Review: Aw, that's it?
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 7, 2014
I'm so glad I finally finished this trilogy because now I feel I can give this a proper review. This was my first time reviewing one of these serials separately. I've been reading Ms. Yamila forever and she truly is, if I may say so, in a category all by herself in the yaoi genre. I have nothing but love for the Japanese stuff, but it was when I started reading Ms. Yamila's yaoi that I realized that yaoi wasn't a superficial genre, that these stories could have depth and drama.But reading this one was a real treat for me. I have said it time and time again that Ms. Yamila should branch off to "straight" erotica between a man and woman (didn't say they had to be human) because the scenes she details between her yaoi characters are deliciously evoking. She doesn't disappoint in Alien's Bride. Lord Elentinus has to be one of her most exotic characters to date (the man can make his joystick vibrate and dance like a snake!)and the sex scenes in this one had me thinking about being a Earth's biggest traitor my damn self.In this final installment, Maritza is battling her conflicting emotions about whether or not to help a fellow Earth girl escape a brutal marriage at the expense of betraying her sexy alien husband (Uh, did I say the man can make his joystick dance like a snake and vibrate - while it's inside of her? I did? Okay, just checking.). I feel like this woman, Inga, was a jealous condescending bitch. Condescending because she was Russian and looked down on Maritza for being a "lazy, self-centered American" (Well, hey - if the shoe fits, right?) and a jealous bitch because she was stuck with an abusive old-school alien who practiced under the old laws of subjugating women to be little more than breeding pets for their husbands. Maritza was driving me crazy putting up with this woman's whining and name-calling. I'm not gonna lie, I would have been like "Bye, bitch. Have a nice life with Lord Nayjoor."No, but seriously - I felt like Martiza had nothing to feel guilty for. Didn't Inga get the memo - it's a dog eat dog world. Are people not entitled to what they have just because others don't have it? Martiza did not ask to be kidnapped or to be treated like Dak-Hiliah royalty. She had her own moral dilemmas to consider without taking on Inga's problems. As it turns out, Maritza wanted to help both her people and the Dak-hiliah's alike and in my book that makes her very entitled to enjoy the attention she got from Lord Elentinus without guilt.I'm assuming if you're considering reading this you've read the other two books. Frankly, I think it could have ended in the second. There just wasn't enough of a climax in this to warrant this going on to a third, in my opinion. The conflict was there and then fixed just like you probably already expected it to. As much as I enjoyed this, this isn't Ms. Yamila's best work by a long shot. I really would have liked to see a stronger climax (like in Maelstrom or Incubus Master) and an ending that wouldn't have been so lukewarm. Still, I can't wait to read more stories like this from this author - but long live yaoi and power to all of the yaoi mistresses like me out there!