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Vigilance by Etta Pierce
5.0
adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

Did Martin Scorsese direct this book?? Because… holy crap. The chokehold that this book had on me… Is this book drugs?

A KU alien smut book has ABSOLUTELY NO BUSINESS being this well-written. I’m just trying to have a fun little time over here; not get sucked into an engrossing, page-turning, unputdownable, stay-up-all-night-reading alien romance MASTERPIECE. Okay?? 

Just a “doctor lady human abducted from earth, settling into her safe-haven space-colony with the other abducted humans because they can’t return to earth, flirting with her hot alien doctor coworker” story? I DON’T THINK SO. This book was so twisty. The plot was completely blowing my mind. The romance was just.. 😳🥰

Plus, the man had four arms and also tentacles.. wherever your mind just went—the answer is yes 🥵

The world building was excellent, again. The characterization—out of this world. Even something as simple as how Swiss German our heroine was; the cadence of her dialogue, her mannerisms, the way she approached her work as a doctor.. everything.