Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Plot/Storyline: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Humor: Yes
Perspective: There’s quite a few perspectives here including Lock, Deep, Kat, the enemy of the prior book (who is the hero of the next book), and the heroine of the next book, and even prior main characters of the series. It’s written in third person.
Cliffhanger: As far as this main couple, no, it ends with a HEA. But there are still events unfolding from other characters in the book. (the next book's main couple has page time here and their story begins here and feels a bit like a cliffhanger.)
Format: e-book checked out through kindle unlimited

Should I read in order?
Yes! These books really flow together and many of these characters have already had their point of views in prior books and their story has already begun in prior books including some levels of intimacy.

Basic plot:
Kat has a threeway with 2 alien Twin Kindred to find her friend in book 2 and suddenly she’s bonded and doesn’t know if she wants to stay that way

Give this a try if you want:
- Science fiction romance – Earth has a relationship with aliens to help protect them and there is a bride exchange program in place
- Higher technology (future)
- Road trip feel – Earth and alien planets
- heroes nurse heroine back to health
- full figured heroine
- MFM romance
- mental and emotional bonds between the 3 of them
- plenty of dirty talking from the heroes
- SUPER protective/possessive heroes
- toys! A touch of exhibitionism
- lots of ‘all will be lost unless we fuck’ vibes
- higher steam – 5 full scenes that are plenty long and detailed

My thoughts:
I wanted to love this book so, so badly. When I first started it – I did! I thought it was going to be my favorite of the series so far. But, it dwindled for my by about halfway and I left it for a few months. I picked it back up again today and sadly liked the second half even less than the first half.

First – the things I liked. I love that it’s science fiction in third person. Being a long term HistRom reader, I just love third person so much and prefer that writing style. I loved the sex. LOVED. The scenes were really great with plenty of details and explicitness but also lots of focus on the emotion which is what I prefer. This book also had quite a few tropes I really liked.

But...what didn’t work for me. I….cannot stand….a plethora of POVs. I want main characters and that’s it. And in this one there’s a crazy amount of people’s heads your in. Past characters...future characters...bleh it drives me nuts. (This is personal and won’t bother most people!). I also disliked that their story started in a prior book. Yes, I read it, but I love when each book focuses on a couple. So you definitely start this book with their relationship started already.

I had a few issues with the writing style...Anderson’s characters can come off as a bit sarcastic and immature to me. I was also extremely disappointed in Deep in the second half and the little fit he threw. Also I really disliked the twins names and I didn’t like they called Kat “my lady” all the time.

Overall, I think this book is really fun at its heart and has some great sex. If you are in the mood for something a bit ridiculous maybe give this one a try. I personally just got caught up on some things that weren’t for me and I couldn’t get past it.

Cock/Hero Stats:

Twin Kindred come in opposing pairs of light and dark. Both are over 6 feet 6 inches but Lock is shorter by an inch.
Lock is the light twin with blond hair and eyes of melted chocolate. He’s optimistic and generally nicer.

Deep has black hair that looks almost blue and eyes the color of night without stars. He’s more intense and generally more prone to dominance and arguing.

Content warnings:

- A very small level of suicide shaming 

Not that she would ever commit suicide – Kat was a fighter and her grandma hadn’t raised her to quit 

- Some levels of dubious consent – intimacy is required for certain things like finding Kat’s friend in the prior book and healing and even though Kat isn’t 100% on board, she does it.
- There’s a lot of talk/thinking about the heroin’s body and related to her size (example: So many words hovered on her liips – fat, chubby, chunky – insults from a lifetime of being plus sized in a world where skinny women were the ideal.
- Some...whatever this is - ”The ‘big deal’ is that you shouldn’t be showing your body to strangers.” Deep eyed her possessively, making her feel suddenly naked.
- Some rape victim blaming when Kat eats the bonding fruit that will make her horny then her friend leaves her alone and she starts talking to another set of unmated twins ”Why don’t you tell me what you were doing talking to two strange males when I specifically told you what effects the bonding fruit would have on your? Do you want to be raped?
- Kat was raised in an abusive marriage household and it has put her against relationships
- I was pretty disappointed in this whole colonization/racism feel in this scene. It’s a small part but I was just grossed out here. ”Wait a minute – there are natives?” Kat’s heart skipped a beat. “Angry, hostile natives.” Deep, who had been loading their gear spoke up. Kat shook her head. “I don’t understand. Twin moons seems like such a civilized place. How can you have a whole continent of superstitious savages?”/”Remained ignorant savages.” Deep smirked at her. “Ignorant and depraved if you can believe the rumors. It’s said they have the most barbaric sexual habits.”/”Believe me, if you saw them, you wouldn’t think so,” Deep said. “They still live in grass huts and perform sacrifices to their gods on full moon nights. Some even say they practice cannibalism.”

Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:

 
9% - 🔥kisses with all 3 of them leading to oral for her from Lock, fingering from Deep
26% - 🔥heroine masturbation
27% - 🔥Deep holds Kat and Lock fucks her with a giant dildo that is “almost” as big as both of them together
44% - 🔥kisses. breast play, oral for her from Deep, missionary with Lock, doggy style with Deep
49% - sex scene between the prior book’s mains
84% - 🔥Kat gives both men blow jobs, Deep goes down on Kat, then they both stick it in individually before fusing together