Alien prison break romance: Forced proximity. Zero privacy. One touch. Syrin of Forty-Six is a berserker.Outlawed from Chronos and removed from the Xylan mating database, he’s a fierce warrior with a bloody past. And now he’s a convict, thrown into the most notorious prison in the four sectors.Since Sara is also an inmate, she can’t exactly judge. And as the only female prisoner on Detention … prisoner on Detention Center: Zeta 149, she really, really needs protection. So when the prison guards throw Sara into a cell with the unstable berserker, placing bets on how long she’ll live, she’s willing to trade her virginity if he’ll agree to become her protector.
But instead of taking her offer, Syrin lays some ground rules: he’ll never be her pleasure mate, never want her, never desire her, ever. But despite his aura of don’t f*cking bother me, Sara can’t keep her eyes off his bulging biceps and the sexy fangs that peek out from his perfect lips. Sharing a cell with a towering, muscular male who IS NOT attracted to her is sheer torture…but then his bare hand accidentally touches hers…
And all hell doesn’t break loose. Instead a Xylan berserker does, and that’s much deadlier…and much sexier…
Author’s note: This is book #4 in the series, but can be read as a standalone. Be prepared to meet new friends and revisit old favorites…
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Love under duress is excellent, don’t you think?! Ah, maybe that’s just me then. I kinda feel that this book was a mix of Guardian of Galaxy vol 1 and Prison Break with a flare of OTT interspecies mating. It was hilarious, smart, thrilling, and romantic in the same time. What I liked the most was how Ms. Mills portrayed the h as smart, capable emotionally strong, and independent while still also acknowledging her shortcomings; she was a treat on her own. Plus, all the smutty scenes, all the straightforward romance-jab lines, and all the building romance tension, the whole rides, definitely gave me a whole squirming treat; a good squirm, I assure you.
First let me state, I received an Advance Reader Copy, (ARC), but this in no way influences my review. I always leave an honest review.
Excellent story. Nothing like a romance in a prison. Syrin, for being such a huge, hunky male, is quiet and reserved, even though he’s a berserker. Sara is a spunky human and accused of a murders she didn’t commit. She also talks to much. I really enjoyed this story. I recommend this read. 5 Thumbs up.
This is such a fantastic story! I had trouble putting it down. I actually read it more than once, which is not normal for me. I loved the pace of this book. This one fits in perfectly with the whole series, with a fast-paced storyline and characters that are easy to get addicted to and root for. I loved the violence of the prison scenes, I know it’s weird, lol, but I think the violence just makes a better read. I loved the build-up to a physical relationship and the fact that Syrin didn’t really seem to be into Sara at all, until he was. I am a fan of Michelle Mills and have read most of her books, well, okay, so I’ve at least begun to read most of her series, but in my defense, there are a lot of them. I’m just going to move on to the next one now, but I’d totally recommend this one to be added to your TBR list!
HOW DID I MISS THIS ?!!
My thanks to author Michele Mills for the ARC of this book. The opinion voluntarily expressed here is my own. Syrinâx80x99s Mate is the fourth novel in the author’x80x99s Alien Bounty Hunter series – and the first one I’x80x99ve read. Iâx80’m familiar with Michele Mills’ writing through her Catastrophe series – the one that made me like futuristic dystopian romances. I had no idea till this showed up that there were three others in the series, or that any of them would be this good. Syrin is a high-caste alien – species Xylan – but a rare genetic flaw has made him an outcast, unwelcome on his home world and forbidden to mate. It seems when he’s triggered by threat or by provocation, he turns into a berserker- a relentless, clawed, fanged, eight-foot killing machine who can’x80x99t distinguish friend from foe, and is therefore a threat even to his loved ones. Other than that, he’s the most disciplined, honorable handsome male you could ever meet. Sara meets him in prison – they’re being sent to serve out life sentences on an inescapable prison planet. She’x80x99s another outcast, an orphaned bastard dumped on reluctant relatives who make her life hell. She escapes by joining a gang of thieves, becoming an ace IT systems analyst, and then gets framed for murder and sentenced to life. She’s the only female on a planet of lifers – aka Dead Meat. Against all odds, she enlists Syrin as her protector – and the rest of the story is where it gets interesting. Interesting as in slow-burn sexy interesting. As in secret mission and plots within plots interesting. As in scary prisoners out to kill her interesting. Michele Mills is a smart and gutsy writer who isn’x80x99t afraid to bust out of some alien SF romance stereotypes. Her characters are deeper than expected, more complex and not exactly perfect, but so likeable you can’x80x99t resist caring about them. She can also set up a complex plot with unexpected twists that violate unwritten SF romance norms – and pull it of beautifully. Whatever you think of as typical for this genre, you wonâx80x99t find it here – you’x80x99ll find BETTER! And if, like me, you missed books 1 – 3, relax. This one stands alone just fine, thank you. (Besides, it’x80x99s never too late to get into a truly fine writer’x80x99s alien bounty hunter-verse.)