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alejandra_guerrero's review
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
2.0
I deeply disliked Zoey. She’s an entitled shrew. She gets mad at him for things that are either outside his control or should not be shared with a civilian, and he ends up apologizing for it. And this happened so often, I just wanted him to throw her out of an airlock. One would think the first astro-architect in the history of humanity would be more sensible. Speaking of which, how did she become an astro-architect? Where the hell did she study? Shouldn’t the super important project of building a space station go to someone with at least some experience building space stations? Like the person who built the other one in the first place, or at least someone with NASA (if not a Drexian altogether, since all the technology is theirs), who would at least be aware of the chain of command, something Zoey blatantly disregards, over and over.
Also, she’s super hung up on her dead fiancè, to the extent that she has what amounts to a shrine to the guy in her quarters, yet one moment she decides it’s time for a fling when she hadn’t been remotely interested not only in men but sex in general for years. It felt forced that she became a vixen overnight. Especially when we didn’t see the “tension” building (this so-called tension is her being a total Karen and him not willing to put up whit her entitled ass). Likewise, he flips a switch and goes from “I hate this woman” to “I want to fuck her” in the span of a second. No conflict, no agonizing over lusting after a person they absolutely despise (that we were TOLD they despise, BTW). The whole “relationship” felt forced and artificial, and I felt no real chemistry between these two. Not to talk about his “darker desires”' and all the talk about hookers and how humans wouldn’t be able to take what he wanted to do to them. That was gross, and fortunately didn’t last more than a couple of chapters.
Finally, the “danger” they have to “work together” to overcome turned out to be not that dangerous and he did everything while she ran. All she did was, once again, disregard the chain of command to ask a Drexian to help. The guy should have shut her down, but he didn't, which speaks volumes about the Drexian military. None of it good. I wonder what kind of fighters the Kronock are, to be defeated by these undisciplined guys, who seem to be led by their dicks. Seriously, the book ends with a HFN, and them fucking in the middle of a crisis (he's the captain, but he literally thinks “thank the fates the Inferno warriors are working on the rescue plan”, so he can fuck for hours. WTF, bitch! You are the superior officer here, and the warrior they're trying to rescue is under your command! I can't with these people).
virgo_reader's review
2.0
I enjoyed the fast paced nature of this book though I don’t think there was a ton of relationship development. This was better than most alien romances in that I liked it and wanted to keep reading the series, but isn’t a new fav.
swampgoddess's review against another edition
3.0
It was fine. 2.5 *
My brain kept picturing Serge as the one eyed alien from Lilo and Stitch.
My brain kept picturing Serge as the one eyed alien from Lilo and Stitch.
meg369's review
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
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