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Eating Stars
Flee. Scatter. Take your mates and your offspring and run.
The escape pods fall to Earth one by one over the course of weeks, a mysterious and diverse alien diaspora, each pod containing a different alien race and leaving the world's governments scrambling to deal with this unexpected immigration. Serge Kosygin, still grieving and isolated after his husband's death, watches events with gray disinterest until one day he witnesses a pod crash for himself while driving home. Two of the alien visitors have died, but one survives, badly injured, and Serge is determined that if this alien is also going to die, it won't be under the harsh lights of a government facility.
Devastated by the loss of his life mates in their desperate effort to reach safety, the knowledge that Een is the last Aalana in this sector of the galaxy only compounds his sorrow. He wakes in an alien dwelling under the care of one of the native dominant builder species, a being who appears to share nothing with Een besides a bipedal structure. Slowly, with the help of his patient and kind host, he discovers they are more similar than he imagined as they share harmonies and his host assists him with language acquisition.
Their tentative first contact soon evolves into a deepening friendship, a balm for two grief-weary souls. They'll need each other and their growing bond for the troubles lurking just ahead.
Publisher's Note:
Eating Stars was previously published as part of Meteor Strike: Serge & Een as a novelette. It has undergone extensive rewrites and edits with over 10,000 words of new content added.
The escape pods fall to Earth one by one over the course of weeks, a mysterious and diverse alien diaspora, each pod containing a different alien race and leaving the world's governments scrambling to deal with this unexpected immigration. Serge Kosygin, still grieving and isolated after his husband's death, watches events with gray disinterest until one day he witnesses a pod crash for himself while driving home. Two of the alien visitors have died, but one survives, badly injured, and Serge is determined that if this alien is also going to die, it won't be under the harsh lights of a government facility.
Devastated by the loss of his life mates in their desperate effort to reach safety, the knowledge that Een is the last Aalana in this sector of the galaxy only compounds his sorrow. He wakes in an alien dwelling under the care of one of the native dominant builder species, a being who appears to share nothing with Een besides a bipedal structure. Slowly, with the help of his patient and kind host, he discovers they are more similar than he imagined as they share harmonies and his host assists him with language acquisition.
Their tentative first contact soon evolves into a deepening friendship, a balm for two grief-weary souls. They'll need each other and their growing bond for the troubles lurking just ahead.
Publisher's Note:
Eating Stars was previously published as part of Meteor Strike: Serge & Een as a novelette. It has undergone extensive rewrites and edits with over 10,000 words of new content added.
121 pages, ebook
First published May 26, 2020
About the author
Angel Martinez
96 books650 followersAngel Martinez currently lives part time in the hectic sprawl of northern Delaware and full time inside her head. She has one husband, one son, two cats, a love of all things beautiful and a terrible addiction to the consumption of both knowledge and chocolate.
Angel's alter ego writes the all-ages science fiction - Sandra Stixrude.
Angel's alter ego writes the all-ages science fiction - Sandra Stixrude.
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June 11, 2020
I rarely hand out five stars to such a short book but Angel Martinez shines with her latest offering, Eating Stars. It absolutely captures enough of the backstory prior to Een's arrival on Earth that the reader isn't left wondering how and why. The story deftly moves on to highlight a lonely, grieving man who treks out into freezing winter weather after witnessing a crash landing, one of many highlighted in the daily news. What he finds changes his life.
Oh my. Just beautiful, in so many ways. Well done, Angel.
Oh my. Just beautiful, in so many ways. Well done, Angel.
June 1, 2020
A very beautiful depiction of alien life form.
The Aalana’s, a photophagic species, communicate using harmonies and melodious notes. They are peaceful people. Their skin, is covered with faiina’s, beautiful triangular overlapping pieces that can have the texture of feathers when they’re content and calm. Unlike human hair, the Aalana’s have tentacle-like tubular structures that are sensitive and have a mind of their own.
Een, an Aalana, is beautiful, calm, inquisitive, sensitive sentient being. He is what shines in this story.
Serge/Serjeh rescues Een, his distrust of government instilled by his parents leads him to harbor Een and care for him in secrecy.
