Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Contaminated by Amanda Milo [Review]

Contaminated by Amanda Milo
Contaminated (Cosmic Fairy Tales) by Amanda Milo
Format: ebook
Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited
Disclaimer: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
Date read: November 9, 2019

Cosmic Fairy Tales
The Hunchback
The Lion and the Mouse
The Frog Prince
The Ugly Dukeling
ContaminatedKindle
Jackie and the Giant
Escaping Wonderland
Rampion

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Synopsis (Goodreads):
The people of my planet are plagued by a devastating genetic curse. To treat the disease's effects, we've turned to cultivating a rare flower. That's my occupation: raising and studying this flower. That's precisely what I'm doing the daycycle that an alien drops into our research plot, approaches our plant...

And cuts my flower's head off, stealing the bloom.She stole our only hope. I can't let her get away.

**Note: This 37K, standalone story is intended for readers 18+ due to romantic elements. There is no cheating. There is a Happily Ever After, because this is a sci-fi retelling of Beauty and the Beast--you have to have an HEA. (There is, however, no singing cutlery.)
***Important Note II: No unicorns were harmed in the making of this story.
Thoughts on Contaminated: Amanda Milo always gives us such fun aliens. In this case, they're ALIEN-aliens. Ish. The idea of a sweet, somewhat shy alien (and his germ-a-phobe sidekick) meeting, greeting, and hooking up with a scientifically-minded human makes me grin. The fact she helps him help his people while the two of them make googly eyes at one another makes it even better.

Down to the nitty gritty. Our alien is one of many of his kind searching for a cure for the genetic plague killing his people. Since he's a carrier, he's had little to no interaction with females. Because he sees first hand the horrors this disease causes and doesn't want to pass it along to any offspring. Also, his carrier status makes him undesirable to a female looking to expand her family line.

Enter our human. She's brave. She's curious. She snatches the flower they've been using to help alleviate some of the disease's symptoms and gets captured for it. Which, QUITE NATURALLY, leads to some quality one on one time between the human and the alien.

The rest, as they say, is history.

Yep, I like AM's aliens. They're different. They fall hard and fast. And they like the human ladies. *thumbs up*

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