It was fine. It had a lot of potential but honestly fell flat in a lot of ways for me. There was a lot of missed potential. This might be a nice intro book for someone who hasn’t read much smut but for someone who reads quite a bit, this felt very ordinary and vanilla, even in the supposed BSDM scenes. 

The writing was uninteresting which is to say it lacked a lot of imagery and interesting prose. 

The aliens weren’t believable to me either. They knew too much about human culture and emotions but would trip up on a random word— it felt silly. There was missed opportunity with body difference. As the love interest has glowing stripes on his skin, we could have had steamy scenes in the dark purely illuminated by his skin. He also has talons and that wasn’t at all taken into account when pleasuring the MC. Unless they’re retractable (which isn’t mentioned), I imagine that would hurt/need soothing. The sex scenes in general were too fast paced with no tension at all. 

Not much is talked about about attraction differences other than there might be some. I would not have expected an alien to be attracted to breasts and butts like human men do, though I do enjoy that he was attracted to her roundness, dissimilar to todays human Eurocentric beauty standards of being skinny. The word jiggle was used too often for my taste though.

There were too many page breaks for my taste. A lot of telling rather than showing. Too often they would mention how easy it was for them to talk to each other but you never actually get to see their real banter. I didn’t feel the connection they supposedly had. 

Even with all of this, I commend Emily Antionette for publishing her first book. It’s no easy feat and I’m sure that as she continues to write her work will indeed improve.