The sequel to The Scorpion’s Mate…A desperate escape from a prison cell inside an alien research facility leaves Joanie in the clutches of an alien with a handsome face, a great body, and tentacles that could have come out of a horror movie. Her life back on Earth is a mess, but nowhere near as complicated as her new situation becomes when the alien test subject named Nemon decides that she’s … she’s his mate.
Nemon knows that Joanie is the mate he’s hoping for as soon as Thrax hands her to him, but he can also see that she’s frightened and traumatized. He must win a battle against his own body—which has a mind of its own—to maintain control, so he can win her trust and avoid frightening her further. His newfound friends warn him that Joanie will need time to accept him, and Nemon is willing to wait, but they all may have underestimated Joanie.
They have escaped their fate as Iriduan test subjects, but Nemon and Joanie can’t escape the legacy left behind by their captors. A legacy that brings them together—a legacy that also threatens to tear them apart.
Author’s Note: 18+ This book contains explicit scenes unsuitable for younger readers.
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When I had been close to her—so close that I could breathe her in with the air that I drew into my lungs—I had seen her eyes widen, her nostrils flare, and her moistened lips part. None of that had been from fear. She’d looked at me with an almost hungry expression, but I didn’t think she wanted to eat me, though with the females of my species, desire to mate and hunger usually came together, often to the detriment of the males.
This author has such a great ability when it comes to creating heros and heroines outside the box and with The Kraken’s Mate the second book in the Iriduan subject’s we get to explore in more depth a character we met previously in The Scorpians mate.
So we all know how I like my alien’s to actually look like an alien so I was especially excited to get stuck in with this one.
Nemon is huge and instead of legs has tentacles: he is one of the experiments from the research ship
Joanie is one of the human rescued captives and this is their story.
Right from the start here, I felt this one had a slightly different flavour to its predecessor: just more emotive it’s hard to pinpoint but the romance here just felt so much sweeter.
“you are like a light shining upon the surface of the water, drawing me from the darkest depths to investigate what manner of treasure could glow so brightly.” His tentacles curled tight against his body. “I do not want to let you leave this ship, lest others will see my treasure and try to take her.”
Nemon though obviously extremely dangerous and potentially deadly has an almost childlike curiosity in his interactions with Joanie and she is fascinated also despite her initial wariness and fear.
I adored Nemon’s adoration and enthusiasm as he attempts to woo and also learn all he can about his precious new mate.
I also appreciated the fact that Joanie was an ordinary woman with baggage and flaws its refreshing to find such an imperfect heroine.
This was relatively slow burn and I did love the sensuality behind the build-up: by the time they finally sealed the deal I was definitely invested here in Joanie and Nemon’s relationship and just for info, this is no way felt weird or strange.
This also had the added bonus of Thrax and Claire and they were very much a part of the story-arc
Finally, the romance in this one is just so adorable and gave me the warm and fuzzies.
“I didn’t fall in love with Nemon’s pretty face. I fell in love with the hearts that beat inside him and with the soul that I can see behind his eyes. That is more beautiful than a face could ever be.”
I enjoyed The Kraken’s Mate (Iriduan Test Subjects, #2) a lot it was a well written and enjoyable read.
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This was the last book I read in 2018 I finished it on 12/31 @ 11:55 pm and what a great read it was to close out the year, I’ve really enjoyed this series and the characters you get vested in you want them to live, laugh, love and fight for what’s important to them. For me I give 5 star reads to books where I don’t jump ahead on a book I read from beginning to end without reading ahead tells me that I was hooked from the beginning and vested in. For me Susan Trombley rocks.
Second in series
We met Nemon and Joanie in book 1 in the series. Fleeing their captives and leaving with the Arkreillians to go to the syndicate space station to report the iridiuns for their crimes ( using captives as test subjects in experiments )
This book was a epic journey in many ways but mostly in the minds and hearts of the two main characters… Nemon in learning the world around him and Joanie in letting go of the past and focusing on her future.
As I have come to find and love about this author, she does not hold back on the emotion, feels, chemistry or face paced kick ass action that her books contain. There were some truly brilliant interactions between Neman and T ( the scorpion dude in the first book )
HOLY TENTACLES BATMAN!!
I’m looking forward to reading the next instalment and more from this author. (
this was a good read. there were some misspellings, enough to notice but not enough to make me stop reading. But Nemon was so dang sweet! I seriously just wanted to hug the curious sweet guy. they were such a good pair i was glad they were mated. Joanie just needed someone to believe in her so she could believe in herself. and the epilogue made me go omg I need to know more!
The Kraken’s Mate is the second book in Susan Trombley’s Mate Series. It too, like the first, begins terribly slow, but the momentum does move faster about half way through. You have to be patient to read this series, because if you really think about it, it’s not realistic that a human female would just jump an octupus’ tentacles and just start humping it. Susan builds the tension and allows the FC to see the Kraken as a “person.” Trust has to be established, but once it is, Susan does not write to merely salaciously describe tentacle A wiggled in human’s slot B. She writes with far more finesse than that. There really is love and respect between the two characters. I imagine that concept is hard to write, and yet she makes it all come together and appear natural, well as natural as a human and Kraken having sex together can.