Disclaimer: this review is NOT positive in any way shape or form.
Outlaw Planet Mates
This series is super interesting. Mainly because it’s not all written by the same author. Took me a minute to figure that out, lol. By the 3rd book, I was super confused as to why the author changed their writing style so abruptly. Once I realized there were several contributing writers, it made more sense. Duh.
Some of these books are fantastic. Some are downright terrible. Some are included with kindle unlimited, some aren’t.
The baseline for each book is that several women were abducted from Earth by little green aliens. The little green human trafficker shits implanted the females with a translator on their way to an assumed auction house of sorts. During their transit, something went wrong. So all the humans were placed in escape pods and sent to land on the outlaw planet. This planet happens to be an old prisoner planet where the prisoners overtook their captors and the planet, so now it’s just a no-man’s land for escaped fugitives and wanted criminals. And so each human female’s story truly begins.
This book is flat out terrible with a capital “T. “ The author continuously went back-and-forth from present to past tense so much that I damn near received a brain aneurysm from reading this. It was excruciatingly painful to read. There were too many passages with editorial mistakes so bad, that it left the narrative beyond confusing. Even after reading the same paragraph seven times to figure out what the author was trying to say, I would eventually give up and move on. How did this even get published? I pity whoever was stuck editing this piece of work. I almost gave up around the third chapter, but I have a necessity to finish whatever I’ve started, no matter how hopeless it is.
The human character in this book, Claire, was made out to be a complete dip-shit. Even though she was supposedly a microbiologist, she was written to sound like an undereducated fool. It took the first two chapters for Claire to except the fact that she wasn’t dreaming, and that she was, in fact, on a different planet surrounded by aliens. Her inner dialogue was all over the place, making very little sense. She would jump from one thought to another too quick to follow. Honestly, the story line was all over the place, random, and not well thought out at all.
Then we get to the alien character. There was one paragraph where, I kid you not, he said that either Claire will except him as a mate and f*ck him, or he will turn her over to the pirates and collect the bounty for her head. Wow. That’s a love story if I’ve ever heard one. Later, however, sticking true to the theme of being all over the place, he quickly changes his mind and decides that he wants her to be willing about giving away her body.
I won’t even get into the details of the remaining points that are wrong with this book, because there are way too many. Instead, I will steer clear of this author and any of their other material. I’m just glad I didn’t have to pay for this book, because it would’ve added to the disappointment tenfold. Readers beware!