Becky (romantic_pursuing_feels)'s Reviews > Assigned a Mate

Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
World Building: 📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Humor: Not really
Perspective: First person from both the hero and heroine (mostly heroine)

(These are all personal preference on a scale of 1-5 (yours ratings may vary depending what gives you feels and how you prefer you sex scenes written, etc) except the Steam Scale which follows our chart from A Love Less Ordinary )

Should I read in order?
This is the first book in Godwin’s Interstellar Brides Program series

Basic plot:
Eva witness a murder on Earth and to protect her life so she can go to trial and testify, she goes into the Interstellar Brides Program to hide.

Give this a try if you want:
- Sci-fi romance
- Alien planet setting (mostly)
- Alien hero/human heroine
- Full figured heroine
- Doctor heroine
- Leader hero – he is a counsel leader
- Instalust
- BDSM and toys
- Hero is very ‘all in’ from the beginning, very possessive
- Some levels of dubious consent – the heroine is forced into what is basically a space mail brides program and must obey her husband
- Higher steam – 5 scenes within a lower page count

Ages:
- Heroine is 28, not sure about hero

My thoughts:
This is a short and steamy scifi romance. Being on the short side with high amounts of sex, there’s not a ton of world building, tension, or character depth, but I still ending up liking it!

I listened to the audio and loved our heroine narration by Audrey Conway. I wasn’t a big fan of the hero done by BJ Pottsworth but most of it was from the heroine’s perspective so that worked out for me ;)

I liked both main characters – it would have been better to learn a bit more about both of them, but especially the hero because I felt like I didn’t know anything about him by the end of the book. The sex was really developed and they were the focus of the story. It still gave them a push and pull element through the control the hero wanted and the fight back from the heroine as she adjusted to the alien society.

I am not super big on BDSM (I like it sometimes, but I usually prefer my books without it) and I’m not sure if all the books in the series focus on that element, but either way I’m definitely going to be trying more from this series.



Cock/Hero Stats:
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This hero is pretty human – He is large all over and has black hair and eyes with tanned skin
Cock is normal besides being extremely huge??
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Quotes/thoughts:

“I take care of what’s mine.”


Content warnings:
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- Heroine is admitted to the interstellar brides program for witness protection. Through this program she is ‘prepared for her mate’ without much choice which includes nipple piercings and shaving her pussy hair (which never grows back)
- Events of BDSM including spanking/punishment,edging and some levels of control with dominance/submission
- There is some type of accident and people die and are injured. Scenes of the heroine performing medical care
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Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:
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1% - heroine is bent over and secured to a stand with doggy style sex – she can’t tell if it’s a dream or not
15% - heroine gets a spanking for being ‘impertinent’
21% - 🔥 dildo that hums and gives an electric current to force an orgasm is used on the heroine as part of an exam. It tells the hero that the heroine is free from disease, is fertile and everything is functioning
25% - 🔥 heroine is leaned over a table that is raised up with her ankles secured. The hero demands to be called master and the ‘claiming’ that is happening now must be witnessed and recorded. This is the opening scene of the book that the heroine foresaw. Him behind her with anal fingering
35% - heroine has 2 humming balls inserted into her for punishment that she must clench and keep within her. There is a chain that hangs down to show everyone that she is being punished. These turn her on but she’s unable to orgasm
46% - heroine tries to masturbate but the balls don’t allow her to orgasm
54% - spanking because the heroine talks negatively about her own body
57% - 🔥 kisses, fingering, edging (orgasm denial), her on top
81% - 🔥 anal toys and oral for her followed by missionary
86% - mention of how she couldn’t orgasm after returning to Earth
96% - 🔥 breast play, lube used anally, spanking, dildo used anally while hero fucks her missionary (DP with a toy)
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