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I wanted to try a romance book which is different. And behold this author is a treat . I am glad I found ruby Dixon . Absolutely loved this book , gonna continue with this series .

I found this book, and the rest of the series, whilst looking for some decent sci-fi to read on my kindle.I was drawn in fairly early and I am not sure if I was shocked by the content or not.The basic story line goes... "Earth Female is chased by friendly blue people following abduction by unfriendly aliens" with more or less 'pornography' depending on who is chasing who.Each book has a central core plot involving 2 people, an Earth female and her Blue 'suitor' who either love or hate each other at first sight.If you regard this as a "What girls like", then my own education has been considerably lacking. :)IF you are offended by explicit sexual descriptions with varying degrees of the F and C bombs, then you may not enjoy the series.If you like a good story and can treat the bombs as meaningless words without writing to your MP, then read and enjoy.I bought the whole series on the strength of book 1 and eagerly await the next in the series as I feel sure that the evil aliens must return for a showdown.... maybe.The writing is excellent. You warm to all the characters and you start to care... or at least I did.Give at least one book a try.Read them in order too. It helps.

I can be a bit funny with alien romances. Sometimes I love them...sometimes I DNF them.After the insane amount of hype over these books, I'll admit I went in with some trepidation. Would they actually live up to the hype?Well...yes and no. I'll preface by saying that I definitely enjoyed it, and fully plan on reading more when I need a break from the darker books I usually read.I liked: Most things, honestly. The aliens are friendly, the good kind of possessive, and cherish the women. Plus, they're warriors thst love to please their women. There's not much to dislike. The planet is interesting, and I got a good feel for it. The story was written and edited well and kept me interested throughout.Things I wasn't as keen on: As is the case with most serial novels like this...the end came a bit abruptly. I'm assuming these characters will make an appearance in future books...but it kind of makes it difficult to call this a standalone. It doesn't feel finished, which makes me both want and not want to read more. Not want to, because you know thst in order to get the full picture, you'll need to read all of them...and there are A LOT of them. If you don't like series, this one won't be for you. I also felt that a lot more could have come from the other alien threat...but it was barely a blip. The steamy scenes were nice, but not 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 nice.So, worth the hype? I'd say the jury is out on that one, but I will read more in the future.

Trigger warnings:AbductionImprisonmentRape (secondary character)My first thought was the writing style was going to be difficult to follow because it’s very informal with lots of short, choppy sentences. However, it didn’t matter because I found the story so compelling. I mean, what would you do if you were abducted by aliens?Georgie wakes up and finds herself imprisoned on an alien spaceship with human females her own age, but she’s not willing to just accept her fate. She’s a fighter and far from the screaming “it’s hopeless” victim. Things get worse when they are dumped on a frozen planet. Again, Georgie proves she’s not some “let’s wait for a rescue” type and I couldn’t help but get behind her.This book is a piece of pure escapism. Just turn off your brain and allow yourself to be taken away by this easy read. The plot is fantastical, but it drew me in. You’ll also enjoy it if you like fated mates tropes and plenty of hot and heavy sex with large aliens who are built to please women - not just sexually, they love, cherish and see to their every need.I really fancy reading more, but I might save it for when I hit a reading rut and need something fun to get me going again.

Georgie is abducted by little green men one night. Is she living in a cliche? No, but she is living a nightmare. When she comes to, she finds herself in a cage of sorts with a handful of other women, all around the same age. From what they gather, the aliens are looking to sell them like cattle.When they’re unceremoniously dumped in a sort of crash landing for the aliens to retrieve later, they decide they need to do some recon in the hopes of escaping. Georgie is nominated for the task, so off she goes in the hopes of finding salvation. After much trekking through the freezing snow, Georgie ends up getting trapped in a hunter’s snare.Vektal returns to find a strange new creature in one of his traps. But the weirdest thing is that his khui begins resonating almost immediately at the sight of this small, smooth, weak creature. Could he have finally found his mate?Oh man this book lives up to everything I’ve heard about it!A fated/mated plot line but with the twist of aliens in the mix. It’s spicy, well-paced, gripping, and funny! I wasn’t expecting the humour but I found myself chuckling at many points and have highlighted a fair few lines.Told in dual POV I loved seeing Vektal and Georgie muddle through communicating, and their interactions and internal monologues were highly entertaining.I’ve just seen that there are a LOT of books in this series so thus increases my TBR!

When Georgie goes to bed one night, she doesn't expect to wake up on a spaceship having been abducted by evil green men in suits - yep, aliens. When a bid at freedom goes wrong, Georgie and he fellow captives find themselves on a strange planet full of snow and ice. Adventuring out, Georgie then meets a mysterious blue hulk of an alien who seems convinced she's his mate. She uses the attention to her advantage to help the others but can't help noticing the surge of attraction she holds for her strange saviour as well.This was honestly just an entertaining read that I actually ended up enjoying more than I expected to. There's a lot in this book that is a bit silly and nonsensical but I didn't pick this up expecting an extremely indepth science fiction book - I wanted a bit of fun and that's what I got. While the start of the book doesn't start out great with an upsetting scene involving sexual assault that I'm not 100% sure needed to really be in there, it slowly gets nicer to the point when the communication between Georgie and Vektal is super sweet.While I enjoyed the romance and the sexy times (very convenient how built for human female pleasure Vektal was, I must say), I actually just really liked the brief description and exploration of the planet we did get, and how Vektal and his people lived inside the caves as well. Learning more about all of this, not necessarily the future romantic set-ups would make me keen to read more of the books.