Their tentative discovery of one another, their slow transition from communicating through melodic humming to words and their easy companionship is all incredibly tender and sweet.
"Een trusted him. Liked him. More than liked. He had never felt so comfortable and companionable with any other alien being. While the rational part of him said that he couldn't understand the motives of a being he could barely speak to, every fiber of his physical being said that Serjeh was just as he seemed—patient, gentle, and compassionate.”
Despite the melancholy in the beginning due to the mutual losses of Een and Serge, they gave one another a sense of calm, comfort and routine.
“They clung together, each weeping in his own way for the loves they had lost, rocking and clutching each other tight, two bereft souls washed up together on the swells of the galaxy’s storms.”
It was easy to get swept up by their easy camaraderie and their growing affection for one another. But Een is still an alien life form and his needs, his survival is dependent on certain elements that Serge can’t provide as a human.
There is a soft touch to the story. It’s a hopeful and positive tale of aliens on earth.
My reason for giving this story 4 Stars rather than 5 is due to the length. There were certain things that I felt were resolved too quickly for my personal taste.
I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys a feel-good, low-angst and sweet tale of a romance between a human and alien.
The Aalana’s, a photophagic species, communicate using harmonies and melodious notes. They are peaceful people. Their skin, is covered with faiina’s, beautiful triangular overlapping pieces that can have the texture of feathers when they’re content and calm. Unlike human hair, the Aalana’s have tentacle-like tubular structures that are sensitive and have a mind of their own.
Een, an Aalana, is beautiful, calm, inquisitive, sensitive sentient being. He is what shines in this story.
Serge/Serjeh rescues Een, his distrust of government instilled by his parents leads him to harbor Een and care for him in secrecy.
Their tentative discovery of one another, their slow transition from communicating through melodic humming to words and their easy companionship is all incredibly tender and sweet.
"Een trusted him. Liked him. More than liked. He had never felt so comfortable and companionable with any other alien being. While the rational part of him said that he couldn't understand the motives of a being he could barely speak to, every fiber of his physical being said that Serjeh was just as he seemed—patient, gentle, and compassionate.”
Despite the melancholy in the beginning due to the mutual losses of Een and Serge, they gave one another a sense of calm, comfort and routine.
“They clung together, each weeping in his own way for the loves they had lost, rocking and clutching each other tight, two bereft souls washed up together on the swells of the galaxy’s storms.”
It was easy to get swept up by their easy camaraderie and their growing affection for one another. But Een is still an alien life form and his needs, his survival is dependent on certain elements that Serge can’t provide as a human.
There is a soft touch to the story. It’s a hopeful and positive tale of aliens on earth.
My reason for giving this story 4 Stars rather than 5 is due to the length. There were certain things that I felt were resolved too quickly for my personal taste.
I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys a feel-good, low-angst and sweet tale of a romance between a human and alien.
March 8, 2021
This was short, sweet, and so very interesting. We have to grieving MCs, with no way to communicate in the beginning, who learn how to heal and love again with one another. And the explanation of the alien race was so novel and intriguing, you won’t want to put this one down. Definitely recommend if you are a fan of GL Carriger’s The 5th Gender
June 4, 2020
A Joyfully Jay review.
5 stars
Author Angel Martinez has released Eating Stars, a science fiction morsel that is so very good. With alien life being threatened across the cosmos, the remaining survivors are of many different races and face complete annihilation unless they find a remote planet on which to live. They choose earth and flee just in time. What follows is the story of the survival of one of those creatures and how they adapt with the help of a musician who is grappling with his own grief. This is a love story and it is rich in emotion and pathos. It is a story of redemption and second chances coming from the most unusual of sources.
I loved Eating Stars. For me, it is an amazing piece of science fiction. Not only is the idea that both Serge and Een struggle with their grief over the loss of the one they loved a uniting factor, it’s also the healing of those heavy emotions that make this story so joyful.
Read Sammy’s review in its entirety here.
