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A review by rjordan19
Hot Alien Bartender by Gwen Jody
adventurous
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Readability: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Humor: Yes, a bit
Perspective: first person from both hero and heroine
More character focused or plot focused? maybe more plot?
How did the speed of the story feel? medium
When mains are first on page together: almost immediately (chapter 1)
Cliffhanger: No, this ends with a happily ever
Epilogue: Yes
Format: read through kindle unlimited subscription
Should I read in order?
This is the first book of Fated Mates Bar series.
Basic plot:
Jess is brought to a very weird bar by her friend and everything is not as it seems...
Give this a try if you want:
- science fiction romance
- contemporary Earth setting
- alien hero / human heroine
- bartender hero
- heroine works for a library repository as an archivist
- bit of a size difference – hero is about 6’ 7” and heroine comes up to his collarbone
- special equipment! And well endowed hero
- fated mates
- shapeshifter hero
- mid to higher steam – 4 full scenes with plenty of details!
Ages:
- heroine is 31, hero would be 34 in Earth years
First line:
“You can’t wear that.”
My thoughts:
I am so happy one of our members in A Love Less Ordinary dropped this title because it was SO FUN!
I loved the set up for this one. I usually like alien settings in my sci-fi books, but this one was just too cute of a plot to not enjoy. Aliens and wolf shifters have a bar in the middle of nowhere called Fated Mate and are desperately trying to find mates on Earth. The beginning scenes were so cute and fun!
And as we get to know our characters, I just loved both Jess and Gravod. Super protective and sweet hero. A bit of instalove with our fated mates connection, but still enough tension building and I adored. Also, I really loved how other problems were addressed in this novel. The heroine having a toxic ex and his comeuppance was so dang satisfying to read. I loved the way this went – seeing characters give in to toxic behaviors or enable them can really drive me nuts with the experiences I have had and I loved how this heroine stood up for herself immediately and didn’t lose any part of her self in his attempts at destruction.
Definitely eager for more from this author! I also signed up for her newsletters and she has a fun drink recipe inspired by the book. Love (and it meets one of my summer book challenge bingo boxes from my library. So I can’t wait to write Hot Alien Bartender in my square! 😆
Few random reading stats for this author
# of books read: This is my first by this author!
Average rating: 5 stars
Favorite book: This one!
Cock/Hero Stats:
- hero has a very intoxicating scent and something entices the heroine upon meeting him making her super horny…
- hero displays himself initially with short black hair and green eyes but they can camouflage/shapeshift
- the hero’s people are from Vytaris
- the hero has amazing hearing (can hear 20 sets of heartbeats in his bar) and excellent eyesight
- silver eyes, skin is deep burgundy red, small horns,
- hero has ta’laps that are tentacles that can come out of his body and wrap, pull, etc. they have drol on the underneath side, which are raised and rounded grips. As many emerge as needed from any point in his body. They can do hundreds, but a more normal number would be 20.
- hero has a lithis (his tongue) that has a lemony scent and unfolds deeply into the mouth/vagina. It has kind of a numbing aspect? So that it prepares the….hole… for his giant cock 😆
- lydaxians (the hero’s people) can only reproduce with their mates
- their eyes are bright and take in more wavelengths than humans
- they use their lithis for oral sex so the heroine can fully take his cock. They have a ‘seal’ around the base that holds them to the heroine and their cock pumps on its own into her cervix, the seal is red and thick and goes all the way around the base, massaging the clit
- cock is darker red than the rest of him
- hero bites his mate and it creates and unbreakable bond
Endearments
Hero calls the heroine ‘sta’la. (which means my love, my mate)
Quotes/thoughts: (Any mistakes are my own)
“Okay. I need to go to sleep. This will all make sense in the morning.” I stood, and so did Gravod. “Why don’t you come by again tomorrow and we can talk more after I’ve had a chance to process everything.”
“I’m staying here. You’re my mate, and I want to be near you. I’ll sleep in your bed and keep you safe.”
Oh, damn. So wet.
Content warnings: (This should be taken as a minimum because I could have missed some!)
- remembrance of a bad relationship including cheating
- heroine has to work with her toxic ex and he exacts power trips and retaliation
- mention of parental death from cancer
- some remembered aspects of colonization from the hero’s people (their history is full on conquests, neighboring planets and beyond, then they started forming alliances with other planets. Now they only shift in order to study species or defend)
Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:
Safe sex: Heroine is on birth control. Hero’s seed isn’t as potent without a bond. Their doctors have eradicated all sexual diseases generations ago.
Hows the consent? It’s good
Pregnancy/children in the story? No children in the story. ‘Breeding’ is an aspect as well as talking about creating children and picturing children in the future. Epilogue includes children they have had.
23% - kiss
33% - 🔥 kisses, tentacle penetration for the heroine, bj for him followed by oral for her, he comes in the sheets
“You are so fucking perfect,” he whispered against my ear.
56% - 🔥 tentacle penetration for her, oral for her, missionary, followed the next morning by tentacle penetration for her and handy for him
“So tight. My sweet mate. You’re going to take all of my big cock, aren’t you?”
84% - 🔥 tentacle penetration for her, bj for him
“I love how you say please, sweet mate.”
