Overall: 2.5 rounded to ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Readability: 📖📖📖 (It was short, which worked in its favor!)
Feels: 🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔 (You don’t know much about either of these characters by the end of the book but it is a shorter novel)
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡ (They meet and fuck so not much tension)
Romance: 💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋 (I didn’t love the way these scenes were written – I wanted more emotional pull and the scenes just didn’t go in a direction I wanted. But they are explicit)
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥🔥
Humor: Yes
Perspective: first person from both the hero and heroine
More character focused or plot focused? plot
How did the speed of the story feel? fast
When mains are first on page together: It takes awhile – about 23% or Chapter 3 (though it’s a short story so it’s not THAT long waiting)
Cliffhanger: No, this ends with happily ever after
Epilogue: Yes, at least a year later
Format: read the e-book version on kindle unlimited
Why I chose this book: I found it while trying to build a Halloween reading this – I think it came up in a halloween romance search, or under a ‘similar’ book list when I was searching for pumpkin spice latte porn

Should I read in order?
I wonder if you should? I started here but you don’t get much background about the alien/Earth situation or the alien race. But it does stand alone as a romance. (I know she has more Bolan books so I wonder if it would help to read in order though?? Let me know what you think if you’ve read them)

Basic plot:
Samantha’s one night stand turns into a fated mate encounter

Give this a try if you want:
- science fiction romance
- futuristic Earth setting – I am not sure how far in the future this is, but there’s new technology and alien contact with Earth (and even alien dating shows on tv!)
- alien hero / human heroine pairing
- shorter novel
- celibate heroine
- fated mates
- Halloween!
- curvy heroine
- higher steam – 3 full scenes within a shorter page count

Ages:
- heroine is 26, didn’t catch hero

First line:
The faint metallic ping of liquid hitting my flask as I fill it with rum gives me more satisfaction than it should.

My thoughts:
His body tenses, and he groans right before the hot spray of his seed coats my cave walls.

I just could not get into this book. I had a disconnect with the writing. But I think those looking for some alien Halloween fun in a shorter novel for an October read might enjoy!

Few random reading stats for this author
# of books read: This is my first
Average rating: 3 stars
Favorite book: I guess this one

Cock/Hero Stats:

- Female Bolans don’t have as pronounced boobs as humans
- when a Bolan meets their life mat, they experience the ‘Bara’
- The average Bolan is 7 feet tall
- blue skin
- two small horns on their head and long hair
- Bolans have wide mouths, narrow noses, and the tips of their ears are pointed
- forked tongue
- cock has ridges
- Bolans don’t have hearts, but have an organ in their chest that vibrates on different frequencies
- Bolan’s cocks don’t decrease in size after they come
- Bolans marry for life and don’t divorce

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

- scenes of drinking
- mention of awful ex

Locations of kisses/intimate scenes, safe sex, consent, pregnancy/child in the story:

 
Safe sex: 

  No 

 
Hows the consent? 

  It’s good 

 
Pregnancy/children in story? 

  No children in the story, but there is talk of breeding the heroine and having children 

 

23% - 🔥 they meet at the Halloween party – kisses, fingering for her and sex in the pantry
38% - 🔥 D/s elements, edging, vibrator play, praise/degradation – hero tells the heroine to self pleasure but forbids her to orgasm, missionary (?)
83% - kiss
83% - 🔥 epilogue sex – bent over the kitchen table