Thank you so much to Berkley for the advance copy!
Thank you so much to PRH Audio for the complimentary ALC!

This will be published on Feb 18th.

If you have never read a Kimberly Lemming book before, you are in for a treat!!! She is doing what no one else in contemporary romance.
This book was so off the wall in the best way. I will admit I did not know what was happening some of the time in the middle but that didn't stop me from enjoying the ride.

Now I don't know if I would necessarily call this your traditional rom com. In my brain I was thinking we were going to get these characters in a rom com movie but that was not the case. Somehow Lemming is able to take an alien abduction (along with a lion) in this alternate world funny. There were several times I found myself laughing out loud. And the lion that was abducted with Dory is a talking lion (named Toto) who ends up becoming her sidekick through this journey.

As mentioned there was an alien abduction but not only that we get dinosaurs, Earth simulation, action pack adventure and TWO alien love interests (Sol and Lok) plus a talking intern that looks similar to an owl with a Tamagotchi! Could this even be a reimagining of The Wizard of Oz? I can see some similarities if I really stretch my imagination. Dory's frenemy with the intern was always funny to read. It just always seemed to be around and at the most inconvenient times. Dory's internal monologue and her can't believe this is happening was funny! She even was kind of breaking the fourth wall pretending she is talking to a camera thinking she is being punked.

If you have read Lemming before, you know she does not back down on the spice. And in this one is no exception. She falls for two aliens who know she how to make her feel wonderful. The Intern gave Dory some sort of serum and well that acted as an aphrodisiac and she could not stop the desire that was building. There was a moment towards the end of the book where they are in a middle of a high speed chase and Sol decides now is the time to make a move. "We are...we are in the middle of a high speed chase! Why the hell are you choosing now to cop a feel? You are unbelievable." It was a good time.

I paired my reading with the audio as historically when I read her books I had listened via audio. Long time Lemming narrator Hazel Addison lended her voice to this one. And she just really brought Dory and all the characters to life. It just came off so authentic and she was able to make her tone match the humor in the book.

This book looks like it is becoming a series so I'm looking forward to seeing what will happen in the next book and will they be joining Dory, Toto, Sol and Lok in this world?

If you like suspending your belief while reading and looking for something totally different in a romance, I recommend this one!