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ashleycmms's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Graphic: Colonisation, Slavery, and Sexual content
Moderate: Blood and Xenophobia
Minor: Pregnancy
ednam0dewannabe's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Graphic: Sexual content and Blood
Moderate: Violence, Colonisation, Xenophobia, and Racism
Minor: Slavery and Pregnancy
mx_virg's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
I wasn't expecting so much story and farming details from an alien romance. Which wasn't bad, just not what I was expecting. I would have preferred more focus on the romance, which was super sweet. No big miscommunication or misunderstandings, I liked having two earnest and honest heroes who wanted to make the relationship to work.
The colonialism vibe is strong though. A white human coming to save the underdeveloped aliens, this will probably be repeated in the rest of the series. The point of the Prime Mating Agency is to match mates to Prime planets, planets whose inhabitants have some intelligence but who haven't yet the technology for space travel. So each book will be about a woman coming to a "wild" world, bring with her new technology. But on the other side, she has to integrate herself to this new world, the goal is not to convert a whole species to a new way of life.
The ending was underwhelming. A good part of the story was focused on the issues of the lizard people, and its conclusion was no more than a footnote. One or two extra chapters would have been nice. Or focus more on the romance and the heroine adapting to her new planet. The book is half romance, half sci-fi, but doesn't have the space to explore both in a satisfying way.
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Colonisation, Blood, Racism, and Violence
Minor: Xenophobia and Pregnancy
mouselovesbooks's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Graphic: Sexual content, Blood, Colonisation, and Cultural appropriation
Moderate: Slavery
Slavery is not current, but the lizard aliens are dealing with the generational trauma of previous enslavement and it is discussed in depthruthiedr89's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
Graphic: Blood and Sexual content
Moderate: Classism and Colonisation
iamsammie27's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Blood, Colonisation, and Cultural appropriation
Minor: Slavery