I will start out by saying I read this book first before all the other 'Stolen' stories, and I was actually a little glad I did that. There are many parts of this story that are touched on in the rest of the series and I was happy to know how those pieces fit in as I was reading the initial books.

I love Beth! Her men are all a bunch of big kids, so bless her for putting up with them. I love it when Eken starts his conversation with Beth as his 'nippy little purchase'. Starting out the story strong with such an unhinged character makes things interesting. Ekan is most definitely a squirrel in another life!

This entire story is what it would be like to live with boy-men that never grow up. The fact that Beth has come from an abusive past and all these big men are around to keep her safe and she's their treasure is really sweet.

Even though there are 5 men to keep Beth occupied, the game they make it into actually makes it fun to read because you never know who is going to try what next, and there are no hard feelings. Another win in this series!

For Beth its both her unluckiest and luckiest day; she can’t quite decide which. Being kidnapped by aliens isn’t that good, but going on an adventure? That might prove fun.

THE BLURB

Beth’s life just got worse… She’s woken up in an alien pen along with several other women, and she’s being sold!

Or maybe it just got better? Perspective… She’s heavily pregnant, but at least she’s away from her abusive-ex. The alien that bought her hasn’t hurt her, yet… even though he’s tried up-selling her to others at least four times now. He’s a little bit crazy, but he seems like a good guy. Oh, and he’s a luck source.

And the four other aliens on board the space ship that’s now her home? Turns out they are all claiming her as their one and only mate. Guess its time for Beth to figure out what exactly that entails.

TONE OF THE BOOK

This novel is neutral to light hearted theme. There are a number of heavy topics introduced, but there is also a very strong focus on humour and adventure to balance it out.

SENSITIVE TOPICS

Beth’s Stable is definitely a novel for mature readers.

There are a number of sexual scenes with in the novel. Furthermore, Beth’s Stable is a reverse harem novel where the heroine is wooed by several heroes. It’s focused around a polyamorous relationship. One sensitive sexual scene is an interaction between Qolt and Beth; Qolt is very aggressive sexually and his approach can be interpreted as forceful.

The main heroes for the novel are pirates. They bring some baggage, mainly stealing and to a degree killing. However they are heroes, so you can expect them to often act honourably as well.

SERIES SYNOPSIS

Beth’s Stable is the sixth novel in the Stolen By An Alien series. The first novel is aptly named Stolen By An Alien.

This novel is 376 pages long, making it slightly longer than an average romance (at 300 pages average). The length suits quite well to the character development and events of this particular reverse-harem romance, allowing each character to be thoroughly explored. There were 6 main characters!

Each novel in the series focuses on a different couple. The events between novels occur generally in the same time span so many characters and events are repeatedly seen from different character’s perspectives. You can learn more about the series on the Stolen By An Alien Series Series Review page.

REVIEW

Just like most novels in Amanda Milo’s Stolen By An Alien series there are plenty of crossovers. One of my favourite scenes in Stolen By An Alien (the first novel) is re-explored in Beth’s Stable (the birth scene). It’s hilarious as Angie and Beth discuss goats. Sanna and Breslin from Blind Fall also make an appearance. It’s these little crossovers in the timeline that make me really enjoy this series so much; its amazing how their lives are so interconnected without even realising it. Those small details really do add up.

Beth’s Stable is the first reverse harem novel in the series, and I hope not the last. I fell in love with the dynamics of the Na’rith crew. The extra characters and how all the relationships melded together worked wonders for the story. The characters included were Beth, Ekan, Oquilion, Tiernan, Prow and Qolt.

The character development in this novel was amazing as well. It’s honestly hard to say who had the most character development of all; certainly Beth and Ekan and Qolt all experienced significant changes in their personality as life molded them, and they supported each other. I feel like Oquilion and Prow sadly missed out on some of the focus in this novel, but to fit so much into so few pages must have been hard.

His entire manner has changed to a focused one, and I’m struck with the unsettling impression that Ekan is basically a handsome alien squirrel. One that must have moments of pure brilliance if he’s managed to live this long—because I have a feeling he spends most of his time darting and dashing and playing in the middle of traffic.

Unfortunately I also found Ekan’s personality to shift strangely; he’s initially so hyper in behaviour when he first meets Beth, and he’s described as being essentially manic by the rest of the crew. However there are a number of scenes in which Ekan acts quite subdued in nature, not his usual flitty and energetic self. I understand that this was to portray his character development throughout the novel progressing to him being less self-focused (he’s never portrayed as self-centered) and more well-rounded, however his shift from manic to subdued is in direct contrast of his personality type. It just didn’t quite fit…

One aspect of the novel that I didn’t particularly enjoy was the forceful nature of the character Qolt and his initial meeting and interaction with Beth. I understand that Amanda Milo was trying to portray an alpha-male character, but his behaviour very much bordered on sexual abuse whilst Beth’s character was wavering between fear and curiosity.

The world building is once again pretty fantastic even though the story isn’t set much further than the spaceship. I’m surprised that Amanda was able to cover so much adventure in one location.

FINAL WORD

I loved this book! It’s probably one of my favourites from the whole series. The characters are so zanny, fun and adventurous. I really fell in love with the characters and their antics.

Ah!

Heck yeah, a stable. These guys are the best. This may be my favorite. I am so glad Richard got his in the end.

I just want to squeal and clutch my tablet to my chest!

We know from the other books that Beth got her HEA but oh how good it was to actually read how it all happened! I love all her studs lol. I love how different they all are and how they treat her and the baby! This book made me so warm and fuzzy and laugh out loud so much!

