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A review by rjordan19
Using Fejo by Victoria Aveline
adventurous
emotional
medium-paced
- 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
4.0
Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Readability: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥🔥
Humor: Yes!
Perspective: third person from both hero and heroine
More character focused or plot focused? character
How did the speed of the story feel? medium
When mains are first on page together: almost immediately
Cliffhanger: No, this ends with a happily ever after
Epilogue: Yes, about 3 weeks later
Format: listened to an audiobook from the library (Hoopla)
Why I chose this book: My friend Heather has repeatedly recommended the series, and I enjoyed a lot about book 1 when I read it a few years ago so I’ve been making my way through the series!
Mains: This is a M/F relationship between a cishet alien hero and human heroine
Should I read in order?
Ideally yes. There’s been more and more details given about the alien lifestyle and culture over the course of the series.
Basic plot:
Vanessa is determined to get back to her family, even if she has to use Fejo to do it.
Give this a try if you want:
- science fiction romance
- alien setting (Clecania)
- alien hero / human heroine
- sunshine hero – Fejo is lighthearted and delightful!
- hero gifts her a dildo
- close proximity
- light road trip feel – they travel from Clecania to Earth
- fated mates
- medium steam – 3ish full scenes but slower burn (and that’s a guess because I paused my KU subscription to check steam and I’m not listening to the book again to find out 😆 )
Ages:
- didn’t see either mentioned
First line:
Vanessa couldn’t recall a time in her life when she’d been so unhappy about shopping.
My thoughts:
I adored parts of this book – especially Fejo and he really broke my heart.
Fejo, as the title implies, has been used by many in his life. This doesn’t darken his spark and he has this amazingly engaging, confident, sweet, and playful personality that is so endearing. And so of course I struggled with this heroine that had REASONS but also just kept hurting him.
I think the hardest part of this book was that Fejo wanted love so badly – and some of the sex scenes just felt like he was begging her to love him and I disliked that. It gave the scenes a bit of ick factor in the background that niggled at me – I felt like he deserved a bit better – more solid acceptance and more confidence in her love for him.
But overall I really adored this book. This book pulled on my heart a bit more than some of the others and I liked that we were on a spaceship road trip vibe. I’ve really enjoyed this series so far!
Few random reading stats for this author
# of books read: 5
Average rating: 4 stars
Favorite book: Maaaaaybe this one?? The series has been really steady for the most part with me loving most of the books. Maybe Saving Verakko? It’s hard to say.
Cock/Hero Stats:
- Hero is Clecanian but was made in a lab
- Doesn’t have wings like many others
- Hero has gills
- hero purrs
- hero has subdermal implants in his cock that give texture, is pierced, and has adaptions that can inflate and vibrate
Content warnings: (This should be taken as a minimum because I could have missed some!)
- mention of being in foster care for heroine and parental abandonment. (dad was an addict, left when she was an infant, mother had a brain tumor and died and they were placed in foster care, sometimes separated from her sister)
- Fejo was one of the first grown in an artificial womb
- some scenes of violence including the hero breaking off an alien’s horn and stabbing him with it
- mention of sister having a brain tumor
- scenes of violence, danger, and murder on page
- slavery and human trafficking
Locations of kisses/intimate scenes, safe sex, consent, pregnancy/child in the story: I paused my KU subscription before I wrote this review, so I don’t have all the steam details….
Safe sex: The heroine gets some kind of birth control on the alien planet – it’s some kind of higher technology like an implant or something
How’s the consent? It’s...mostly good. There is a scene that’s kind of questionable but we are in her POV so we know how badly she wants the hero but he is kind of ‘ordering her’ to do sexual things to see how far she’ll go to get a ride back to Earth – eventually he stops. He’s punishing her for using him basically.
Pregnancy/children in story? There’s some thoughts of getting pregnant/having babies in the future
11% - kiss
27% - kiss
42% - tension building scene – hero asks what she will do to get a trip to Earth. She undresses, he orders he to lay on the bed, he licks her clit then backs off
60% - 🔥dry humping, breast play, oral for her, 69
Readability: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥🔥
Humor: Yes!
Perspective: third person from both hero and heroine
More character focused or plot focused? character
How did the speed of the story feel? medium
When mains are first on page together: almost immediately
Cliffhanger: No, this ends with a happily ever after
Epilogue: Yes, about 3 weeks later
Format: listened to an audiobook from the library (Hoopla)
Why I chose this book: My friend Heather has repeatedly recommended the series, and I enjoyed a lot about book 1 when I read it a few years ago so I’ve been making my way through the series!
Mains: This is a M/F relationship between a cishet alien hero and human heroine
Should I read in order?
Ideally yes. There’s been more and more details given about the alien lifestyle and culture over the course of the series.
Basic plot:
Vanessa is determined to get back to her family, even if she has to use Fejo to do it.
Give this a try if you want:
- science fiction romance
- alien setting (Clecania)
- alien hero / human heroine
- sunshine hero – Fejo is lighthearted and delightful!
- hero gifts her a dildo
- close proximity
- light road trip feel – they travel from Clecania to Earth
- fated mates
- medium steam – 3ish full scenes but slower burn (and that’s a guess because I paused my KU subscription to check steam and I’m not listening to the book again to find out 😆 )
Ages:
- didn’t see either mentioned
First line:
Vanessa couldn’t recall a time in her life when she’d been so unhappy about shopping.
My thoughts:
I adored parts of this book – especially Fejo and he really broke my heart.
Fejo, as the title implies, has been used by many in his life. This doesn’t darken his spark and he has this amazingly engaging, confident, sweet, and playful personality that is so endearing. And so of course I struggled with this heroine that had REASONS but also just kept hurting him.
I think the hardest part of this book was that Fejo wanted love so badly – and some of the sex scenes just felt like he was begging her to love him and I disliked that. It gave the scenes a bit of ick factor in the background that niggled at me – I felt like he deserved a bit better – more solid acceptance and more confidence in her love for him.
But overall I really adored this book. This book pulled on my heart a bit more than some of the others and I liked that we were on a spaceship road trip vibe. I’ve really enjoyed this series so far!
Few random reading stats for this author
# of books read: 5
Average rating: 4 stars
Favorite book: Maaaaaybe this one?? The series has been really steady for the most part with me loving most of the books. Maybe Saving Verakko? It’s hard to say.
Cock/Hero Stats:
- Hero is Clecanian but was made in a lab
- Doesn’t have wings like many others
- Hero has gills
- hero purrs
- hero has subdermal implants in his cock that give texture, is pierced, and has adaptions that can inflate and vibrate
Content warnings: (This should be taken as a minimum because I could have missed some!)
- mention of being in foster care for heroine and parental abandonment. (dad was an addict, left when she was an infant, mother had a brain tumor and died and they were placed in foster care, sometimes separated from her sister)
- Fejo was one of the first grown in an artificial womb
- some scenes of violence including the hero breaking off an alien’s horn and stabbing him with it
- mention of sister having a brain tumor
- scenes of violence, danger, and murder on page
- slavery and human trafficking
Locations of kisses/intimate scenes, safe sex, consent, pregnancy/child in the story: I paused my KU subscription before I wrote this review, so I don’t have all the steam details….
Safe sex:
How’s the consent?
Pregnancy/children in story?
11% - kiss
27% - kiss
42% - tension building scene – hero asks what she will do to get a trip to Earth. She undresses, he orders he to lay on the bed, he licks her clit then backs off
60% - 🔥dry humping, breast play, oral for her, 69