5 stars
Author Angel Martinez has released Eating Stars, a science fiction morsel that is so very good. With alien life being threatened across the cosmos, the remaining survivors are of many different races and face complete annihilation unless they find a remote planet on which to live. They choose earth and flee just in time. What follows is the story of the survival of one of those creatures and how they adapt with the help of a musician who is grappling with his own grief. This is a love story and it is rich in emotion and pathos. It is a story of redemption and second chances coming from the most unusual of sources.
I loved Eating Stars. For me, it is an amazing piece of science fiction. Not only is the idea that both Serge and Een struggle with their grief over the loss of the one they loved a uniting factor, it’s also the healing of those heavy emotions that make this story so joyful.
Read Sammy’s review in its entirety here.
May 22, 2020
4.5 Stars
I said in another review that Angel Martinez has become one of my favorite go-to authors for a bit of light-hearted, fluffy fun with The Brimstone Journals and Lime Gelatin and Other Monsters. Her book The Mage on the Hill was more serious, and I enjoyed it immensely.
The short science fiction novella Eating Stars turned out to be strange, unexpected, and kind of adorable. Despite a having a more serious undertone than the usual fare I seek from her and some unique alien anatomy, Martinez writes achingly believable characters in this quick read.
Deadly enemies pursue a peaceful group of diverse alien refugees across the vast reaches of space, where they crash land on Earth in emergency vehicles. Recently widowed music professor Serge Kosygin is jolted out of his isolated haze of mourning when one of these escape pods thunders to earth near his home. Two of the three refugees are killed in the crash, and having seen too many alien autopsy videos, Serge can’t bear the thought of the last injured visitor dying as scientists wait to dissect the body and resolves to care for them until the end.
Een, the injured Aalanan (a sentient being who feeds on sunlight and reproduces like a plant), knows his mates were killed in the crash landing. He is grateful to this gentle human who has taken him in. Their communication develops first through music, then through data and language as Een begins to heal. Serge and Een have a common bond in their respective grief and the fascination each feels for the other. Fascination turns to fondness, and when agents in black suits come knocking on the door, Een and Serge fear they will be forcefully separated. A misunderstanding and an attack leads to serious physical consequences for Een. Serge must force himself out of his solitary comfort zone to save Een’s life before it’s too late.
This story was fun to read, though I’m ashamed to confess being giggly amused at the particular biological condition Een develops, which was meant to be deadly serious. I am perpetually a child in that way, I suppose. Alien-human lovemaking is a tricky thing to write, and Ms. Martinez does it very well, making it arousing and just uncomfortably weird enough to be a unique experience. The last act of the book refreshingly subverts some sci-fi tropes, teases with others, and ends on an affirming note of love and hope.
If you’re a fan of M/M scifi romance, this novella will definitely not disappoint.
EATING STARS is available from Amazon, Kobo, and Apple Books.
I said in another review that Angel Martinez has become one of my favorite go-to authors for a bit of light-hearted, fluffy fun with The Brimstone Journals and Lime Gelatin and Other Monsters. Her book The Mage on the Hill was more serious, and I enjoyed it immensely.
The short science fiction novella Eating Stars turned out to be strange, unexpected, and kind of adorable. Despite a having a more serious undertone than the usual fare I seek from her and some unique alien anatomy, Martinez writes achingly believable characters in this quick read.
Deadly enemies pursue a peaceful group of diverse alien refugees across the vast reaches of space, where they crash land on Earth in emergency vehicles. Recently widowed music professor Serge Kosygin is jolted out of his isolated haze of mourning when one of these escape pods thunders to earth near his home. Two of the three refugees are killed in the crash, and having seen too many alien autopsy videos, Serge can’t bear the thought of the last injured visitor dying as scientists wait to dissect the body and resolves to care for them until the end.
Een, the injured Aalanan (a sentient being who feeds on sunlight and reproduces like a plant), knows his mates were killed in the crash landing. He is grateful to this gentle human who has taken him in. Their communication develops first through music, then through data and language as Een begins to heal. Serge and Een have a common bond in their respective grief and the fascination each feels for the other. Fascination turns to fondness, and when agents in black suits come knocking on the door, Een and Serge fear they will be forcefully separated. A misunderstanding and an attack leads to serious physical consequences for Een. Serge must force himself out of his solitary comfort zone to save Een’s life before it’s too late.
