YEAH ALOT!!

Thee was so much good stuff going on story wise in this book, I loved the pace and the originality.. but what it had in spades for story I felt lacking in emotion and chesmistry between Hope and Larok.. Yes there was some loving and loving words but that’s all it felt like to me..words... I didn’t feel the special sizzle or chemistry that is so vital in a sfr.

[Hsu Lee · Rating 5 out of 5]

I voluntarily offered to review this book with no obligations and my opinions are honest
The characters + storytelling were very captivating
Hope is having a bad day.
She was part of an intergalactic bride program, but raiders intercepted the ship,
She is saved by Larok.
Larok saved Hope, but he does not know what to do with her.
Now Hope + Larok have to work together to stay together.
It has all the ingredients that you need for an awesome book!

[Sara · Rating 2 out of 5]

After reading plot heavy, rich fantasy romance for the past month or so I was in dire need of some light fluff. And what's better than alien romance for that?

Well...
This book was dumb.
Like, it was a series of cliches haphazardly bundled together by a few tropes and hoping to pass for a story.
We've got:
* Women are all queens
* Mars needs women (many more alien men than their people have women)
* Kidnapped and rescued by alien
* Alien doesn't know what a kiss is
* Many couples are set up for future installments
* Heroine is often carried for no reason
* Insta-love and insta-lust
* "Virgin" (he has a kid but it's alien biology) alien who somehow knows exactly how to pleasure a human woman

At first it was just funny. I wasn't laughing with the book, I was laughing at it. I figured that it didn't matter why I was chuckling to myself, though, since I was having fun. The book seriously wore out its welcome, though.

The hidden child
In chapter one we find out that Larok has a little "hatchling" that he's keeping hidden, because the queen didn't mean to breed him.
Like, fine, that can be an interesting plot point and conflict. He does keep the child hidden from Hope as well, but it is just handled so poorly.
Apparently, Queens will literally kill children if they don't want them or if they're not strong enough. That's why he is fearing for his son's life.

So we have a scene where Hope senses he's keeping a secret, but that she'll wait for him to tell her on his own due time. Chapter ends.
Next chapter starts straight in the scene where she's being introduced to the kid. Author, you didn't think the scene where he tells her was relevant to show us????? Ah right, that's because he didn't. He said he just wanted to show her the nursery where - suprise! - he introduces his baby.
Also, he shows the kid without knowing whether she'll kill him? He was seriously willing to risk his child on a woman he's known a few days - who he suspects of being like other queens. He thinks she's joking when she doesn't want to kill him.
Wtf, Larok certainly doesn't win father of the year.

"Normally our queens will not tolerate the hatchling of another queen to live."
Shock rippled through her body.
"Jesus you think I'm going to harm your little one?"
"No! Well... yes, maybe."

Mating signal
Smiling with teeth is a mating signal. Sure, okay. Again this can give some good conflict or fun hijinks.
It doesn't. It's just used to explain how they get together immediately. Somehow, by pure luck, Hope doesn't smile with teeth at anyone else it would seem. I mean, if she did surely some sort of conflict or misunderstanding would have come up.

"Sexy" words for genitals
He calls it "her queenly treasures".

His dick is called rod.

Stilted dialogue

"My old friends! I brought my new friends to rescue you! Remember when the squids sent me out to die? I was rescued by a Draconian vessel, and they agreed to come here at great risk to se you free."

Hope seriously yells this when they go to rescue the other women. Who talks like this?

Grammar
Look, English is my second language, so I'm usually not one to criticize other people's bad grammar. Usually I don't even notice it much in the books I'm reading.
But it was really bad in this one. Entire words will be missing from a sentence. Or the word will be misspelled. Or the word doesn't make sense in context, like the wrong one has been used.
It happened so often that it got distracting.

The women just want to get married
Legit, after the women are saved Hope immediately starts playing match maker. And the women are only concerned with getting a draconian hubby. They basically serve no other function in the plot or have any other motivations.
Maybe I expected there to be a little more of a reaction from them being saved from literal torture and captivity? No? Okay then. Just straight to wanting alien dick.

Rating
I wasn't sure whether to round up or down on my 1,5 star rating. Usually I reserve 1 star for books I actively dislike or hate, so I just ended up rounding up to two. But let me be clear, this book is bad and I recommend it to no one.

