I was trying to get along with the others. I really was. But when the warship had a catastrophic malfunction, both the aliens and the humans seemed to find every way to aggravate me.
Patience and attention from a certain Tal was the only thing keeping me sane, but I knew it was only a matter of time before I inadvertently pushed him away too.
Am I going to make it through the ship’s repairs without pulling someone’s hair out? Or ruining my strange relationship with the only Tal that seemed to enjoy talking to me?
Because honestly, it’s not looking so good.
Her Daring Alien is the fifth in the Tal Warship Romance series. Each of these sci-fi romance books features a different woman and her sexy alien soldier with a guaranteed HEA.
Everything is pinned together in the last 5% of the book completely ruining the only character with ANY dimension. Why do you hate your characters so much that you refuse to let them do anything?
I really liked Julia and Stoccen as a couple. Julia is the most complex character yet and I thought she deserved a better ending than what she got. Finally the author has a character who is still angry about the fact that all of the human women came to be on the Tal’s ship against their will. But it goes nowhere.
I also did not like how the author handles the disagreement between the FMC and one of the other women. It’s clear the other woman intentionally starts petty squabbles to antagonize the FMC but no one backs her up because her personality is blunt and abrasive. That’s using social convention to control other people (a by-product of patriarchy, btw).
the male protagonist had as much depth as a flat plate and the female protagonist was just mean and spoiled. It's actually sad because I had high expectations for these characters because they were much more interesting in the previous books but it kind of lacked character development and depth.
For example Julie: Like I get that she's mad that she lost everything but that isn't an excuse to hurt everyone around her
And Stoccen didn't made any sense because he was interested in Julia even when she treated him like s*** and then suddenly when he taught that she hadn't any deep feelings for him he dumped her ??? But when she refused to eat anything he sudanly didn't care anymore and in the end didn't even Julien apologize for her behave.
Also I didn't feel any chemistry between the two main characters. Like Julia only f***** Stoccen because he is the only one who is not scared of her and good looking and suddenly she catch feelings?!
Also Julia didn't even once told Stoccen that she loved him too.
I'd really like the book series so far because the characters are very likeable, but this book just really lacked a lot in anything
Ngl. Dnf. Julia is incredibly unlikeable, stuck up bitch who spends pretty much all I read that way. I love the rest of this series, The writing it's self is good. This one just isn't it for me.
I really like this series and I really adore the characters and the amazing dialogue they have. Building multi faceted characters/relationships that come across on paper as smooth and easy as they do is so hard and this book (and series) is such a treat because of that
Julia is a mean girl. She is never happy with her situation and spends a lot of time alone. Stoccen is a smiling annoyance to Julia and spends an inordinate amount of time poking the beast to get a rise out of her.