Now that everyone’s settling in on the ice planet that’s their new home, Kira finds herself among the women who didn’t resonate with anyone. Resonating means baby making, and Kira will never be able to have children, and she feels like the ultimate reject knowing that she’ll never resonate with anyone. It doesn’t help that Aehako is interested in her, especially because the feeling is mutual. Aehako is determined to live every day like it’s his last, and Kira thinks he might be onto something… until the aliens who abducted her return to steal her away again.
I have been really enjoying this series, but it does appear that the books are getting less and less funny as the series goes on. I’m hoping the humor comes back in because the funny moments are truly hilarious. Even in this book, Aehako actually giving his very large courting gift is truly a hilarious and iconic moment! That said, this wasn’t a bad book, just don’t go in expecting to have a good laugh left and right. It’s more soft and heartwarming this time around, and it was really nice to see Kira get her own book.
We follow Kira and Aehako through their rotating perspectives and they really are a good match for each other. I really like how they balance each other out. Kira is extremely relatable and then we have Aehako, who is full of optimism. I really liked Kira in the previous books, but she was less snarky than she initially appears. I don’t blame her, though. I’d be cranky after everything she went through and then starving while also almost freezing just to top things off!
I do think that it’s kind of weird that there’s so much focus put on how was Kira worried that she might get the boot (or something to that effect) if it came out that she couldn’t have kids. Vektal tried to pair Liz off with a widower after booting Raahosh. Wouldn’t Kira face potentially being paired off with a widower instead? It wasn’t like Liz could get pregnant by anyone she didn’t resonate with if she wasn’t already pregnant. Plus, the women share a lot of the duties with the men. I just think it’s really weird that there was so much focus on this when we’ve seen that there are other roles for women that don’t involve their ability to resonate and have kids.
That said, I was excited to learn more about the women who were in the tubes since we haven’t seen much of them yet. It was also great to see that not everyone is happy about there being a bunch of human women dropped on the planet, especially since we initially saw how absolutely delighted many of the characters were. I also really liked getting to know more of the characters, especially our extraterrestrial friends, and more about Elder Cave and the people who first crash landed there. I’m looking forward to reading the next book and seeing how the events of this one develops.
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