Married to the Alien Doctor
Renascence Alliance Series, Book 2
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Married to the Alien Doctor
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Narrated by:
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Jill Smith
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By:
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Alma Nilsson
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TRADED. Dru has been traded by her captain to the Alliance Empire. She and the rest of the female crew from the human starship Dakota are to be married off, as the Alliance is suffering from a demographics issue, there aren’t enough Alliance women. Dru doesn’t care what kind of problems the Alliance has, she didn’t come this far, in her short life, to end up as a grey, alien man’s wife, no matter how powerful his civilization. But that’s the problem, humans are next to nothing in the galaxy. However, Dru has a secret, she is telepathic, and she hopes that this will help her escape her alien fate on the Alliance Capital Planet.
Ket of Imperial House Vo had not thought much about the human women being brought to the Empire until his eyes rested on the young red-haired Junior Doctor Drusilla, and he knew then it was the gods’ will that she become his wife. Despite knowing that humans are proud and unruly, he is sure that he can persuade her to conform to strict Alliance culture and make her humbly accept her new life in the Empire.
WILL DRU USE HER TELEPATHIC ABILITIES TO ESCAPE?
A cut above other books IMO in this genre.
Jill Smith narration brings all the characters to life.
Highly recommended listening.
Science Fiction Romance & an intriguing storyline
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Married to the Alien Doctor
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The alien culture is very strict and will impose monetary fines and/or physical punishment against transgressors. The religious leaders seem more likely to use the latter. Status is also important and opporttunity is limited if you are not amongst the more privileged. Our heroine started in an excluded and disdained community on Earth. She is ashamed of the abuse she suffered as the price of escaping this and joining the space fleet. As she is the youngest, she is the lowest ranked among Earth's female space crew hijacked to become brood mares for the superior culture's population drive. There are complex rules about what men and women can discuss and what must be kept within the same gender. Drusilla (who prefers to becalled Dru) is blighted by these and learns of the sanctions against showing any affection in public or to a man you are not affianced or married. She does have a couple of things going for her with her medical acumen and willingness to learn, augmented by her mind reading and mental projection. Another archaic custom in this technologically advanced culture is the practice of duelling to the death. Her luck changes when she learns who it was who put the bann on her to prevent any male of lower status talking to her. The title gives the ending away (which is why it is not five stars) as well as the title of the suitor. The main interest is her emotional and ethical journey where she has to negotiate alien laws, mores and suffer betrayal. I liked the world-building.
The narrator does a good job of differentiating when a male or female is speaking, but I could not always distinguish between the minor characters of the same gender.
I received a free copy, and am leaving this review voluntarily.
Exotic Earthwoman encounters alien culture.
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