The one she finds that she is most attracted to is named Theo, and she soon learns that others find him repulsive because of his scars, which Faith thinks looks more like sexy tattoos.

She further learns that there are rules preventing her from returning to earth, and she is told she has to marry a male of her choosing and stay with him for at least 3 months as is the law on this planet where men outnumber women by a significant margin.įaith decides her best bet is to play along for now and bide her time while looking for someone that would be willing to break the laws and return her to earth, so she enters the 'marriage ritual' and views the available males. When she comes to, she learns that she is on a planet far from her own but with people that look startlingly similar to humans (with a few differences).

She finally finds what appears to be a road and flings herself in front of what seems to be a transportation vehicle just before she faints from over-exhaustion and dehydration after being on the run for a couple of days. But Jade has no idea where to go or how to survive in a land so different from her own. She understood she had been sold from the way the lizards acted, so she immediately decided to make a run for it, and she is able to get away from whatever creature she hears pursuing her. The h (Jade) is stolen from her home by lizard-looking dudes and unloaded onto an alien planet where she is completely left to fend for herself. No angst-ridden, too-stupid-to-live heroine that thinks even on an alien world that she knows best and the hero? *just a sec-let me wipe all this drool* Yes, yes it's not something that's totally outta this world in the terms of imagination but the way it all gels together was brilliant.

But the 'selection' process? The idea of alien marriage? The intricate alien details? Oof! Mind-blown! What I'm trying to say is I have enough experience with the genre to proclaim I have never read something like this before!Ī Matriarchal alien society where men out-number the women 20 to 1? Sure, of course I've read the type before. It's always so entertaining to read all the weird, freaky, impossible things that people come up with but in UF or Sci-fi you don't have to justify any of it-if you do, great-but you don't have to and that is the beauty of it, things can be just the way they are just because you said so.Īt this point, I have read more than my fair share of alien romances and baring a couple exceptions they usually follow the same outline-they can be great just the same but just not original. If done right, the writer can sell you absolute bullshit and make you love it.

I feel one of the biggest draws for me when reading Urban Fantasy or Sci-fi Alien romance is the absolute unpredictability of it. Victoria Aveline, I'M KEEPING MY EYES ON YOU!

The clecanian