Between Worlds by J L Williams
Blurb
Jason had thought about punching a Shil’vati.
Who hadn’t?
Not only had the aliens conquered Earth with almost trivial ease, the seven-foot purple amazons had also had the audacity to start running the planet better than Humanity ever had.
He'd never actually act on that desire though. He was a reasonable guy, just trying to his finish engineering degree and get on with his life. Preferably without attracting any attention from his new alien overlords.
At least, that had been the plan...
Haha ! where to start with this one ?!? Another with huge scores yet again on Goodreads and Amazon.
Earth is overrun by 7ft female warriors who are similar to the characters out of the film Avatar (but with small tusks). Their species has a ratio of 10:1 female to male so all the alien women are sex-starved, they class Earth as the sex planet as human males are.......... hang on, I am giving part of the story away here.
Our hero winds up in the Shil'vati marines boot camp, where he is put through his basic training whilst trying to fight off the attention of 30 rampant alien women. I won't mention the one other male in the squad.....
The story started off reasonably ok, then sort of went a bit ermmm.... horny ? Suffice to say if you can get past the rather descriptive nature of a couple of the scenes and stick with it, the book turns out surprisingly good. To be fair to the author, thinking back the story does require some element of explanatory 'action', at the time of reading I didn't think it did and was about to bin it off, but am pleased I didn't.
There is the military training aspect of it, but the book is more of a study between two directly opposing species and genders. Just don't expect anything too serious.
Reviews
1. A fun space romp. Exploring sexual expectations. With a total reversal slant.
Alien space babes and one poor poor human man. Smaller. With lots of thought of "do girls really have to put up with this".
A giggle fest. Cant wait for the next book
2. I certainly enjoyed this book. The male-female role reversal is of course The most fun. This book does shine a light on Some less savory male-female human interactions by using the sexy yet strong Amazon aliens as a proxy. That said The story was also fun.
3. Overall it does a decent job at being the start to a well-written military sci-fi series. The erotic scenes do little to take away from the attraction and help differentiate it from all the other military training stories. I feel the story was a little too short to truly be able to tell how well it continues but look forward to reading more to find out.
4. Great read. The book is around average length for a book in this genre, but I finished it in a single Saturday. The whole clash of cultures and the situations it provides had me laughing at times and squirming with building tension at others. I am eager to see where the overarching story goes in the next books. It is good that I’m still not sure if I want him to truly join up with the Purps or fight against them, which is a good place to be at the end of a first book!
Review 3 is closest to my thoughts
Price
Free on kindle unlimited, £3 to purchase the ebook
Yeah I think it's worth it just for the fun factor and somewhat originality. The book has only just come out but looks like there will be a book two at some point, I will have to give that one a go when it finally appears, I need to find out what happens next.
For info: someone pointed out it was a web serial on Reddit (r/hfy) titled
Sexy Space Babes it looks like the author had enough encouragement to make it a book. So if you look on there you can get a feeling for the authors style without investing too much of your time
Edit:
Book one was up one reddit a chapter at a time, which were removed when it went to publish on Amazon.
Book two is going up on there and will also be pulled once its published
(just been reading the thread on reddit)
