It started with a small thought and grew, circled around and came back stronger, like the first wisp of smoke in a still, quiet house. The author, Autumn Dawn, does a lot of things very, very well. Xera is drawn to the Scorpio culture and to Ryven, but also resents her lack of choices, misses her family, and struggles to communicate with the strange man who is about to become her husband. Seeing as how the two races are at war, “under his protection” essentially means she is taken prisoner, brought to Ryven's home planet, and told that she will be marrying him. Xera is the only woman in both crews and when her captain threatens to rape her, the Scorpio leader, Ryven, takes her under his protection. Both ships are stranded on a hostile planet and the humans and the aliens (Scorpios) have to make an alliance to survive. She is human, and serves on a human spacecraft that crashes after engaging in a skirmish with an alien craft. I had some very ambivalent feelings about this book and yet I was completely swept away by the story and the atmosphere. I heard via word of mouth that No Words Alone is a very good science fiction romance, so of course I had to check it out.
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