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I'm not quite finished with this yet, but I need to say this before I forget.

First, I totally believe that audio books count as books read. Audio books exist for a number of reasons and that is why they count as far as I'm concerned.

The summary:

Torin is a trained assassin. He has never met a female who’s his match…until he is paired with Special Agent Sky’lar on Portex Three. Together the two of them must track a serial killer through space, but in the process someone is going to get Pierced....

Special Agent Sky’lar is a rare Pitch-Blood Kindred female. She has lived most of her life on Portex Three and never even seen one of her own kind since her mother died when she was young. Imagine her surprise when she walks into work at the Peace Keeper Station and is informed by her Captain that she has a new partner. Not only that, but her partner is a Kindred warrior and a male. Since females are dominant on Portex Three, this is a new and unwelcome development for Sky. How can a male possibly make a good partner?

Commander Torin works for the Kindred Elite Espionage group—he’s been trained as a spy and an assassin but right now he’s tracking a killer. A mysterious entity has been murdering Kindred Ambassadors and the rulers of planets where females are in charge. Zetta Prime and Yonnie Six have already been hit and Portex Three is third on the killer’s list. Torin knows that Sky doesn’t like working with him but he doesn’t give a damn—he’s willing to do whatever it takes to catch the murderer, even if it means baring parts of his soul that he’s kept secret, even from himself.

Now the killer is on the loose and instead of another Ambassador, Sky is in his sights. Will Torin be able to stop him before he kills again? And will Sky survive the killer’s murderous intentions? You’ll have to listen to this Enemies to Lovers, He Falls First, Warrior Heroine, HEA novel, Pierced, to find out!

Portex Three is a planet with reptilian humanoids and are ruled by the females. In this instance the females are only penetrated for reproduction. The residents of the planet worship a serpent goddess by having sex at the foot of a statue of her.

While hunting for the killer, Sky and Torin have to partake in this 'sacrifice'. Sky isn't ovulating so Torin has to be penetrated. This causes him to question his masculinity as well as his sexuality.

This author has toyed with this before and I'm starting to think she might be like J.K. Rowling (IYKYK). And I don't like it. One of the reasons I like these books is the MMC is usually a feminist. But occasionally she'll have one that shows 'alpha male' traits, such as getting angry when they agree to do something that is traditionally feminine and end up enjoying it (like being penetrated).

I can honestly say that if/when I do a reread of this series, this will be one of the books I skip. There is at least one other that I will be skipping as well.

This author is not an 'instant buy' for me. I do not like stories where the MMC is an 'alpha male' and she has some that the summary reads as if that is the case. I also, prefer my FMC to be the dominant if there is a BDSM relationship and she has a series where the FMC is the submissive. She even has a story in a series where the FMC is most definitely NOT submissive at the beginning but by the end she is. That being said, this series IS an instant buy for me. I use my monthly credit to do so, though. Oh, did I fail to mention that I read this series on Audible?

Back when I first got the Audible app, I stumbled across the first book in this series and have read almost all of them, more than half have been read more than once.