I usually love Kimberly Lemming's books, but this one was a miss for me. Definitely the spiciest of her novels, and it seemed like sometimes the spice was there just for spice sakes. I did enjoy the world building, and wish there was more of it!

The perfect (PERFECT) poly-am madcap romp. Kimberly Lemming can do no wrong. Funny, sweet, swoony and fan yourself hot, this really did EVERYTHING (and a little more).

I love Kimberly Lemming’s, Mead Mishaps so I was just a little disappointed with this one. It was more science fiction than I had anticipated. It did make me laugh and I would recommend this book. Toto was everything for me!!

so silly and fun!!! love even more than the mead mishaps!

Kimberly Lemming writes the most wild, silly little romance books!!! Her female main characters are always so charming and funny and they endear themselves to the reader immediately. the love interests (YES ITS A TRIAD) are also amazing i loved them both. the side characters were great and the plot always kept me on my toes. absolutely love, can't wait for the next one

*ARC REVIEW*

Dinosaurs, Aliens, talking lions, oh my.

Plot: Foul tasting but overly involved and intelligent owlish creatures want nothing more than to see the survival of the male alien race(grey, horned, hooves and tailed Sankado aliens) on *intentionally* unnamed planet by breeding them successfully with the females they abducted from earth.

If you don’t know what a tamagotchi is you might not get all the references in this book to pop culture. But that’s okay because you’ll still want to ride on the back of a dinosaur and see where you end up.

This book reads like a fever dream. Like what I would imagine a hallucinogenic trip to an alien planet is. I probably shouldn’t have read it every night before bed to try and incept wild dreams of threesomes on a planet with purple clouds but I’m a glutton for the weird.

I HAD SO MUCH FUN. There is nothing serious about this book and it was funny, light, easy, quick to read and absolutely captivating. This book was exactly how I want my rom-com’s to read.


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3-4 spicy scenes 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️
Knotting 🪢
mmf and mfm 😎
One flirty possessive former war general (M)
One charming cautious protective lawyer (M)
One former meerkat biologist just trying to survive and get some coffee and chocolate (F)

The only hiccup I had was the abrupt lane change around ~70% when I felt blindsided by the story change and the introduction of the King Osid subplot. I do admit this could just be me and the timing of my starting and stopping each night but it felt clunky. Our party of characters is on this one journey to the research center and then BAM everyone’s split up and this King’s being obnoxious. Again, probably just me. But it felt like a train went off the tracks there in the story. In a book where nothing is serious that still won’t affect me from giving it an amazing rating because it helps with world building and setups for potential spin offs.

100% will be purchasing this shelf trophy for rereading.

Thank you to NetGalley and Berkeley Publishing for this a copy of this eARC in exchange for my honest review.

ALL THE STARS. All of them. Let Kimberly write whatever the heck she wants and I will buy it sight unseen.

This book is utterly UNHINGED in the best way possible. A fever dream sponsored by acid mixed with a love potion. It was a WILD RIDE and I enjoyed every second of this feral sci-fi romance.

4.5 ☆
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Dorothy gets dropped onto a strange planet only to fall for not one, but two, aliens. If you enjoyed Kimberly Lemming's first series, "Mead Mishaps," you will enjoy this new upcoming series called "Cosmic Chaos," from her. This cover art is gorgeous ❤️ and I would love to see it as a special edition! I love the Wizard of Oz references! And it features a dinosaur 🦕, major points in my eyes!
𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬
•Dinosaur
•Rom-Com
•Black female lead
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Thank you, Netgellay, and Berkley for the Ebook in exchange for my honest review.

Kimberly cooked with this one!!!! I was obsessed from the first sentence and I love love loved this book so much. And the surprise triad had me sweating in public. So much fun!

I had such a fun time reading this book,
1. I love the little connections that i could find to Wizard of oz, BUT I also thought it gave me some the lion, the witch and the wardrobe vibes.
2. The world that was built was great. There was such a good balance of fantasy and reality, while also giving you a lot of space to build your scenery around it. I’d be so interested seeing it all laid out how the author intended it to look because this world was so fun.
3. The characters were great. I liked that while they are a throple there wasn’t a love interested i completely hated. I loved both of them and thought they were all a good match together.
4. It was genuinely funny. I loved the interns character.

Thank you NetGalley for this arc! I absolutely loved the Mead Mishaps series and fell in love with this author. I had high hopes for this new addition to Kimberly Lemmings line up. Sadly, this one fell flat for me. I was having a hard time following along and staying engaged. I think the planet wasn’t interesting enough for me to stay engaged or it just felt a little all over the place with no true plot. I did really enjoy Toto’s character! 2.75/5

this was lighthearted fun with a bit of spice.

