There are so many ways where this book weirdly does not lean into some of the weirldy conservative stuff a lot of other romance does, but in this way it absolutely leans into it hard. I also think that the whole 'mates are for babies' thing in general is pretty homophobic and weirdly Christian. Shes probably on less than ten pages of this whole book but I really thought Dixon did not need to include her being raped, I accepted that the kidnapping aliens were bad before that, and if she had to keep it I really think it is terrible to then kill her. Then she is eventually found dead because she ran from the spaceship crash and no one could stop her from letting herself die of exposure. Then she is basically too traumatized to talk again. There is a character named Dominique who is raped by some of the orange aliens who work with the green aliens (it is also implied this happened to another girl). The author uses the dual POV very well, her worldbuilding is understandable but bonkers, and the plot is very fast paced. She instead finds a giant blueish alien who she proceeds to fall in love with. Georgie, our enterprising and legitimately brave heroine goes off to find food and water to help her fellow humans. Humans are kidnapped by some green aliens, a mishap occurs, and they crash onto an ice-covered planet. I don't really have a ton to say about the reading experience.

But it is such an easy read, nothing is clunky or confusing. And obviously, this book is bananas popular so I knew I needed to include this.įirst off, I was surprised by how well-written this book is.

I recently decided to do a KU trial and do a little KU reading experiment. I am a bit abashed to have read this book.

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