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A review by katyanaish
Alien Collective by Gini Koch
4.0
Honestly, this was an almost shockingly straightforward book. No real plot to unravel, there was never any real question about the goal or the source of the problem.
Aside from being FURIOUS that the stupid team decided to meet and accept / strategize about Jeff running for VP without even discussing it with Kitty - and for reals, I was so angry that anyone would think they have the fucking right to just INFORM her that they were doing this mammoth, life-changing thing as if she just outright has no say about it that I nearly DNF right then and there - I liked it. Once it moved away from that utterly unacceptable treatment of Kitty.
I honestly was disappointed to have to get back to that space, after the last book. You know, that space where I fucking despise the entire team - and her mother and Chuckie and Jeff - because they have such little care for her and her intelligence and personal agency. I truly do not understand how the author could be so blaze about them all just dropping this on her as a done deal. And ... it hurts her character, and my respect of her character, that she just rolls with that. Frankly, I'd have told them good luck with the campaign while going through a divorce, grabbed my kid (because Kitty has every damn right to shield her daughter from the kind of life-upending chaos that kind of national campaign brings), and left. Teleported to Alpha Four or something. Because fuck them all.
It took a lot for me to get past that utter, horrifying betrayal in the beginning of the book. But after that, I liked it well enough.
Aside from being FURIOUS that the stupid team decided to meet and accept / strategize about Jeff running for VP without even discussing it with Kitty - and for reals, I was so angry that anyone would think they have the fucking right to just INFORM her that they were doing this mammoth, life-changing thing as if she just outright has no say about it that I nearly DNF right then and there - I liked it. Once it moved away from that utterly unacceptable treatment of Kitty.
I honestly was disappointed to have to get back to that space, after the last book. You know, that space where I fucking despise the entire team - and her mother and Chuckie and Jeff - because they have such little care for her and her intelligence and personal agency. I truly do not understand how the author could be so blaze about them all just dropping this on her as a done deal. And ... it hurts her character, and my respect of her character, that she just rolls with that. Frankly, I'd have told them good luck with the campaign while going through a divorce, grabbed my kid (because Kitty has every damn right to shield her daughter from the kind of life-upending chaos that kind of national campaign brings), and left. Teleported to Alpha Four or something. Because fuck them all.
It took a lot for me to get past that utter, horrifying betrayal in the beginning of the book. But after that, I liked it well enough.