Generations ago, two alien species depended on a symbiotic bond that was decimated by the Earth-man's arrival.
Nala, a gentle farming alien of blue, happens upon an injured warrior of red. She nurses him back to health, only to realize that he's not just any fighter, but the king, a specimen highly coveted by the humans she serves. To make matters worse, he's in heat and desperate for assistance. She's in an impossible position. Hand him over to her masters or save him and risk her own neck. Either choice could be her very undoing.
Between the Earth men looking for more of her kind to snatch up for experiments, and the wounded yet lethal predator in her bed, can she survive the night?
This is a really good novel, it's tragic, profound and portrays a different, complex existence, with a rich and well-structured culture, with a symbiosis between species that was sullied by humans. Many times, the behaviours of the characters were incomprehensible to me, but at the same time totally logical when I realized that they were not human and therefore should not follow the human moral form.
The only great criticism I have is the incongruity that there was in the dialogues or the transition between them and the lack of clear details in some scenes that I had to read about three times to understand. English is not my first language and maybe that made it difficult for me to understand many idioms and sentences, which does not happen when I read novels that are in neutral English. I would like the author to edit the novel and improve the grammar so that I can read it again and understand the details that were often illegible.
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