Overall: 3.5 rounded to ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
World Building: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥🔥 (I think? Honestly I was kind of lazy with note taking in this one but it should be AT LEAST a 3)
Humor: Yes
Perspective: Third person from primarily the hero and heroine, but also the villain’s son, the heroine from book 1, the heroine from book 3...

Should I read in order?
Ideally, yes. There’s a lot going on and character overlap that I think would be best in order.

Basic plot:
Sophia is adjusting to her twin sister being mated to a Kindred and living away from Earth. But now she is being hunted, and the only one that can protect her is her new brother-in-law. Too bad he’s a Blood Kindred and Sophia is terrified of his fangs.

Give this a try if you want:
- Science fiction romance
- Alien hero/human heroine
- Road trip romance feel – friends wedding, survival in the woods on Earth, alien planet...
- Touch of enemies to lovers
- Lots of pining and bit of unrequited love for the hero
- Forced proximity
- Medium to higher steam -
- Plenty of danger, suspense, and action scenes along with the romance
- Love triangle


My thoughts:
I liked quite a bit about this one but also found a few things tedious.

Honestly, I think I am struggling a bit with the length of these books. They just feel long! And sometimes I feel like we’re having the same conversation a bit too much (I felt the same thing in book 1), and also there’s a lot of time taken up by giving multiple other characters page time and time in their heads. This usually bothers me because I prefer just main couple focus, so I don’t think these things will bother most people. There’s quite a bit of page time in this one for Kat, Lock and Deep – their book being next I think their story is starting to be set up here.

I really did like both characters. I loved the tension between them, I loved how gentle Sylvan is and how he takes his time with Sophia. Sophia is really sweet and I liked her personality a lot. I was more into the book when they were on Earth and it had that road trip feel. When we travel to Sylvan’s planet about halfway through the book, I did get irritated with the other woman drama. It’s just not a favorite trope for me to have.

Overall, I did like this one. The sex is great, her scenes are so developed and emotional as well as explicit and I really, really appreciate that. I think her world building and character developing is really amazing too. I am so, so curious about the next book which is MFM and really eager to try that one. I’m taking a little bit of a break from her though and hoping when I come back I will be prepared for the longer page count haha.

Cock/Hero Stats:

Hero is a blood kindred and has a double set of fangs on each side of his mouth. They bite during lovemaking and bonding sex and inject their mates with a substance that is euphoric and healing.
The kindred also have scent glands around their mouths and cocks and have a strong sense of smell. They can tell when females have been bonded to someone or are aroused. Dry humping and oral can mask the scents of the heroine, but full sex with lots of SEMEN is what really does the job...

Content warnings:

- Lots of animal usage – animal eating, talk of eating worms that are killed by a sauce directly before eating, using animals as servants and clothes while they are alive.
- Mention of heroine’s parents dying in a car crash from a drunk driver
- Heroine recalls a rape in detail on page
- Punishment of the rapist
- Violence on page
- Hero’s crying is presented as weakness
- The word ‘exotic’ is used A LOT when the heroine travels to another planet.

Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:

 
Chapter 3 – kisses
Chapter 4 – kisses
Chapter 5 – sex scene between Olivia and Baird (I’m not counting it in my official steam count for the book, personally)
Chapter 8 – breast play and kisses
Chapter 14 – 🔥 scent marking that leads to oral for her
Chapter 20 - 🔥 heroine masturbation that leads to scent marking by dry humping (her on top) and oral for her
Chapter 34 – a scene with Deep and Lock searching with Kat for her friend – sexual overtones between them all
Chapter 37 – 🔥oral for her and missionary