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Mitchell Blake had given up on romance until a sexy biker shows up in his kitchen, claiming he’s an alien warrior sent to protect Mitchell from an assassin.

Mitchell Blake has given up on romance. At least the equations in his scientific experiments add up, unlike his charming, lying jerk of an ex. Nevertheless, he's saddened when the guy he’s been exchanging glances with over lunch in the university cafe, brooding and darkly gorgeous poet Jaden Ross, is killed in a freak motorcycle crash...until Jaden shows up in Mitchell's kitchen and tells him a crazy story that he's been assigned as his unearthly protector.

Jaden is more than human. He's a warrior from a galaxy far, far away and he’s not, unfortunately, just around to share his out-of-this-world body with Mitchell. Despite Jaden's fear of appliances - they have moving parts and are very primitive - and his burning curiosity about human mating rituals, he is determined to keep Mitchell safe from the killer stalking him.

 

Book Review

This second volume in the ‘Lightning Strikes’ series is as hilariously funny and scientifically unlikely as the first. This time, it is the story of an alien come to Earth (reminiscent of ‘Starman’, the 1984 sci-fi movie by John Carpenter) to protect a geeky science student from an assassin. Except, this alien wasn’t invited, he has come looking for help for his entire world.

Mitchell is a highly intelligent, socially inept science student who has only one real friend and focuses on his many experiments in the absence of human companionship. He has had one major romantic disaster and, even though he is a romantic at heart, is not eager to try again. Not that he gets any kind of choice once Jaden makes an appearance, or that he resists very hard. The fact that he has no sexual experience to speak of, yet is the more knowledgeable of the two, gave their joint scenes an innocent quality that I really liked.

Jaden has no idea what he has gotten himself in to. Not used to having a body, he discovers all types of cool things now that he does, and his references to Mitchell and his energy matrix were really funny. He knows Earth only from watching TV (yeah, that was just asking for trouble), but is determined he can protect Mitchell anyway. Not surprisingly, he also has some cool powers – which should help.

Like with the first book, the story idea is not really new, but the interpretation certainly is! Adding a great sense of humor and some extremely unscientific assumptions (based on what we know today, but hey, we are “only” Earthlings) makes this one of the funniest sci-fi books around. If you are up for a light, entertaining and funny read, if hot aliens from space and dark conspiracies are your thing, and if you like your bedroom scenes with a touch of mysticism, you will probably like this book.

 

 

 

 

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Additional Information

Format	ebook
Length	Novella, 95 pages/30207 words
Heat Level
Publication Date	30-April-2012
Price	$4.50 ebook
Buy Link	https://www.pride-publishing.com/book/the-alien-in-my-kitchen