Chelsea Knestrick
This was the fourth book in the Dakonian Alien Mail Order Brides series and was about two new characters named Moxie and Sixx. Moxie is connected to Lexi and Toni from the first two books in the series and we also get to briefly meet her friend Barb who is the heroine of the next book in the series. I really enjoyed getting to know Moxie and Sixx and seeing how things unfolded for them as well as the unexpected twist about another side character. The epilogue was really cute and I enjoyed meeting Sixx's son. I look forward to reading the next book in this series.
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Kathy “Redrabbitt” Heare-Watts
THE FATES HAD MATCHED US, LAUGHED, AND THROWN ROADBLOCKS IN OUR WAY Once again, Ms. Cara Bristol has spun an amazing sci-fi romance with humor, with a touch of mystery and suspense. The new series is a spin-off from her Alien Mate series where human women were sent to Dakon to be paired up with Dakonian men. In this new series, the Intergalactic Dating Agency has involved, allowing alien men and human women to use a computer match-making program to help match them up and the aliens will come to Earth. While this is part of a series, each book will read well as a stand-alone. The fourth story will bring Dakonian, Sixx to earth to find his mate and be matched to Moxie. While he plans to return to Dakon, she had hoped he would remain here—now they are at an impasse. “Will two Fated mates have to part? Or can they find a way to work it out?” “So where do we go from here? He’s GU—galactically undesirable. He intends to go back to his planet. What’s more important—love or a computer game?” Moxie Maguire’s life has revolved around coding and creating video games. While she is working for a company, one that she has shared her baby, Zephyr, she plans to eventually leave and start up her own gaming company and even has another game in the works. Work keeps her so busy she doesn’t have time to date and instead joins IDA, Intergalactic Dating Agency and has learned she has been matched. Meeting Sixx only adds more dilemma to her because she feels attracted to him. The story has some mystery, suspense, danger, and decisions. What a shock when Moxie is attacked by a mugger and injured but so is Sixx when he comes to her rescue. He will retrieve her purse, which also has her phone and the game she has been working on for her future. There a strong chemistry between Moxie and Sixx, but there is also the issue of if they decide to become mates, which planet will they call home. “Don’t let fear make your decisions. Passion and hope, an irresistible combination, glinted in his eyes. He was bold but not brash. He liked me. And I liked him. My pulse raced, and my stomach fluttered.” “The Fates had played a practical joke. I couldn’t leave. Sixx couldn’t stay. It seems to me you’re letting a sure thing go for a chance at a maybe.” Strange things happen with work, plus the attack on Moxie is followed by a second attack leaving more questions than answers. Both Sixx and Moxie are miserable without each other and decisions need to be made for their future. “Contemplating Sixx leaving caused my chest to tighten and my heart to ache. Game or no game, the brightness of my future dimmed if he wasn’t in it.” Sixx can’t stay on Earth, and he can’t fantom leaving Moxie behind. What will it take for him to help her see that moving to Dakon doesn’t mean the end of her dreams? Does their future on Dakon offer the chance at having the best of both worlds? “Mates, husband and wife, partners.”
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Gail Schlichenmayer
My first alien book must not be my thing, because it will be my last. Others will probably like it fine.
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