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Mate: Level 8
What’s worse than being abducted by aliens? Being told you have to choose one as a mate.Cammie's having an average teenage bad day, complete with her car dying on the side of the road, when she’s attacked from behind. As soon as she wakes up, everything Cammie knows about space and extraterrestrials is turned on its head. First, she’s on a real spaceship whose crew proves that aliens aren’t little green people. Second, there are more alien races than she’d considered, and some are at war. If that wasn’t enough, the ship’s captain, Kilani, is adamant he’s not taking her back to Earth for one glaring she’s classified as a Mate, a female able to bear children.With Kilani’s race dying out, they’ve become desperate to find a solution, but Cammie wants nothing to do with it. All she wants is to return to Earth, that is until Kilani starts showing her what space travel is all about, and that a lonely captain might be just what she’s looking for. However, the question remains for both of by the time they reach Kilani’s home world, will he have convinced Cammie to choose him as a Mate, or will she continue to fight to return home?
240 pages, Paperback
Published June 13, 2020
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June 14, 2020
Coming off the high that the author's First Blood Trilogy left me on, the bar was set way up high for this one. Mate Level 8 is a scifi romance from Heather Karn. This story already had two strikes against it for me. 1. Enemies to lovers (sorta) 2. Alien abductions. Despite that, I found this to be a quick fun escape from reality.
Cammie is kidnapped by aliens who are studying other races for an infertility cure for their own race. The author took Cammie (and me) on an inner galactic adventure to new planets. Cammie is full of spunk and sass. Despite the differences in species, she takes it all in stride with an open mind and an open heart. Cammie's love interest, Ki, is amazing. All races of males could learn the art of wooing a woman from Ki.
The reader could easily parallel things happening in our world today to this story. If only everyone were as open minded and loving as Cammie.
Cammie is kidnapped by aliens who are studying other races for an infertility cure for their own race. The author took Cammie (and me) on an inner galactic adventure to new planets. Cammie is full of spunk and sass. Despite the differences in species, she takes it all in stride with an open mind and an open heart. Cammie's love interest, Ki, is amazing. All races of males could learn the art of wooing a woman from Ki.
The reader could easily parallel things happening in our world today to this story. If only everyone were as open minded and loving as Cammie.
January 30, 2023
A clean alien abduction romance?! I honestly didn’t think s book like this existed!
I saw it recommended on the Sweet Fantasy Romance Facebook group and immediately had to find it and read it.
I was not disappointed.
Don’t judge this book by its cover (though I would love to see a better cover given to this book)
It has all the best elements of alien romance without all the smut. Culture shock, a feisty heroine who stumbles through adjusting to a new life, some really awful villains, a high and mighty counsel who thinks they know best, and an amazing adventure story line along with a group of lovable secondary characters
I saw it recommended on the Sweet Fantasy Romance Facebook group and immediately had to find it and read it.
I was not disappointed.
Don’t judge this book by its cover (though I would love to see a better cover given to this book)
It has all the best elements of alien romance without all the smut. Culture shock, a feisty heroine who stumbles through adjusting to a new life, some really awful villains, a high and mighty counsel who thinks they know best, and an amazing adventure story line along with a group of lovable secondary characters
June 16, 2020
I found a unicorn, a well written, clean alien abduction romance. Karn builds an interesting universe with characters you grow to love and a spunky heroine who's faced some hard times but hasn't let that make her hard. Kilani is an amazing hero who sweeps Cammi off her feet and shows her not all males are monsters. I can't wait to see more from this universe.
August 9, 2020
Great story
Definitely unique. The characters were amazing and the story itself was unique. It was clean both in language and sexually. A story for any age
Definitely unique. The characters were amazing and the story itself was unique. It was clean both in language and sexually. A story for any age
August 7, 2023
This book is why you should always give an author another try. I first read Heather Karn's Gargoyle's Kiss, and while the romance in that book was okay, I didn't care for the beginner writing and it had a lot of things in it that bothered me; HOWEVER, this book is far, far superior. The author definitely grew and developed by the time she wrote this book and I highly recommend it to anyone in search of a warm-hearted sci-fi romance with likable characters. The cover and title of this book may give the impression that it is just like the millions and millions of poorly written alien porn's on Amazon ( I may have gotten a little bitter while searching out a clean one and being hard pressed to find anything), but it's actually an exciting, clean, and fun romance. The only way it could have been improved is if it had an Epilogue so that the ending wasn't so abrupt. This is more of a romance in space than it is a space book with romance in it. It does have a light Star Trek feel to some of it, which was enjoyable. What really surprised me was how a concept that could have easily been so cheesy, cliche, and let's admit it-dirty, managed to be engaging, original, and, in a fluffy kind of way, deep. Captain Kilani wins for being one of the most considerate and actually kind heroes I've read in a while. I enjoyed the focus on choice - not just heavy handed token choice, but what real choice and respect mean.
Synopsis:
Cammie has had a life full of hard luck, so of course she would be the one of the two people abducted by cat aliens as they passed by Earth. Even when it turns out her abduction was a mistake, she in unable to return home due to her designation as a Mate: Level 8. It turns out that the alien race is slowly dying due to an illness that leaves them infertile, so when they run across someone as compatible as Cammie, they can't afford to lose her. Captain Kilani does all in his power to help Cammie adapt to the new culture and environment she's been thrust into without forcing her to change who she is to fit into it.
Synopsis:
Cammie has had a life full of hard luck, so of course she would be the one of the two people abducted by cat aliens as they passed by Earth. Even when it turns out her abduction was a mistake, she in unable to return home due to her designation as a Mate: Level 8. It turns out that the alien race is slowly dying due to an illness that leaves them infertile, so when they run across someone as compatible as Cammie, they can't afford to lose her. Captain Kilani does all in his power to help Cammie adapt to the new culture and environment she's been thrust into without forcing her to change who she is to fit into it.
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