Jenny Foster

Sally Smith is on a mission to collect weredragon DNA, so she signs up to be a mail-order bride to the alien shape-shifters that have come to Earth, now a starving, almost desolate planet. Once on the aliens’ ship bound for their home planet, she meets the ship’s captain, Zavir, and the attraction between them is instant.
Zavir’s people need human women to procreate and continue their species, so they’ve made an arrangement with the Earth’s governments for willing human women. Zavir is nothing but kind to Sally, but her secrets could ruin their relationship before it ever really gets started.
The H and h are likeable characters. Sally is strong-willed, Zavir is confident, and they make for a good couple.
I really liked this short story but wished it would’ve been longer. It’s told in third person, only from Sally’s POV. Though it ended abruptly and on a cliffhanger, there’s definitely a HEA in sight.
4 stars… (més)

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Genres: Paranormal, Sci-Fi
2 stars

Negatives.
Even though this story is only about 31 pages long, it has a lot of negatives.
A few of them are improper grammar and sentence structure.
Improper words used in said sentences.
Not well planned writing so the story flow is a bit out of sync. It makes you feel like you started the story after the beginning was throw away or something.
There is no ending at all.
No HEA although it might, sort of, be implied.
At the end of the story the author wants you the reader to contact her to tell her how you think it should end.

I don't know about you, but when I read these short shorts, etc., I do it to see if I would be interested in that authors writing style and her stories. I'm not a writer, I am a reader.

On top of all that, the story contradicts itself.
In the beginning Sally is thinking in her head about how she could escape if she gets what she needs & appears to NOT know how things work or are laid out in the ship. Then we see this at the 64% mark,
"She knew the ship’s plans by heart and knew which way she needed to go."
This is the 3rd or 4th instance of contradictions in the story.

Unfortunately, as the story is right now, I can not recommend this to anyone for any reason.
No real world build. No character build.

I gave 2 stars simply because the premise was interesting. It had potential. And it is NOT the worse I have ever read.

It could have been so much better if the author had taken time out to truly write a 'Story' and not just an advertising piece.… (més)