Review: Fun read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 16, 2012
I RECEIVED THE STORY AS FREE REVIEWING COPYI wanted to read this story since I saw the gorgeous gorgeous cover. There also was a very catchy title and the fact that I really liked this writer's stories that I have read before. And I overall really liked this one, but I had few niggles.First of all yes, I absolutely needed more back story as to how aliens came to live in our world. I would not call it worldbuilding failure as much as my failure to suspend disbelief. I am a huge scifi and fantasy fan, but  have noticed that if the action of the story takes place in "our" fictional world and some fantastical element added to it, I often have trouble accepting the existance of such element if it is not explained how  such element came to be in our world. And here aliens were just there. Once I adjusted to it, adventure plot was a lot fun, well paced, fast moving, I enjoyed  it, but I wished my adjustment  period would have been easier without me forcing myself to accept the aliens in our world simply because the writer asked me to. Is it inspired by Men in Black? Probably, especially since the last name of one of the main character was Smith, but I could not finish watching that movie, so cannot be 100% sure :)Romance angle was strange, if you ask me. I loved how the author played with "mating connection" of the sorts versus love, which made me wonder where the story would go actually, but the romance clearly plays second fiddle to the adventure plot in this one. This is *not* why I am calling it strange though, I really love adventure scifi which may not have any romance in it at all. No, it is the very late start of the real romance, which kind of did not give me enough time to actually see them as a couple beyond the mating connection.  I cannot say more without spoilers and unless the plot turn really bothers me and I feel I have to grade down because of it I try not to reveal spoilers.I thought Connor and Noah had all the potential in the world, do not get me wrong. I did not need to see Connor as older and more mature character, I thought him making mistakes, and being completely stupid more than once was actually refreshing and endearing. I thought Noah was lovely and together they were fun, I just wondered whether they would make it, did not have enough scenes to judge. To make myself clear - it is not the quantity of scenes I am asking for, it is the quality? Connor is too erm "otherwise engaged" for the majority of the story and I just was not sure about the strength of their love I guess.Have to say - female characters were great, especially Isa IMO.3.75 stars