● Bloody Shrimping Hell this Series is So Bloody Shrimping Awesome We Just Cannot Stop Reading Buddy Read (BSHtSiSBSAWJCSRBR™) with my Dearest of Wives and our Favorite Stalker, over at the MacHalo Mansion ● Okay, so I wasn't even going to write a crappy non review for this slightly glorious book, because as soon as I turned the last page, I was hit by the pernicious Gimme the Next Instalment NOW or Else I Will Start Severing Fluffy Bunnies Heads to Use Them as Living Room Ornaments Virus (GtNINoEIWSSFBHtUTsLROV™). I was feeling kinda like this: Which is pretty close to my usual mental state, but still. I wasn't quite fit to write one of my fascinatingly fascinating non reviews when I put the book down, so I didn't. And now I'm still not fit to write it, but will anyway. Because I'm adventurous like that. You won't get more than a Crappy Non Check List, though. Because I'm almost done reading book 3 in this series right now (view spoiler)[ okay, so it took me so long to not write this crappy non review here that I've actually finished the book now but we'll just have to pretend I haven't and stuff. Thank thee kindly (hide spoiler)] , and ever so slightly excited about it (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)], and not feeling quite right in the head and experiencing weird feelings of cuteness and sweetness and swooning over first kisses and oh bloody shrimping hell what the fish is wrong with me HALP my Comely Branchiopoda! HALP! ← that last sentence here? I never wrote it. You have to stop drinking, my Lovely Arthropods. You keep imagining things when you're inebriated. It's not good for your mental health, you know. Okay, I'm not sure what the point of the previous paragraph was supposed to be, but you're probably just as clueless to its purpose as I am, so all is good. Now let's do the Crappy Non Check List Thing (CNCLT™), shall we? Sooooo, to get an idea of what Rose point is like, take the slightly glorious world-building, wondrous characterization, scrumptious diversity and Generally Luscious Everything (GLE™) from the previous instalment in this series and add: ✔ Positively marvelous character growth. Damn it all to shrimpy hell, this series really is going to be the death of nefarious little me. I mean, I loved Reese when she was slightly standoffish and a huge pain in the ass and it turns out I'm lurving her even more now that she's becoming friendlier and sometimes good-humored *shudders* and seems to be growing an amicable, potentially cordial heart *shuddering intensifies* I am slightly dismayed by this appalling display of humanity on my part. And a little outraged, too. And quite put out. ✔ Antiquated space elves customs and politics, complete with ancient feudal system, rejection of all technology and xenophobia. Such a delightful world to live in. ✔ Hahaha dialogues. Okay so those were featured in book 1 as well, but you know my motto: slaughtering rehashing never hurts. ✔ Hair dangles (don't ask. Just know that they always save the day.) ✔ Genetically engineered stuff. ✔ Asshole horses. Because yes, all horses are assholes (just ask Shanti.) Besides, their fur clog ducts. And they can't help with ship maintenance. So QED and stuff. ✔ Polyamorous cat twins with liberal sexual practices. Da bomb they are. Definitely doing the Poof! Gone Harem! (PGH™) on the whole Harat-Shar species. ✔ Rapist bastards and treacherous assholes you want to skewer and chop and slice and cut and torture and lynch and behead and feed to the crustaceans. And then hold a party to celebrate how deliciously slow, horrible, painful, agonizing and excruciating their horrendously unpleasant deaths were. ✔ A Flitzbe with a sense of humor. What? Don't know what a Flitzbe is? That's so sad, my Little Barnacles. Your life really has no meaning. ✔ Hair cutting à la Samson. Didn't quite work out the way it was supposed to, did it now, you vile @§%&$@ (view spoiler)[← crustacean insult that unfortunately cannot be translated to English (hide spoiler)]?! HA. ✔ Humans as one of the lowliest species in the universe. Quite deliciously refreshing that is. ✔ Telepathic mass murder, YAY! So you add all of this slightly awesome stuff together, and you get your little self a slightly glorious little book. And you know what makes it even more gloriouser, my Lovely Arthropods? ☢ rehashing alert ☢ The underlying themes in the story: overcoming prejudice, learning tolerance, accepting cultural, racial and social differences…They kinda sorta resonate with what's happening in some parts of our lovely world today, do they not, my Pulchritudinous Barnacled Bunch? Oh, and before I forget: this book is bloody shrimping enjoyable. This book is bloody shrimping entertaining. And this book is bloody shrimping fun. Ergo, I thank thee kindly, M.C.A. Hogarth. » And the moral of this Why Can't this World Be Real I Want to Move There and Build a Harat-Shar Harem Crappy Non Review (WCtWBRIWtMTaBaHSHCNR™) is: multifariousness is the mostest coolest thing there is. You are most welcome. » And the other moral of this WCtWBRIWtMTaBaHSHCNR™ is: I shall slightly unfriend those of you Tiny Decapods who haven't yet started reading this series in 3, 2, 1…But hey, no pressure. · Book 1: Earthrise ★★★★ · Book 3: Laisrathera ★★★★★ · Book 4: A Rose Point Holiday ★★★★