The Alien’s Future

Drixonian Warriors

By: Ella Maven

Narrated by: Heather Costa, Jeffrey Kafer

Space ship travel when you've been kidnapped sucks. I don't get a pillow, there's no snacks, and worst of all—the whole ship crashes. Except, it doesn't crash on Earth, or even Mars. Nope, I'm in a whole new galaxy on a foreign planet and some body-builder-looking blue horned aliens with lots of piercings have decided I'm their new play thing. And not in a good way.

Until one alien decides he's not going to share, and maybe I have a concussion from the crash, because I'm all about the possessive way he protects me. But there's no way he'll fight his whole clan for me . . . right?

Contains mature themes.

©2020 Ella Maven (P)2024 Tantor

Loved!

It was so nice to hear Anna's story. It was short but very sweet. ❤️

Alien Warrior

Short but very exciting book. Terror, Journeys, Fun and Love. What an adventure. Aliens can be scary and some not so much. Enjoy

Good storyline

I like how it flowed smoothly and how sweet the male lead is. It is a very good read would recommend .

Entering book but it’s very simple

I liked the male narrators voice a lot but not the female narrator. The story is entertaining but it’s too simplistic for me.

Mood reader so it's time for some aliens!

I had been looking for something totally different in my Audible library and I thought aliens, why not? hahaha and I am glad I did. I listened to this introductory novella in a quick turnaround and am already almost done book 1 of the series. I am digging the world and how the author is painting these creatures in my mind with their detailed description. I love imagining this amazing world.

The narration was good from these two, I have listened to the female narrator a lot and have no issues with her or her performances. I felt Anna's fear but her resilience in this novella and the narrator did a great job. I laughed with some of Tark's antics and I wanted more of Shepp, not gonna lie! I loved the aliens trying to learn earth phrases/mentions and I liked the translator thing. I am interested to see how any of the side characters we meet in this intro will be in future books, but only time will tell. I liked the bands they get on them when they are confirmed mated. I liked all the awesome appendages and extra fun things the author added to Tark's anatomy haha. Spice was good, I enjoyed some of the sweeter moments more, but overall a good mix of story and spice.

Already listening to book 1, almost finished, so I am definitely invested in this new world and new to me author. I like switching up my listens/reads and I had listened/read an alien one in a while so this was a nice change of pace. 4/5 for this short story in this overall bigger series.

The Start to a GREAT Series

Every single book in this series is amazing! This one covers the sweet story of Anna and Tarq. I read this out of sequence but it really doesn’t matter. Anna, Tarq and their daughter Basil become important characters in the later books. I love finally hearing what brought them together.

Warriors & Survivors

Rating: ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Heat Rating: 🔥🔥🔥
Narrator Performance: Female: 🎧🎧🎧🎧.5 Male: 🎧🎧🎧🎧.5

This novella was a brief introduction into Ella Maven’s Drixonian Warriors series. In it we get the story of Tark and Anna who audiobook listeners originally met in book 1, THE ALIEN’S RANSOM, since that book came out first on audio. I must admit that when I first came across them I wanted to know how they ended up together so I’m thrilled that the author decided to put this prequel on audio.

What I liked most about this novella was the word building. Life isn’t a cake walk for the Drixonians. They’re warriors yet also survivors. I love their mantra and how it’s been resurrected.

Heather Costa and Jeffrey Kafer lend their voices to Maven’s creation bringing it to life for us listeners. It was fun hearing Costa’s southern accent for Anna and it was hilarious hearing Kafer take on a feminine voice with a country twang.

Terrible accent

The story is good so far but the voice actor for the girl is so bad I am three minutes in and ready to stop. Her accent keeps flip flopping from southern to Boston to no accent. She seems to hit the wrong parts of words as well, rushing or slowing in odd places. I’m not sure I can stand it anymore. I listen to 2-3 audiobooks a week too…

Why the random accent?

With the quickie length, this prequel is a decent teaser for the series. There’s an info dump explaining the basic premise of technologically advanced aliens who are nonetheless living on a MadMax, primitive biker clan-ish world were introduced to Tark, his studded (ahem) attributes, and his instant protectiveness towards Ana. You’ll hear the formula for the series, including the virginal (but tutored in the art of sex) alien beefcakes, the use of F(leck) bombs just like humans use them (for example “mother flecking”), and ladies going from ‘eek, aliens’ to ‘yes, yes, YES! Alien Os!’ in the blink of an eye,

This is a standalone and can be listened to in any before, during or after the rest of the series because it doesn’t have any of the future FMCs around and doesn’t tie into the series arc beyond the stranded by evil aliens plot. For some reason Ana is given a strong (Southern?) accent- this, combined with the super short length, meant I didn’t get very invested in either MC.

Just when you think Heather Costa can’t be worse…

What was she doing with that silly dialect? And the inflection during the wrong moments…they just made love and the leading lady starts talking like she’s elating about her auntie’s best sweet pickle recipe at the county fair.

I feel for Ms. Costa’s vocal cords. She surely has nodes, as one can hear her voice shred over her ridiculously surprising career as the Audible book world’s greatest romantic novel listeners’ ear murderer. She can sound clear when doing side characters or this ridiculous southern mash up, but sounds like she needs hot lemon and honey water the rest of the time. I can’t even stay focused on books she narrates! I hope she makes enough off all of these books to afford insurance to get those nodes removed!