This book has been out since December 17. Had it been 17th of December I would have been kicking myself for not reading it sooner. As it was actually December 2017, I have put myself on the naughty step for the appropriate amount of time.
This book is written by a writer that I love reading. So why didn’t I buy it before now? It’s a genre I don’t normally read as it is sci if. It is a romance but it is set in a space station. The setting reads no more foreign to me than a book set in a country I don’t know or with cultures I’m not familiar with. In other words, don’t be a me and let the setting put you off because if you do, you will be missing an amusing, big romantic novel.
My attention was held throughout and I loved that the writer took the time to show us the characters. Which, after you have read the book, might seem like a silly thing to think as one main is not fully revealed (both literally and figuratively) till almost at the end. But we knew! 5 stars for I have nothing that didn’t work for me in this book. I hope you feel the same!

Meh - Not a fan of this power dynamic, story was not my cup of tea

I didn’t like the power dynamic in this story or how it’s used between the main characters. The author is effective in showing Ari’s naivete while also making clear to the reader what is really going on with Assistant; it makes the reader sympathetic to Ari and also apprehensive about how the terrible truth will be received. The story read like good fanfiction but ended abruptly; the deception going on is well established but took up the majority of the book so the aftermath or reveal(s) felt cold and rushed to the point where I wondered as I approached the end of the book if there was going to be a sequel to better balance the proportions of the story. I never warmed up to Assistant and found her rapport with Ari unappealing more than anything else. For a debut novel it’s an okay read and my hope is that the author publishes more stories in the future to see what other ideas she brings to life in a story.

Ari Geiker, a brilliant botanist led a solitary life amongst her plants on the space station that her father was commander of. When her father gave her a slave, Ari was shocked as her morals and conscience on the matter did not condone slavery. So, Ari instead gave the woman the name, Assistant. For the first time since her mother’s death years before, Ari finally had someone to remind her to eat and shower and to spend time with. But who was this woman whose regal demeanor and stealth-like movements were characteristics of an average slave? The dynamic between Ari and Assistant, polar opposites, was delightful. I quickly became as smitten with Ari as Assistant did. This is a wonderfully written book with dynamic characters, chemistry, and a lot of steam. This book quickly made its way into my top ten favorites!

The Lily and the Crown was such a pleasant surprise! My immediate reaction to finishing this book was to seek the original work so I could experience it all over again (but in its original format).

I was very into the characters and their dynamic—more than the plot itself, I’ll admit—thus I was enthralled by their dynamic. Roslyn Sinclair wrote Ari’s naïveté so well and it complemented the Assistant’s intense possessiveness.

I feel like I’d give too much away if I were to rave about this book as openly as I’d like but know it was very angsty and good.