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bellal2107's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
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
4.0
malus23's review against another edition
3.0
I think i just prefer heists and brand-new relationships to be separate. The heist parts felt just like a heist movie, where you have the characters and their one defining trait flashing up on a screen, followed by lots of things happening very very quickly. Yara and Oren were fine in their scenes alone together too, although there wasn't enough daily mundanity in their interactions, no time for it. I wanted them to sit down and play more board games, and talk about food and such. I think the two parts would have each been excellent in their own separate books, but there wasn't enough of either with them combined. If we'd seen them get together in one book, they wouldn't have felt so one-note having a heist together in another.
becxreadz's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Liked
*Forced proximity
*She's really into him
*Made me laugh
*space adventure
*Nontraditional family unit
Disliked
*Audio narration
5⭐️, 2🌶, 3🧪
Rating, Smut, Chemistry
*Forced proximity
*She's really into him
*Made me laugh
*space adventure
*Nontraditional family unit
Disliked
*Audio narration
5⭐️, 2🌶, 3🧪
Rating, Smut, Chemistry
diaryofthebookdragon's review against another edition
3.0
Renegade love had similar vibe like [b:Strange Love|48915429|Strange Love (Galactic Love, #1)|Ann Aguirre|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1574451623l/48915429._SY75_.jpg|68239195]...
- Alien non-humanoid hero (this time inspired by lizard/alligator)
- Happy-go-lucky heroine
Add to that:
- Heist
- Cute, helpful robots
If you are looking for a well-written sf-erotic series, this is definitely it. Recommended.
- Alien non-humanoid hero (this time inspired by lizard/alligator)
- Happy-go-lucky heroine
Add to that:
- Heist
- Cute, helpful robots
If you are looking for a well-written sf-erotic series, this is definitely it. Recommended.
princess_sparkle's review against another edition
adventurous
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? It's complicated
4.25
This was my favorite book of the series - it had a sexual tension, a space heist, and found family, what more could a girl ask for?
There were also references to Mass Effect.
There were also references to Mass Effect.
wad3mil3sgarru2's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
myhandmadehell's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
I was honestly so sad to get to the end of this trilogy, because I have enjoyed the Galactic Love series so much! This was such a lovely way to wrap up these lightly interconnected stories, and it felt like the most ambitious story yet. Over three books, Aguirre managed to build and reveal an intergalactic universe full of fascinating races, planets and other sci fi locales, and political intrigue that really made the trilogy feel like it was larger than the sum of its parts.
This book had one of my favorite plots: a heist! I LOVE a heist. Yara Duncan is a fast-talking high-charisma human who’s been out in the galaxy for a while now after getting accidentally scooped up during an alien cattle raid. After a rocky start, she eventually found some relative comfort and safety as a feature exhibit in a traveling “freak show” style circus - yes she is the very same human our Tiralans visited in the second book! - and has been sitting relatively pretty with an easy gig that’s let her see the universe. Even better, on earth she was a science fiction fan, so she has a bit of tongue-in-cheek genre savvy that was really fun.
Toth Krag, the bounty hunter from book 2, is tired of being a bounty hunter, for many well-explained reasons, and is desperate to shake off the armor that identifies him everywhere he goes as the most dangerous person in the galaxy. Yara is the first of his targets to actually…treat him like a person. Which is, apparently, all this sad boy needs to decide to do what he always had the power to do.
Like any good heist story, they pull together a rag-tag group of criminals and activists to clear their respective debts and earn a life of freedom to be exactly who they want to be.
My main criticisms are pretty light, honestly. At one point Yara’s mother, who disappeared when Yara was 15, shows up, and it’s kind of out of nowhere? There’s an interesting thread that gets mentioned about how they both managed to get “abducted” in the same way, but that story arc never really goes anywhere so the character being Yara’s mother doesn’t seem to play a significant role in the story. Also, I kind of felt like the romance was a bit one-sided. Krag seemed a lot more romantically interested in Yara than she was in him, and I’d have liked to see more emotional development between the two. It was challenging to gauge the passage of time, as well, so this book might have taken place over a few days or several weeks. But honestly, the actual heist plot was so fun and compelling that I didn’t really care if other areas weren’t explored as much.
Desperately looking forward to exploring the rest of Ann Aguirre’s catalog!
This book had one of my favorite plots: a heist! I LOVE a heist. Yara Duncan is a fast-talking high-charisma human who’s been out in the galaxy for a while now after getting accidentally scooped up during an alien cattle raid. After a rocky start, she eventually found some relative comfort and safety as a feature exhibit in a traveling “freak show” style circus - yes she is the very same human our Tiralans visited in the second book! - and has been sitting relatively pretty with an easy gig that’s let her see the universe. Even better, on earth she was a science fiction fan, so she has a bit of tongue-in-cheek genre savvy that was really fun.
Toth Krag, the bounty hunter from book 2, is tired of being a bounty hunter, for many well-explained reasons, and is desperate to shake off the armor that identifies him everywhere he goes as the most dangerous person in the galaxy. Yara is the first of his targets to actually…treat him like a person. Which is, apparently, all this sad boy needs to decide to do what he always had the power to do.
Like any good heist story, they pull together a rag-tag group of criminals and activists to clear their respective debts and earn a life of freedom to be exactly who they want to be.
My main criticisms are pretty light, honestly. At one point Yara’s mother, who disappeared when Yara was 15, shows up, and it’s kind of out of nowhere? There’s an interesting thread that gets mentioned about how they both managed to get “abducted” in the same way, but that story arc never really goes anywhere so the character being Yara’s mother doesn’t seem to play a significant role in the story. Also, I kind of felt like the romance was a bit one-sided. Krag seemed a lot more romantically interested in Yara than she was in him, and I’d have liked to see more emotional development between the two. It was challenging to gauge the passage of time, as well, so this book might have taken place over a few days or several weeks. But honestly, the actual heist plot was so fun and compelling that I didn’t really care if other areas weren’t explored as much.
Desperately looking forward to exploring the rest of Ann Aguirre’s catalog!
wilybooklover's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
3.0
This has a lot of the same elements that I enjoyed from the previous two instalments of this series, but this one felt a bit rushed and lacking in connection. It’s incredibly fast-paced — I think it would have benefitted from giving the characters more time to be fleshed out and the plot more space to breathe. I also didn’t care for the constant pop culture references.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Death, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Death of parent and Abandonment
bookishnicole's review against another edition
4.0
Such a great ending to a fun series. So thoughtful and sweet