This is the second book in Cara Bristol’s Dakonian Alien Mail Order Brides series. Aton follows heroine, Toni. She’s the sister of the heroine in the first book. She breaks off her wedding that she didn’t really want after seeing her sister so happy with her alien mate. Now, she’s signed up for her own mail order mate. However, there is an issue with his visa and doesn’t make it. But Aton isn’t going to let a little thing like a visa keep him from his mate.
I continue to enjoy this series. It is a fun and fast paced sci-fi romance novel. I love how the author keeps coming up with new ways for the hero and heroine struggle with their relationship so it doesn’t feel like a rinse and repeat story in the series. Each couple has their own personalities and issues they have to overcome to be together.
I love the aspect of seeing the culture differences between the Terrans (people on Earth) and the Dakonians (the main aliens we’re following in this series, though the book does bring up that there are more than one kind of alien in the dating agency). It also makes you think about people from different countries in real life trying to get through red tape to be together.
We also see how Dakonians don’t seem to understand the idea of a job. They don’t have them on their planet. You hunt and build for yourself. If someone has something you need, you trade for it. The idea of job just doesn’t make sense to them. However, they come to Earth independently wealthy because the ore mined on Dakon is worth a lot on Earth.
We do know who both the hero and heroine are for the next book. But I’m hoping to see if Megan gets a book. She’s Toni’s assistant and so very protective of her. I don’t remember there being any mention of a relationship at all, but I loved her and would love to see a book with her finding a man of her dreams.
Population demographics had shifted so women outnumbered men by quite a bit. With an overabundance of female fish in the sea, men were disinclined to settle down with one woman, let alone get married.
Hence, when you got a man, you did your best to hang onto him—even if he was an emotionless stuffed shirt thirty years your senior. That was, until you saw the alien hunk your sister brought to your wedding, discovered you had options, and realized what a huge, huge mistake you were about to make.
I’d only been on Earth for a little over a day, but from what I could tell, most people worked by sitting at tables and staring at glowing flat boxes. I was curious to see if court was any different.
**Book was provided to me by the author. This review is my opinion and was not requested or provoked in anyway by the author.