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Zuvok

Brides to Beasts, Book 1

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Zuvok

By: Athena Storm
Narrated by: Tristan James, Meghan Kelly
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I am Zuvok the Terror. Feared soldier of the Trident Alliance. And I will not do housework!

I relish the fury of combat. I love the adrenaline as I kill my enemies. Blood drips from my hands. Until I go too far.

So my commanders send me a foe that I never expected: my bride. A comely, curvy, human woman. A princess. She must be insane. She has to be if she agreed to be my mail-order bride.

But I don't want a bride. Zuvok the Terror will not be tamed. He will not be civilized! He will not hang balloon valances on windows with pastel-hued drapes. He will not dry dishes as she washes them! He will not sweep before he mops the floors!

But then, this tiny human woman does something more powerful than a killing blow from an Odex wielding a power-blade. She gets on her tip toes and wraps her arms around me, squeezing herself to me. She coos. And giggles. And kisses me on my nose. And my heart melts for her.

Zuvok the Terror? More like Zuvok the Terrier. Damn humans.

Contains mature themes.

©2020 Athena Storm (P)2020 Tantor
Fiction Paranormal Paranormal Romance Romance Science Fiction Bride Funny Heartfelt Witty Wedding

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So bad it's good

The entire story sounds like it is read in the voices of Leela and Zapp Brannigan from Futurama. I could not stop listening.

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fast pace plot

good verbage, and dirty talk but little plot and little real character development, very flat main characters

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Hilarious and I loved it!

I'll agree with another reviewer, you are either going to love this or hate it. It is purposefully over-the-top with improbable and impossible situations; however the romance is cute, the plot is fast action, and the narrators (especially Tristan) make it laugh out loud funny! I absolutely love the corny and crude language because it just fits the characters.

My only issue is the forward chapter that does this very boring recap of the universe. It really doesn't matter because it just follows their little side of the story on one planet. Unfortunately I think when you listen to the sample this is all you get. I was able to listen to this first book because it was part of the Plus catalog. So if you can get it that way, give it a listen. I think I might have bought it anyway since it is on sale, which is what my plan is for the next book so I can laugh some more. Just go in knowing it is meant to be a silly romp.

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It's so bad but so good.

Well after seeing the reviews on how bad it was I had to see and i actually loved it. soooooo cheesy and hilarious. I don't think it was meant to be a serious Romance to begin with. But It really made me laugh and go I wish....
you either love it or you don't. I loved it and looking forward to more of this author.

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Hilarious

I love Zuvok ❤️
His irreverent attitude makes me laugh. The story is pretty good and there are several likable characters. Unfortunately the female narrator has a weird inflection that gets irritating fast. But not a deal breaker for me cause I LOVE ZUVOK❤️

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Rated highly for the vibes only. listen if it's free.

I don't feel Athena wrote this to be taken seriously at all, it is what it is and it does it fine. If you go into this expecting character development, yearning and tension filled romance, an interesting fleshed out plot, unique world building with thought provoking themes.... You're not going to get it lol. This is fun smut for the sake of it. The characters have no depth, 0 world building so the tone of this story is literally all over the place and the story is more shallow than a kitty pool but it's fun haha. This felt like a Futurama fanfic.


Tristan was a great voice for Zuvok! He had a horrible female voice but that's not uncommon with duel narrations and he does well enough to keep you listening. Very zapp brannigan coded. Meghan, although I liked the sound of her voice her cadence and inflections were so distracting. Sometimes she'd trail off into Jennifer Coolidge territory that somehow made this read horribly worse yet funnier at the same time. Her male voice is probably the worst I've heard on this app too... The sex scenes with this two... It's a cringy, irritating yet halarious experience.

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zuvok the terror

I have to say, it' s a book you love or you hate! No middleway. The beginning was adjusting to the way the book is written. The first 3 chapters you need to let loose the way a lot of books are written. This one has a lot of Ironie and the way the princess is made alife by the narrator is very good. So please try it. I did not receive this book for free. I bought it.
Happy reading every one, Sidhaeg

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fun read

loved the characters, plenty of humor and a great heroine. store line is interesting. loved it.

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Surprisingly funny!

I laughed out loud so many times listening to this! It was silly and fun.

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Story was ok, but I didn’t like the writing!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎
Character development: ☹️😮😋
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Dual Narration

The Story: year 2338, humanity has become a space faring civilization and formed the interstellar human confederation. The Trident Alliance is composed of three races, The Ataxian Coalition has three other races and the two have been at war for a long time. There is also a League of Non-Aligned races and many races have created the Helios Combine which is located in the badlands between Alliance and Coalition, and they are a slave-based economy and capitalist caste system. Humanity ended up siding with the Alliance in the war and hasn’t fared well in the brutal war.

The Hero: Zuvok - he is one of the most highly decorated warriors of the Trident Alliance and is known as Zuvok the Terror. He recently became commander of a scientific vessel. The scientists are all scared of him and about have a heart attack every time he moves. He thinks he should be commander of a battle cruiser and figures this post might just be a punishment. His superior thinks he is not the brightest bulb in the pack and after he fires on a Coalition ship that is being used for Alliance training and war games, he is relieved of his command.

The heroine: Alundra - she is a princess whose parents died in a shuttle accident and her home went to her uncle Daniel. Now that she is at the age of adulthood, and he wants to marry her off to one of his associates. A seventy-year-old third cousin named Reinhold. She doesn’t have anything in common with him and the laws are against him. She can’t be forced into the marriage by law, though she really doesn’t have much choice, so she plans to get away without marrying Reinhold. She escapes to the spaceport and gets on a ship where she has signed up for the mail order bride program as she would rather be married to an alien than an old man.

Zuvok’s superior officer is able to get him out of the trouble he is in. It is worth it for them to keep him in the military, because the opposition fears his name. But they need him to settle down and have required him to get a bride. They want him to put his record to use and help make strategic decisions rather than being in on the action himself. Alundra is the bride that was chosen for him. Alundra isn’t too happy that the agency chose her an alien from such a brutal race. I did like Zuvok, though, he was actually pretty funny.

The book gets pretty steamy fairly quickly and the writing seems a bit too simplistic for my tastes. I was actually surprised when I looked at the list of books Athena Storm has written and found out she has written so many books already. I would have thought this was a book from early in an author’s writing career. Overall, the story and the action weren’t bad, it was just the way they talked that seemed not to flow as well as I would have expected. I kept thinking to myself that some of the things they said to each other sounded so silly, not like people would actually talk in real life.

I wasn’t sure I liked Alundra at first, she gets to Zuvok’s house and immediately starts making changes. Granted, the changes were needed, since he had quilts covering all his windows and he hasn’t kept up with any housekeeping. So, it was good that she wasn’t afraid to get down to it and do the work herself, but the way she just started yelling at him and putting him down from the get-go wasn’t the way to go about it. Though I did like her more as the story progressed.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Tristan James and Meghan Kelly. Tristan has a nice voice, and I like his narration, though he is a bit stiff and isn’t one of my favorite male narrators. Meghan Kelly isn’t one of my favorites either, she has a bit of a scratchy voice that I am not too fond of, though she does a good job.

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