This one started off pretty strong - our heroine is stuck on a dying Earth where it's everyone for themselves. Most of the population is dead, and everywhere is simply a wasteland. And our heroine meets her alien love interest when he rescues her on his mission to find and take all human females for his dying species.

The first half of the book is spent developing the relationship between Nova and Kol, the shipmaster and prince of the Maji. The characters were okay - Nova was much more developed than Kol. She was decently fleshed out with a good backstory and a personality while Kol and the other Maji males were simply too defined by their traits. Yes, they're supposed to be super masculine alpha males that are ruled by their instincts on how they act, but I think a bit more character and personality would've done them well.

I'm really glad the author spent a decent amount of time with the story while Nova reached the Maji planet. I adore world building, and it's always so fun to see characters in completely new settings. True, there could've been so much more work done on developing the Maji planet and their unique ways of life and customs, but I still had fun reading this portion.

My only critique is on the later portion of the book when Nova, just out of nowhere, gets really emotional and irrational about Kols' love towards her, and she immediately decides to jump ship and hightail it off the planet. It was just so sudden and out of place, and quite frankly, unrealistic.

I'm excited for the rest of the series, and I really cannot wait to see where the author will take it.