Alien Mate

Needs improvement

Ok for starters this book starts out at a good pace, but descends by just over halfway into a chaos that makes little sense. The timeline gets muddled and by the end it feels like only a week has passed when the book is insinuating that actually MONTHS have.

But also all these questions and statements:
1. The whole concept of the plague babies needed to be explored more. Like they came out of no where. Who are they? Why are they? Can they be rehabilitated or are they just more violent than the males are normally? Are there any FEMALE plague babies?

2. Who is the Oracle and HOW she has powers when no one else does?

3. How actually long has it been since the plague? (Because Kor made it sound like it happened a century or more ago but then later with Kil its made to sound like it’s only been a few decades)
3.5 How does ageing work in this world?

4. Why was kidnapping the first option? Sure on Earth kidnapped by alines is an almost normal thing (if that sort of thing can be considered “normal”) but on other planets? Couldn’t they have just negotiated with the governments to have eligible women who
Want a fresh start with a husband apply to be... mail order brides or whatever? Because they shouldn’t have had to kidnap other alien species, unless like earth they don’t have space travel yet?

5. Kor said he was the YOUNGEST of his mother’s BROOD. Where are the other sibs? Why no mention?

6. Were Kor’s people just predisposed to having predominately male offspring? Because with a 50/50 shot of having either a girl or a boy birthrates should have equalised after a century or so, if that’s how long ago the plague was, but given Kil’s approximate age even a few decades should have seen a positive shift away from the need to kidnap. Unless males were more prominently born, but that wasn’t really said.

7. What exactly was Kor’s job? Because we never see him at it.

8. Diana was said to have had no close friends or family... were her parents dead? Estranged? Is she an only child? We never see much from her despite the book being predominately in her POV.
All we know is she’s overly dramatic, prickly and never thinks anything through.

Wish there was an epilogue. Or a snap shot of late either before the baby’s born or after. Or maybe in a few years when they’ve (FINALLY) sorted out the kidnapping thing.
This book was exciting at first but ultimately was riddled with plot hole and other narrative problems that probably need to be addressed. This story could be really good, it just needs a little TLC.