A review by brandys_reading_count
When She's Common by Ruby Dixon

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Characters: Maeve and Zhur 

(I DNFd this book at the 80% point and skipped to the epilogue)

Maeve is very much a people person, she doesn’t like being alone. So from sun up to sun down she likes to spend her time at the local village. She ends up talking with a smuggler to buy an animal that is similar to a cat she would have found on earth, but when she gets to the place where dockworkers sleep at, she ends up getting a male Praxiian in a pod.

She wakes him up and she takes him home with her, then she has to deal with the fact that Zhur is a snooty, stuck up, whiny, big baby. 

Zhur is a royal prince from a different world, he escapes his world to hide out on the Risda lll planet, not knowing that it would be more of a farming planet. He’s hiding from his older brother who wants to execute him, so the brother can take over the rein of controlling the people on Zhur’s home planet.

Maeve and Zhur end up playing along to protect Zhur by getting into a fake marriage.

I was not a fan of Zhur at the beginning, but he did change and get better (a little too quickly to be believable in my opinion), but I started to get annoyed with Maeve, she kept doing things to irritate me. Also this book felt soooooooooooooooo long to me, i believe that Ruby could have tightened up the storyline, because this book was freaking 15 hours long and I felt all of those hours. 

The other thing that bothered me was the secondary storyline of his home planet and all of the in’s and out’s of the politics on his home world, I just didn’t care. Also there was some secondary characters being introduced, so I figured that was Ruby Dixon’s subtle hint that there would be more storylines being told on Risda lll. 

Also I didn’t feel the connection between Maeve and Zhur, they went from not liking each other to being “friends with benefits” and married. I didn’t feel the buildup