Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Readability: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥🔥
Humor: A bit
Perspective: First person from both hero and heroine
Cliffhanger: No this ends on a happily ever after for the couple – it’s clear there’s more to come in the series with the heroine’s friends missing.
Epilogue: Yes, maybe a few months after?
When mains are first on page together: It felt like quite awhile before these two were on page together – Chapter 8
Format: bought audiobook
(Descriptions found at end of my review)

Should I read in order?
This is book 1 in the Fated Mates of the Atari series – start here but yes I think read this one in order as the plot of the heroines is beginning here. If you have the Claimed Among the Stars anthology I believe this was published in there – but it has 30k words added to it and has been revamped a bit.

Basic plot:
Marion jumps at the chance to take a luxury space cruise, but soon realizes it’s not at all what she was expecting.

Give this a try if you want:
- science fiction romance
- spaceship/alien planet settings
- alien hero/human heroine
- disability rep – heroine has one arm (I believe it was during birth?)
- hero nurses heroine back to health
- rescue plot (heroine in danger)
- hero will comfort you during your nightmares
- who did this to you?
- fated mates – though I will say it didn’t go quite the way I’m used to fated mates going!
- protective and possessive hero
- hero bathes and feeds the heroine
- light vampire vibes – the hero’s species bites to mark
- medium – at least 3 scenes (I get lazy with notes on audio and I know there were 2 scenes that flow together that I combined so it might feel hotter to others.)

Ages:
- Don’t recall either mentioned

First line:
My hand tightens around my ticket, almost crushing it as I enter the ship.

My thoughts:
Well, I had a narrator disconnect with this one, sadly. This narrator was too exuberant for me and I wasn’t a fan of her male voices. It kind of made him sound a bit ridiculous. But looking past that, I did like the story! It had a lot I really like in romance, so I’ll definitely try more in this series but make sure to read the next one if the narrator is the same.

I struggled a bit in the beginning just because it was taking forever for the mains to be on page together. As I’ve whined in many reviews, I like my mains together soon and often, the whole book if I can get it 😆 It wasn’t until chapter 8 and in a 28 chapter book it felt way too long for me.

But once they were together I really enjoyed a lot of it. It had a bit of a twist on the fated mates aspect that I rather liked because I had no idea how it was going to turn out. I loved the sex scenes, loved the primal play and how protective the hero is. This is my second AG Wilde book (I also tried Xul) and I definitely want more in my life!

Cock/Hero Stats:

- hero has fangs, white hair, and a silver beard
- hero’s species definitely has some vampire vibes with the fangs and neck biting
- males mark their mates
- hero has golden eyes, but they turn dark when he wants to mate and is aroused
- I think cock is mostly normal but it IS huge and there’s some ridges

Content warnings: (This should be taken as a minimum because I could have missed some!)

- ableism in society, in interactions
- forced birth control
- basically what turns out to be governmental kidnapping/sold into marriage
- slavery
- scenes of violence, torture, fear, murder on page

Locations of kisses/intimate scenes plus quotes:

Safe sex? 

No 

NOTE: I feel like I missed a kiss somewhere in here? Also, this is a minimum, I get lazy when taking audio notes
Chapter 15 – kiss
Chapter 18 – 🔥 kisses, primal play (“You should run”), oral/fingering for her

The male staring down at me now, looks like he is starved and all he wants to do is consume me.

Chapter 21 – 🔥 kiss (then a bit of a break, but later in the chapter), fingering/oral for her, missionary, blow job (incomplete) that leads into doggy style sex with mating bite

“You are mine,” he says, breaking the kiss for a moment. I open my mouth to protest and he closes it with another bruising kiss. “You don’t feel it yet, but I will wait,” he breathes against my lips.

Chapter 27 - primal play (chase scene), pinned against the wall but interrupted

“Mine to kiss.
Mine to hold.
Mine to love.”
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Aqnar watches me as I grab the door handle, as if he is daring me to open it and run. Those eyes, and the way he turns so slowly, watching my every movement, noting my every breath. He is a predator and I am the prey.
“Marion.”
His voice has changed. It is deeper, darker, and it sends chills right through me.

Chapter 28 - 🔥 oral for her, doggy style, one arm gripping her neck

“I want your everything. You smiles, your words, your time. Your love.