Today I Welcome Sophia Rose back to the blog with her review of Forever Askole by Gail Koger. Now I don't know about you but after that title I can't wait to learn more about this novel.
Enjoy!
Forever Askole by Gail Koger
#16 Coletti Warlords
Sci-Fi Romance
Publisher: Gail Koger
Published: 8.22.22
ASIN: B0BBPD928N
Pages: 164
Rating: 4.5 stars
Flames: 3
Format: eARC
Source: Author
Sellers: Amazon
GoodReads: My name is
Ella McAllister, I’m a psychic witch and a healer. My life is kinda nuts. Not
only do I have the Coletti hunters chasing me, but now I also have a very
determined Askole High Commander after me. Why? I shot his ship down and it
crash landed, and it blew up. Yep, itty-bitty pieces everywhere. My bad, but
his ship was a dead ringer for a Rodan Marauder, and it was my civic duty to
blow the enemy spacecraft out of the sky. Wasn’t it? Any hoo, I healed his
owies and boogied.
I thought that was the end of it, but oh no. For some unknown reason, Sariel,
the Askole High Commander, decided I would make him the perfect mate. As if. I
think the blow to his head made him completely bonkers.
Sariel informed me the mating dance had begun and there was nothing I could do
to stop it. The idiot had obviously never dealt with a witch before. I didn’t
have the time to play games with him, so I did a little abracadabra alakazam
and ran.
Sigh. The persistent Askole found me. Now I have a decision to make. Keep
running or surrender to the High Commander. He is a damn good kisser.
Would the mating dance bring two lonely souls together? Who knew?
Sophia Rose's Review:
Looking for a good time?
No need to call that sketchy number graffitied on the park bench. Simply pick up the latest Coletti Warlords
sci-fi romance for a rousing, sexy adventures across the stars with a loveable
bunch of grumbly alpha aliens and their sassy mostly human female counterparts
as they work together to save the galaxy.
Forever Askole is the sixteenth entry in a light-hearted,
steamy alien romance series that work best read in order as the overarching series
plot and theme and recurring characters run in the background of each new book.
Ella is a psychic and a witch with powers that make the
Coletti salivate to acquire. But, oddly
enough, Ella has no intentions of being taken and matched to one of their warlords
to repopulate their race. She’s fine being free and human, thank you very much
so she has run and hid in the outer reaches of Scotland to avoid the
‘draft’. Not that the Coletti and their
other alien allies are all bad. They’re
protecting earth from flesh eating aliens like the Tai-kok and Rodan and from
those who would snatch humans and animals for experimentation to build a
conquering army of the galaxy. She helps
them and her fellow humans when she can, but is lonely and wants to rejoin her
sister who is also gifted and avoiding capture so fled to the stars on a job
and is waiting for her to find a way.
Then opportunity knocked- or rather floated up on her island
beach in the form of stolen Askole battle armor. How was she to know that this event would
trigger a chase of baddies and one, determined Askole High Commander and ally
of the Coletti on her trail? No, she
will not succumb to Sariel’s attractive qualities. He doesn’t want her; he wants her powers,
right?
With a swashbuckling, flirty, and sexy tone and a rapid
pace, Forever Askole pulled me in from the get go and I had a blast following
Ella through her misadventures to outrun a determined mate, enemies, and a
quest to get to her sister. Ella got
burned by a bad betrayal and she’s skeptical of males, but she also knows that
any male who tries needs to see her and want her as a person and not a
commodity. She will only take full
honesty and love after the last man gutted her.
Sariel is a recurring and familiar figure. He’s not Coletti, but Askole, a race of alien
allies to the warlords protecting earth and the galaxy. His kind have scales, tentacles, fierce
features, blinding speed, strength and fight hard. Sariel has watched others find love and their
mates including his son and now he wants his own turn with a strong female who
can survive what gets tossed his way as a military commander of his race. He gets overprotective and possessive, but he
respects Ella as a partner in the fight, too.
Fun surprise that crops up in this installment which I’ll
leave as non-spoilered, but there are also the usual elements like skirmishes
with the baddies, cute alien critters, snappy dialogue, and teasing between the
protagonists.
All in all, this latest was highly entertaining and left me
sad at how fast I blasted through the pages.
Can’t wait to see what comes next for Ella’s sister Skye and a certain
cocky Coletti chasing down the mad scientist and their new enemy who betrayed them
all. Sci-fi Romantic comedy lovers who
don’t mind alien features and alpha attitudes should definitely put this
book/series on the reading list.
Author Bio:
I was a 9-1-1 dispatcher for thirty-one years and to keep
insanity at bay, I took up writing. Not to worry. The insanity isn’t catching –
much. Other than the addiction to chocolate and the twitch in my left eye, I’m
good. I’ve had my weird but true stories published in newspapers and magazines.
Website: http://www.gailkoger.com/home.html
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1433685593551377
Sophia’s Bio:
Sophia is a quiet though
curious gal who dabbles in cooking, book reviewing, and gardening. Encouraged
and supported by an incredible man and loving family. A Northern Californian
transplant to the Great Lakes Region of the US. Lover of Jane Austen, Baseball,
Cats, Scooby Doo, and Chocolate.
Sophia’s Social Media
Links:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sophia.rose.7587
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sophiarose1816
GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13418187.Sophia_Rose
Thanks for the awesome review!!
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