Overlord

Galactic Kings, Book 1

By: Anna Hackett

Narrated by: Vivienne Leheny, Stephen Dexter

Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins

Publisher's summary

When an experimental starship test goes horribly wrong, a test pilot from Earth is flung across the galaxy and crash lands on the planet of a powerful alien king.

Pilot Mallory West is having a really bad day. She’s crashed on an alien planet, her ship is in pieces, and her best friend Poppy, the scientist monitoring the experiment, is missing. Dazed and injured, she collapses into the arms of a big, silver-eyed warrior king. But when her rescuer cuffs her to a bed and accuses her of being a spy, Mal knows she has to escape her darkly tempting captor and find her friend.

Overlord Rhain Zhalto Sarkany is in a battle to protect his planet Zhalto and his people from his evil, power-hungry father. He’ll use every one of his deadly Zhalton abilities to win the fight against his father’s lethal warlord and army of vicious creatures. Rhain suspects the tough, intriguing woman he pulls from a starship wreck is a trap, but when Mal escapes, he is compelled to track her down.

Fighting their overwhelming attraction, Mal and Rhain join forces to hunt down the warlord and find Poppy. But as Mal’s body reacts to Zhalto’s environment, it awakens dormant powers, and Rhain is the only one who can help her. As the warlord launches a brutal attack, it will take all of Mal and Rhain’s combined powers to save their friends, the planet, and themselves.

©2021 Anna Hackett (P)2022 Anna Hackett

Couldn't Stop Listening

Once I started this book I had hard time stopping. That will teach me to start any of Anna Hackett's book late at night. Seriously I didn't want to go to bed because I was into this book with all the action and everything happening. I am excited about this new series and look forward to seeing where she will take it.

Another gem

Love Anna Hackett’s imagination! Can’t get enough. I also love how she so thoughtfully wraps up each story in a neat bow for her readers. In this one, she manages to tie in her Galactic Gladiators series at the end which made me smile. I’m a lifelong fan. Keep them coming!
I might add that Vivienne Leheny is an absolute master at finding the right cadence and nuances it takes to narrate the steamy scenes. Oh my word!! Love love love.

I need More!!! Please!!

Anna Hackett delivers yet another fantastic story. I rarely can listen or read a story twice but Anna’s writing makes that possible. This one blew me away as usual.

Good book

I’m not a huge fan of these types of books but this one sounded good and turned out it kept me hook all day with it. I really enjoyed the narrators of this book! Will be looking forward to trying other books by Anna Hackett!

Another fantastic world building and character driven suspense from one of the best - Anna Hackett!

I love that she takes the sting female character to a place totally out of her element, but she never breaks down or gives up. This story shows such a waist range of emotions: suspense, great, intrigue, the ability to allow oneself to be happy when you are in love and how to adapt and change into a new role, while remaining independent. I can’t wait for Emperor!!

Mal West- test pilot turned intergalactic traveler

Mal might have expected some snags to occur in her first test flight of the wormhole technology, but there is no way she expected to be thrust across the universe to crash land on an alien planet. There is also no way she could've planned for meeting someone like Rhain, overlord if said alien planet.

Love the chemistry, love the connection to galactic gladiators, and love that this is yet another book to continue the saga I love so much.

Many reasons to enjoy this story

What a great story! I was hesitant as I have not read an alien story in a long long time. I was pleasantly surprised at how this one developed and concluded. The world building is well done. The story is full of action and creative baddies. The characters are smart and I loved the whole power/energy idea.

I did listen to this on audio. The narration is good but Stephen Dexter’s voice is way too soft. I continually had to turn the volume up and down when he spoke. Vivienne Leheny is a new to me narrator and she did a good job making be think she was Mallory.

The Pilot and the alien overlord!

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

The heroine: Mallory West - a test pilot for Ninotech, a large corporation on Earth that specializes in experimental space technology. She was currently working on a wormhole drive project and was happy to get paid to fly. She had been dishonorably discharged from the Air Force when she disobeyed orders to save some soldiers. Her stepfather Rusty raised her and he died recently, he was a character and taught her how to fight, how to handle knives and much more.

The Hero: Rhain Zhalto Sarkany - He is an overlord on the planet Zhalto who is trying to save the people of his planet from his tyrannical father. He and his team of fighters battled against evil beasts called Hexits sent by his father to destroy. Rhain’s father Zavir, had his own planet, called Sarkan but wanted Rhain to join him and so sent an army of beasts to Rhain’s planet Zhalto to wage war.

The Story: Mallory was doing a test run of an experimental starship along with her best friend and scientist Poppy. The wormhole technology was supposed to create a wormhole so they could travel to Jupiter in the blink of an eye. However, something went wrong and the ship spun out of control and ended up crash landing on a far away planet outside the Milky Way Galaxy.

Rhain and his team see the starship crash land on their planet and immediately think it was sent by his father as some sort of trap. Mallory wakes up from the crash and sees that the entire back of the ship is gone along with her friend Poppy. The story about the war is a good one and I really liked how the Zhalton’s can use energy like they have superpowers.

This book was told in dual points of view via dual narration and narrated by Vivienne Leheny and Stephen Dexter. Stephen Dexter is a very good narrator with a deep and husky voice that worked well for Rhain. Vivienne Leheny has a clear feminine voice and I enjoyed her narration as well.

Ok

Storyline is similar to other books in this genre with slight differences. Viviennne’s narration is animated and a bit over the top. Stephen does a good job with narration. On the fence with continuing to follow this series.

loved it

The story was great and definitely a story to listen to several times it was so good. I'm only upset the next one isn't available. The FML was strong and I loved how the ML wanted to protect her but also respected it. The plot had me on the edge of my seat. Don't waste time get the story you won't regret it.