[Jen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awww

I kinda loved this couple. Also the baby. So cute! I read this book after reading the next in series and I can honestly say besides common characters, they are stand alone. Good read. Recommend to romance lovers.

[Sonya M. Long · Rating 2 out of 5]

A lot of inconsistencies

I read 2 of the books to make sure the first book I read wasn't just a dud in the series. The concept is unique in the men can have babies, matriarch society, and the aggression from the queens. However, there were a lot of inconsistencies in both books that severely detracted from its potential.

In order to not provide spoilers I'm gong to try to be as general as possible. Explanations were given in the first half of the book and then contradicted in later explanations, or the same question asked by another person later on in the books but the answers/explanations were the opposite from before. They were pretty significant plot points so it seemed like the author forgot what she wrote before. There was also a good bit if grammatical errors, but they were easily overlooked and didn't detract too much from the story. Another big inconsistency was Hope's personality. She did change with her circumstances as anyone would, but instead of growth it seemed like she became very self absorbed with her wants for the warriors and her interaction with the other women went from supportive and mature to petty and catty. She commented often she didn't want the queen position for power but in the end her conversation with Cassandra came off more as a pissing contest and less collaborative and altruistic. I'm was confused by the author's severe departure from her team mentality and compassionate personality we saw in the first half of the book.

Overall, I did not care for either book I read, and I will not continue reading this series. It's disappointing since I do like this author a lot.

[Theresa · Rating 2 out of 5]

Sickening sweet. Everyone just LOVED Queen Hope. With no education, training nor experience, she (singlehandedly) saved the Draconians in Dark Space. She didn't want a leadership role but she sure could dole out the advice (wink wink). The heroine was too perfect and the hero was too boring. Book was not a strong standalone. DNF @ 75%.

[msmomtgmail.com · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great Read

Captivating from the start. Couldn’t put it down. Loved all the interplay between the characters and of course the alien baby was awesome.

[OneDayI'll · Rating 3 out of 5]

Roaming the galaxy

Hope left Earth in the hopes of being able to have a family. Earth hit its tipping point and life suffered. Pollution killed the oceans, destroyed the wildlife and domestic animals, life retreated to bio-domes in order to survive. And it has, but it sure isn't thriving. Women outnumber men, life is hard and resources are few. To escape this Hope signed up to be an alien's bride. She and 99 other women are traveling to meet their new husbands when other aliens nab them. When she pisses them off defending a cell mate she gets tossed out in a pod she's pretty sure her life is over. Until her pod is grabbed. Luckily for her her rescuer is a lot better than the previous aliens.

Spoilers ahead.
So, it's sort of a Mars Needs Women scenario. Earth has an abundance of women but not resources. Some species of aliens lack women. Not all of them, but a few races are male heavy. I like some of the elements that came in to play, there's just a lot of world building missing.
*Does Cassandra have a story? I looked through titles under this author and don't see it. If she doesn't we have a whole species set up we've missed out on.
*I get that females lead the society. But wouldn't father's notice when their daughters' behavior completely changes on ascension? Following a female is one thing. Hundreds, to a thousand, following one literally into death (in high numbers) is species suicide. Symbiotes should want a healthy host, and an endless supply of them. Killing off the species doesn't make sense.
*The male leads language shifts. Can't remember his name, but his internal monologue uses terms like snoozing. Definite American terms that he shouldn't know.
*I understand parthogenisis, especially in reptiles. Basically, a self cloning way to procreate. But a species where males can create life without females, and females choose not to hear the young? Are the female draconians impregnating the males? Or are they all just hormone triggered into pregnancy? Because, if that's the case, the males wouldn't be having female children. Parthogenisis creates kids the same sex as the parent. If the males are seahorses and just carry the young, she'd lay eggs in him. If they're the ones impregnated then their "rods" (term author used) would collect spermaphores from the females, therefore built a smidge differently. As this is never discussed, readers are left in confusion. You can tell I have questions lol.
*Other species are mentioned, maybe they're in other books? If they're all supposed to connect it would be great if the author lists them in reading order.
*Tri-bonds are mentioned, but mainly as human woman don't prefer them. Choosing to take only 1 mate at a time, not even wanting to acknowledge the possibility of taking on more. As if she speaks for every woman's desire. Yet apparently other women chose that, because it was mentioned as having happened.
Mainly, it's little things, like dialogue, and one big thing, any world building, that left this not as enjoyable as I'd hoped.

