Okay this book was really fricken good time!! I laughed so much, and I binged it so fast. It pulled you in from the start.
I love a good alien romance but when a talking lion and then DINOSAURS show up you can count me in!!!!!
This had so many turns I didn't see coming, like dinosaurs lol but it fit the book perfectly. Like obviously by the cover you can see there's dinosaurs but when they get introduced you're like wait what?!
But in a good way!!!
Lok, Sol, Dory & Toto (let's not forget intern even though he pushed my buttons) were just so witty and funny that you wanted to see more of them! & they are here for a wicked good time 6° (if you catch my drift)

If you’re looking for a funny, fast, wild why choose monster romance. This is IT!!! I had a great ol time reading this one.

To my ice planet girlies out there - say hello to your next read.

I quite literally was cackling the whole book. The way there was every romance trope known to man smushed into this book and the way they addressed it was hilarious.

This is typical, delightful fun, goofy Kimberly Lemming fun. If anything, it's even zanier and goofier than her earlier series, but once the lion started talking, I knew I was in it for the full ride. And what a ride! Super happy that Kimberly Lemming is getting a full career of zany SFF rom-coms.

You know what, hell yeah 😂 these are always a little chaotic and a good time! Highly recommend this entire series for a good time.

I read this hella early because I needed something to make me happy, to make me laugh. And every single book that I’ve read by Lemming has done exactly what I needed it to. And now that I’ve finished it…. 10 out of 10, no notes. I loved it so much lol

This book was hilarious. That bird thing and the lion? I was cackling the entire time. I don’t think their romp through the jungle/forest (?) would be the same if it wasn’t for their comedic relief. I was afraid her going traditional would take away from her signature writing style, but she it was just the same and I couldn’t be happier.

Another thing that Kimberly kept the same was the spice. I can’t lie, I thought that was going to be different too because I knew there was no way that trad pub was going to be ok with the scenes she had before lol But in all honesty, nothing really changed? The spice scenes aren’t like every page and there aren’t a lot necessarily, but it was still spicy. This is a poly relationship (MMF) and there is a time when they’re together. I’m pretty sure there’s more poly books in trad pub, but I don’t think I’ve ever read one from Berkley lol I wasn’t expecting it from them, so kudos to them lol

The story itself was pretty cool tho. I hope if there’s ever a like group of aliens that come to our planet, I hope they’re like them lmao I get what they were trying to do, but they were going about it all wrong. There’s still some kinks that need to be worked out lol I do wish that she had given us some more world building because it seemed like it was a historical kind of feel? Idk it was weird. I thought for a large portion of the book that she was going to wake up from a dream or something. It was just really cool and a lot of fun. I’m glad she didn’t. It left room for sequels and listen, that’s all I could ask for lol

This was so much fun! I needed to smile and laugh during a really dark time, and Kimberly Lemming delivered. I can’t wait to see what else this series is going to bring us.

Thank you NetGalley, the publisher, and the author for this eARC in exchange for an honest review!

This book was so fun! It reminded me so much of Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon but with dinosaurs!

The FMC, Dory, gets abducted by aliens right as a lion attacks, then crash-lands with said lion (Toto) onto a dinosaur-filled planet. There, Toto and Dory team up with two hot aliens, Sol & Lok. This book was filled with their adventures as Dory tries to decide if trying to go back to Earth is even worth it as well as steamy moments.

The world-building the author added into this romance book was great! Again very similar vibes to Ice Planet Barbarians. That is one thing that people don't realize Ice Planet Barbarians also has, fantastic sci-fi world that expands with every book in the series. I can't wait to read more in this world.

I really enjoyed this book! Laugh out loud funny, strange spice, I'll forever read everything Kimberly Lemming puts out!

I love Kimberly Lemming. I would give my left tit and my firstborn child to be on her automatic approved arc list and I would literally read anything she wrote.
Her particular brand of zany weirdness is so well done. The book was hilarious and bizarre but also had real world building. I cannot wait for the second book!!

I received a free digital arc of this in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts are my own.

When I realized our female main character has not one… but TWO love interests… that share… very well… together… I had enough adrenaline to lift a car.