I really enjoyed the animal sidekick, our MC woman in stem, and the relationship that the love interests had with each other (low key more than with our MC, because they were both just kinda obsessed with her without more dimension). The alien companion (I just pictured it as the Duolingo owl, but I’m not sure I have any basis for that?) was amusing as well.

if you think too hard about it, the consent politics in this book weren’t great, but I thought about it in the same way I do ice planet barbarians and went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. it’s a silly book and it features a black nerdy woman being adored and valued, which I think is worth noting as something valuable in and of itself. some of the romance is quite sweet (outside of the noted dubcon-ness), and I really did enjoy the inner monologue of our MC- in her panicking moments and her moments of self-efficacy. all in all, a cute monster-ish romance with a fun heroine and super fun world.

Thank you NetGalley for the chance to read this early!

I have previously only read one Kimberly Lemming book - her first in her Mead Mishaps books - and it introduced me to the world of reading books simply for a fun, completely unserious time. That one I thought was rather, for lack of a better term, "crazy" - but when I got to this one, it was balls-to-the-wall INSANITY. In a good way, I think.
I tried to explain this book to my friend and the only way I could was if you took the Ice Planet Barbarian books, amped up the funny and irreverent language/storytelling that you get from Kimberly Lemming, and threw it together in a blender with a technicolour drag show performance of The Wizard of Oz, with some sprinkles of dinosaurs; but yet you're only at the cusp of this book. While incredibly light hearted and funny, this book is HORNY to the max (for me, at least, it was very horny and immediately so) which isn't always a hit for me, but this time... it kind of worked?
I don't love the whole "insta-love" tropes in books, which was my main problem with the relationship in That TIme I Got Drunk (etc), but in this one, while still not my favourite, I kind of didn't mind the way it was brought about? I was trying to keep up with the insane worldbuilding that we were getting and the aliens and the oh yeah, instantly horny main character who can now talk to a lion.
This is not in any way a brilliant book, it kind of felt like the author cooked up a bunch of random ideas whilst high, then threw a dart at them to pick what she'd include in these pages/in the world... which kind of worked, for how nuts this narrative was. I think Kimberly Lemming fans will EAT THIS UP - and I think those who are fresh to her, but love a light hearted fun romp of a time will also find this quite enjoyable.

I will say, if I so much as turn on a touch of my critical thinking brain, it starts to tear this book apart. This is not a book to read for a serious, quote unquote "GOOD" literature time. This is for fun. This is a "crack book", something to read for no brain power, just to have a good time.

If you've read any of Kimberly Lemming's other books, you know you're in for a outrageous --in a good way-- sexy ride with this new series as well. It was a buck wild romp across the stars that I thoroughly enjoyed. If you're in the mood for a steamy kinky book with a fun plot along the way, this is a good place to start. The book had everything I had hoped for: it centered a protagonist of color, female pleasure was celebrated instead of shamed, and the characters developed effective communication and boundary setting skills as the story progressed. I had pretty high expectations after reading the author's previous books and I was not disappointed with this one in the slightest. If you liked "That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon" or Katee Robert's "Neon Gods", this is likely the book for you.

3.5⭐️ If a classic 60s alien abduction movie was made into a porno and set in the present time then had a baby with Jurassic Park…. This would be it.

This book was fantastic! I laughed so hard, and laughed some more. I loved reading her Mead Mishaps series, but this trek into outer space just knocked it out of the park. Alien specialities, language barriers solved with a kiss, and the Intern. I couldn’t get enough of Toto and Intern. This book was marvelous and I can’t wait to add a copy to my shelf.

I've loved her other books, and this one did not disappoint--an excellent combination of making fun of and using the tropes of the books in question.

Let’s just say “a time was had.” I found myself laughing, clutching my pearls, and kicking my feet so many times while reading this! The characters were down to earth and the plot was one of a kind. Highly recommend this read and I’ll be checking out her backlog!

I had a great time reading this book, it had that humor and romance element that I was hoping for from the description. I enjoyed the use of a group of people coming together to have a adventure together. It had that element that I wanted and was glad I got to read this. Kimberly Lemming wrote a strong story with interesting characters that I cared about.

This was such a fun ride! Kimberly Lemming just knows how to take you a a wild ride with jokes, connections, and the love of the craziness. I absolutely loved this book!

Katee Robert recommended this and I JUMPED towards requesting for it. Her recommendation did not disappoint in any way. This was HILARIOUS and I was so giddy the entire time, like kicking my feet tee-heeing my way through it. 100/10