Name: Alien Home (Mothership #1)
Rating: 3.69 (4 reviews)

1,760 reviews

January 28, 2026

Because that's what we did. We survived, and we adapted, and we made impossible choices because the alternative was giving up.

So, I read book one of the Planet of The Monsters series and overall this story and that one have a similar vibe, only that one was more cave man banging+destiny this is more interstellar love+space opera drama.

I haven't been actively (or rather not actively but aggressively, voraciously) reading like I usually do because-life, but, when I started reading Chapter 2 (not 1), it activated my appetite and I wanted to finish this.

Overall this is 2.5 stars but it is not all shit so upgraded to 3 stars.

E.E. probably wrote, self-published and generated the cover herself, which good for her, but there are so many inconsistencies and a lack of continuity that clearly needed a second pair of human eyes to at least go through the story before it was published.

We are told from the onset, and repeatedly, that humans haven't been seen in this part of the universe. Then we're told contradictory statements such as "human vocal structures couldn't replicate Zandovian phonemes" when the human in question hadn't tried to speak their language. How did Erdox know?

How did Erdox know humans were humans if they are Alien to this system/they have never interacted with any humans before?

"Dana—the leader, the engineer,", how did Erdox know this and this is still stated at a point where the humans haven't even been modified/uploaded with the Zandovian language such that Dana could tell him? Eh, he's just the best at infering foreign, Alien, body language? He has a lot of omniscient narrator episodes when he is not privy to the information/the author hasn't edited the story properly so Dana's inner monologue becomes Erdox's knowing with no communication in between.

"Er'dox, report to the bridge. We've detected another signal, same signature as the human beacon. There are more survivors out there."

"On my way, Captain."

This is mentioned at the end of Chapter 5, then we start off Chapter 6 the next morning with no further mention of this incident.

"Also, thank you. For finding the survivor. It mattered."

This is mentioned at the end of Chapter 6 and at the beginning of Chapter 7 we jump 2 weeks later.

In hindsight/after finishing the story that's when you realize that these were in reference to Alex Bail but it's like E.E. wrote him in earlier, erased him, then kept him in holding until Chapter 8 from where his story starts unfolding chronologically.

For the better part of the book Dana is not mentioned as having reading/normal day to day glasses but suddenly at 31% and 57% she's adjusting them as a show of nervousness/being tired.

"Vaxon," I said into the comm, my voice deadly calm. "I've got them."

The next forty-eight hours became a blur of monitoring and analysis.

This is mentioned at the end of Chapter 9 but at the start of Chapter 10 we've regressed back to the following morning.

The author wasn't noting down when changing POV from Dana to Erdox and vice-versa so there are instances of regression, time jumps aka lack of continuity.

For the "antagonist" in the story it is mentioned that they've been planning this for a while, heavily hinted at that they're human yet these observations come from a point of whichever character was speaking at the time having more information (refer to omniscient narrator mention above) than what is taking place at the moment/ they know more than the current information discussed and known by all.

In relation again to the antagonist, this space ship is a flying city with all the bells and whistles not known to man...but they don't have cameras???? That's why they physically had to run, blindly each time, in search of the antagonist???? They can pick up bio-signatures, grow organs but no cameras in the areas where the antagonist was? Then later on to sort of mask the inconsistencies it is quickly mentioned that they snuck onto the ship and had probably altered their body, post Dana having seen and recognized them????

Chapter 12 the antagonist is caught. We find out who it is. Dana knows who it is. They make their demands. Chapter 13 we start off with it being one week later but Dana+Erdox's/the crew's dialogue keeps on referencing Dana still being a 2 week recruit, the antagonist and Dana are getting re-introduced, the same demand is being made just in a different format and the best one is the quote, "You've been running on crisis adrenaline for forty-eight hours.". The author wrote/synthesized the same chapter 2 different ways but didn't collate the information into one flowing chapter or go back and edit one out.

We have only one kiss followed immediately by one sex scene before the epilogue bonding/wedding manenos. There is no build up in the chemistry between Dana+Erdox. It was more Erdox was getting ribbed by Krev for having feelings for his subordinate throughout. Then, the way the sex scene comes about I was like hold up, is she dreaming this? Like when did she move from dreams to they're against the wall, they're banging in his quarters???? Remember class, Zandovians have never seen humans, how was Erdox just able to know how human foreplay works and then we have, "You're always ready for me," he murmured against my skin, his breath hot.", how???? How if this was their first time fucking this whole book?!

We end the story with the bonding session, and at first I was confused because I thought it was Dana committing to the crew, skumbe it was Dana+Erdox bonding, then towards the end it is the other hinted at pairings when the women first get on the ship and are conveniently assigned to their similar role supervisors ALSO having their bonding ceremonies yet these are the same couples set out to be in book 2 onwards? It's a mess.

Funny moment, "You're telling me we have to pay for medical care?". Even if you go through a wormhole, capitalism/insurance is there to screw you over 😂.

Vaxon is made out to be this hulking, charged up, I'm the top dog security guy but in the early chapters I loved that he was the one who gave Dana the realistic truth when others were trying to ease her into what life would be.

So, overall, on paper, good concept. Poor-ish execution marred by a lack of continuity and omniscient narrator information where there is no such role in the story. Most likely won't be going on with the other books.

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