4 ⭐

I loved Beks and Lihvan! (Way more than Kate and Vaxa).

Beks is the impulsive, passionate best friend that we hear about from Kate who winds up in the same abducted situation.

Lihvan is the responsible and logical war general that is sent to captain the mission to rescue the human women from the Pit. When he does, he saves Beks and immediately recognizes her as his mate. 

He is constantly reminding himself that she will be going back to Earth so he tries to stay away. So Beks is the one who ends up pursuing him. (I like those dynamics.)

This has a lot of my favorite alien romance tropes:
✅ Grumpy/Sunshine
✅ Forced proximity on a remote planet waiting for rescue
✅ Big serious alien who is scarred and not conventionally attractive to his people and the feisty little human who thinks he's the hottest thing in the galaxy.