At the start of my ebook is a forward from the author, basically saying "wow I can't believe this series is 10 years old, and that I have so many books in this series and in spin-off series, I love my readers!" which I thought was cute, and it says 2021, so now 15 years!

And then there is a section of info/lore dump? It explains how there are these aliens who are looking for women / brides and there are three different species of aliens, and here are the rules surrounding how they can interact with human women... The descriptions of the species are basically: beast mode= werewolf-y, knot included (except for they call it a fist here?!); blood mode= vampire, with blood exchanges during sex; and twin mode, where there is a dark twin who is darker in coloring and more moody and light twin who is the sunshine of the pair, and they can read each other's minds and will always bond to one female so there is menage situation, but because they're twins there will never be any sword crossing (booo)... I have no idea if this information was always included right from the get-go, but here it seems to basically give the author a way to not have to do the work of any world building and setup? I don't know that I appreciate this inclusion, I think I would rather have some of this information more organically be presented within the narration of the text. But also it does seem that the author had a specific point in time where she wanted to start the story, and therefore the background of the setup was required for the reader to understand what was happening? Idk, odd start for me.

I can't tell how much is the actual writing versus the narrator, but Celeste is coming across as 16 years old to me. I know she is an adult, but it was kind of a jump scare when she said that Theo was in his mid 30s.

I've read from this author before, so far it's perfectly fine start, a little bit odd that humans are kept on a reservation away from monsters?