I never know what to expect from a Kimberly Lemming book… and I am NEVER disappointed.

Dorothy is working to get her PhD in wildlife biology when she’s attacked by a lion… but there’s a bright side… right at that moment she’s adducted by aliens… and they save her… yayyyyyyy…. Well that yay is kind of “to be determined….”

I don’t want to share anything else about the main story because this is truly just a wild ride that will make you laugh hysterically, get a little teary eyed… BLUSH a little bit… and make you feel warm and fuzzy on the inside.

Um… knotting anyone?? Ya… you’re welcome.

This book is like spicy Jurassic park, Indiana jones, and Tarzan and I literally loved every second of it. It’s only 304 pages too so you’re going to cruise through it!

There’s a scene where a frog 🐸 becomes sentient and realizes he can think and just immediately starts screaming his head off and I laughed so hard I was on the floor. To think is to feel pain isn’t that right. Awareness…. Existence…. is…. Painful. Ain’t that the truth.

I love these alien men!! They’re so silly and I love their personalities! When she meets one of them he says “are you the one that fell from that star?” And she goes “Star? Oh! The space pod, yes, that was me.” And he says “it seems wishing stars do exist. Tell me your name, Stardust.”

Stardust?! Are you kidding me? I can’t get over that nickname it’s absolutely precious.

All the side characters are incredible I love them so much! This world is rich and layered and this entire journey was an absolute blast!

There’s heavier topics in this story too. Parental expectations, letting yourself down. Coming to terms with change. And also changing the path ahead of you and not following in the footsteps of past mistakes and habits. After living in this current moment we’re in… the rest of the possibilities that lay before us are endless.

This story is about growth and making the best of things and it was an honor to experience this story and this world. And… me thinks there… might be more stories that are written in this world as well… and I CAN’T FREAKING WAIT.

Today is Valentine’s Day, which screamed for a romance to be today’s book. I really want to claim that aliens made me do this book to celebrate the day, but that’s not my story.

However, it is, it oh so definitely is, Dory’s story. It’s right there in the title, I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I’m Trapped in a Rom-Com. Because Dory was abducted by aliens, and she is trapped in what the aliens believed was a rom-com.

Dory’s mileage definitely varies on that. Her story definitely turns into the ‘rom’ part of that phrase. It also, certainly does have plenty of humor in it. But part of that humor is that the aliens intended to set up a rom-com without having an actual feather of a clue as to what either ‘rom’ or ‘com’ truly mean to humans. Or, for that matter, to the Sankado, the species they’ve already abducted.

So Dory isn’t trapped in a rom-com. She does, however, totally and absolutely, get ensnared in the romance part of that equation. Times two.

And it’s a screaming ‘O’ of a blast every wild and crazy step of the way.

Escape Rating B: I picked this one up because a) that spoileriffic title and b) the author’s Mead Mishaps series was incredibly fun (start with That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon and be prepared to both blush furiously and ROFL while doing so.) Not to mention c) the book comes out on Tuesday, today is Valentine’s Day and the perfect timing of the whole thing could not be ignored. At least not by moi.

The trope this story wallows in is a familiar one. Of course it’s the ‘Aliens Made Them Do It’ ™ plot device – the one that the author is using and not the aliens making them do it. Also, the author is using it correctly while the aliens flubbed nearly all of their attempts – which is part of the fun of the thing.

The thing about this particular trope is that it screams for a ‘dubcon’ (that’s dubious consent) warning that can literally be seen from outer space. Dory, along with her partners Sol and Lok, clearly do consent to everything in the moment, but the reader can easily get hung up and thrown out of the story on the question of whether it’s true consent because the aliens have drugged all of them to create that consent at the outset.

Dory occasionally throws herself out of her own story because her desires in the moment and her resulting behavior are contrary to everything she ever knew about herself.

Some readers will be totally squicked out. Some will be all into the scene. Because I was listening to a chunk of the story, I was both blushing furiously (listening to a third party describe a sex scene is just weird) and getting a bit weirded out by just how much the way her partners talked sounded like grooming her to accept things she otherwise wouldn’t.

(BTW the audio narration was FINE, I only switched to the ebook because I was all in and reading is just plain faster.)

