Reviewed by: Sue Eaton

TITLE: When A Man Loves An Alien

SERIES: Tentacular Tales #3

AUTHOR: Chloe Archer

PUBLISHER: Self Published

LENGTH: 362 pages

RELEASE DATE: May 26, 2023

BLURB:

A grumpy-sexy alien and his (mostly) human mate are just trying to get married for goodness sake! But the road to matrimony is riddled with obstacles that could prove deadly…

RIVER

Being engaged to my adorable alien boo is a dream come true. Too bad there’s a target painted on my back. Come on universe, quit messing with true love! For reals. Kai and I need to plan our wedding—which is going to be hella quirky and fun, because I say so.

Cue Shilgar the Deadly, who’s screwing up everything—what with trying to kill me and all. My life is becoming even more unbelievable than my fictional characters, Lord Vardox and Captain Starblade.

There’s no way I’m not walking down the aisle with Kai, so help me! I fully intend to ‘get me to the church’—I mean Vegas wedding chapel—on time. This fool of an assassin thinks he can mess with my dreams of wedded bliss? I don’t think so. He’s about to learn he’s met his match in River Sullivan!

KAI

My relationship with River is solid and wedding bells are in the air. Unfortunately, other parts of my life are…less stable. Between juggling a highly inconvenient Mating Fever that can strike at any time, and dealing with an investigator from Intergalactic Alliance Headquarters, I’m finding it hard to hold onto my usual equilibrium.

When Shilgar the Deadly finally shows up on Earth, gunning for River, the control I cling to is stretched razor thin. I’m desperate to do whatever I can to keep my mate safe—but I’m not sure if I can.

Yet things aren’t all that they seem. New secrets come to light and we’re all left reeling. Apparently, that famous Earthling playwright was correct when he wrote, “the course of true love never did run smooth….”

REVIEW:

I was so happy to return to the third book in this series.  It is wonderful, full of humor, sci-fi geekdom, revelations and plot twists, it’s a lot of fun to read.

River just keeps on getting better and better, he is so quirky, funny and the person I would like to have as a best friend.  He genuinely likes everyone and is so enthusiastic about the aliens he meets.  He manages to disarm the most hardened, cynical individual and somehow manages to turn them into allies and friends, which is amazing and so well written, it’s totally believable.

The book resumes with Kai still gripped in the mating fever that he isn’t supposed to have.  Which leaves him feeling out of control and unable to focus, which is something he hates and fears.  An intergalactic assassin is on his way to kill River and Kai fears he will not be able to stop him.

I really loved River discovering that his dreams had come true, and he has an alien superpower, whilst maybe it’s not as cool as flying or being able to turn invisible.  It’s subtle but an extremely handy superpower that has saved his bacon so many times.

Despite assassins trying to kill him and bureaucratic officials from Command investigating Kai.  River remains upbeat and positive.  There were so many funny bits with River finding out he has been getting gifts and fan mail, but that Kai has been answering them and not telling him.  The very unexpected plot twist surprised me and threw River and Benji for a loop.

Finally, despite everything River and Kai manage to tie the knot, in a very River way, I howled with laughter at the wedding, it was funny but also romantic and beautiful, everything you want for River and Kai.

We also see small snippets into the supporting characters and their developing relationships which was lovely and adds so much depth to the book.  I can’t wait to see if Mal manages to convince Benji that he is not so young and wants to have a relationship with him.  River and Ellie plotting in the background to try and push the two of them together and Benji wandering through being totally oblivious.

There were so many great parts to this book, and I really enjoyed the continuing references to Star Trek and Star Wars which appealed to my inner sci fi geek.  I can’t wait for the final book in this series.

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