3 stars

This had a lot of the humor, at least in the beginning. It started like a romance and we were getting to know, Ekan pretty well. Other than he doesn't hurt her, he is quite a dickwad and doesn't ever really grow out of that, he had a couple of nice parts but they argue, a lot. The 4 others, we don't really get to know well enough to have or feel a connection, we get like one aspect of each. Still the humor persisted and made it so the romance did not matter as much even though it seemed more an acceptance of these nice guys and the pretty good set up rather than that she even loved even one of them, I never felt it.
Then the plot meandered. The birth which we were waiting for since the last 4 books, is not well planned either as an author and explaining or these guys and Beth planning ahead.

Spoiler

Beth explains after she is stuck in labor for hours, that they had outfitted the room for birth and they looked at what was needed... but they knew nothing. They didn't understand the afterbirth or... well anything. Then after labor has been stuck for a long time, they go to get help from another human, who has experience with goats on a farm. Some humor there but it seems like the babe would've come in the time that it takes them to find a ship that they can accost with a human, right? The timing was off in the whole thing and having had the experience twice myself with stalled labor in both. I just felt that part off.

And then there was planning a trip to Earth, which although fun and humorous wasn't much of a plot. That they visited

Spoiler

her ex, and she was alright with really murdering him because he was an asshole. It was a mob vengeance type scene and that she was OK with it but not with pirating by her guys...

well maybe that is why she excepts the guys the way they are, with all their bad habits, especially Ekan.
So it was humorous which saved it from being just OK but mostly it was just good and a bit of meh. Nice to see some of the others too.

For Beth its both her unluckiest and luckiest day; she can’t quite decide which. Being kidnapped by aliens isn’t that good, but going on an adventure? That might prove fun.

THE BLURB

Beth’s life just got worse… She’s woken up in an alien pen along with several other women, and she’s being sold!

Or maybe it just got better? Perspective… She’s heavily pregnant, but at least she’s away from her abusive-ex. The alien that bought her hasn’t hurt her, yet… even though he’s tried up-selling her to others at least four times now. He’s a little bit crazy, but he seems like a good guy. Oh, and he’s a luck source.

And the four other aliens on board the space ship that’s now her home? Turns out they are all claiming her as their one and only mate. Guess its time for Beth to figure out what exactly that entails.

TONE OF THE BOOK

This novel is neutral to light hearted theme. There are a number of heavy topics introduced, but there is also a very strong focus on humour and adventure to balance it out.

SENSITIVE TOPICS

Beth’s Stable is definitely a novel for mature readers.

There are a number of sexual scenes with in the novel. Furthermore, Beth’s Stable is a reverse harem novel where the heroine is wooed by several heroes. It’s focused around a polyamorous relationship. One sensitive sexual scene is an interaction between Qolt and Beth; Qolt is very aggressive sexually and his approach can be interpreted as forceful.

The main heroes for the novel are pirates. They bring some baggage, mainly stealing and to a degree killing. However they are heroes, so you can expect them to often act honourably as well.

SERIES SYNOPSIS

Beth’s Stable is the sixth novel in the Stolen By An Alien series. The first novel is aptly named Stolen By An Alien.

This novel is 376 pages long, making it slightly longer than an average romance (at 300 pages average). The length suits quite well to the character development and events of this particular reverse-harem romance, allowing each character to be thoroughly explored. There were 6 main characters!

Each novel in the series focuses on a different couple. The events between novels occur generally in the same time span so many characters and events are repeatedly seen from different character’s perspectives. You can learn more about the series on the Stolen By An Alien Series Series Review page.

REVIEW

Just like most novels in Amanda Milo’s Stolen By An Alien series there are plenty of crossovers. One of my favourite scenes in Stolen By An Alien (the first novel) is re-explored in Beth’s Stable (the birth scene). It’s hilarious as Angie and Beth discuss goats. Sanna and Breslin from Blind Fall also make an appearance. It’s these little crossovers in the timeline that make me really enjoy this series so much; its amazing how their lives are so interconnected without even realising it. Those small details really do add up.

Beth’s Stable is the first reverse harem novel in the series, and I hope not the last. I fell in love with the dynamics of the Na’rith crew. The extra characters and how all the relationships melded together worked wonders for the story. The characters included were Beth, Ekan, Oquilion, Tiernan, Prow and Qolt.

The character development in this novel was amazing as well. It’s honestly hard to say who had the most character development of all; certainly Beth and Ekan and Qolt all experienced significant changes in their personality as life molded them, and they supported each other. I feel like Oquilion and Prow sadly missed out on some of the focus in this novel, but to fit so much into so few pages must have been hard.

His entire manner has changed to a focused one, and I’m struck with the unsettling impression that Ekan is basically a handsome alien squirrel. One that must have moments of pure brilliance if he’s managed to live this long—because I have a feeling he spends most of his time darting and dashing and playing in the middle of traffic.

Unfortunately I also found Ekan’s personality to shift strangely; he’s initially so hyper in behaviour when he first meets Beth, and he’s described as being essentially manic by the rest of the crew. However there are a number of scenes in which Ekan acts quite subdued in nature, not his usual flitty and energetic self. I understand that this was to portray his character development throughout the novel progressing to him being less self-focused (he’s never portrayed as self-centered) and more well-rounded, however his shift from manic to subdued is in direct contrast of his personality type. It just didn’t quite fit…

One aspect of the novel that I didn’t particularly enjoy was the forceful nature of the character Qolt and his initial meeting and interaction with Beth. I understand that Amanda Milo was trying to portray an alpha-male character, but his behaviour very much bordered on sexual abuse whilst Beth’s character was wavering between fear and curiosity.

The world building is once again pretty fantastic even though the story isn’t set much further than the spaceship. I’m surprised that Amanda was able to cover so much adventure in one location.

FINAL WORD

I loved this book! It’s probably one of my favourites from the whole series. The characters are so zanny, fun and adventurous. I really fell in love with the characters and their antics.