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Space for Love by Emily Antoinette

9 reviews

dolores_madil's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

I really enjoyed this book did I take a big break in the middle yes but that was because I was mad at the characters not because the book was bad. The book is really good I have never stopped reading it because I wanted to put characters pretty much in time out. So I would say definitely read this but be prepared for some stressful miscommunication partly do to them being different species.

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treblemakeranna's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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leopardsheetcake's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

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theappendices's review against another edition

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funny lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Marking the TW with fatphobia as the main character deals with internalized fatphobia.

There was no option for "dubious consent" (which is always just assault) so be aware to that as well.

Spice -🌶🌶🌶 (🍦 & ⛓)
Stars - ⭐⭐⭐

My spice rating system:
🌶 - a couple explicit scenes
🌶🌶🌶 - several explicit scenes
🌶🌶🌶🌶🌶 - many explicit scenes
🍦 - Vanilla scenes
⛓ - K!nk/bdsm scenes

My star ratings system:
⭐ - made it thru somehow
⭐⭐⭐ - liked (won't read again)
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - loved (would read again)

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princess_sara_sparkles's review against another edition

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adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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rae_meadows's review against another edition

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funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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carlaabra's review against another edition

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emotional funny medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

This was really sweet. MMC is a cinnamon roll alien with a fearsome appearance that he’s self-conscious about. FMC is plus-size and shy, the lone human who just moved to an alien space station. Both have recently been dumped and have low self esteem about their appearances. Together they build eachother up.

Love the worldbuilding. Writing is good with minimal errors. Overall it was very cozy fluff that I enjoyed.

Tropes: hidden identity + secrets, miscommunication
🌶️: bondage, dirty talk, sex simulation, it’s too big

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cati_rae's review against another edition

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funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

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imskylow's review against another edition

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lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

It was fine. It had a lot of potential but honestly fell flat in a lot of ways for me. There was a lot of missed potential. This might be a nice intro book for someone who hasn’t read much smut but for someone who reads quite a bit, this felt very ordinary and vanilla, even in the supposed BSDM scenes.

The writing was uninteresting which is to say it lacked a lot of imagery and interesting prose.

The aliens weren’t believable to me either. They knew too much about human culture and emotions but would trip up on a random word— it felt silly. There was missed opportunity with body difference. As the love interest has glowing stripes on his skin, we could have had steamy scenes in the dark purely illuminated by his skin. He also has talons and that wasn’t at all taken into account when pleasuring the MC. Unless they’re retractable (which isn’t mentioned), I imagine that would hurt/need soothing. The sex scenes in general were too fast paced with no tension at all.

Not much is talked about about attraction differences other than there might be some. I would not have expected an alien to be attracted to breasts and butts like human men do, though I do enjoy that he was attracted to her roundness, dissimilar to todays human Eurocentric beauty standards of being skinny. The word jiggle was used too often for my taste though.

There were too many page breaks for my taste. A lot of telling rather than showing. Too often they would mention how easy it was for them to talk to each other but you never actually get to see their real banter. I didn’t feel the connection they supposedly had.

Even with all of this, I commend Emily Antionette for publishing her first book. It’s no easy feat and I’m sure that as she continues to write her work will indeed improve.

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