In the end I concluded that Dory was just discovering that she was really into the kink of it all and that was okay. But your reading mileage may go through some rough patches along the way and it may definitely vary.

The part of the story that’s just purely funny – in a very wry and totally satirical way – is the way that the particular aliens who got them ALL into this mess created said mess through bureaucratic insanity, academic pomposity, and shoddy research. They created the initial mess, dug themselves a hole and threw the first results of that mess into it, realized that they’d screwed up and then dug some more and made the hole bigger.

Anyone who has ever done research or worked in either a big bureaucratic organization or in academia is going to see the situation for the hilarious and rueful set up that it is and just laugh until tears run down their face because it’s true and awful and truly awful and so very much more common than anyone wants to admit.

But this is still Valentine’s Day so I need to get back to the romance. While the aliens may have been trying to set up a rom-com, in truth this is a sex-into-love romance times two. Dory and her partners create a really hot triad. And in an entirely different kind of warning, while this trio does set fire to the sheets, there is actual fire but no actual sheets. The sexytimes, as Dory herself would say, are “hot as balls” and the scenes never, ever fade to black.

Whether or not that’s your thing, it certainly turns out to be theirs. Even if it’s not you’ll still want to slap the alien meddler who is not just watching, he’s taking notes. Dory certainly does – and who can blame her?

In the end, there are multiple facets to this wild romp of a romance. There’s the meddling aliens who screw up and set off the whole entire mess. There’s the incredibly hot romance between Dory and her two sexy partners, who fall in love while an incompetent research intern meddles with their lives every step of the way.

Last but not least, there’s the two sets of sentient beings, alien to each other, who have been thrown together against their wills trying to make the best of it – in spite of yet more alien meddling. That’s clearly going to be the throughline for the entire Cosmic Chaos series, as this story ends with that incompetent research intern failing upwards into a promotion that Dory and her friends are sure to make certain he regrets at every turn. Or at least I certainly hope so and am looking forward to finding out.

The true level of Cosmic Chaos in this story has to be experienced to be believed, so I’m going to leave you with this excerpt from the opening of I Got Abducted by Aliens… so that you can experience a bit of Dory’s voice for yourself. One last thing, that lion, to quote Dory, “THE FUCKING LION!” turns out to be the very best wingman a displaced human could EVER have.

Toto is the side character I never knew I needed. The whole book was a fever dream and I was in no hurry to wake up. Alien abduction, why-choose, sassy FMC. Need I say more???

This author has the best and most creative titles to books imo. I am so in awe of your creativity and imagination. The details and storyline were so unique and entertaining. Just imagine you were selected for a mating experiment like a scientist just picked an animal in the wild.
Dory is getting her phD in wildlife biology when she gets attacked by a lion but they both get abducted. This lion is hilarious cause she becomes able to talk to him and all the other species. He is very wise and silly and looking for love. Her two protectors are both really sweet and couldn’t be more different.
The aliens only took a few days to study earth and what they came up with is bizarre. Hence the dinosaurs lol. I’m giving too much away. I just kept giggling at the things she kept finding. I kept thinking of Zazu from Lion King for this intern bird.
Just know that if you try these it will be entertained for sure.

I really thought I was going to love this and I’m so disappointed to say that I did not. I really enjoyed the mead mishaps series but this just didn’t work for me. The story and narrative felt very choppy and all over the place I had a hard time following and an even harder time staying interested. I feel like this had great bones and if you like a choppy all over story you’ll like this I just didn’t even though I was really looking forward to this!

I will say I got this arc through the own voices Black readers program and I did love the Blackness of this story! Just like mead mishaps these characters are Black not just because the author said so but because it’s shown in their actions and words I loved the bonnet scene. I will definitely still be reading more from Kimberly this was just a miss for me.

Ok look, I'm just going to list the tropes in this book that REALLY didn't work for me. These are things that are probably huge +'s for other people.

- breeding
- magic love serum (made the consent feel iffy)
- possessive males
- all smut, no plot

Look it literally said rom com in the title, and as someone who has read Lemming's other work and enjoyed it, I thought it would be up my alley. Unfortunately it wasn't and there was nary a rom com in sight.

