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When She's Common by Ruby Dixon
adventurous
emotional
slow-paced
2.0
A 544 page Risdaverse book? Idk guys.
It was originally written as a serial and… I felt that.
The premise started out so fun. Our human lady wanted a cat, but she got an exiled cat-alien royal instead. Our cat-alien wanted to hide out at a resort with a bevy of servants, but he woke up on Risda and our heroine was definitely not interested in doing what he said. It was all really funny.
But then…
▪️ our hero’s personality wasn’t the most consistent;
▪️ our heroine had no character arc in sight (though her manipulative + chatty personality was fun);
▪️ the romance plot was more ‘we’re married and hot, might as well bang’ than on-page falling in love-y; and
▪️ Risda III is boring. It’s what makes all the novellas in this series comfy as heck, but it made this book feel loonnng.
Ruby Dixon writes campy alien romances like no other. The chapters, taken individually, were so fun. But the overall story is where I struggled. Maybe I should have read this as a serial as the chapters were being released last year.
It was originally written as a serial and… I felt that.
The premise started out so fun. Our human lady wanted a cat, but she got an exiled cat-alien royal instead. Our cat-alien wanted to hide out at a resort with a bevy of servants, but he woke up on Risda and our heroine was definitely not interested in doing what he said. It was all really funny.
But then…
▪️ our hero’s personality wasn’t the most consistent;
▪️ our heroine had no character arc in sight (though her manipulative + chatty personality was fun);
▪️ the romance plot was more ‘we’re married and hot, might as well bang’ than on-page falling in love-y; and
▪️ Risda III is boring. It’s what makes all the novellas in this series comfy as heck, but it made this book feel loonnng.
Ruby Dixon writes campy alien romances like no other. The chapters, taken individually, were so fun. But the overall story is where I struggled. Maybe I should have read this as a serial as the chapters were being released last year.