I Married a Lizardman

By: Regine Abel

Narrated by: Daryl Mayfield

Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins

Publisher's summary

Scaly, grumpy, but oh so cuddly....

As a third daughter on the farming colony of Meterion, Susan’s future prospects aren’t too promising. A pretty face, top-notch skills, and hard work mean nothing if your dowry doesn’t include fertile lands. With her 25th birthday approaching, and no suitors even remotely sniffing in her general direction, Susan will be forced to leave the family lands to work as an indentured servant in the capital city. Her only way out is to settle for an arranged marriage through the PMA - the Prime Mating Agency. She just never expected to be paired with a grumpy, massive lizardman, and above all not to grow so fond of his scales and quirky ways.

With everything going on, the last thing Olix needs is a mate, especially a squishy, scaleless, off-worlder with strange ways and an obsession with farming. He is a hunter, not a dirt digger. The Seer must have been mistaken when she insisted that, for the sake of the people, he take a mate from the stars. How can such a tiny thing be their salvation? And yet, his Susan’s softness is disturbingly addictive while it hides a surprising resilience.

With his ancestral lands on the line and the future of the clans threatened, could this wisp of a woman turn their fate around?

©2021 Regine Abel (P)2024 Regine Abel

Loved😍💕

I really enjoyed the book. It was short but interesting. I loved all of the characters. I love Science love romances. I love hearing about the planets. I truly recommend the series. 💕😍🍷💞

hilarious title and cover, good book

I first read this because the title makes me laugh every single time I see the cover. I was honestly surprised to like it as much as I did. The I Married A [insert monster here] series tends to be pretty chill with a focus on world building. Sometimes there's a plot with some drama, but it's usually just chill, arranged marriage trope and hey let's explore some fun new alien culture. Personally this is my favorite book in the series. For me, the spice in this book is the best, and there's just something about how Susan just wants to farm that's the right level of chill for me. I read the ebook first and just got the audio. The narrator does an amazing job with male voices, but not female. I could still overlook the female voices and I've definitely sat through worse voice acting. The ending does feel a little abrupt and I would have liked 1 or 2 more chapters, but the epilogue decently wraps things up.

Insanely detailed

(Review for all 6 books in The Prime Mating Series )
Edited to add #7

These books hit ALL my sweet spots: 
seemingly irreconcilable differences ✔️
marriages of convenience (with a wedding night consummation clause) ✔️
nesting (MFCs that create or truly appreciate their new world homes) ✔️
first contact (for the couple not entire species) ✔️
DETAILS ✔️

If you’ve been reading this genre you know most alien romances are light on detail (and heavy on big cocks). This series definitely had the cocks, but it was also the most specific, interesting set of books that I’ve read in this genre so far. The author was totally invested in making sure we understood her worlds and creatures on a cellular level. To that end sometimes she got carried away. Pretty sure 'I Married a Merman' was actually an instruction manual *yawn*

Although these books are technically about 'aliens' (we know each featured species lives on its own planet and has advanced technologies), there were no real depictions of outer space or space travel. They are largely fantasy. Book 6 does feature inter-dimensional travel, but it's about as sci-fi as that show Quantum Leap.

None of the books compromise on love or sex. Aaaaalthough most of the heroes are beta males in alpha clothing. These guys are excessively polite, heavily into consent, and spend so much time pleasing their females that they seem to have misplaced their balls. Yes, all romances blatantly pander to women's desires, but these books took it to the next level. 

There's NO 'SECOND ACT' MISUNDERSTANDING. Not one of these books had that stupid mandatory break up all romances have. Instead the couple tackled the adversities as a team (shocking).

Personal favs: book 1 (Lizardman)/book 5 (Minotaur). Worst of the bunch: book 6 (Dragon)/book 4 (Merman). The remaining two (books 2 & 3) were still solidly written, though IMO the naga was a bit too greta thunberg and the birdman a little too slick. The best were full of calculations, marketing schemes, tactical planning, and other oddities and novelties - like in book 1, who would have thought farming could be a superpower. Or book 5 the conflict is a genetic condition that causes blood-rage. Book 5 also gathered the loose threads from previous books. My least favourite books (4 & 6) had frail or rigid heroines and TOO MUCH WORLD BUILDING (never thought I'd write that).

