Reviews

Pheromone by C.M. Stunich

brittany007's review

medium-paced

5.0

tartbarbie's review

5.0

Eve is abducted by aliens with her best friend and a few other human and taken to an alien planet to be sold. Of course the first being to want them is a vampire moth but he leaves her taking off with another human. Instead Eve is bought and heads off into the jungle where she's saved by a dragon guy who lives in a ship. As if she doesn't have enough to worry about her bestie isn't with her and she needs to find her before it's to late. 

I love Eve so much she is exactly how I would want to be if I was abducted by aliens. The reality is if I was I would be an absolute mess, and wouldn't make it a few days. So let's talk about the men in Eve's life since that's the best part. First up she meets Rurik the moth guy we've only started to learn about their relationship but I like him he's currently my least favorite but that's because he stole her from Abraxas our Dragon guy. Abraxas is more of the strong silent type but the more we get to know him the more I really like him. Last but not least is Hyk the law enforcement nine tailed tentacle guy who we've just started to get to know. 

I haven't read a lot of alien romance as they are still a newer trope for me but gosh I've been missing out because this was amazing. I loved every moment of Pheromone and devoured it over the course of 24 hours. The characters are perfect I felt that I really could connect with Eve and her trio of steamy men. The chemistry between the characters just works so well. I loved Zero to even if I wanted to smash her a few times. 

Pheromone is the first in an exciting new series by the very talented C.M. Stunich and I'm obsessed. She has done a beautiful job creating a captivating story that I couldn't put down and already started the next one. I love that the story balances the steamy moments between the story it's been a whirlwind adventure and I'm addicted. I loved every moment of Eve's story she's quickly becoming one of my favorite characters and I look forward to seeing more of her men. I've been reading C.M. Stunich books since the beginning but this may be my favorite series even though I think I say that with every new series she writes. Highly recommend if you are a fan of alien why choose romance. 

angelwitch22's review

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

⭐kidnapping 
 ⭐double peen 
 ⭐alien 
 🌶🌶🌶
 If you love alien monster fudging you will love this book!!
 This book was brilliant I love the story and the characters development was beautiful it was so well written I could not put the book down and will be heading off straight into book 2 as I need to know what going happen to eve and her alien men 
 3/5 spice 

kwalla15's review

challenging emotional informative slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

bitchbane's review

dnf @ 55% (ch 13) - may revisit in future

this book was honestly unique so i have to give the author props for her imagination. these aliens were different from anything i've read before and that was pretty refreshing. 

the premise is that our female mc, Eve, is kidnapped by aliens along with her bestie Jane, a haughty lawyer, two paramedics, and (most odd of all) a "pretentious hellion" of a pop star named Tabbi Kat and her pet opossum, Madonna. it's honestly the strangest abduction i have ever read and fascinatingly interesting. 

post-abduction, eve wakes up in a market where she and her friends are the merchandise. she is bought, saved, nearly killed, and mated all within the first 12 chapters. it's so hard to talk about the premise without giving too much away (but it is an alien romance so it does follow at least some expected themes.) 

the primary alien love interest in this book is an aspis that eve affectionately nicknames abraxos. the description of him is so strange that my mind is having a really difficult time wrapping around it. 

he's all black with a mouth that appears to not even be there at all until he smiles or bears his teeth. he has a freakishly long tongue and is described once as almost dragon-like. he has a dark shadow? mist? that clings to him and moves about and several places on his body are a bioluminescent purple. he can be on four legs or two and seems equally comfortable in both. oh! and he can change his size. 

His legs are thick and muscular, but shapely, with large, clawed feet caught somewhere between a human’s and a canine’s. Only, he’s entirely covered in scales. Other than some sort of mane on his head and down his neck, there’s no other hair (or fur?) to be seen. A large muscular tail twitches behind him like a cat and, as I move to stand up, a row of spikes lifts down the center, like an animal raising its hackles. His mane rises along with it, and I realize immediately that he doesn’t have hair, just more of those strange spikes on his head, neck, and spine. 

i cannot picture this alien for the life of me. but i definitely picked up on the scary vibe so that wasn't too big of a deal for me. 

i kept laughing at the way eve and abraxos met.

after he butchered eve's purchaser he went after her and her panicked cursing gave him the impression she was demanding to be fucked. 😂

despite his big, mean, scary appearance, he saved her from certain doom and took her back to his den. he was evidently courting her and would preen over the slightest compliments, but they had a heck of a time trying to communicate at first. 

it was all pretty cute to be honest. as all of this is going down we're also being introduced more and more to the forest that abraxos lives in (which is also very cool.) 

inevitably though, eve just has to go getting herself in trouble and mucking it all up. typical. 

i dnf'ed at chapter 13, just after she and abraxos officially mated. i was really enjoying the book up until that point, but there were a few things that put me off. primarily that i did not expect this to be a love geometry book and the angst i'm feeling over it is not making me happy. i have no problems with ménage/love triangle books in general, but it's not what i want to read right now and not what i expected from this book with how much i adored abraxos. 

silly me read the synopsis for book two and realized that there's at least two more aliens who have their eye on eve and she falls in love with at least one of them and becomes their mate. not to mention, there was a random chapter where the pov switched to an alien cop who has a fetish for humans and human things so it was clear he was supposed to be a bigger part of the picture. the royalty of the planet (described as a moth guy) also claimed she was his mate and is refusing to give up on finding her. i don't like him very much and i do not want to read about his redemption right now. i'm pretty salty about it.

the plot feels very chaotic with all the unexpected switch-ups and my brain has checked out, so i'm dnf'ing this one for now. i might revisit it in the future when im looking for this sort of trope. 

asabovesobelow's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

mousegrey's review

3.5

Cliffhanger! I mostly enjoyed reading this- there were times when it felt like an effort, but I’m pretty sure that was just down to my current circumstances, rather than the book itself. I’m curious how things will work out, and I plan to keep reading the series.

witchyspice666's review

adventurous funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

wanderingsoul333's review

5.0

This is the alien series I had no idea I needed, but the fact that I stayed up until 2am said I most certainly did. I literally asked Caitlin more than once, outloud to my room, what in the intergalactic smut was I even reading?! I decidedly do not care what genre she is writing...I'm going to read it and enjoy the h3ll out of it. 

kindlealltheway's review

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5