The beginning! 😳 The way these two get off on the wrong foot was very Oh No and I was invested.

I really enjoyed this couple’s compatibility and I love the way this author writes emotional scenes. I even got emotional when unnamed side characters got hurt, so if anything happened to these two MCs, my heart stopped—in a good way.

That said, I felt like the alien society was too simple in this one—simpler than the alien societies of other books in the series at least. It was going for a hunter-gatherer snow planet society (Iced Planet Barbarians-style). But I missed the way this author uses human-alien culture clash to explore racism, misogyny, nationalism, religion, etc. in the other books in this series.