EDIT: Book number 7 (Beast) is meh. If you liked book 2 about the Naga you may enjoy this follow up/redemption story. But I got a little bored with the all the morality in this one. The mmc is known for playing by his own rules in hunting competitions, while his mate does not like 'cheaters' and she's pretty holier-than-thou about it. This couple didn't have a significant problem to resolve together or a home to build.

Love the story and the message.

This was a very entertaining story, love both characters, and how they grow to each other, and I love how they were able to overcome their issues with communication and understanding, even if it wasn't a 100% perfect. I loved it.

I want a Lizardman too!

Such a cute story. I loved the characters. This was a fun and had a interesting storyline! I had even laughed out loud a few times. The narrators were very good.

Don’t judge a book by its cover.

It seems like a weird romance to get because of the cover, but it is sweet so if you like alien romances this is not a bad choice. Although there is no action it is a great getting to know you type of book. The world building is great and I can picture the planet she went to. I would read the next in the series. Narrator was decent.

Fun story, EXCELLENT narration

This is an entertaining tale made extraordinarily enjoyable by the talented narrator who managed a wide range of voices superbly, spanning personalities and even genders.

Surprisingly good!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💚🖤💙💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏🌎
Character development: ☹️🙃☺️😀
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Solo Narration

The heroine: Susan - she is the third daughter of a farmer and nearing her twenty fifth birthday. Which meant that the first daughter inherited their family land and the second daughter was back-up. A third daughter was just another mouth to feed. So she entered the Prime Mating Agency, since she wasn’t particularly beautiful, with average schooling and no wealth to speak of, she wouldn’t be able to find a mate with the better agencies.

The Hero: Olix - he is an Anturian male (lizard man) and a hunter located on Zaconia, he is the leader of his clan and owned the most fertile lands on his planet. Within his species, he was considered a prime specimen of a man, but he needed a mate and his people have been facing famine, because their people were hunters, since offworlders with great wealth have been overtaking much of the planet and hunting the game to near extinction.

The Story: The PMA (Prime Mating Agency) represented planets still considered primitive and the species weren’t considered stunningly attractive either. Though they did pair together species that were physically compatible and able to produce offspring together. Susan was a bit leery when she found out that her match was a lizard like humanoid species. But she really had no choice but to agree to the match and she was excited to hear about the fact that he had fertile lands because she longed to farm the land but due to her position as third daughter, wasn’t able to do that at home.

This book was told in dual points of view via solo narration and was narrated by Daryl Mayfield. He has a pretty good female voice and a deep male voice so he does a great job making solo narration sound more like dual narration. I didn’t like the exact description of the lizard man so I took some artistic freedoms in my picture, but that is my interpretation and I like how it turned out.

The story was a bit different than many of the alien romance stories I have read before and I bought the audiobook on sale, so thought it was worth trying out. I really enjoyed the narrator, so that helped. I love that you can listen to samples of the narration and have learned to do that before spending any money on audiobooks. Especially since a bad narrator can ruin the experience and a good one can make the story even better than it would have otherwise been.

I liked the fact that Olix was as wary of Susan as she was of him. At first he couldn’t imaging going to bed with her, which was kind of funny especially when he had to kiss her at the wedding. He can’t figure out why they would do that. The book was quite steamy and didn’t bother me at all, unlike a few other books I had read where the Heroes were humanoid but more animalistic than is normal in alien romance. I also thought Olix’s naivety when it came to human females was charming and cute. This book was better than I expected and I hope to read the rest of the series. I hope the audiobooks go on sale at some point as well.

Thoughtful story with contemporary parallels

Excellent. 4.75 stars. Only a quarter star off because it’s a little too idealistic, almost bordering on naïve or overly utopian in a couple of small ways that had me rolling my eyes.

I wasn’t sure about this book at first, but read another great review and was inspired to try it. I’m glad I did. Not your usual low-brow mail order bride, but an actual thoughtful story that has many parallels with contemporary social issues. Strong characters I could respect from the very beginning, but still had room to develop and grow.

A lot of fluffy scales!

I am so glad I found this series! It is so sweet and such a nice change of pace! A lot of sci-fi romances I have been finding lately have the possessive males with Alpha tendencies, and while that's okay, it's so nice to see an alien romance where the couples communicate and naturally fall in love with each other! I continue to listen to the series over and over again because it makes me laugh and gives me all the warm fuzzies! 10 out of 10! Amazing job to Regine Abel!