Teresa
The last thing I need is a hot, drool-worthy one night stand!
I just managed to break up with the loser I should have dumped ages ago, so I already know I’m not the best at saying no or ending things. But it’s time for me to plan for my future.
As the Housing Coordinator on base, I’m sent to settle in new arrivals. During a routine walk through, I run into a man who’s easily the best … easily the best looking I’ve ever seen. With dark hair and light piercing eyes, he catches me off-guard when he continues to relentlessly pursue me—despite my denial of interest in him.
I’m ready to think about life after the military, so I want someone who can be around for the long haul. Definitely not another workaholic, and I know he will be reassigned and gone at any moment.
For all I know–probably back to a wife and kids! I can’t let my heart get involved.
Payak
When your friends are all you have, every one counts.
So, when one of my squad disappears, I make sure I’m first in line to follow up on the planet where he was last seen. Mavin’s like a brother to me, and after his last punishment by the Sinth Sovereignty, he needs to know we all care—so he doesn’t disappear forever.
What I don’t expect to find, is an Earth female so alluring, it appears she can see right into my dimension. She can see me!
Unfortunately, we’re called in for testing and notified that the Wen virus has appeared on Earth. Now, we’ve been split up and assigned to help find the source while trying to stop the disease from spreading across the globe.
It’s more important than ever to find out if humans could be mating compatible, since phasing into our dimension means there’s a chance for the human species if we fail to stop the contagion.
Will Teresa let me close enough to test our compatibility? What will it mean for the future of Earth if I fail?
PLEASE NOTE: This SciFi Romance alien book contains Adult Language and Steamy Adult Bedroom Scenes. It is intended for 18+ Readers & Adults Only.
It’s part of a science fiction romance series but can be read as a standalone story with no cliffhangers!
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This novel was poorly written and edited, with multiple typos per page in the ARC version of this manuscript. The world building in this novel was minimal, as it takes place largely in a vague location on Earth. The characterization was somewhat clumsy, and the development of the romantic relationship was pretty good, considering the clumsy writing. The plot and pacing is where this novel shines, with me reading it in one sitting because I wanted to know what was going to happen next. There was almost no angst in this novel but the stakes were very high, which tends to be one of my preferred narrative structures for a romance novel. This novel uses the Fated Mates trope and the Zombie Apocalypse trope. The plot and pacing of this novel rates four stars, the characterization and development of the romantic relationship rates three stars, the world building rates two stars and the egregious wiriting and editing mistakes rate one star. This is this author’s second published series, and she should have access to a critique partner or good beta readers at this point in her career to catch a lot of these typos or editing errors, if professional editing is financially unfeasible. This novel ends on a Happy For Now ending instead of a cliffhanger, so that is a plus of this author’s work. I recommend this novel to readers who enjoy sci-fi romance and don’t mind plentiful editing errors. I really did enjoy this story, but I will not be buying myself a keeper copy of this novel until the quality control problems are fixed.
Update:
I went through the entire manuscript and sent the author all the typos and editorial mistakes that I had found in the original ARC version of this manuscript, so the book for sale should have significantly fewer typos.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
The book is a quickie; the story’s a bit thin
Sinth Seeker is the Book 1 of a new series, starring a new alien species interacting with humans on Earth. The Sinth are an as-yet ill-defined race, and their one distinguishing difference is the ability to “phase” in and out of their current location and withdraw to a private “dimension” of their own. There’s more, but you need to read it for yourselves. This story’s Sinth hero goes to Earth in search of his missing team mate, only to find himself in the midst of an imminent viral epidemic (translate: zombie apocalypse). He rescues – and bonds to – a feisty human whose loyalty to kith and kin is much stronger than her understanding of epidemiology and effective quarantine procedures. The love story is ok, the sex is a bit lukewarm, and the world-building is off to a convoluted, ill-defined start. Pearl Tate writes it well enough to keep it basically coherent and moderately interesting. Since she’s a proven author capable of far better, I’m calling this one 3 stars and looking for improvement in Book 2. This is a voluntary ARC review.
Let me start off by saying this is my first book by this author. I am vaguely aware that there are series by this author that relate to this book, but I haven’t read them. So my review is a test of how this reads as a stand-alone. I must say it had a bit of a rough start in that respect. I couldn’t at first figure out if humans knew about aliens or not, especially since the heroine, Teresa, mentioned the Ashen. The hero, Payak, was also not entirely forthcoming with explanations during his chapters, which works fine if you know the universe, but since I came in blind, I kind of felt like I was walking through a fog for the first 50% of the book. Things really pick up when the action starts. As soon as they’ve mated, Teresa gets a slew of explanations thrown her way.
Some random thoughts: The Wen virus thing is hitting a bit close to home at the moment, LOL. I love how our heroine was like, “isn’t the government prepared for this kind of thing?” well…. we have our answer…. haha D: I laugh but panic at the same time.
Things I liked:
– I loved seeing the hero’s uncertainty. He wasn’t some unfeeling cardboard male and it helped me sympathise with him.
– The alien species were quite interesting. I loved the phasing and the special-ness of sharing personal dimensions, very cute
– The romance, when it finally took off, was surprisingly sweet. From the start it seemed like it was going to be some hot & heavy lust, but it’s actually pretty sweet.
Things that could have been improved:
– Pacing, it goes from 50% of walking blind in a fog with the heroine being hesitant and the hero not divulging any info for us, to action and a lot of info for the last 50%. I would have liked to see that more spread out. Either more info in the beginning, or less hesitancy on the heroine’s part.
– More world-building? I know nothing about the aliens, literally nothing. And so many unanswered plot questions! I guess that is for future books. What are these mating lights? What was in that big container that they climbed on? (By the way, that wasn’t entirely clearly described. I had trouble imagining it when I read it.) Payak…. family? Friends? Who the heck is Lana and why was her hand on his chest? Was Ted just some cheap plot device to keep the heroine from jumping the hero’s bones? I can go on indefinitely. This book may have been way too short.
My ratings: * didn’t like it ** it was meh *** liked it **** really liked it ***** this book is the bomb and I will sleep with it in my bed
This review is based on an ARC through booksprout.