Book 6 of the 2024 Read Your Hoard Challenge
What's the perfect book for Valentine's Day? Why, human-alien smut, of course.
It's a pretty rough start to this novel: Georgie Carruthers is abducted by aliens who are truly running a human trafficking operation. The spaceship experiences technical difficulties and the women are temporarily abandoned on an ice planet. But they know they've been chipped like pets and their captors will be back for them. They're cold, hungry, injured and scared. And it seems like Georgie has been nominated to see if she can find a safe place for them.
Vektal is 7 feet tall, blue skinned, and has horns like a big horn sheep. He can't believe his eyes when he finds Georgie, because he immediately begins to resonate with her. This is a function of a symbiont necessary to survive on this planet, which also chooses who is mated to whom. Vektal's people are few in number and desperately short on women. The prospect of a bunch of Earth women that the boys may resonate with is highly motivating.
This story is surprisingly erotic! I think it goes to show how flexible humans are—they can adapt to a lot. When faced with the necessity of acquiring a symbiont, mating with a huge blue dude, and living in caveman conditions, the majority of the women decide it's better than waiting for the little green men to reclaim them.
Very similar to another alien romance that I recently read (Joran), there is a woman shortage and an immediate bond between each woman and her barbarian, much like the mating bond so popular in urban fantasy. This was fun and there are audiobooks available through my library. I'm not sure how I'll feel about listening to sex scenes, but I'm planning to find out.
These books are so nutty and addictive. I think I'm on book 4, maybe? I need to get back these blue guys.
ReplyDeleteI've got a hold on book 2. Should be fun!
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