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Claimings, Tails, and Other Alien Artifacts
- Claimings, Book 1
- Narrated by: John Solo
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
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Claimings, Tails, and Other Alien Artifacts
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Publisher's Summary
Liam loves his life as a linguist and trader on the Rownt homeworld, but he has ignored his heart and sexual needs for years. After escaping the horrors of war, he wants a boring life. He won't risk letting anyone come too close because he won't risk letting anyone see his deeply submissive nature. For him, submission comes with pain. Life burned that lesson into his soul from a young age.
This fear keeps him from noticing that the Rownt trader Ondry cares for him. Ondry may not understand humans, but he recognizes a wounded soul, and his need to protect Liam is quickly outpacing his common sense. They may have laws, culture, and incompatible genitalia in their way, but Ondry knows that he can find a way to overcome all that if he can just overcome the ghosts of Liam's past. Only then can he take possession of a man he has grown to respect.
Contains mature themes.
What listeners say about Claimings, Tails, and Other Alien Artifacts
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- Wide Eyes, Big Ears!
- 14-11-2020
Great characters and world building!
Desperate to avoid the battlefront, Liam opts for work as a military linguist and trader on the Rownt home world and finds he has a talent for it. He develops mutual respect with a Rownt trader called Ondry. I absolutely loved the world building, it developed naturally with no tiring info dump. I loved Liam and Ondry.
Based on my love of Earth Fathers Are Weird, I started this without reading the blurb and found it veered off in a direction I really wasn’t anticipating - that’ll teach me! I wasn’t shocked by Liam’s traumatic background or mild dom / sub storyline, they just seemed like odd directions to choose.
Everything is told from Liam’s POV so I appreciated the bonus stories at the end which gave Ondry’s side of things and I wondered about that choice too. The author was able to keep up the element of surprise through us experiencing things as Liam did, but it did lead to some frustration as Liam morphed from a reasonably happy & competent trader to an emotionally scarred victim without many clues. I probably would have preferred alternating POVs, Liam’s then Ondry’s, to keep things clear. Having said that, I will definitely read the rest of this series and more, Lyn Gala is a fascinatingly imaginative and quirky writer.
🎧 John Solo gives his always upbeat and competent performance, I find him hugely fun to listen to!
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Kayla
- 29-10-2019
Inventive, smooth, sweet, sexy & funny
Finally another alien series that stands out with its refreshingly inventive world building that truely reflects an alien culture. The fluently coherent writing style combines sweet & sexy characters with a meaningful & funny story. Can't wait for the next instalment.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Anonymous User
- 25-06-2023
Know what you’re getting into before you start it
Spoilers and trigger words included
TLDR: two am different halves of a book. First half: cool world building with a lexical/cultural bridging emphasis and light flirting. Second half: someone with unresolved sexual trauma gets abducted/bought and made a slave, but because he is treated better than by his previous abusers, he agrees and is happy.
Long story:
I don’t normally go for books about aliens, so went into this with very low expectations. I was pleasantly surprised how much I loved it for the first half, making plans to listen to the whole series.
Unfortunately for me, the true guts and purpose of the story (r*pe, slavery, non-consent, coercion, b&d) came out of the blue in the second half like a slap in the face.
I’m no expert in r*pe/consent/slavery, but it feels like when you already have made someone your prisoner/slave and THEN negotiate terms with them, it’s not really informed consent and a fair meeting of the minds.
The story made me very angry, as it seems to validate and romanticise how if someone finds an abuser that treats you better than previous abusers….then it’s all okay.
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