Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Contagion by Amanda Milo [Review]

Contagion by Amanda Milo
Contagion by Amanda Milo
Format: ebook
Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited
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Date read: November 18, 2019

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Synopsis (Goodreads):
One OCD neat freak alien.
One human woman.
Both are abducted and held captive in a very unsterile environment.
What more could go wrong?
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Simmi: I’ve broken free and I’ve also freed the human who was held captive with me. But I don’t know where we are, and I don’t know where my home is. The local wildlife may be smaller than I am, and maybe they don't have fangs near as large as mine, but I’m still terrified. My issues with germs--and my uncompromising avoidance of all the things that I’m afraid of coming into contact with--is going to get me killed in this wilderness.

Thankfully, Aurora lets me follow her.

Thankfully, she seems to know the way out of this endless and inhospitable woodland and desert biome.

But by the end of our journey, she’ll suspect she’s harboring a contagion. I have no way to know it, but she’s afraid to tell me. Afraid of how I’ll react once I find out what she’s carrying.

***Note: This 40K, Standalone story is intended for readers 18+ due to romantic elements and adult themes. There is no cheating. There is one really germphobic alien. Thankfully, there's also a really understanding woman who is starting to fall for him. Spoiler: They're totally gonna have a Happily Ever After... just as soon as they can get off this planet that’s trying to kill them.
Thoughts on Contagion: I didn't think I could like Simmi more than I liked him in Erreck's book, but BOY WAS I WRONG. An apex predator with a SERIOUS fear of germs who has no idea he's sitting at the top of the food chain and is as polite as polite can be CRACKS ME UP.

Seriously. Simmi rocks. Waking up to find himself imprisoned by not-so-nice humans who want to do very bad things to him is bad, but it isn't nearly as distressing as having to navigate an unclean floor and leeches and CHIPMUNKS while escaping.

Fortunately for Simmi, he has Aurora on his side. Sure, she's human and she laughs at inopportune moments (like WHEN CHIPMUNKS ATTACK!), but he finds he doesn't mind her nearly as much as he thinks he should. In fact, he kind of likes her way calming him down and getting him to focus.

He likes it a lot.

On Aurora's end, she likes the overly-fussy alien who is unswervingly polite (even after shrieking in terror) and who obsesses over cleanliness. She doesn't mind his exoskeleton or his tail and...actually, she really ends up liking both of those things. And the, umm, deposits he makes when they get busy.

I'm having big love for these two. An OCD alien probably shouldn't fall for a human woman who leaks from her eyes when amused and has an involuntary vomiting reflex on occasion, but these two WORKED FOR ME. So hard. So. Hard.

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