Claimed by the Demon Alien

De: Ella Maven

Narrado por: John Masterson, Mia Madison

I live on pain . . . but for her, I only want to cause pleasure.

Penelope: One minute I'm conducting important research on a distant planet, and the next, I've fallen through a crack in the surface and am transported to an underground world with terrifying fanged creatures who want to eat me, an army of feathered warriors who rescue me, and a massive horned demon leader who gains power through pain . . . except he's only giving me pleasure.

He wants to keep me, and I have to admit, I don't hate the flaming underworld anymore. But I can't stay—my air filter will only last so long down here, and as for my demon? He can't survive on the surface. We are from two different worlds that never should have collided . . . what kind of future is there for a hot, alien demon and a human woman?

Claimed by the Demon Alien is a standalone sci-fi romance featuring a horned alien who used to torture his enemies and now spends his time picking flowers for his botanist human girlfriend.

Contains mature themes.

©2020 Ella Maven (P)2020 Tantor Media

Alien underground!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙💜💚
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥
Chemistry: 🧪🧪🧪
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎
Character development: 🤓😋😀😘
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Penelope - she is human and has a PhD in biology and is very proud to have been hired to go to a planet called S4 to study plant life. She loves her job and has worked very hard to get to this point in her life. While out on the planet one day, she and her team are ready to head back for the night, and one of them notices some odd readings on the ground radar. Penelope decides to take a look and goes out to check on the anomaly. She is tied to a rope which the others are holding so they can pull her in if she gets in trouble. However, something goes wrong, the ground opens up beneath her and the rope breaks.

The Heroes: Haste - a Demonica that was cursed and exiled. He is ruler of the under and master of the flames. He leads a group of Raven-like warriors. He is the master of his territory and others don’t usually encroach on his territory with out fear of vicious retaliation. They live deep underground and are technologically advanced enough to know what humans are and to have translators for the various species, races and alien life forms in the under.

The Story: Penelope falls and falls far beneath the surface as the hole from which she fell, closes up behind her. She is attacked by the Eaters, a large spider-like creature with a humanoid head, when Haste and his warriors appear and rescue her. Haste surprises even himself when he not only rescues Pen, but treats her nicely and doesn’t even eat her, despite the fact that she was trespassing in his territory.

The setup is really intriguing! If you haven’t guessed yet by the names Haste and Penelope and the underground setting, this is a bit of a Hades and Persephone reimagining. The Hades and Persephone inspiration shines through, but the sci-fi twist with the Demonica, raven warriors, translators, and strange alien creatures gives it a fresh edge.

I will have to admit the world of this alien planet was much different than in most alien romance I have read. There were a lot of really strange creatures and species, different foods and more, so the world building had potential, it introduced a lot of unusual species and environments. But the descriptions weren't vivid enough to paint a clear picture, which definitely made it harder to fully immerse in the setting. The two main characters were a bit stiff as well, so the chemistry between them wasn’t as explosive as I would have liked.

This audiobook was narrated from multiple perspectives, done in dual narration by Mia Madison and John Masterson. Mia has a good voice, it is a bit deeper than a lot of female narrators, so her voice for male characters wasn’t as bad as some, though she is a bit monotone at times and speaks slower than I like. John Masterson has a nice deep voice which I enjoy, and he does a great job with alien romance.

Stop with this one.” (My opinion)

Plot is predictable, characters are shallow and narrative uninspired. The time differentiation doesn’t even give Persephone much room to grow before hitting a dead end.
But, writers can be surprisingly creative.