GRR Review: Nadar by Vi Voxley

Nadar by Vi Voxley tried to combine military, romance, and scifi, but the overall plot is a thinly disguised alien abduction fantasy where the alien turned out to be better lovers than humans. While the use of tropes is less obvious, the overall illogical plot still really made no sense.
Terran Union is trying to expand, and a exploration fleet has moved into Corgan space, and land on a Congan shrine planets, against protest from staff. TU landed a dropship with 4 fighters as escorts, one of the pilot was Mara James. Upon landing, everybody got off and exploring (wait, even the fighter pilots?), and the Corgans, lead by warlord Nadar Brengen, attacked the invaders. During the battle, the landing ship self-destructed, taking out many Corgans, but the rest of TU landing party were captured or killed quickly. Mara was personally captured by Nadar, who took a personal liking to her. Corgans claimed the TU personnel as invaders, the fleet saw it as unprovoked attack, and war between TU and Corgan seem imminent, even as Nadar allowed Mara to return the other prisoners to the TU fleet by offering herself as hostage, and their attraction to each other grew. When all-out war was declared between TU and Corgans, Nadar contemplated an audacious plan to resolve the war once and for all.

The plot points are just... weird. Corgans are essentially better humans on a different planet, and apparently their biology was so compatible... uh... sorry, that'd be a spoiler. The war between the TU and Corgans makes little sense, and neither does the final resolution or the grand gesture that lead up to it. The general theme is humans are such dweebs and dicks hot human females have to look for alien male lovers who will fight for and die for them (sigh).  And what's the point of sending fighters if you leave them useless on the ground?

Category: military / scifi

Primary Plot: Terran fighter pilot was captured by alien warlord and fell for him, even as they try to stop an all-out war.

Overall Rating:  2/5

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