[Claire · Rating 2 out of 5]

The premise was interesting, and I liked the introduction of the existing world building, but there were enough "off" bits that I'm not sure I'll read more in the series. First note, the Kindle edition I read had the updated cover, which is good because nowhere in the book is it mentioned that the Draconian warriors have long, flowing white hair - in fact, they're fascinated and perplexed by the human women's hair!

There wasn't really enough backstory for me to get an idea of Hope's life on Earth, so I can't say for sure whether she was a little too Mary Sue in adapting to being thrust into a ruling role in an alien culture, but it did stretch belief sometimes. Her dialogue was also a bit stilted at times which made it hard for conversations to flow naturally - and there is a LOT of dialogue in this book. We barely spend any time in either Hope or Larok's head so even after finishing the book I don't feel like I know them well at all. Most of the conversations were about their outside situation, and those that were about their relationship seemed to go far too smoothly, with Hope bobbing along happily at every revelation and Larok conveniently remembering terms for relationships that haven't been used in centuries.

That sums up my feelings about the book, actually - I never felt like we got beyond the surface of anything, so we the reader are just bobbing along in the story, being a passenger rather than a participant in the story. There are also some errors that could have been caught with better copy editing, with tenses changing in the middle of the sentence and whole words missing from sentences, making for an even more stilted reading experience.

Oh! And another thing that bugged me - Hope going around ensuring the Draconian warriors that all human women love babies, and if you have kids you can use those to lure yourself a queen of your own, and that they'll definitely want to set up house with you and have more kids immediately. As a human woman who is not that keen on babies I was annoyed by this generalization. And then the reveal that Queen Cassandra has MORE THAN FIFTY kids?? Listen, I know it's not like she carried them all inside her body, but holy shit that's a lot of kids.

[Melanie S · Rating 4 out of 5]

You catch more dragons with honey...

Alien Warrior's Captive Bride is a sort of futuristic SF fairy tale. Hope, aptly named human woman rescued from alien traders, finds herself light-years away form Earth and in a foreign region of the galaxy, beholden to a Draconian warrior named Larok for her rescue and continued safety. At Larok's end of the wormhole, all females are queens, all queens are power-mad ruthless despots, and warriors are a dime-a-dozen expendables not even worthy of reproducing. So Larok hides the existence of his hatchling (yup, male Drconians lay eggs) and tries to make himself invisible to this new Earth Queen. NOT HAPPENING. Hope is blessed with natural optimism, an ebullient personality and a gift for empathy - in short she's a downtrodden Draconian warrior's wet dream. She conquers with kindness. Draconian warriors one and all adopt her as their (reluctant) queen, and their submissive acculturation essentially forces her to govern. When she undertakes the mantle of leadership, she reveals a strong, just, pragmatic and responsible side, and that seals the deal. Queen Hope will start a revolution and lead her people to freedom - starting by freeing her rescuer Larok and taking him as her mate! It's crazy how she manages to have as much sex as Laroc can handle while leading the new wave back to her old neck of the galaxy, but this is Juno Wells - steamy, sexy, space opera romance at its adorably lunatic best.

[Karen Nastasio · Rating 5 out of 5]

What an amazing book, Larok and Hopes story is one that stirs up so many emotions it’s a must read ,it all starts with Hope having know other option but to sign up for the intergalactic brides program because life on earth is nearly at its end anyway on her way to taladar with over hundreds of other women as well the are taken by raiders that look like squids and smell just as bad. As usual Hope cannot keep her mouth shut when one of the squids try’s to take a younger female that’s terrified now she has drawn his attention to her and just then there is alarms going off and she is taken to a pod and jettisoned in to space as bate so they can get away. Larok watches over his world and when he see a spacecraft near his home planet it’s his job to destroy it at all cost, just as he was going to a pod is released and his gut tells him to save it and let the ship go for now and so he does and when he gets the pod onboard he discovers there is a female Queen in it and now he must save her from his Queen at the moment or she will die because there can be only one at a time. And so starts a love story that cannot be stopped and a world that’s going to change for this alien race with all these Queens just wait for the right man to come along. What happens now ? You need to read this book if aliens are your thing because Juno Wells is so good at making it feel real. I voluntarily reviewed an arc copy of this book for an honest review.

