When I picked this book up, I was still reeling from finishing one of the greatest books I’ve ever read (Flowers from the Storm iykyk), I had about an hour before I wanted to go to sleep, and I was a day away from the pub date of my most anticipated release of the year. So I told myself: don’t overthink it, just read the first book under 200 pages that KU suggests. And that was this book! 😆

On one level, it completely fit the bill: the alien planet adventure + horny fated mate was the completely-different-from-my-last-book mood I was looking for. And the group of human ladies in this series was really unique. They'd all been experimented on by bad aliens until they basically had super powers and, now escaped, they’d been surviving on in the wilderness of an alien planet all on their own for a long time. How cool is that!

That said, I thought this was going to be the first book in a new series, but it was very much a spin-off of another series (my bad). I was a bit lost with all the cameos and references to other books’ plots. And the plot of this one was jumping around so much, I was getting whiplash. Though it was still pretty fun!