This story was fun to read, though I’m ashamed to confess being giggly amused at the particular biological condition Een develops, which was meant to be deadly serious. I am perpetually a child in that way, I suppose. Alien-human lovemaking is a tricky thing to write, and Ms. Martinez does it very well, making it arousing and just uncomfortably weird enough to be a unique experience. The last act of the book refreshingly subverts some sci-fi tropes, teases with others, and ends on an affirming note of love and hope.
If you’re a fan of M/M scifi romance, this novella will definitely not disappoint.
EATING STARS is available from Amazon, Kobo, and Apple Books.
May 27, 2020
There are many things I liked about this book, the absolutely unique alien being first among them. I liked that they helped each other heal. I liked the optimistic view of the government in regards to aliens; it is a view of humanity that would be great if true.
Even though we get both points of view, I don’t feel like I really knew Een well. He assimilated so we’ll dispite being so completely different.
Even though we get both points of view, I don’t feel like I really knew Een well. He assimilated so we’ll dispite being so completely different.
May 9, 2020
I LOVED THIS BOOK. It's an interesting interstellar story of love, loss, and healing. I devoured it in a few hours. So sweet and lovely, with a definite happy ending. Only problem: now I want a sequel, lol. I NEED to know more about Een and Serge, and all the rest. 🖤
August 5, 2020
Rating: 4 stars
I had seen the cover for this book pop up from time to time, but it never grabbed my attention. So when a friend lent me her copy, I was pleasantly surprised with how much I liked this book. I loved both of the MCs. I thought the author did an interesting take on an alien/human relationship. It was a bit short and I wish it would have been longer so we could have gotten more of Een’s background and the reason his planet was invaded and destroyed. Still, it felt like a complete story and I really enjoyed it.
I had seen the cover for this book pop up from time to time, but it never grabbed my attention. So when a friend lent me her copy, I was pleasantly surprised with how much I liked this book. I loved both of the MCs. I thought the author did an interesting take on an alien/human relationship. It was a bit short and I wish it would have been longer so we could have gotten more of Een’s background and the reason his planet was invaded and destroyed. Still, it felt like a complete story and I really enjoyed it.
June 23, 2020
Everything was fine up to the point Een got sick. Still the fantasy and science fiction here and conveying a story in so little words is amazing.
March 30, 2021
3.5 stars
April 25, 2021
4 stars
May 27, 2020
Love Story with a Difference.
A love story between 2 different alien races. Serge is human, Een is an Alien from a race called Aalana, he's the last of his kind.
I love how Serge and Een learnt to communicate with each other, and with that came caring and love.
I really loved reading this story, I've read it twice.
A love story between 2 different alien races. Serge is human, Een is an Alien from a race called Aalana, he's the last of his kind.
I love how Serge and Een learnt to communicate with each other, and with that came caring and love.
I really loved reading this story, I've read it twice.
May 21, 2020
I can’t praise Eating Stars enough. It’s about Een, the gentle, curious soul who crash-lands on Earth, and Serge, the human who finds him. But it’s more than that. It’s about love and connection with another being. Harmony. The tender meeting of souls through music and touch. A beautiful glimpse of a future where humankind has learned compassion and acceptance and the ability to reach beyond themselves to help. Reminiscent of Ursula K. LeGuin’s The Left Hand Of Darkness, this is one story you won’t want to miss.
October 22, 2020
Love in the time of loss
First off, I want to say that I thought this would be harder to read because of shared personal experience, but I'm glad to say that it was not. I love this book! It was touching, emotional, heart-warming and beautiful! I love Een especially, he is so sweet and cute and funny and smart! I wish I had an Een of my own! I sincerely hope that there will be more of Serge and Een! I highly recommend to anyone to read this amazing book!
