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Title: Hot Alpha Alien Husbands #1
Author: Scarlett Starkleigh Genre/Themes: New Adult Fantasy, Erotica, science fiction, Paranormal, aliens Publisher: Self Published Year of Publication: 2016 Version: Ebook - kindle app Review
‘You just looked at me like I took all your choices away and you want them back. What do you want, right now, more than anything in the universe?"
We have D.D. Prince, author of ‘Detour’ and ‘Alphahole’ writing as Scarlett Starkleigh in this unusually diverting sci-fi novel of a planet bursting with male encumbrance and a horde of terrified Earth women subjected to the volition of Phallyx’s deprived men.
‘But when I saw the sky, I knew I wasn’t in Kansas anymore.'
Four years ago a blight wiped out a colossal amount of Phallyx’s female population, leaving their men restive, needy and bereaved. Phallyxian men have shelter and command embedded in their make up and as well as the loss they’ve experienced they have no way to exercise their inherent predisposition. Women are an imperative part of their lives, and the absence of their feminal counterparts has taken it’s toll on their livelihoods as well as the current climate. A restless tension has been building since because these larger than life aliens are restless, determined and hungry for what was taken from them. Lucky for them there’s an otherworldly shipment coming in, one that’s guaranteed to placate what’s left of their race, and hopefully ignite some harmony to their planet, because Earth just happens to be plentiful in the feminine variety.
‘Phallyxians wanted for nothing until they found themselves without women.'
‘I’m a bit like a mail order bride. But space-mail.’
A trade consensus was made by both Phallyx’s and Earth’s leaders: Earth would provide Phallyx with women to encourage the continuation of their species and Phallyx would offer them advanced resources in return. Regrettably for her Jetta Mercedes Michaels is one of those women, tricked and traded without knowledge or her consent to take part in this highly covert operation, and after being fed a bowlful of lies she’s stuck amid the lush, idyllic surrounding of Phallyx’s paradisiacal plush planet of thriving foliage and brilliant pigmentation. A fertile planet awaiting fertile women…this is Jetta’s absolute nightmare because she’s not a commodity to be bred, and she definitely won’t be served on an otherworldly dish for Phyllax’s men to feast on.
“You set eyes on me for half a second and decide, that’s it? You wanna make babies with me?”
“Yeah, sure. I’ll make babies with you,” he offered.'
As soon as her feet hit Phallyx’s rich, but star-crossed earth it’s time to fight or fly. Jetta is the kind of optimist that sees the bad but does her best to look at what’s in her arsenal rather than stew over resentment. Give her cherries, I’m sure she’ll find a way to make lemonade because it could always be much worse. Simply looking to take her future potential on Earth on a serious chase and here she ends up being chased, attempting to outrun these apparently wild men with competition and conquest on their minds…because she is now a part of Phallyx’s adaptation of fantasy’s The Wild Hunt.
“Once I understood your words I was even more in your thrall. I wasn’t coming down here today, I didn’t even know when you’d arrive this week, didn’t allow myself to know, but then fate brought you to my feet and now I’ll spend my life at yours."
Jetta is comfortable enough to disturb the balance and as unsettled as she is she corrects her fear with expression and clamorous fight. Just as Jetta doesn’t hesitate to question, Daxx Blackstar has the status to disturb some rules himself because he’d do a lot to make Jetta a Blackstar. Mayhem this is because deprived men means starving men, starving for company, starving for happiness, for liaison and starving for intimacy. The men of Phallyx are desirous and are single-minded in their goal for female companionship and natural coupling, and they hope to settle the unbalanced dynamic of the planet. Phallyx is a prosperous planet, but not as rich without it’s women.
‘He’d toiled, warring between whether to allow his emotions to lead or allow his logic to lead.'
And so this is a story of salacious claim, indecision and red herrings for Daxx and Jetta - she is fastened into a relationship she didn’t ask for and one that he has no promise of letting go of. For Daxx is it just the simple peculiarity and wonder of wanting an Earth woman, or is petite but spunky Jetta the one for him? True or not can any sort of relationship be established on a great deception and underhanded methods? Especially a one-sided relationship? Or will Jetta find a way out of this mess and away from her alpha alien husband that she has ambivalent feelings for?
‘It took meeting you for me to want something badly enough to take action.’
“You can give that to me every single day once you decide that I deserve it. I vow that I will deserve it. Every smile, every laugh, it’s all a gift in the meantime.'
Life is full of the unannounced, and it’s no more humouring for Jetta. As Starkleigh’s first try at a sci-fi fantasy this surely comes across as the playful story it was intended to be. Starkleigh admittedly isn’t a sci-fi connoisseur as this story isn’t meant to follow the specific laws of space and the logistics that come with it, but this story focuses so much on the characters and the story itself that the accuracies are almost irrelevant . I could tell that Starkleigh had a lot of fun writing ‘Hot Alpha Alien Husbands’ and as her first jump into sci-fi territory I think she did a great job with this book’s design. As a reader it’s enjoyable to know that an author had fun writing and when that can be traced it’s as much as I can ask for.
“Can it make pizza?”
“Pete zah?” “Oh God. Please tell me you know what pizza is.” “Explain?"
‘Hot Alpha Alien Husbands’ admittedly got me thinking - and If you’re a deep thinker I’m sure it’d get you thinking too. What would society actually be like without the presence of women on Earth? How would that impact men, and how would that impact the way we work as a dynamic? What would that mean for procreation - even with technology - and all the valuable contributions women make? I’m sure the fallout would be ruinous. Though this is a light read, it does actually pose a reflective premise.
‘Earth was an unusual place with the greed and the wars and the promiscuity of the planet. People of Earth rarely mated for life. On Phallyx, most did.'
In this story women are a necessity for men, not just a luxury… and love is a boon, but an even bigger one? Choice, but choice is also a right and Jetta’s - along with many other women’s - was robbed from her. The current climate is a parlous one on Phallyx, and the spaceball is most definitely not in Jetta’s court. That saying? ‘Men are from Mars, women are from Venus’? Well, these races are planets apart, languages apart and still we all have similarities at the kernel. Daxx hopes that women can restore a balance that has long since been lost, taking contentment with them. Perhaps more than just re-populating the planet this devilish alien gentleman can find his happiness at Venus’s door.
‘He wanted time with just her first, time to nurture the tiny seedling of feelings she had so that he could grow that into something indestructible.'
From friction to warmth, hurt to devotion I’m a huge lover of those stories where the ground starts out rocky between two people but then forms into smooth fellowship and the polar opposite.
As my tribute to sci-fi fantasy week I hope this story of Inter-planetary affairs knocks your otherworldly socks of. Easily a tempting narrative written for the purpose of fun fantasy and saucy sci-fi.
‘She had a life force about her - it affected him like he had never been affected before. She was pure energy and light.'
I gave this book 3.5 stars -
Trigger Warning: Sex scenes, profanity and brief mention of suicide.
My Rating System:
★ - 1 star: I did not like the book ★★ - 2 stars: The book was okay ★★★ - 3 stars: It was a good, solid read ★★★★ - 4 stars: A great book ★★★★★ - 5: A phenomenal read
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Other books by Scarlett Starkleigh by pen name D,D, Prince:
● 'Detour' (Beautiful Biker #1) by D.D. Prince
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Simran Herondale
18/9/2019 18:13:28
WOW!! I must say Vicarious you have posted yet another amazing review. Your reviews are absolutely riveting and enthralling, I found myself wishing you had written more! Lol.
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Vaishali_Vicarious Living
20/9/2019 10:52:54
Thank you very much Simran!
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