I LOVE a “space Silence of the Lambs, human psychologist studying a newly discovered murder-y alien who’s been imprisoned” story. I mean, Worse Guy by Ruby Dixon is one of my yearly comfort re-reads 😂

And this book did a bunch of things right. I liked the world building of a (slightly dystopian) military base in space operated by newly spacefaring humans. I liked how unnerving and sinister our alien hero was. And the action plot felt high stakes.

That said, there was a chunk of the story (after she’d settled into a routine studying our alien hero but before the big drama-lama of the latter half of the book) where not much was going on besides coworker in-fighting. And it was boring. 

And then after one brief on-page steamy time, the rest were fade to black—which isn’t what I pick up an alien romance for, let’s be honest. And on top of all that, it was single POV—not usually my fav.

I’m torn about continuing on in the series. On the one hand, I’ve been loving high action alien romances with lots of world building. But on the other hand, what’s an alien rom without the weird peen sexy times?