Disclaimer: I know I can be pretty critical in my reviews, but I usually don't like to go on a full-on rant, because hey, authors are people, too. For this one, though, I'm letting it all out. This author has a pretty loyal following (for some reason), so I doubt this is going to damage her rep or income. If she does read this, please know that I'm not trying to be mean. But, dear author, you can do better. Do better.
So here I go.
First off, size 14 is not plump, it's pretty healthy for an average-height woman, and Diana was never described as super short. I'd love to be a size 14. I'll tell you right off the bat that I got annoyed, no I was offended, by the repeated mentions of how "plump" or "curvy" the protag was, citing her size to be 14. She thought about it a lot, too. Bordering on obsessive. Seriously?
Second... this book is terrible. I mean, wow. WOW. This was "assigned reading" for a romance book club I'm in, and I'm generally down to try new stuff, especially in the romance genre. I'm not familiar with the alien-abduction side of romance, so this was new to me.
I have to believe there's better than this out there.
Aside from the fact that the writing was sub-sub-par, there was no real plot outside of an "oops-I-better-do-something-for-some-kind-of-climax" toss in. Nothing to conquer, really, since Diana only threw some token protests in about the fact that she'd been abducted to take part in an arranged marriage to a humanoid of a different species, but they were all followed with something like, "But gee, he sure has a big dick, so sexy."
So, okay, maybe it's erotica, yeah? I can live with that, sex can be an awesome way to show character and develop connection, and hey, bonus hot. Right? Only... the sex was written badly, too. I found myself cringing during the sex scenes rather than being at all aroused, or even amused. There was nothing substantial, here. Nothing that wasn't Step 1, lick here, step 2, shout name, step 3, magical coming simultaneously. Boo. Unfortunately, this made up the bulk of the (short, thank goodness) audiobook.
So, let's see, we have a "plump" heroine who decides it's totally cool to make a life-long commitment based on the size of a dude's junk, an alien from an extremely patriarchal society who is totally chill with abducting women and expecting them to fall in line as breeders, some token baddies who "chuckled evilly" before getting hero-killed by the one-man army that is the afore-mentioned alien, and one last-minute psychotic-jealous brother-in-law. That basically amounted to...pretty much nothing. It was all phoned in, so to speak, because everyone was made of cardboard.
Fiction 101: At minimum, you need either solid characters, or a solid plot to carry a story. This had neither.
No. Just. No.