Overall: 4.5 rounded ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Readability: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥 ( I combined a few acts because they were close together so it might feel hotter than that to you)
Humor: A bit
Perspective: First person from both the hero and heroine
More character focused or plot focused? character
How did the speed of the story feel? medium
When mains are first on page together: Not too far in, about 11% or chapter 2
Cliffhanger: No, this ends with a happily ever after
Epilogue: Not really? One of the last chapter wraps it up a bit, and then the final chapter is from Commander Tensel’s POV (a future book’s main character)
Format: voluntarily read an advanced reader copy from the author in e-book form

Should I read in order?
I do think you’ll get a better sense of the world building and alien culture if you read in order (and the Necia Alien Warrior series and Treasures of Trillume series are kind of intertwined)

Basic plot:
Renee takes the chance to leave her marriage and grown children and join the human exchange program to participate in a study regarding attraction between aliens and humans

Give this a try if you want:
- science fiction romance
- this takes place in a futuristic Earth where alien contact has been made and there are human exchange programs to foster relationships between aliens and humans.
- mostly space/alien setting
- higher technology
- married heroine with 2 kids – her marriage is basically platonic and they are best friends but not in a passionate love with each
- heroine in her 40s (46?)
- alien hero / human heroine
- fated mates
- alien vampire vibes
- an immersive alien culture and human/alien research plot
- medium steam – 2-3 scenes (I combined a few scenes into one long scene since they were close together) including exhibitionism, blood play, knotting and some bondage aspects.

Ages:
- Heroine is 46, didn’t catch hero

First line:
“I think this is the best fucking decision you’ve made in the last ten years,” my best friend, Holden, said with a smack to my back, jarring my balance.

My thoughts:
I really loved this addition to Robert’s Necia Alien Warrior series! This one is character focused and takes place on a space ship with plenty of opportunity for close proximity.

I think Robert is doing something refreshing with her aliens – the world is complex and immersive, the technology fun and futuristic, and the mating culture takes center stage with these exhibition friendly space vampires 😆

I loved how both of our mains came with unique issues they were overcoming. Our hero, Sou-el, isn’t quite the prime specimen of his species. Having damaged enzymes has made him settle for being a researcher, not a warrior, and not finding a mate. And Renee is trying to figure out what to do with her life now that she realizes she has a friend only and not a husband. She worries about trusting her heart and body with attraction. But when these two meet, it is so perfect and steamy and your heart just soars for their connection to each other.

I really enjoyed how character focused this one was! Some of her books (more the Treasures of Trillume series) can be more complex with political factors coming into play so I really loved just being able to fall into these two as a love story.

Cock/Hero Stats/World Building:

- Sky Robert includes a Trillume Universe Glossary which I love! Her books are mostly stand alone with a focus on the couple, but the books do kind of layer together with the world building and different specifies. This gives you a run down of the world building thus far.
- necia bathe each other (or maybe only the females get bathed? I am unsure), which is giving oral...it’s needed for their body functions.
- necias have 2 hearts
- Sou-el has damaged glands so he hasn’t found a mate
- have fangs that lengthen for mating
- Sou-el has long white hair
- they are very scent oriented and can form bonds to another’s scent
- cock is tinted the same coloring as his scales and has nodules pulsing in and out of the shaft and base

Endearments

Hero calls the heroine ‘pulsunne’.

Quotes/thoughts: (Any mistakes are my own)

“Thank you, mother,” I strained to keep myself from yelling at her. “I’m aware of my age.”
“She’s fucking hot,” Holden retorted while giving me a nod of encouragement. “She’ll have her pick of alien cock wanting a taste of humanity.”
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My daughter’s words of warning tugged at my thoughts to never uncross my legs when sitting down in front of a necia warror. My mouth grew dry as my lips parted, my breathing coming out in pants. It was an invitation for them to touch you, and here he was eye-fucking me as his legs were parted, displaying his interest proudly, but I couldn’t bring myself to admit that the same warrior sitting before me actually wanted me, when he had to me that he would never touch me again.

 

Content warnings: (This should be taken as a minimum because I could have missed some!)

- child sacrifice mentioned (not followed through on… the hero’s guardians were sacrificing him to their goddess but someone found him in time (he was tied to rocks while a tide came in)
- possible feelings of infidelity – the heroine is married when she leaves to go into the attraction program, but both are consenting and aware she may be sexually active with others
- divorce

Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:

 
Safe sex: 

  No 

 
Hows the consent? 

  It’s good! 

 
Chapter 2 (17% or so) there is a licking scene
Chapter 8 (40%) - 🔥Sou-el goes into rut. Blood play (hero cuts himself and heroine licks it. Heroine admits she’s never orgasmed, fingering for her, squirting
Chapter 18 (80%) - 🔥 her on top, exhibitionism, knotting then there’s a break and the scene continues after they wake