A review by books_ergo_sum
Alliance by Etta Pierce

adventurous emotional fast-paced

5.0

Loved it!

🫶 This book was hot (we had primal and switch Dom/sub dynamics)

🫶 The twisty overarching plot of the series just got dialed up to a 100 (seriously, what is happening? Who are even the bad guys?? Things are getting so intense)

🫶 And I love an arctic survival story

But mostly, how this book approached Dom/sub sexy times was so cool—that I can’t stop thinking about it.

Here’s the setup: our heroine Roz was a human sex doll. Literally, a robot (that’s just cool all by itself). And our hero Fásach was an alien whose species is prey-predator fluid, their bodies transforming based on their role. 

And the plot of the story needed him change from Prey Daddy to Predator Daddy in order for them to survive. Cue the delightfully campy ‘we need to bone in order to live’ trope.

But do you know what this book *did not* do? Buy into any of the “strong = dominant = man = good / weak = submissive = woman = bad” nonsense. 

Because for Roz, advanced illegal “living code” technology (plus an accident) meant that she had autonomy and selfhood. Being willful felt reassuring—following orders, on the other hand, took enormous strength of character. And for Fásach, prey and predator were both himself, neither one stronger or better than the other.

I can’t wait for the next book. I need answers!