Here's the thing... I specifically picked this book up for the express purpose of needing a silly little smutty alien book. And on that front, it delivered exceptionally. (This Is the Dalia Davies who wrote the Easter Bunny smut so... You know.)   

But this book suffered from major pacing inconsistencies and I think it had a lot to do with the excessive amount of spicy scenes. Spice for the sake of spice is fine unless you also have an actual plot that I'm trying to follow.

I enjoyed the premise. The beginning started off very interesting. I was a little confused on the whole "bonding" thing. Do they bond with anyone that they have a sexual encounter with? If so, that's super inconvenient. Do they have ways of preventing that? Do they just not have sex until they want to bond? Seems confusing. But I don't think that was ever addressed.

The middle was a slog. Definitely meandered and I think the sheet number of spicy scenes muddled it.

The ending picked back up and got interesting again. There is definitely more story to be told in the series. Unfortunately, I don't know if there was enough side character development to make me interested in picking up the next one when it comes out. None of the other brothers really stood out to me.

So idk. It was fine and did what I needed it to do at the time.

Content Warnings: Abduction/Kidnapping Breeding Explicit Human/Non-Human sex (bipedal aliens) Fluid Kink Gender Essentialism Mentions of Femicide (historic, extinction-level & recent, singular. Off page) Hunting Animals (invasive population, not food) Pregnancy (Planned, 1st trimester, main character and secondary characters)