I realized after reading that the author's name on the cover did not match the author's name listed on the tracking website, a little bit of Googling found some evidence that perhaps this author was faking their ethnicity?? Also a little bit of a kerfuffle about the spelling and pronunciation of her name in a not great situation?? So all of that was a hot mess that will make me avoid this author in the future, which is a bummer because I overall thought this was a fun time.

I read this book quickly and easily in one day, overall I was enjoying it. I liked that Odette like to read monster romances and I appreciated how much these two cared for each other. I liked that Chente was just a normal guy with a normal job and I felt that the reasons why he did not know how to read made sense. I would have liked a little bit more information about their backstories and family lives, but at least they both had friends that they spoke with and I'd bet those two will be a future couple in the series.

This was an easy straightforward romance with a couple sweet moments. There was not a lack of sexy content either, as some of the books they're reading together are also explicit monster romance. I loved how Chente did research to be prepared and knowledgeable about multiple sclerosis and be ready to both care for Odette and also to avoid having the responsibility of her explaining everything to him. Him researching to check for positions that would be best for Odette was so sweet! Actually we had a funny conversation on Pagebound about his cock, how it was spiked and so long and thick, it was just a lot of funny back and forth where we were wishing for some diagrams...

It seems like most other reviews agree with me that it was short and sweet and simple with maybe too little plot going on. I also saw a little bit of mixed reviews with regards to the amount of smut present because of the books these two read together.

At only approximately 42 pages, this is very short and functions primarily as a setup for the world and the overall romance series. I understand that the book series wants to take place in a setting that they've somewhat already established, but I think it would have been really fun to have more content here where we go through some initial miscommunications and setting up negotiations with Earth. Instead that is done in literally a couple paragraphs.

Functionally in this book the main female character Lela sets up a radio device, has a texting conversation with her boyfriend, and then has one intimacy scene with her boyfriend/partner, then the radio device makes contact with Earth and that's the end of it. I did not find this story or the characters to be memorable, it truly was just the method to set up the series. I do think in the intimate scene there was some interesting levels of penetration and usage of mismatching anatomy, maybe? Also, the reviews feel really generic and almost fake? They seem to be restating the description and I don't see anything about even the character's names being mentioned?

This book was fine, fun, cute, but ultimately simply FORGETTABLE.

I wanted more emotional development, because this was a novella it really was a lot of insta-love and romantic feelings developed too quickly. I felt like Olive was just so quirky and Mason didn't really come across as a nerd type to me, but it's good that he found her adorable. The writing was modern and current, with plenty of pop culture references, I think this book will feel quite dated in five years. This features insta-love with plenty of steam in the second half, not that I remember any of it.