First off, I want to say that I thought this would be harder to read because of shared personal experience, but I'm glad to say that it was not. I love this book! It was touching, emotional, heart-warming and beautiful! I love Een especially, he is so sweet and cute and funny and smart! I wish I had an Een of my own! I sincerely hope that there will be more of Serge and Een! I highly recommend to anyone to read this amazing book!
November 26, 2022
Review by ana bella
If I was ever close to melting into an emotional puddle of tears, it would have happened while reading Eating Stars. I can't begin to explain the emotions this story portrays, the heartbreak the characters have been through. Sage after the loss of his partner and Een after the death of his mates and the annihilation of his entire species, the Aalana.
They bonded over music at first, when they were still unable to communicate. And I think it was then that their souls in some ways started to reach toward each other, recognizing the absolute sorrow and anguish they both felt. Physiologically speaking, they couldn't have been more different. While humanoid in appearance, Een was a phophagic being. He fed through photosynthesis, needing the sun to fuel and spending hours in the light, eating stars. He even started to learn Serge's language with books on Earth's vegetation, and he had this absolutely adorable way of calling people all plants, whether wildflowers, grass or trees.
The beautiful thing was that, after the initial shocking encounter and once Een stopped fearing he'd be eaten, they were never aliens. Strange, unfamiliar and different, yes, what with Een's being covered in feathery scales and sporting appendages on his head, but wonderfully more similar than not. From millions of miles apart in the universe, yet so alike in their ability to feel the whole range of emotions: grief, hope, fear, affection, love. That's why seeing Serge and Een connect filled my heart to the brim with happiness. Watching them not only talk, but also getting closer and closer, seeking each other's warmth and companionship, cuddle together and beginning to see one another firstly as friends and then increasingly more.
And just when I was swooning and awing, the author had to crush my bubble because Een got severely, close to dying ill. In mere seconds I was bawling my eyes out, crying at the unfairness of the situation. In a corner of my mind I knew that Angel Martinez wouldn't deny Serge and Een a happy ending, but in that particular moment I couldn't go past the panic and the devastation.
Fear not, because they found help in a surprising way and the book had a marvelously stirring, joyful finale. I'm so grateful for this reading experience, for the intense highs and lows, and for the stunningly written love story. I absolutely loved it!
If I was ever close to melting into an emotional puddle of tears, it would have happened while reading Eating Stars. I can't begin to explain the emotions this story portrays, the heartbreak the characters have been through. Sage after the loss of his partner and Een after the death of his mates and the annihilation of his entire species, the Aalana.
They bonded over music at first, when they were still unable to communicate. And I think it was then that their souls in some ways started to reach toward each other, recognizing the absolute sorrow and anguish they both felt. Physiologically speaking, they couldn't have been more different. While humanoid in appearance, Een was a phophagic being. He fed through photosynthesis, needing the sun to fuel and spending hours in the light, eating stars. He even started to learn Serge's language with books on Earth's vegetation, and he had this absolutely adorable way of calling people all plants, whether wildflowers, grass or trees.
The beautiful thing was that, after the initial shocking encounter and once Een stopped fearing he'd be eaten, they were never aliens. Strange, unfamiliar and different, yes, what with Een's being covered in feathery scales and sporting appendages on his head, but wonderfully more similar than not. From millions of miles apart in the universe, yet so alike in their ability to feel the whole range of emotions: grief, hope, fear, affection, love. That's why seeing Serge and Een connect filled my heart to the brim with happiness. Watching them not only talk, but also getting closer and closer, seeking each other's warmth and companionship, cuddle together and beginning to see one another firstly as friends and then increasingly more.
And just when I was swooning and awing, the author had to crush my bubble because Een got severely, close to dying ill. In mere seconds I was bawling my eyes out, crying at the unfairness of the situation. In a corner of my mind I knew that Angel Martinez wouldn't deny Serge and Een a happy ending, but in that particular moment I couldn't go past the panic and the devastation.
Fear not, because they found help in a surprising way and the book had a marvelously stirring, joyful finale. I'm so grateful for this reading experience, for the intense highs and lows, and for the stunningly written love story. I absolutely loved it!
