But then I remember you’re not here, and it stings.’ She rubbed her chest to show him. When something weird or funny happens, I look for you because you’re the first person I want to tell.

“He wasn’t sure he understood, so he told her, ‘I miss you.’ Their love for each other made my heart warm up so much, and you can really see it through their dialogue and sacrifices. Despite it all, they persevere so they can one day live in the colony on L’eihr together. Aelyx’s life is constantly jeopardized by assassins, while the L’eihrs aren’t so accepting of Cara back in that planet. Both characters have to deal with problems as they try to fit into the customs. We get to read in limited third person POV’s of both Cara and Aelyx, who are in L’eihr and Earth, respectively in order to solidify the Alliance between the two planets. All in all, it has me more excited to see what’s in store with these characters in the next book, United. The book’s quick pace and easy-to-follow writing makes the read go by like a breeze. Friends come and go, and friendships form and get mended. I thought that this was a charming and delightful sequel in the Alienated series! We get to see more of Cara and Aelyx’s sweet relationship, as well as an exciting alien plot that’s happening in L’eihr.

but with what? And what will they ask for in return? Yet despite their upper hand, the leaders of his world suddenly seem desperate to get humans on their side, and hardly bat an eye at extremists’ multiple attempts on Aelyx’s life. Humans don’t know that their very survival depends on this alliance: only Aelyx’s people have the technology to fix the deadly contamination in the global water supply that human governments are hiding. Meanwhile, on Earth, Aelyx, finds himself thrown into a full-scale PR campaign to improve human-L’eihr relations. But with L’eihr leaders balking at granting even the most basic freedoms, Cara begins to wonder if she could ever be happy on this planet, even with Aelyx by her side. A society melding their two cultures is a place where Cara and Aelyx could one day make a life together.

Things look up when Cara is appointed as human representative to a panel preparing for a human colony on L’eihr. With Aelyx, her L’eihr boyfriend, back on Earth, working to mend the broken alliance between their two planets, Cara is left to fend for herself at a new school, surrounded by hostile alien clones. The romantic sequel to Alienated takes long-distance relationships to a new level as Cara and Aelyx long for each other from opposite ends of the universe…until a threat to both their worlds reunites them.Ĭara always knew life on planet L’eihr would be an adjustment.

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