I’ve found plenty of inhuman romance series with good plots, dialogue, and characters, so even if I don’t expect great literature, I still have certain standards. This book fell below my standards of decent campy alien romance everywhere except the overall concept. The writing was childish and completely unrealistic, even for the genre. My top three problems with this book:
-Insta-everything: insta-mate, insta-love, even insta-stalkers and Insta-fight scenes… this wasn’t a book, this was a Cliff Notes summary. For example: No sooner does the caricature bad guy appear and sneer, then he’s dead, cut down with a single blow/flame. 30 seconds from conflict to resolution.
-Characters have the depth of pancakes: Zoran is a possessive @sshat who takes Abby before she can even understand his language. He’s supposedly a king, yet never does anything kingly. Abby is an artsy, vegan bimbo who just goes along with everything, including giving her V-card to a dude who morphed into a dragon and acts like a caveman, before she can even understand a word he says.
-The nooky to story ratio is way off, with 8 scenes in this 7 hr book (not including all the other times we’re told they got it on). Also, these are cringey and unsexy get togethers, particularly using the clinical word vagina (if a book uses c**k, then it might as well use p**sy or other words).
Better alien romance series:
🚀If you want fun alien romance, give Ruby Dixon’s campy Ice Planet Barbarians series a try.
🚀 If it’s gotta be dragons, that same author has a dystopian series with dragons that’s better
(even if I didn’t care for the whole living in squalor setting).
🚀If you want alien romance with alpha males, try Anna Carven’s Dark Planet Warrior series.