November 1, 2020
Eating Stars was my first Angel Martinez book and what a novel! The first few pages still haunt me after I finished reading it. "Flee. Scatter. Take your mates and your offspring and run."
The story opens up with the annihilation of a peaceful space-faring alien species from a mysterious hostile alien race. The Aalana home world is quickly destroyed by their mysterious weapons and the remaining survivors flee to an alien space station that welcomes other alien. Een and his life mates end up meeting other aliens whose home worlds were also destroyed by the same alien race that destroyed the Aalana home world. They suddenly have to flee again and zero on an unknown planet, Earth, and over the course of several weeks, a mysterious and diverse alien diaspora land on each continent. Each space pod contains a different alien species and every government is scrambling to deal with the alien immigrants.
Een's space pod is discovered by grieving widower, Serge Kosygin, one night. Een's life mates died during the crash and he is all alone mourning their deaths and dealing with a strange alien. Serge is certain that if Een is discovered, the government will do evil experiments so he hides Een in his cabin. Over the course of hiding Een, Serge finds himself forming an unexpected connection with the mysterious alien.
Eating Stars was a wonderfully sad, sweet, and emotional read. It was about two strangers to friends coming together through mutual tragedy and mourning for their loved ones. In Een's case, he was mourning for a world that he would never see again and for being the last of his kind. I love how sweet Serge was with Een despite the communication barrier and vice versa. Wonderfully well-written sci-fi romance book by Angel Martinez and I look forward to reading more of her books!
The story opens up with the annihilation of a peaceful space-faring alien species from a mysterious hostile alien race. The Aalana home world is quickly destroyed by their mysterious weapons and the remaining survivors flee to an alien space station that welcomes other alien. Een and his life mates end up meeting other aliens whose home worlds were also destroyed by the same alien race that destroyed the Aalana home world. They suddenly have to flee again and zero on an unknown planet, Earth, and over the course of several weeks, a mysterious and diverse alien diaspora land on each continent. Each space pod contains a different alien species and every government is scrambling to deal with the alien immigrants.
Een's space pod is discovered by grieving widower, Serge Kosygin, one night. Een's life mates died during the crash and he is all alone mourning their deaths and dealing with a strange alien. Serge is certain that if Een is discovered, the government will do evil experiments so he hides Een in his cabin. Over the course of hiding Een, Serge finds himself forming an unexpected connection with the mysterious alien.
Eating Stars was a wonderfully sad, sweet, and emotional read. It was about two strangers to friends coming together through mutual tragedy and mourning for their loved ones. In Een's case, he was mourning for a world that he would never see again and for being the last of his kind. I love how sweet Serge was with Een despite the communication barrier and vice versa. Wonderfully well-written sci-fi romance book by Angel Martinez and I look forward to reading more of her books!
June 23, 2020
This novel was certainly interesting. The writing though, was absolutely phenomenal. The despcriptions of alien life and biology and the feelings and motivations the main characters experienced were brilliantly portrayed. I absolutely loved the first half of the book and was about to give it five stars, unfortunately I felt the latter half a bit rushed and the characters' relationship escalated in a matter of hours which to me felt excessive.
Again though, I loved the writing and I think in a longer format that allowed further development in Serge and Een's relationship I would've adored the book. So I'd definately recommend it, if only for the uniqueness this story presents.
Again though, I loved the writing and I think in a longer format that allowed further development in Serge and Een's relationship I would've adored the book. So I'd definately recommend it, if only for the uniqueness this story presents.
September 26, 2020
Angel Martinez plays hard on my heartstrings. It's often so unfair and yet so wondrous. In her story 'Eating Stars', we have an intelligent, outreaching friendly galaxy of aliens that get stalked by killers. They make their way to some safe place only to have to escape the stalkers yet again. Then to lose loved ones just as a sanctuary of some sort has been reached. I knew going in she'll have me doing an ugly, soul-cleansing cry long before the book was over. I was right. I was leaking tears during the prologue. By chapter one, Angel had my heart in her hands and I was full-on wailing. Then she had me again and again throughout the book. And that's okay. During these troubling times, a good soul-cleansing cry is sometimes what we need as a psychoemotional reset that prepares us to continue on in spite of the world's special brand of ugliness. Thanks for letting me see the world with new eyes through your science fiction, Angel. You know just how to move me!
