Book Review: Seminal

• Book Blurb

  I don’t play the role of the kidnapped princess very well.

  And I really hate the fated mates trope.

  Hello again, I’m Eve Wakefield, and I refuse to accept that I’m in love with an intergalactic moth prince.

  No.

  I don’t care how handsome he is, I don’t want to marry him.

  I don’t care if his parents have a sentient spaceship capable of eating entire planets.

  Love is earned, not swindled by pheromones.

  I’m now trapped on a ship with an adorable cyborg bodyguard, a golden toilet, and relationship issues. There’s the prince I’m supposed to marry, the forest beast I fell in love with, and the never-wears-clothes police officer with tentacles. I’ve also got a mother-in-law who looks like a giant millipede, more macarons than I can eat, and plenty of red lace lingerie made from alien moth blood.

  I’m living in luxury, but I will do anything to see Abraxas again.

  Even if that means giving in and becoming a princess in a gilded cage.

  There’s so much more to all of this than I first thought, and I should’ve known better than to judge a man whose gaze is enough to knock me to my knees.

  Damn.

  I might be wrong. I might be in love with more than one alien. I might also be dying.

  And there’s only one person who can fix this: I need to be with Abraxas.

  After that, I’ll worry about the possibility of becoming the next queen of the universe.

  But let’s be honest here: I don’t miss being a caterer; being an alien queen is way more interesting.

  seminal – adjective

  an extremely important, often creative and unique, early stage influence that has a profound effect on the things that follow after

  SEMINAL – book 2 of 3 in the For the Love of Aliens trilogy. This is a why choose/reverse harem alien romance. In this volume, we’ll continue to follow Eve as she finds herself falling in love anew, reaffirming her original love, and testing the waters (pun intended) of a third relationship.

  I don’t play the role of the kidnapped princess very well.

  And I really hate the fated mates trope.

  Hello again, I’m Eve Wakefield, and I refuse to accept that I’m in love with an intergalactic moth prince.

  No.

  I don’t care how handsome he is, I don’t want to marry him.

  I don’t care if his parents have a sentient spaceship capable of eating entire planets.

  Love is earned, not swindled by pheromones.

  I’m now trapped on a ship with an adorable cyborg bodyguard, a golden toilet, and relationship issues. There’s the prince I’m supposed to marry, the forest beast I fell in love with, and the never-wears-clothes police officer with tentacles. I’ve also got a mother-in-law who looks like a giant millipede, more macarons than I can eat, and plenty of red lace lingerie made from alien moth blood.

  I’m living in luxury, but I will do anything to see Abraxas again.

  Even if that means giving in and becoming a princess in a gilded cage.

  There’s so much more to all of this than I first thought, and I should’ve known better than to judge a man whose gaze is enough to knock me to my knees.

  Damn.

  I might be wrong. I might be in love with more than one alien. I might also be dying.

  And there’s only one person who can fix this: I need to be with Abraxas.

  After that, I’ll worry about the possibility of becoming the next queen of the universe.

  But let’s be honest here: I don’t miss being a caterer; being an alien queen is way more interesting.

  seminal – adjective

  an extremely important, often creative and unique, early stage influence that has a profound effect on the things that follow after

  SEMINAL – book 2 of 3 in the For the Love of Aliens trilogy. This is a why choose/reverse harem alien romance. In this volume, we’ll continue to follow Eve as she finds herself falling in love anew, reaffirming her original love, and testing the waters (pun intended) of a third relationship.

• My review

  In a Nutshell
  Entertaining, but it definitely doesn’t live up to the first book.

  Overall Story
  In this second installment of the series, we get to know Rurik, Eve’s new romantic interest. Honestly, it was always going to be tough for any character to surpass Abraxas from the first book, and Rurik unfortunately doesn’t quite hit the mark. He’s depicted as a prince doomed to a tragic fate (a theme repeated often throughout the story), and his character just didn’t captivate me as strongly.

  Additionally, some characters were truly grotesque, and parts of the plot felt repetitive.

  Romance & Spicy Scenes
  The romance in this installment felt less natural and a bit forced compared to Eve’s relationship with Abraxas. While I enjoyed Rurik’s dry, somewhat violent humor, his chemistry with Eve simply wasn’t as compelling.

  However, readers looking for frequent graphic scenes and over-the-top plots with equally exaggerated characters will still find plenty to enjoy here.

  Despite these critiques, I still really like the series. The alien romance scenes remain vivid and enjoyable, the humor is consistently fun, and the new characters continue to fascinate.

  In a Nutshell
  Entertaining, but it definitely doesn’t live up to the first book.

  Overall Story
  In this second installment of the series, we get to know Rurik, Eve’s new romantic interest. Honestly, it was always going to be tough for any character to surpass Abraxas from the first book, and Rurik unfortunately doesn’t quite hit the mark. He’s depicted as a prince doomed to a tragic fate (a theme repeated often throughout the story), and his character just didn’t captivate me as strongly.

  Additionally, some characters were truly grotesque, and parts of the plot felt repetitive.

  Romance & Spicy Scenes
  The romance in this installment felt less natural and a bit forced compared to Eve’s relationship with Abraxas. While I enjoyed Rurik’s dry, somewhat violent humor, his chemistry with Eve simply wasn’t as compelling.

  However, readers looking for frequent graphic scenes and over-the-top plots with equally exaggerated characters will still find plenty to enjoy here.

  Despite these critiques, I still really like the series. The alien romance scenes remain vivid and enjoyable, the humor is consistently fun, and the new characters continue to fascinate.

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