GRR Reviews Dark Planet Warriors by Anna Carven

Dark Planet Warriors is basically nicely polished alien abduction romance, with the trope that the aliens are so short on females they need to romance human females.

Kordolian General Tarak was hunting Xargek when an unstable wormhole dumped them on the fringe of human space, near the asteroid mining station Fortuna Tau. Tarak just wants to get the ship fixed and resume hunting Xargek, he doesn't care about the inhabitants... though he'd prefer not to inflict any casualties due to the amount of paperwork. He did not plan on finding Abbey, one of the environmental techs, who seem so dedicated to her duty, she's... almost worthy of respect. When Abbey was critically injured by the Xargek, and larvae escaped onto the station, Tarak left behind his forces to deal with the Xargek while he assumed personal responsibility to restore Abbey to full health... Back on Kordolia Prime. It was then Tarak realized he's in the throes of mating fever... and there are no unbonded Kordolian females around... And somehow, he's drawn to Abbey...

As in typical "alien scifi romance", the alpha males are so alpha and badass and human males are so pathetic it's no wonder why human females would fall for them. At least in this book the scifi was somewhat legitimate, the alien culture built decently. But the idea that aliens that correspond so close to humans they are fully functional and capable of servicing human females is a trope that's getting a bit lame.

Category: Science Fiction

Primary Plot: Alien general hunting xeno threats came upon a human station and fell for one brave human environmental tech

Tropes: protector, woman in peril, hut/comfort, kidnapping, mating fever

Overall Rating:  3/5