I’m sad that I had such a meh time with this one.

Love a big-donged blue alien. I mean, who doesn’t? Also, loved the American frontier-ish colony in space premise—I only need the barest hint of plausibility to justify horses and saloons on an alien planet with big blue neighbours, because that’s just so fun.

But, I wanted to feel more feelings. The pining didn’t land. The ILY thoughts had me Huh-ing. And I wanted way way more scenes with both MCs together. Instead, the vast majority of this book was conversations with the other alien brothers. It felt like the story was prioritizing setup for the rest of the series rather than developing this romance.

Also, the spice was super underwhelming. A bunch of fade to black scenes and then when we got something on-page, this heroine’s hair trigger orgasms annoyed me. A lady-orgasm after one thrust and zero foreplay?? No ma’am. An: “As soon as his mouth closed over the swollen bud, she climaxed” …what does it even mean??

A fun premise, a heartwarming group of brothers, but lame-o sexy times and not enough romance plot. It was pretty putdownable, so I’m going with two stars.