Review - Raffled by the Tentacle Elite by Kit Luxe

Raffled by the Tentacle Elite

by Kit Luxe

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Volume 2 of The Tentacle Elite

Tags: Science Fiction Novelette Tentacles Non-Consensual

Posted in Book Reviews on 25 April, 2026

Logan has just graduated and is having trouble finding work. On a lark, he signs up for a job fair operated by the Elite, the tentacled aliens that are part of the Galactic Alliance that has taken control of earth. There are so many other applicants at the fair, Logan doesn’t have high hopes of landing a job, but he is effectively guided through the fair and encouraged to move towards the center of the hall where the winning applicants will be announced. Logan is shocked when his name is called and even more shocked when one of the Elite guides him out of the event hall into a private room where he learns what he has been selected for is not a job at all. It seems he is to become the mate of the Elite that accompanied him.

It feels like the book title and blurb on Smashwords doesn’t line up with the actual contents of the story. There’s no mention of a “raffle” in the contents. The dialog gives the impression that Logan has been identified as a sort of “fated mate” to the Elite he gets paired with. The books of the Tentacle Elite series are essentially stand-alone stories set in the same future earth which has been taken over by aliens. The first book, Gilded Cage of the Tentacle Elite, does a good job setting up this world, so it’s a good idea to read that one before this book.

We don’t get to know Logan very well before he gets chosen. The story starts just as he enters the job fair where he gets matched with his new mate. Soon after the selection, Logan falls under the control of an alien device which makes him unable to resist his new mate’s commands. His confusion over what is happening to him is very understandable. We don’t really get a good idea from the story to know any more about what’s going on than Logan does.

A complaint I had about the first book of the series was that it was too short, ending abruptly after well written build-up of the world in which aliens have taken control of the earth, promising prosperity while kidnapping society’s outcasts to use as … something. Similarly, in this story, after the semi-public ceremony where Logan is stripped and “claimed” by his Elite mate, the story just ends. We have no idea what Logan is to his new mate or why the Elites seem to be want humans as mates in the first place.

“Raffled by the Tentacle Elite” is available from Smashwords.