For whatever reason a whole chapter was omitted from the story. One reason its only 4 stars though was since this book was originally a series of reddit posts. It was fun watching Jason squirm and trying to come to terms with the fact that in his new reality he was viewed the same way he viewed women back on Earth. In terms of how the book was, its always fun to read a gender reversal or role reversal book.

Brought back a lot of funny fond memories, like having deep conversations in the restroom while someone is taking a poo in one of the stalls was definitely up there. So as a Marine veteran myself, I gotta say that the portrayal of how bootcamp/basic training was fairly spot on. I think this is pretty good for what it is a light, fun, sexy, sci-fi romp.

As I continued to read, I found myself looking forward to the climax of the character relationships more than the military sci-fi stuff, which doesn't really make sense at times (why would an entire species be claustrophobic?) While the situation seems pornographic, what with being the lone man sent to boot camp filled with alien women who all look like amazon goddesses and want to have sex, there is also some limited and I think shallow exploration of the gender roles being reversed. The book doesn't go into the biology or the evolutionary psychology behind this, so I wondered if this setup would even work, but this isn't a hard-scifi book and I found it best to just leave my brain at the door and just enjoy the ride.Īnd it really is an enjoyable ride.

So the female aliens act like human males, horny all the time, obsessed about breast size (instead of dick size), and lacking emotional intelligence (when compared to the other sex). In this book, Earth has been conquered by an alien species who are humanoid and whose male/female ratio is something like 1:7. I mention this because the book's product description mentions that it was inspired by Old Man's War, which might put some people off because this book isn't as deep or philosophical. It has been a long time since I read John Scalzi's Old Man's War but I'm still pretty sure it wasn't as sexed up as this book.

The space between worlds book