When a Man Loves an Alien Tentacular Tales Book #3
Gay Romance, LGBTQ Romance, Gay Ficton
Rainbow Drams Press
May 26, 2023
Kindle
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Amazon
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….”
When a Man Loves an Alien (Tentacular Tales #3) is a (100k words) M/M sci-fi rom com and the third book in the series. It should be read in chronological order. This installment features an assassin who just won’t quit, little old ladies at slot machines who should NOT be messed with, a zipline action-hero moment, shocking secrets and revelations, a death-defying climax, and just maybe…a zany Vegas wedding? This book has an HFN ending and no cheating. Never fear—there is a guaranteed HEA by the end of the series!
Reviewed by Linda Tonis
Member of the Paranormal Romance Guild Review Team
We pick up after book two with Kai and River worried about the assassin hired by River’s mother’s family to kill him. River has adjusted to the fact that he is half alien and half human and is working hard at the Alliance finding a way to allow the aliens who cannot integrate with humans due to their appearance and finding them a way to belong. So many new aliens must live in hiding something River plans to fix. It was in book two that he figured out how to create an alien exotic dance group and an alien Elvis impersonator. Humans believed these were all men in costume unaware of who and what they really were.
River and Kai are now engaged and of course River wouldn’t be River if he didn’tcome up with a new nickname for Kai. He always calls Kai, Boo so why not Boo-ancé. Kai has finally gotten used to all of River’s strange terms especially his constant referrals to Star Wars, Star Trek and anything space related. River has extra protection when it becomes evident that the assassin is now on Earth. His first attempt at killing River was a failure and that was when he discovered that as a royal, he had a survival gene so killing him will be more difficult.
Kai is dealing with a problem of his own when an Internal Affairs Agent comes to investigate something he did without permission. In addition, after two hundred years Kai has become the first male to suffer from Mating Fever a condition that can strike him without notice. Kai and River have a lot to deal with, but River never loses his desire to help those he loves with any problems they have. He has also become quite a match maker beginning with Kai’s brother Mal and River’s Uncle Benji. If you have been reading this series, then you are very familiar with Uncle Benji, the maker of magic brownies.
Old enemies are still a threat, Layne Madison was dealing drugs before he disappeared but that was just a diversion to keep his real plans a secret. With him in the wind, an assassin determined to kill River and a mole in the Alliance, River and Kai decide to get married rather than wait since their future is at risk. River comes up with some foolproof plans to trap the assassin but once again they work but not the way they planned.
River’s, Tentacular Tales of Captain Starblade, his porn space soap opera is more popular than ever, and he is in danger when his fans mob him making it hard to keep him protected and leaving an opening for the assassin. The love Kai and River have for each other keeps growing and their desire to care for each other putting everything else aside is wonderful.
This is a series that must be read in order since one book ends and picks up in the next book. There are some major surprises and I mean major. Of course, there is tentacle sex, if you have read the previous books then you know exactly what I am talking about. There is edge of the seat suspense, amazing characters and some laugh out loud moments courtesy of River. He has no filter, when his mouth opens it is anyone’s guess what will come out and he is the reason I love this series and him.
I can’t wait for the next book to learn what else is in store for River and Kai hopefully it won’t be a long wait.