It’s been Bek’s dream to resonate. When the last of the unmated women in the tribe resonated with others, he watched his dreams of having a mate and a family slip away. Everything changed when Mardok and his crew showed up. If one of these spaceships can fly away and come back, Bek cooks up a plan to make a deal for Trakan and Captain Chatav to bring human women to Not-Hoth. What Bek didn’t realize is that Trakan and Captain Chatav would purchase women to dump on Not-Hoth. Now he’s been shunned by the tribe, and all the human women are pissed with him.
This time around, we follow Bek and Elly. We get two totally different perspectives. Elly is one of the women that Mardok’s former crew bring to Not-Hoth, and she’s been an intergalactic slave for at least a decade. There’s a lot of talk about Elly’s past and the trauma she’s been through as a human slave. It’s been a long time since she’s even been outside, and an even longer time since she’s trusted anyone or anything. Meanwhile, Bek doesn’t see or fully understand that making a deal to bring women in hopes of resonating was wrong.
I think this is the first book in the series that was kind of a dud. Elly was an excellent character, but I really wish we didn’t have to have another character with such a bleak backstory. It sure does demonstrate that being abducted by aliens this series can be extremely bleak. Bek also seemed a bit out of character. He was asked who this kind, thoughtful, and patient Bek was a few times as a joke, but I really wanted to know who this was and what did they do with Bek. I also don’t believe he’s as naïve as he was made out to be.
It wasn’t a bad read, but this is the first book I’ve felt meh about so far, which is pretty good considering this is the twelfth book in the series. However, Bek being totally out of character kept taking me right out of the story. I really liked Elly and the new characters who were introduced in the story, but it’s really sad that they all have even sadder background stories than the previous human characters in the series. I also wonder why we didn’t hear anything about what Mardok had to say about everything that was happening. I doubt he would’ve stayed silent. There were just some things that didn’t add up, but I’m still looking forward to the next book in the series.
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