Primitively written
My disclaimer:I’m not really sure what I just read. I’m walking away from this with more questions than answers. The book itself was confusing, there was so much information that was lacking, hence my confusion. Now I’m not sure if it was confusing because of reader error, because there were times this book felt so monotonous. Repeating some of the same phrases, and ect it got a little boring to get through so I did start skimming.
I don’t know how the author created this new “earth two” without actually describing it. The only true description was that the weather changed so spontaneously and harshly. That was it? How do you open your readers up to a new world if that’s all you wrote about? This is supposed to be the first Earth’s last hope. It would behoove the author to give more descriptions, like what made it habitable, how was this world made up (land masses, bodies of water, rainforests), how far away was this earth from the last earth, what was the animal life? Poorly set stage for this new habitable world.
The beginning confused me. So this hand selected group of humans comes down to join the others, crash lands then somehow the main female character has these what seem like prophetic visions about being shared with aliens. Then when the ship crash lands she’s taken by the aliens then they all have group sex? And she’s just automatically turned on by their barbaric bdsm-like behavior. Like she struggles and “doesn’t want it” but like gets turned on by the roughness and suddenly it’s alright? They’re all sharing her and she’s so alright with this brand new experience/idea with a completely different species and she has no clue what they’re saying and ect.?? There was so much of this whole “we own you, we are your masters, obey us, you need punished” eye roll worthy repetitive junk throughout the book. I get the author is really shooting the whole “beast angle” but come on. After awhile they’re all “in love” and they’re still finding ways to punish her and she’s sometimes into it and you can tell she’s sometimes not, but then the author has to say she’s wet and moaning during their discipline, so again it makes it okay? Idk I just didn’t really get it, there was no sweet lovemaking side to these aliens/hybrids they claimed this love but there was no true passionate feel. When she was taken a second time she disobeyed trying to leave, the king sentenced her 30 whips or smacks (at this point I don’t even remember) then expected her to take part in the mating ritual. After being bruised up and beaten, her mates one of which felt like he “loved her” still expected her to “do her duty” after being beaten up. Not even understanding or passionate or trying to make her feel better. I’m okay with consensual bdsm when there’s an understanding or at-least some bit of passionate reciprocation. From what I understand, Bdsm is a trusting, mutually reciprocal action/attraction where there is pain and pleasure but where the dominant cares for and looks for when the limit is too reaching. That seems to be missing in a lot of these sci-fi alien “romances”. Idk not for me.
Spoilers: Then the whole book itself. I’m still trying to understand how the female character came up with the cure. That was so ill defined, and again who knows this could’ve been reader error, what made her special? What did her handler inject her with? I get it there was something about a serum to attract her and Erik to each other but was that it? The king was in on this DNA splicing but I don’t really understand what exactly was entailed in the experiment with both humans and aliens. The other human female scientist said she should’ve injected her with something upon arrival but felt deep down she shouldn’t. What was it? then the moment where the bad scientist was killed, the man responsible for all the heinous acts and experimentation was killed within like 2 anticlimactic sentences!!! I mean what the heck!?!? I just don’t get it. It was as if the author wrote this book, got a little sick and bored with writing it, so tried wrapping it up quickly, leaving a lot of unanswered questions and loose ends.
The reason I didn’t give this book the one star it deserved ,was because the idea of this book could’ve been great. It was interesting, and with the right follow through and editors (because there were a few sentence structural errors and spelling mistakes) it could’ve been a decent three to four star read.