This was my first M.A. Church book. This is the first of the series set in a Sci Fi world and Earth. I did have issues with the plot and main character for this book, which I will explain below. I had to give this a 2/5 for those reasons even though it did appear they put effort into the more technical sides of space and planets. I just can’t recommend this one to anyone.
**Spoiler Alert**
We meet our main character, Dale, in the beginning as he is being abducted from his home for a program called: The Harvest. It is a bond between the Alien race’s people and Earth’s governments, to collect mates from the population. It’s meant to help the alien’s dying race become viable again. Dale becomes the “chosen mate” of Captain Keyno Landium Shou of a Tah’Narian starship. Human’s are implanted with the Alien’s DNA, allowing them to bear their children.
After this, it’s expected that Dale will simply be OK with this, after being kidnapped from everything he loves on Earth. He won’t be allowed to return. To Dale’s credit, he does put up a ‘bit’ of a fight, as would be expected in this situation. I think I would find it impossible to feel anything but hate for the thing that did that to me, but Dale ad Kenyo end up in a relationship way too quickly, or at all. I just didn’t like this aspect of the plot. Kidnappees expected to be mates of their kidnappers. Too stockholmy for me.
If you can get past the plot points of the kidnap situation, you may enjoy this. Good luck.