Week 41 Review: The Akseli

From Goodreads:

Simone has hunted and slain psychotic vampires night after night for hundreds of years and desperately needs a change. When the leader of the Immortal Guardians offers her an opportunity to guard ten mortal women who are venturing to another planet, she dives right in and finds traveling into space and meeting amazing alien races just as exciting as she'd hoped… until an enemy attacks. Simone saves everyone she can before she's thrust into an escape pod and the ship explodes. Alone, fearing some—if not all—of her friends have been killed, she vows to seek vengeance.

Despite his fierce reputation and propensity for violating the law, Janwar has formed a friendship with strait-laced Prince Taelon of Lasara. When the prince's ship is destroyed, Janwar joins the massive Aldebarian Alliance-wide search and rescue mission and soon locates the Gathendien ship that launched the attack. An odd thing happens, however, as he and his crew stealthily approach it. The lifeforms inside begin to perish, two or three at a time in quick succession. Much to his surprise, someone else has reached the ship first: one of the very Earth women he hoped to rescue.

Fascinatingly fierce, Simone bands together with Janwar and his crew to search for her missing friends and wreak havoc upon those who wish to harm them. She also widens eyes, drops jaws, and sparks laughter and mischief as she banishes the warriors' world-weariness and makes each day seem like a new adventure. The friendship that grows between Janwar and Simone swiftly deepens into love. But the enemy warriors they face are tenacious and boast more weapons in their arsenal than the alliance knows. Can Janwar, Simone, and such a small crew vanquish them?

My Review:
This was another really fun read! I do think that the ones with the immortal guardian love interests are just a little bit more fun because they are badass-and Simone is older then Eliana, so even more so, and yeah, I just had a really great time reading this book!

Simone is pretty bad ass. I mean she wipes out basically an entire ship of Gathendien's, and the basically where ones that she deliberately left alive to be interrogated. She's always up for a challenge, and I loved that scene when she was in the ring, that was so much fun! 

And then there's Janwar, who looks like Jack Sparrow, who is a pirate as well, a space pirate, he was great to read about! He's had it rough, his parents were killed by a corrupt member of the government, one who is still in charge. Loved his story! 

We did get the start of two other couples, one of whom who may or may not be the featured couple in the next book. I would love to spend more time with the crew, they're tight knit, and they're pirates! I would love to spend more time with them! But on the other hand, the other potential couple might deal with the corrupt Akseli government, given how they treated the cyborgs. I hope we get both! 

Loved reading this book, and I can't wait for more! 

Author: Dianne Duvall
Series: Aldebarian Alliance #4
Read: October 13th, 2022
Source: Ebook.bike 
Reason Why: Love her writing and it's a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2022 Book and a WoW Book!
Publisher: Dianne Duvall
Published: October 11th 2022

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars