Sandra Aaron's Reviews > Frantor

This was an OK sci-fi alien romance, but I had an issue with the fact that Florie was abducted. I get that Frantor didn't abduct her, but still... It gets 3 stars from me.

This story had some steam, but also some sweet moments as Frantor and Florie got to know each other. Frantor was such a tortured soul, and it was sweet that Florie understood him. She realized that he was ashamed of his scars and disfigurement, so she was willing to let him slowly reveal himself to her. Since she was so careful with that, he soon fell deeply in love with her.

I liked Frantor, and thought his history was extremely sad. He had lost his entire family in the war, and that war also left him with terrible injuries and scars. He was sure that no one would ever be able to love a male as disfigured as he was. Florie proved he was wrong about that.

I liked Florie, too, and liked that she wasn't bothered by Frantor's scars at all. She hated the pain he must have gone through, and the pain they still caused him -- but she didn't mind how they made him look.

Overall, I liked this book. I did wish it had been a bit longer, to allow for more character development. I would have liked more backstory on both Frantor and Florie.

Other reviewers have noted that they dislike the covers on this book series, since they look like comic books. I'm not really a fan either -- but I suspect that was so that the alien men on the covers could look like they were described in the book. It would have been difficult, and possibly quite costly, to use actual male models and make them look like the aliens. I prefer comic book style covers to those where the models don't look like the descriptions of the characters in the books.

My rating system is below.
1 star -- Hated it, or did not finish. I usually only give this rating if some of the content is truly objectionable to me, like if one of the main characters does something really awful, and gets away with it.
2 stars -- Didn't like it. This rating usually means that I thought the writing wasn't very good, the editing was terrible, I didn't like the characters, or it had other major flaws.
3 stars -- I liked it, but had some minor issues with it. This rating means that there were minor editing issues, the story needed more character development, it was just too unrealistic, or had some other fairly minor issue. The majority of books I read get this rating – I do not consider it a bad rating.
4 stars -- I liked it a lot. This is a high rating for me, and I rarely give a higher one.
5 stars -- I loved it, and will probably read it again. Very few books are good enough to get this rating from me. The ones that do are usually classics.