[kymagirl · Rating 5 out of 5]

Draconian warrior Larok (H) is on patrol duty when he engages a rogue ship in his queen's territory, only for it to jettison an escape pod containing Hope (h), an alien queen. Hope is at first relieved that she's been found by a Draconian but she soon realizes that the ship she'd been abducted aboard traveled through a wormhole to the Exion galaxy where parasitically infected Draconian queens still rule. After an initial language barrier, Larok is stunned as he and Hope get to know one another with her treating him with kindness, respect, and compassion, unlike any queen he's ever known. As they return to the Draconian mothership, Hope quickly learns the Draconian language and gains the trust of Larok and his people, convincing them of the danger of the Draconian queens. As Hope and Larok's bond deepens, evolving from mutual respect to romantic affection, things heat up between the two, as she continues to make him realize that human queens are so very different. But Larok worries that the secret he harbors may tear their relationship apart and put those he loves at risk. They embark on daring missions to rescue human captives, destroy the symbionts, and unite the Draconian warriors, showcasing Hope's leadership and strategic skills, earning her the respect of the Draconian warriors and Larok's love. Hot and steamy alien-human romance, exploring love, connection, danger, family, trust, respect, freedom, and the pursuit of a better future.

[Karen Voitik · Rating 4 out of 5]

>Book Review – Alien Warrior’s Captive Bride
>I am an independent reviewer. This book is the 1st in the Draconian Warrior series and ends in an HEA. This new universe has the Earth ruined by pollution, causing the women to volunteer to be alien brides in order to escape the planet. The aliens exist under a peaceful agreement on Earth’s side of the universe. The far side of the universe is less friendly. Hope is on her way to her alien mate’s planet when her ship is attacked and all of the women on board are captured. They are abused and taken to the far universe. Zarok, a Draconian on the far side, notices the new ship appear and an escape pod is dispatched. He grabs the pod and finds Hope. All women to these Draconians are queens. All the queens on this side of the universe are cruel and cannot be with any other women. They mistreat the men, who all take their abuse for some reason.
>Hope treats Larok with kindness. She shows him true love and leads his people to freedom. I love the scenes where the Draconians are surprised by the kindness shown them. I disliked the slang the women used to speak to the Draconians. Knowing a race of people can’t understand you, why would you use the phrase “It’s not my first rodeo”?
>This book is appropriate for an adult audience. I am giving this book 4 stars. I wish Zarok would behave a bit more alpha and less as a submissive.

[Bookworm Betty · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed this venture into space with the Draconians. Hope has signed up to become a bride for an alien race. However on the trip to their planet their ship is raided by other aliens and they are all captured. Unfortunately Hope can't keep her mouth shut and after challenging the leader about the care they are receiving she finds herself in space in a pod. Larok is a Draconian warrior on scouting duty when he spots the pod. He captures it and finds Hope. They both feel a 'spark' and they tentatively begin to get to know each other. As things progress Hope learns that all females are queens in Draconian society. Larok's mother-ship does not have a queen so they are excited to have Hope on board. I loved the way that Hope's character was written and how she started to 'convert' the Draconian warriors into a new way of thinking about their relationship with their queens. Which is needed as she makes them rescue all the other kidnapped women. I thought the storyline was brilliant and well written. The main characters made for great reading and we have other characters waiting in the sidelines to follow their stories.
Although I had my own copy I hadn't got around to reading it but I was offered a copy via Booksprout and I voluntarily leave this honest review.

[Laura Moylan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Larok is in his ship and is alone for his sentry duty for his Draconian Queen. He is one of those who are the first line of defense for the mothership. But, he has a secret. A big one, that could get him killed. I find that he is remarkable as are his father and brothers. A wormhole opens and a raider ship comes through, from another sector of space, where Draconians don’t follow a Drac queen. There are humans on board that raider ship. One of the women gives the raiders problems and when the Draconians of Larok’s mothership fires, Hope is sent out in an escape pod. Larok saves her. He is shocked about the little queen, as all females are called queens. Learning about these poor women and the poor Draconians in this sector was heartbreaking. So many reveals and revelations! I loved the book and how quickly Hope and Larok find common ground, etc. They are very sweet together and it was just a beautiful story of love. Finding out why the Drac Queens wore such nasty pieces of work was mind boggling and I can’t wait to see what happens next.