94% - 🔥 oral for her, missionary with mating bite
“That’s right, sweet mate. You’re so wet for me. Cover my bed with your scent.”
Readability: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Humor: Yes, a bit
Perspective: first person from both hero and heroine
More character focused or plot focused? maybe more plot?
How did the speed of the story feel? medium
When mains are first on page together: almost immediately (chapter 1)
Cliffhanger: No, this ends with a happily ever
Epilogue: Yes
Format: read through kindle unlimited subscription
Should I read in order?
This is the first book of Fated Mates Bar series.
Basic plot:
Jess is brought to a very weird bar by her friend and everything is not as it seems...
Give this a try if you want:
- science fiction romance
- contemporary Earth setting
- alien hero / human heroine
- bartender hero
- heroine works for a library repository as an archivist
- bit of a size difference – hero is about 6’ 7” and heroine comes up to his collarbone
- special equipment! And well endowed hero
- fated mates
- shapeshifter hero
- mid to higher steam – 4 full scenes with plenty of details!
Ages:
- heroine is 31, hero would be 34 in Earth years
First line:
“You can’t wear that.”
My thoughts:
I am so happy one of our members in A Love Less Ordinary dropped this title because it was SO FUN!
I loved the set up for this one. I usually like alien settings in my sci-fi books, but this one was just too cute of a plot to not enjoy. Aliens and wolf shifters have a bar in the middle of nowhere called Fated Mate and are desperately trying to find mates on Earth. The beginning scenes were so cute and fun!
And as we get to know our characters, I just loved both Jess and Gravod. Super protective and sweet hero. A bit of instalove with our fated mates connection, but still enough tension building and I adored. Also, I really loved how other problems were addressed in this novel. The heroine having a toxic ex and his comeuppance was so dang satisfying to read. I loved the way this went – seeing characters give in to toxic behaviors or enable them can really drive me nuts with the experiences I have had and I loved how this heroine stood up for herself immediately and didn’t lose any part of her self in his attempts at destruction.
Definitely eager for more from this author! I also signed up for her newsletters and she has a fun drink recipe inspired by the book. Love (and it meets one of my summer book challenge bingo boxes from my library. So I can’t wait to write Hot Alien Bartender in my square! 😆
Few random reading stats for this author
# of books read: This is my first by this author!
Average rating: 5 stars
Favorite book: This one!
Cock/Hero Stats:
- hero has a very intoxicating scent and something entices the heroine upon meeting him making her super horny…
- hero displays himself initially with short black hair and green eyes but they can camouflage/shapeshift
- the hero’s people are from Vytaris
- the hero has amazing hearing (can hear 20 sets of heartbeats in his bar) and excellent eyesight
- silver eyes, skin is deep burgundy red, small horns,
- hero has ta’laps that are tentacles that can come out of his body and wrap, pull, etc. they have drol on the underneath side, which are raised and rounded grips. As many emerge as needed from any point in his body. They can do hundreds, but a more normal number would be 20.
- hero has a lithis (his tongue) that has a lemony scent and unfolds deeply into the mouth/vagina. It has kind of a numbing aspect? So that it prepares the….hole… for his giant cock 😆
- lydaxians (the hero’s people) can only reproduce with their mates
- their eyes are bright and take in more wavelengths than humans
- they use their lithis for oral sex so the heroine can fully take his cock. They have a ‘seal’ around the base that holds them to the heroine and their cock pumps on its own into her cervix, the seal is red and thick and goes all the way around the base, massaging the clit
- cock is darker red than the rest of him
- hero bites his mate and it creates and unbreakable bond
Endearments
Hero calls the heroine ‘sta’la. (which means my love, my mate)
Quotes/thoughts: (Any mistakes are my own)
“Okay. I need to go to sleep. This will all make sense in the morning.” I stood, and so did Gravod. “Why don’t you come by again tomorrow and we can talk more after I’ve had a chance to process everything.”
“I’m staying here. You’re my mate, and I want to be near you. I’ll sleep in your bed and keep you safe.”
Oh, damn. So wet.
Content warnings: (This should be taken as a minimum because I could have missed some!)
- remembrance of a bad relationship including cheating
- heroine has to work with her toxic ex and he exacts power trips and retaliation
- mention of parental death from cancer
- some remembered aspects of colonization from the hero’s people (their history is full on conquests, neighboring planets and beyond, then they started forming alliances with other planets. Now they only shift in order to study species or defend)
Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:
Safe sex:
Hows the consent?
Pregnancy/children in the story?
23% - kiss
33% - 🔥 kisses, tentacle penetration for the heroine, bj for him followed by oral for her, he comes in the sheets
“You are so fucking perfect,” he whispered against my ear.
56% - 🔥 tentacle penetration for her, oral for her, missionary, followed the next morning by tentacle penetration for her and handy for him
“So tight. My sweet mate. You’re going to take all of my big cock, aren’t you?”
84% - 🔥 tentacle penetration for her, bj for him
“I love how you say please, sweet mate.”
94% - 🔥 oral for her, missionary with mating bite
“That’s right, sweet mate. You’re so wet for me. Cover my bed with your scent.”