Review: So Unique That It Drew Me In
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 4, 2014
Call me curious, but I love Sci-Fi for its unique worldbuilding and this one really delivers on that.Humans are way out of their league beside a large alien race who base their whole society around trading and being the best traders.  Humans need what the aliens have as natural resources so they must negotiate trades to get the minerals.  The military linguistics team are brought in to learn the language and customs to represent the human side of the trading.  Liam is rather good at it, but he still has much to learn.  One of the Rownt, Ondry, doesn't seem to mind teaching him a little though he still drives a hard trading bargain.  Things go along nicely until Liam gets a new commander and he suspects that the commander will think him useless and send him back into the forefront of the battle.The relationship in this one between Liam and Ondry is as unique as the aliens.  Its a D/s relationship, but its not about sex as much as lifestyle.  Just restraint is used.  Ondry and Liam's bodies aren't compatible, but they manage to negotiate this issue too.The story is all told from Liam's perspective though Ondry's POV is not hard to follow.It was different and unique.  I enjoyed Liam finally get his peace and happiness.