This book was SO INSANELY GOOD that I’m really struggling here. 

Yeah, I loved the rascal alien who charms everyone, except he’s been pining for a human heroine who doesn’t have a clue. Yeah, I loved how compelling our alien hero’s insecurities were. Yeah, I loved how ridiculously compatible these two MCs were..

But this book was so much more than excellently executed tropes. It was the way common alien romance world-building elements (like an alien society with fewer women than men or alien matehood making peeps super horny for each other) were.. taken to the next level? Taken to their logical conclusion? Thoroughly and consistently applied to all aspects of alien social dynamics and psychology?

It was the way this author plots out these stories. The plot progressed the way a professional driver shifts gears—no forcing, no hiccups, until you’re driving 250km/h and you CANNOT STOP READING.

How did this book go from literally, actually, for-real for-real the cutest most heartwarming date I’ve ever read in any romance book.. to the most 😳 holy shitballs story of all time?? Smooth as butter, that’s how.