Adjusting to life on Not-Hoth has been an adventure, but Tiffany has been putting everything she has into it. If there’s a task that she can take on, she’s already on it. Now that Tiffany is one of the last two women who haven’t resonated with anyone, she is also the most eligible bachelorette on the planet. It’s a problem because it’s the exact opposite of what she wants. Tiffany doesn’t want any male attention, and now she’s being showered with attention from several men hoping to court her.
There aren’t any trigger warnings listed in this book, so you should know that Tiffany is a rape survivor. None of it happens in the present, but there are several flashbacks through her nightmares. Surviving rape and sexual assault are major themes in this book, so you may want to skip this book entirely if these are triggering themes for you.
This time around, we follow Tiffany and Salukh through their rotating perspectives. We spend much of our focus on Tiffany, who is trying to heal as she tries to outrun her scars. She’s a truly thoughtful and all around great character who has constantly been handed the short straw in life. Then there’s Salukh, who is a very caring and observant person. He’s very sweet and still remembers to check on the other characters even when his primary worries are about Tiffany.
We also spend a lot of time with Josie, who is Tiffany’s roommate as well as a fellow human. Josie is also a rape survivor, and we see how they are both dealing with the horrors of what happened to them differently. While I suspect that Josie doesn’t feel anywhere as sunny as her personality is, we do see that people deal with things differently as well as heal in different ways. I loved Josie and looked forward to seeing her. I’m excited to read her book, but I do hope we don’t have any flashbacks to what happened to her.
I did enjoy reading this and getting to know more characters in the book. It was also really interesting to see the characters interact differently to their khui. The things Salukh would say to his khui had me cracking up. It would be interesting to see how the khui interacts with them to give some insight to how the khui and the first people to crash land on the planet originally came to the conclusion that they needed each other. Was it an accident? Was it purely by accident? It’d be really interesting to know! I’m looking forward to reading Josie’s book and hope that we learn more about the khui as the series continues.
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