June 4, 2020
Caring about others, brings its own rewards. Een, fled to earth with his mates Laiin and Aal. His mates perished during the crash landing. Serge depressed from the loss of his partner, Josh made a decision to climb out of his despair that changed his life. He decided to help the live alien being he found and keep the information from the government whom he perceived was not being honest with the world on what was happening with the alien immigrants. The bodies were taken to Pitt. An agency, Office of Alien Affairs called and asked Serge how many bodies he found. Wisely, Serge was cautious. What is intent of OAA? Are they friendly? Is this world welcoming and cmpassionate? Do Serge and Een find common communication? Good story. Lots of interesting unexpected twists. Great characters. Well done! I received and ARC and am voluntarily leaving a review.
June 9, 2020
This was a nice comforting alien/human romance - an m/m one if pollinators count as "male".
Angel Martinez's broad range of space opera and her aliens make me happy. And, while hurt/comfort isn't a trope that tends to trip my triggers, it really hit the spot just now. Serge and Een are both wounded by the loss of their mates. Een's more plant-based species requiring three for mating rather than two make things a little difficult for them in the beginning, but this problem helps resolve an "evil government agents" issue, so it all works out.
Angel Martinez's broad range of space opera and her aliens make me happy. And, while hurt/comfort isn't a trope that tends to trip my triggers, it really hit the spot just now. Serge and Een are both wounded by the loss of their mates. Een's more plant-based species requiring three for mating rather than two make things a little difficult for them in the beginning, but this problem helps resolve an "evil government agents" issue, so it all works out.
December 5, 2020
This was really gentle and sweet. Hurt-comfort heavy on the comfort and the species-creation for Een was really interesting. It's long enough to develop the initial connection between the MCs really well, but I would have loved to get even more of the payoff, especially since there was great potential for more world-building there. I liked how everything played out, though, so it was still a very satisfying little novella.
May 11, 2020
I absolutely LOVED this sweet, charming, grab-you-by-the-feels, fresh, original, unique, poignant, emotionally charged, fantastic, fascinating, amazing, delightful, heartfelt, beautiful, and totally awesome story. The author has written a marvelous book that pulled me in from the very first page, and I would recommend getting this gem ASAP!
June 7, 2020
My first M/alienM read. Very unique and creative, mostly understandable except a few times I got lost in the pollination (you'll understand after you read). You see, our alien is actually , but thank god, he is a drop dead gorgeous (at least to our (hu)man), extremely intelligent and gets his (hu)man hot and bothered almost instantly.
A different, nice read.
A different, nice read.
June 2, 2020
A really wonderful story, the characters were engaging and I loved the sci-fi aspect of the storyline. I was not ready for it to end and I really wish that it was not a standalone story because I want more.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
July 2, 2020
I love the quirkiness of the story, mixed with tenderness. It does stretch reality a bit further than I prefer -- pollinate or die seemed just a little too convenient! -- but it was still fun, sweet, and overall a satisfying evening read
July 5, 2020
I did not like this. The pacing was so fast that it was whiplash. And the characters were not as developed as I'd like. And the glossary should've been in the front not in the back. That would've helped.
July 18, 2020
Adored this book!
Loved everything about this story, especially Een. While this could have veered into angst territory, it just stayed awesome. I hope there are similar stories coming.
Loved everything about this story, especially Een. While this could have veered into angst territory, it just stayed awesome. I hope there are similar stories coming.
April 5, 2021
It’s a sweet book with low angst and low heat:) I loved it! Like couldn’t put it down loved. If you start this book, let me give you a tipp: it’ll make much more sense from the beginning if you start with the glossary🤣 don’t make it hard for yourself like I did🤦🏼♀️
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May 31, 2020Very compelling story about first contact. Absolutely enjoyed it! One to re-read.
Shelved as 'did-not-finished'
July 11, 2020Dnf at sample.
Not for me. Maybe another time.
Not for me. Maybe another time.
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