This book...the BDSM to treat PTSD is something I hate. It's not a way to treat it. The misogyny and similar things? I just couldn't read it on.

This book was full of misogyny and sexism which i could not stomach, especially a book with LGBTQ main characters set in the future.
Also, just because you are queer or support characters of such does not mean you can marginalise other groups.

DNF At 32%.

I try not to DNF any books at all, let alone netgalley reads, so that just shows how Done I am with this.

It is the year of our Lord 2018. I am bloody SICK of misogyny and cissexism masquerading as pro-queerness. No, you’re not pro-queer, you’re pro cis-male homosexual, and I do NOT want to read something that demeans other marginalised groups. 🙃🙃🙃 “No Hetero, no female”? Because Mrs Claus wants to be the only female on board? The MECHANICAL, NON-LIVING “FEMALE”?

Hahahahhahaajahjahahaha I don’t have TIME for this.

In addition to this, I wasn’t gripped by the plot at all. I just don’t care about what’s going on, because the plot is meh and the writing is mediocre. I have millions more books to read, and I do not want to spend even another second on this.

Goodbye.

(Also: Danverse is a terrible name. Anything that ends with verse is a terrible name. Who the hell let this through editing.)

This was a great series starter and I most certainly want to read more of it. It has a great cast of flawed and damaged characters working towards finding freedom from their pasts. Their journey is fraught with pain, losses and love found.

This is a book I, surprisingly, DNF'd at 5%.

This book was a terribly written fanfiction. The cover was appealing and so was the idea of the story, but within the first few pages, you get a good idea of where this is going. And then, well, it gets worse.

We meet our protagonist who is a chief to a commander on a spaceship heading to God knows where in this story. We begin to feel the world building and a look into our character who is suffering from PTSD.

This book blows immediately when a few pages in, our character decides to use his pent-up frustration and fear from his nightmares to participate in BDSM. We are immediately thrust into the point of view of the Commander who is the one who uses a "BDSM Technique" to help our MC, which I might say is a terrible way to cure or treat PTSD at all!

It was astonishingly disgusting that it was worded the way it was. Just the way that the secondary character spoke towards the victim of PTSD was disturbing and wrong. Second of all, he first responds to our main character negatively saying, "You deserve this, this does not make up for all those lives you too" and then proceeds to say, "This will make you better."

As someone who deals with trauma every day, I can say that engaging in harmful sexual behaviors is not positive or enforcing treatment on someone with this background. The character himself is in a desperate situation and is seeking comfort and possibly intimate relations, but I hardly think that BDSM is important or well written in any shape or form. I could not finish reading this for the life of me. I really don't think this needs to be read by anyone, ever. A major let down.

This is a well written book and a great story. It is action packed full of danger, intrigue and enduring love. Liam and Hadrian found a long lasting love with each other but they endured a separation where Hadrian was in grave danger. This is a great read and I highly recommend it.

I DNF this book at 13% and honestly, it was a slog to even get that far. Is it possible that this book picks up and gets magically better at 15%, or 20%, or somewhere, but I doubt it.

There were about three strikes for me for this book.

1. The whole set-up is absurd and misogynistic, with absolutely zero subtlety. The book takes place on a spaceship run by a gay man who has a "No women, no hetero" rule for both crew and passengers. The reason? He doesn't want to build a second bathroom for women, and straight people complain about the crew having sex in public places. If they framed it as a ship that's a space specifically for queer men, I could get with it, but it's all handled in such a clunky and strange way that I honestly wondered if it was written by a straight woman with no idea what she's doing but knows that gay men are hot, but it turns out the author is a gay man. Which like...power to him, he can write whatever he wants, but I don't have to read it.

2. The main character has BDSM-heavy sex with the captain because it helps with his PTSD, somehow? But they never talk about it except after the fact, don't negotiate boundaries, and the captain literally says, "There will be no safe word. You need this pain." Again, I have no problem with BDSM, but as soon as I read that sentence I knew I wasn't making it through the rest of the book.

3. When the love interest comes in, the main character has a major case of *insta-erection*, where he is suddenly and inexplicably intrigued and turned on by this man he's only seen once, more than he has been by any other person ever, to the point where he struggles not to pop a boner in the middle of all the new passengers because it is just that intense. This trope is surprisingly common and I'm over it. Sometimes it's not an irredeemable thing, but the way that it was written basically told me how the whole romance element was going to play out (love triangle, over dramatic, super sexual, angst, the whole shebang).

Now, this might not be enough to turn you off, but I have so many books to read and review, and if I wanted to read gay erotica in space with a only the barest thread of plot, I could find it easily online via fanfiction, and the quality would be about the same (or in some cases, better). This book is not necessarily a terrible book, but it is definitely not the book for me.

I do not have any desire to read about ship captains with misogynistic, sexist and transphobic passenger policies or about space bdsm being used to treat ptsd from war instead of actual therapy. That is not how bdsm works at all.

I wish I could say I liked this one, but I didn't. It was all over the place with it's characters and the relationships. I've never given a book a 1 star rating, but this one definitely deserves it. It has a good premise, but it just snowballs as soon as you read the first page.

This has some very insulting and degrading comments regarding females. I get it's a gay romance, but I feel like some of these comments aren't what gay males would say about themselves. And generally speaking, an already discriminated against group wouldn't turn around and be prejudice against heterosexual or females in the title. It just made me stop and go, wtf?

The captain is an asshole. Plain and simple. He's supposed to be this confident Dom of a character, when he's just an overly aggressive top who takes advantage of the people on his ship. Liam, is a character that I liked. The only one out of this entire story. Mac is a secondary character with no range, but he's suddenly the eye of one of the main characters. Hadrian. Man. I thought I would like him, but no. He's not really a robot, but he's perfectly made by genetics. He doesn't seem like this ethereal character with super powers, just some weird cross between a submissive trying to be a Top. Everything about these characters just doesn't fit well at all.

The process of events in this story are also so haphazardly put together that you can tell there's relatively basic understanding of how a story forms, but the flow is rough and unappealing in addition to the unlikable characters and sloppy character and plot development. Just no.

THIS WAS SUCH AN AMAZING BOOK. Honestly, I am still geeking out over this book. It was that good.

An enjoyable read. I like how the story was focused on more than one couple and although there was plenty of sex, it didn’t feel pornographic or overshadow the plot. I like how all the characters start with haunted pasts or problems, allowing them to grow. From start to finish it was a good book.