I know I’ve been a bit MIA for a bit. Due to mental health struggles, I haven’t even been reading. However, now that I’m feeling all right again, expect lots of reviews!
I Married a Lizardman by Regine Abel was the first read after my big bout. It’s part of the Prime Mating Agency Series, but each book can be read as a standalone. I wasn’t vibing with the whole Lizardman love interest at first. Reading many books with unconventional love interests such as The Spider’s Mate, I’m not sure why I felt this way.
After reading the raving reviews, I was ready to jump into it. Will this be one of my new favorite alien romance books?
ABOUT THE BOOK
The book starts with Susan, a woman in her mid-twenties with pretty much nothing to lose. Her planet has a matriarchal society with an abundance of farmers. Farming is precisely what Susan loves to do.
However, Susan’s SOL because she’s a third daughter. In families, the first two daughters get the land and the other siblings basically get to pound sand. Our girl, Susan, wants to farm and make a difference. Whatever could her options be? Matchmaking time!
Susan finds an intergalactic matchmaker to find a husband off planet who has land coming out of the wazoo and will let her farm to her heart’s content. She doesn’t want any of the humans on her home planet and honestly, who could blame her? If I were in a sci-fi novel, I’d jump feet-first into a Darth Maul type. Who wants a human such as Luke Skywalker?
Anyway, luckily for Susan, her matchmaker found her the perfect match. Big, scaley, and green lizardman, Olix! An inhabitant of his planet said a prophecy woman will come from stars away and save their planet. Saving them from the colonizers currently sucking the planet and the clans dry. We can’t even escape megacorps in fiction.
What’s more, Olix will take whoever will marry him! What a dreamboat!
MY REVIEW
I know I went a little hard on Olix, but once he and Susan are wedded in holy matrimony (and her undies!), he’s a sweet guy. He truly wants the best for his struggling clan. Olix and the other clan leaders are being hounded by a megacorp to sell their land. Not today, Satan!
Susan is settling into her new home and her new in-laws where she discovers the most fertile lands she’s seen! Our girl asks her mother-in-law why not farm? There’s an obvious food shortage but copious amounts of land to farm their own food. Her mother-in-law gets enraged at Susan for even suggesting that they farm!
Even though we find out why everyone is vehemently against farming, I can’t say it’s such a reason to not let Susan farm for them.
Susan and Olix’s relationship was very healthy and realistic for an arranged marriage. Although, Olix is so bland! I was more interested in Susan girl bossing the megacorp away. I was getting so bored with Olix, I was hoping Susan would go for his much more interesting sister.
The plot is interesting and it’s a great palate cleanser!
Final thoughts
The plot was interesting but the mmc was blander than a saltine cracker. The fmc and plot carry this book far so I would rate I Married a Lizardman 2.5 stars.
Check out my Ice Planet Barbarians review here!
