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claughton's review against another edition
emotional
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.5
greergreer's review against another edition
3.0
Great story line, felt the story was a bit short and could have been expanded into a larger story.
Aliens coming to earth to retrieve young girls to repopulate their planet. Yep that is a good concept.
This book was a very good outline of what could be a very very interesting book.
Aliens coming to earth to retrieve young girls to repopulate their planet. Yep that is a good concept.
This book was a very good outline of what could be a very very interesting book.
ms_aprilvincent's review against another edition
2.0
So there's this guy who's an alien, and he is sent to Earth to find a woman, because all the female aliens on his planet died so they have to co-opt Earth-girls to be babymakers so their alien species can continue to exist.
And there's this girl who does her own thing and is really kind of together and cool and then this alien-boy comes around and she stops being so confident and gets whiny and needy and totally dependent on this person she met, like, two hours ago.
Yay! Another book that perpetuates the teenage fantasy that you can totally identify your soulmate in a matter of days! When you're seventeen!
There was some funny/lame culture clash stuff, but ... look, the best comparison I can come up with is Balki from Perfect Strangers. You can take that however you want.
Even though I didn't exactly like this book, I'd bet romance-starved, in-love-with-love, "outsider" types will love it.
And there's this girl who does her own thing and is really kind of together and cool and then this alien-boy comes around and she stops being so confident and gets whiny and needy and totally dependent on this person she met, like, two hours ago.
Yay! Another book that perpetuates the teenage fantasy that you can totally identify your soulmate in a matter of days! When you're seventeen!
There was some funny/lame culture clash stuff, but ... look, the best comparison I can come up with is Balki from Perfect Strangers. You can take that however you want.
Even though I didn't exactly like this book, I'd bet romance-starved, in-love-with-love, "outsider" types will love it.
yunalilly's review against another edition
1.0
Honestly, I think this may have been the dumbest book I have ever read. All of the characters reminded me of robots with the way they talked and acted. I might understand the alien acting robot-like, but Tonia, at least, should be acting like a human. The romance was one of the worst I have ever read. I believe that the story took place over a few weeks- but the characters fell in love in about half of that time- how? And they definitely didn't talk to one another enough to have that kind of a romance.
Also, the main character Tonia is essentially the "I'm not like other girls" trope. She says that all the girls except for her are petite and perfect and cover themselves in suntan oil instead of actually swimming, and she acts as if she is the only girl in the world that actually likes to swim. Trust me when I say there are many girls that go to the beach to actually swim.
The ending was mediocre at best, and incredibly predictable.
This book just had me repeatedly cringing and setting the book down because of how terrible it was. I personally believe that this book is a disgrace to the YA genre.
Also, the main character Tonia is essentially the "I'm not like other girls" trope. She says that all the girls except for her are petite and perfect and cover themselves in suntan oil instead of actually swimming, and she acts as if she is the only girl in the world that actually likes to swim. Trust me when I say there are many girls that go to the beach to actually swim.
The ending was mediocre at best, and incredibly predictable.
This book just had me repeatedly cringing and setting the book down because of how terrible it was. I personally believe that this book is a disgrace to the YA genre.
bre_renea's review against another edition
2.0
This book is definitely aimed at middle school aged children based on the length and the way it was written. My brother gave it to me for Christmas because I like alien books/shows. It’s a short book and moves really fast. It’s basically about an alien boy that has came from another planet to find a female to take back to his planet to make babies. There isn’t a lot of depth to the characters and the whole constantly being pregnant part for the females on the other planet kind of grosses me out.
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