I Got Abducted By Aliens and Now I’m Trapped in a Rom-Com is a lighthearted and somewhat madcap novel that follows protagonist Dorothy “Dory” Valentine as she goes from being attacked by a lion while studying meerkats for her PhD, to being abducted by owl-like aliens.

One unexpected crash-landing later, Dory and the aforementioned lion are on a fever dream of a planet with pink dinosaurs, nonsensical billboards, replicas of human objects and even other aliens. Two of whom she ends up entangled with romantically and physically due to the mechanizations of an Owlish intern for their breeding program.

I’m not generally a fan of forced relationships, but I was well aware of what I was getting into with this novel and there were also trigger warnings presented in the preface, which I appreciated. Dory’s love interests Sol and Lok grew on me as the novel progressed and while I did wish there was a bit more connection with the characters before the spicy scenes, that is a personal preference and not a slight against the writing.

I Got Abducted By Aliens and Now I’m Trapped in a Rom-Com really shines with the author’s delightful and unique humor and wonderful secondary characters. Toto the lion is my second favorite chapter after Dory, who is quite relatable in her joy of observing various animals, while also trying to keep herself together as she deals with situations far beyond her control.

I preferred the first part of the book to the second part, as the plot and the world-building became slightly more complicated and also felt as though it was preparation for the next novel with the introduction of specific new characters.

If you have an interest in a hilarious, smutty and almost-whimsical alien abduction romance with multiple partners, then this book would be up your alley.

Thank you to Berkley Publishing Group and NetGalley for this free book in exchange for an honest review.

Okay, first off, can we talk about this cover!? I am obsessed. It was the main reason I requested an ARC without even reading the blurb hah (after finishing I do wish both MMCs would have been featured, but oh well). I loved every single chaotic second of this book. It was my first read by Kimberly Lemming and let me tell you, she had me laughing the whole dang time I will absolutely be reading more by her. Toto is my absolute favorite.

Thank you to the author and Berkley Pub for this eARC!

100% pick this up. I'm going immediately to read other works by this author. It was funny, spicy, romantic, and also absolutely off the wall crazy. Would not change a thing.

If you're looking for a why choose, alien threesome that has an audience, oh and a talking lion? This is the book for you.

I absolutely devoured this book, I loved it so much! It had me laughing nonstop; it was such a hilariously good time. The snark was top-tier, and I adored the sibling-like dynamic between Dory and Toto. Plus, her attraction to Lok and Sol, and her struggle against it because of Intern and her circumstances, made for such a fun, compelling read. I fell in love with Kimberly Lemming’s Mead Mishaps series, and this new book does not disappoint! A great start to a new series!

Kimberly Lemming is a romance comedy genius, and that is shown so perfectly in this book: not only am I laughing out loud at the absurd situation and Dory's sarcasm, but I was also absolutely panting over the spicy scenes. I love the way Lemming's books always make me both care about the characters and finding their path to happiness, while also hoping for the next crazy thing that gets in their way.

Ramona and the lion that attacked her are abducted by aliens. When Ramona awakens, she manages to escape her alien captors and get in an escape pod, landing on yet another alien planet. That's all I want to tell you because the rest of it is so funny as it occurs that it feels like you're running through the book as events and information come at you. We've got kisses, talking lions, an intern, two hot aliens that think she's their mate, human things as interpreted by alien anthropologists with no funding, and a happily ever after.

Why is it not a 5* read? I felt like some of Dory's development disappeared at the end, or that her feelings about having her life upended and redirected on an alien planet kind of vanished without much resolution. She was going to get her PhD! Now what? I wanted something more there.

100% worth reading, along with all of Kimberly Lemming's backlog. Do it if you haven't already. You'll get abs from all the laughing.

After gobbling up Kimberly Lemming’s Mead Mishaps series like it was my last meal, it should come as no surprise that her latest unhinged romcom did not disappoint! She has such a unique way of blending reality with fantastical elements—characters who are so relatable despite species/language barriers and environments so lushly described they feel real. This was such a fun read, and I can’t recommend it enough to anyone who loves the com part of rom-com and the rom part with a hefty dash of spice.