Rating: ☕️ ☕️
Summary: Two years ago, humans and aliens have finally made contact. Unlike the typical Hollywood depictions, these aliens from the planet L’eihr look remarkably like humans. In the first ever inter-galactic student exchange program, 3 aliens from L’eihr will travel to earth and live there with a host family for a year, while humans from earth will travel to L’eihr.
Cara Sweeny and her family are one of those chosen as a host family for Aelyx, one of the aliens. However, it’s quickly brought to attention that these aliens are interested in something other than just making human friends. Things don’t go to plan, and unforeseen obstacles— namely love— prevent the aliens from carrying out their plans.
Review: From the very first few pages of this book, I knew I wasn’t going to like it. However, I pushed through it in the end because a) I hate DNF-ing books, and b) I don’t read these kinds of books usually, and wanted to expand my horizons.
Cara is visibly disturbed that her parents have a healthy, loving relationship. Yes, you read that correctly— she frequently wishes that she had different parents, simply because her parents display a little more PDA than others. Here’s an actual quote:
“Why couldn’t she have normal parents that hated each other like everyone else?”
Ummm…okay….Moving on….
The plot in this book was really bad. Not only was it boring, there seemed to be little to no plot development at all. We see Aelyx doing shady stuff, which isn’t referenced again in detail until the end of the book, and Cara doesn’t know that he’s been trying to sabotage Earth just to make sure humans don’t come to L’eihr. Even though there’s currently humans on L’eihr because of the student exchange program….Moving on….
There’s a lot of slut-shaming in this book, and Cara is made out to be this innocent, pure little girl, while every other girl that she hates is a skank. Though her first meeting with Aelyx was quite, what’s the word, scandalous? The alien literally watches her change and doesn’t make his presence known until after she’s done changing. But hey, this is supposed to be swoon-worthy, right?
The author tries to add this really weird sexual tension in the book, but it comes off as awkward and unnatural. Aelyx literally has the personality of a limp grass blade, but of course, Cara falls hopelessly in love with him. And I can’t forget to mention that Cara actually leaves earth behind to follow Aelyx to L’eihr when his secret comes out to the world (Cara still doesn’t know about what he’s been doing lmfao), even though she know very, very little about L’eihr. And her parents don’t even really object to that??? They went:
Parents: Cara no
Cara: Cara yes
Parents: lol ok use protection when you’re there
Also, 2 seconds after Cara pledges to leave earth behind and gets into the spaceship or whatever it’s called, Aelyx and Cara get into a fight— which could have been avoided if these two could open their mouths and communicate— and they both promptly decide to end the relationship, EVEN THOUGH CARA LEFT BEHIND EARTH TO TRAVEL TO L’EIHR TO BE WITH HIM.
Sigh. This book was crap. Don’t waste your precious time by reading it. There are four other books in this series, but it’s safe to say that I won’t be reading them.
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