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

[Ramona · Rating 5 out of 5]

This story about Hope a human who was on her way to become a Talador's bride. Hope along with a group of women get capture by Squid aliens who attack their ship. Hope a prisoner gets chosen by a squid alien and gets jetson out in an escape pod as a diversion when her captor's ship gets fired upon after going through a wormhole. Larok a Draconian warrior on patrol in the outer territory of his Queen sees the ship and attacks it notices the pod and scans it. It contains a human Queen he's heard rumors about from the other side of the wormhole. He rescues the Queen for their Queen Abraka is dying. Hope is happy to be rescued by Larok until she realizes she in another part of the universe where evil Draconian Queens exists. Can she rescue the other captive women? How will she handle the expectations of the Draconian warriors helping her? The budding romantic relationship between Larok and Hope was an interesting read that kept me entertained along with the action in this copy I'd received and volunteer to read and review.

[La Nomada · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was reading another alien romance last night when a vivid memory hit me—something about alien males laying little eggs and treating their human mate like a queen. I spent a good hour down the Google rabbit hole before finally stumbling across this book again. Alien Warrior’s Captive Bride—yep, this was the one.

I must have first read it when it was on Kindle Unlimited, but it’s not there anymore. That didn’t stop me—I bought it this time because that comforting memory was too strong to ignore. And I wasn't disappointed.

I don’t think I ever finished the whole Draconian series before, but this first book still holds up. The world is totally wild and imaginative, the romance hits that classic fated-mates vibe, and the human female lead is genuinely brave and kind, without losing her edge. She doesn’t just surrender—she stands up, adapts, and makes you root for her.

Also, the queen dynamic? Still gives me butterflies.

If you’re into sweet yet spicy alien romances with a soft spot for protective but unfamiliar aliens, this one is definitely worth revisiting.

[Raven61 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Escape from reality for a few hours

Contains subject matter that may be a trigger or offensive to some including adult language, semi-detailed intimate scenes and violence.

Can be read as a stand-alone. There is a glossary at the end of the book that describes the various Draconian vocabulary used throughout the story. WARNING: if used, may provide spoilers about Larok and Hope’s story.

This was a true escape from reality type read for me. It was the first one I recall reading from the series.

There are a few grammatical errors, but I didn’t have any issue interpreting. The errors mainly consisted of inserted extra words such as “the”, “and”, as well as those that could be spellcheck corrected, such as “dame” instead of “damn”.

If you like a lot of action with alien and human couples, where the good guys win and the story has a HEA, then this may be a story for you.

[Aurrora James · Rating 4 out of 5]

Drew me right in

This is the first book I’ve read by this author and the story pulled me right in. It was easy to follow the different customs of the Draconian race and I enjoyed their fight for freedom.

Also, I generally can’t stand a wonder woman heroine. You know the type - they have all the right ideas, save the day by themselves, and are generally just followed around by the big dumb male cause he is too incompetent to save the day without her. In which case, why does she even need him except for sex? Give the girl a vibrator and she’s good. No hero required. While I felt like this book heavily leaned towards the wonder woman type heroine, it was balanced out by Hope always looking out for their warriors and trying to keep them safe. Also, her role and the deference given her explained the wonder womanesque actions. So I didn’t hate the character or the book. I would definitely read another.

[Mandy (MP Book Reviews) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Human Hope was on her way to becoming part of the Intergalactic brides program when pirates captured her ship. Unable to stand by and ignore the treatment of the brides she is jettisoned into a pod which is then picked up by Draconian warrior Larok who is standing guard. Recognising that she would be killed by the queen he risks both himself and his small son in order to save her and keep her hidden. Keeping her safe will need battling against the fleet, destroying a planet and stealing a wormhole device. By the time things are finished, he will either have died in a glorious battle or end up mated to Lucy.

I enjoy the story in that it was great to see the development of Lucy and Larok as they both stood up and grew into their roles. Lucy was awesome and really led them into another sector, into a joined-up community, a new home and a firm foundation for the future. It was a good read that was simple to understand. Contains some sexual content.

[Holly Stevens · Rating 5 out of 5]

Alien Warrior’s Captive Bride by Miranda Martin is action packed romance! I love the characters, the spiciness, and the back stories of how the Draconian queens are being forced to be so brutal due to their being infested with a symbiont. Eww but cool! This one finds Hope, a human female who signed up for a bride program with an alien population being enslaved by nasty octopus-like beings and then saved by hunky Draconian warriors who harvest the wormhole machine on board. Their queen is dying, so they make Hope their new queen and try to save the old one by removing her symbiont. But they can’t do it. The crew and Hope decide to harvest all the good material out of a dead moon to help fund them if they can go through the wormhole to get to the human queen led Draconians. Then Hope hears that her one and only Latock has three brothers on another queen’s ship. They manage to lure the other queen’s ship close and overtake them, freeing a total of three ships, their warriors, and the young queen of her symbiont! They make it back to the new home world and set up their colony on another continent, allowing the downtrodden Draconian males the freedom to find their own females as there are now plenty of females to go around! What an amazing series!

