Reviewed by Becca
TITLE: Jagher
SERIES: Kif Warriors #2
AUTHOR: Kiki Burrelli & Crista Crown
PUBLISHER: self-published
LENGTH: 169 pages
RELEASE DATE: October 27, 2019
BLURB:
A barbarian and a scientist are destined to be together… if they can build a bridge between their vastly different cultures…
After Cillian’s ship crash lands in unfamiliar territory, he’s eager to continue his mission to explore space and discover new alien species. Okay, maybe he is a little scared meeting his first alien group, but who wouldn’t be wary of all that muscle and warrior’s determination? Not to mention the amount of bare skin… Still, he’s lived a sheltered life until now and has dreamed of making first contact with an unknown race. This is his chance.
Jagher’s not sure what to make of the bumbling science crew when they nearly take his head off, falling from the sky. They are aliens, that much he is sure, but they don’t seem to pose a safety risk. Especially Cillian, he’s too soft and sweet, and makes Jagher extremely protective and possessive whenever he is around. But thanks to Jagher’s status as a playboy, his warrior brothers don’t believe the strength of his affection until Jagher and Cillian touch for the first time and Jagher discovers they are mates. Now that he has Cillian, he has no desire to look at another again.
Cillian was only ever meant to spend a short time exploring space, and back home, his father has a life planned for him that will take Cillian out of Jagher’s arms. They set off through space together on a mission that will not only prove the depths of their affection, but introduce something new, and adorable, into their world.
Jagher is the second book in The Kif Warriors, an alien mpreg series. This series is the first co-write between Crista and Kiki. They’ve joined forces to bring you all the humor, magic, steam and action that you enjoy!
REVIEW:
This book is so so good, but man at first, I will not lie, I was so upset. I hate social hierarchies, and when those look down on others, it makes me so angry. Just because someone is different doesn’t make you better. But the MC learns his lesson in the end, when it comes down to choosing to do something abhorrent or choosing the right thing.
Cillian was under the impression that this trip to Jagher’s home was supposed to be a scientific thing. But from the get go, it was just his father’s way of controlling things. When they are caught by Jagher’s kif, Cillian truly has no clue about what is going on. He really thinks they are supposed to be studying things. But when his so called friend, Declan, steals something, everything turns upside down. Especially when he goes into heat in Jagher’s presence. But when his heat is over and he meets Malik’s mate, his snobbiness kicks into overdrive and Jagher is devastated. He is wanting to dissolve the mating and is treating Malik’s mate like garbage because of what he was. But when taking Declan back to stand trial, Cillian has some things happen that cause some serious problems. And he finds out that the trip was all a ruse played out by his father to cause harm to others. And Cillian has a choice to make. Will he do what is right and forget all that he has been taught as far as classes and such or will he stick to the snobbish ways of his father and all that is wrong?
Normally, in most cases when it presents itself, I’m usually sticking to the side of the mate. The younger or omega or whatever you want to call it. Not that I’m against the alpha sides, per se, but usually the others have harder to fight and such. But in this case, I’m all about Jagher’s side. My heart broke for him so much in this book. He has had it impossibly hard throughout the whole book. No matter what he does, it’s like his mate is spitting in his face. Even when the product of their mating is staring them in the face. Cillian is throwing his social class in everyone’s face, every second he gets. His disdain at the fact that Malik’s mate was a pleasure slave and the way he kept insulting him, killed Jagher. That his mate could seem so heartless. He didn’t even bother to try to find out the whole story before insulting him. And it just kept on. Until the trip back to his home. He finally started to change his ways and see that maybe he was wrong. I hated that Cillian had to go through what he did as far as his father, but if he woke up to see the truth to what was really going on and how the worlds really worked, then Cillian needed a good dose of reality. And it was time he stood up for what was right instead of following a tradition that is murderous and horrid in every way.
It’s a sad story but it has an HEA. Don’t worry. It takes a lot to get to some of the good parts but sometimes you have to go through the fire to get to what is the good at the end. And in Cillian’s case, he needed to finally see that what was being thrown in his face wasn’t necessarily right. He needed to follow the love of his mother and what his true instincts were telling him. When he stopped to actually listen. And to follow the path that his mate knew was right. It may not be perfect, but it was the true course.
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