Tiffany Roberts‘ Claimed by an Alien Warrior has been on my shelf for a while now. I received it in a Renegade Romance book box last year.
After losing her job, apartment, and boyfriend in one afternoon, Zoey doesn’t think things can get any worse. Then an uninvited passenger—green, four-armed, and sexy as sin—proves her wrong by dragging her into his frantic escape. Helping Rendash is the right thing to do, but it means becoming a fugitive and risking the only things she has left—her life, and her heart.
Weakened by years of captivity and torture, Rendash, an elite aligarii warrior, seizes his only opportunity for freedom. Alone in an alien wasteland, he seeks the aid of a human, one of the very species that imprisoned him. But he finds himself inexplicably drawn to Zoey, and his need to protect her soon wars with his mission to return to his homeworld.
With a shadowy government agency pursuing them, Zoey and Rendash must race across the country before he is recaptured, and she is thrown in a dark cell as a traitor to her kind. But their greatest obstacle may be the most unlikely—their insatiable attraction to one another.
Meh, I didn’t hate it, but I didn’t love it either. It was sweet, but also not particularly deep, fairly formulaic, and therefore predictable. Honestly, that could stand as the review in its entirety. If a sweet, comfortably predictable alien romance is what you are after, this will fill the bill. If you’re looking for a little more depth or development, it’s probably not the book for you.
I liked Zoey well enough, though the “I’ve let myself get treated badly because I’m fat” got old pretty quickly, even if I did appreciate her finding her alien who liked her curves. Rendash is wonderfully straightforward and noble, but he’s also a cardboard cutout of a noble alien warrior. Nothing about him feels new or original, and I didn’t find him very well developed. The thrown-together-by-fate road trip felt overly long, though the book does have a couple of humorous culture clashes and is a quick read.
All in all, it’s not an overall winner for me, but it’s not a waste of my time either.
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