[Country Goose · Rating 3 out of 5]

So boring.....

Every conflict just simply revolves with little to no conflict. No one has much emotion outside of shocked surprise and bubbly happiness. Everyone was rescued and all conflict from the blurb was resolved by 56%, and be then I had been skimming.

It has a good plot, and the blurb was intriguing, but most of the book revolved around the British ways of the Draconian queens, and we haven't encountered one, not even the queen of the Obsidian.

I have a question regarding incest... Draconian queens do not tolerate other queens, at all. This particular queen is dying of old age (at least that is what I get from context), Homeboy's dad raised him and his brothers... Is his mom also his baby's mom? His kid is his half brother? That's what I get from a group of men, as in a thousand men, living on a mother ship with one queen.

[L. M. · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed the creativity of Juno Wells with this series. It was better than I thought it would be. I listened to the audio book version and the narrators were very good. I enjoyed this book so much that I have started purchasing the rest of the books in this series and I keep looking more audiobooks from this series and more. I love how the males are gentle with the female characters but yet very tough, without all the overly macho dominant He-man that is often in this genre. It gave the female characters the chance to show their dominant but yet still sound like every day people without all the overly feministic Shera archetype that can often be found in this genre as well. Juno Wells did an amazing job of showing a different types characters that have been missing in these different genres and it refreshing to see.

[Minga Dotson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting clash of cultures , human vs Draconian, mixed with a culture that subjects its males who are ruled by a female for every thousand or so males.

Each queen is also infected with a vicious symbiont from another species. The males have been subjugated and put in a form of class society. They long for freedom, yet still want a queen to rule them. Once they figure out how to rescue the other human "Queens", they also acquire the necessary parts to outfit their ship and get back to their own galaxy, taking the freed Draconian males and young with them, then they free a new Draconian Queen and her crew and invite another ship to ditch its Queen and attempt to follow them to freedom thru a constructed wormhole, and so almost 2300 adult males and their young are saved to finally arrive at the new Draconian home world.

[Laurette Haynes · Rating 4 out of 5]

Alien Warriors Captive Bride

The story is not bad but there are numerous errors. Proofreading could fix all of this. This is the story of Larok and Hope. She’s put on an escape pod by a tentacled alien, who was angry with her. She and her friends had been stolen by the tentacled aliens. She and her friends were intended as brides for some aliens. They were leaving earth because it had become inhabitable. Anyway, Larok finds her pod and brings her onboard his ship which had been running perimeter checks and such. There is an instant attraction. He studies her English speech and has his computer run a deciphering program so they can understand one another. The Draconians are governed by a queen who is vicious. Hope becomes a queen who governs them. But, there’s a lot of story before and after that. There are sexual scenes that may offend some readers.

[⇝ b ⇝ · Rating 2 out of 5]

I felt really disconnected while reading. We don’t really get much of a backstory of the world. It may be that this author has an original series where we learn about it, but it didn’t fully transfer here. So when you meet the lead characters, you’re just thrown in.

I know it’s an alien book, but regardless of that, it was difficult to really get into the story. Nothing really stood out about the plot or characters. I also just had issues with everything being so instant. How does one human know how to become a leader? On average, a person wouldn’t know how to be in charge of an alien race. (Yes I laughed typing that).

There were also some mechanical errors that just made it too difficult to enjoy.

[Carol · Rating 4 out of 5]

Deep space

Hope and her Draconian King is wonderful

Many amusing and heart touching parts. Especial the meeting and interaction of her and “their son”

There were a few minor things that should have been edited out. He repeated the same words when she first put baby against skin. Other was her pregnancy and his egg bump??? Timing was off, felt like author forgot to edit out which was her choice.
Lastly something jarring. The co-Queen. Has a large amount of children? No sane human would not have gotten birth control for him or her. There is no feasible way she would not be neglecting that many.

Looking forward to other stories.