The 5th Gender
Books | Fiction / LGBTQ+ / Gay
4.3
G. L. Carriger
Gail Carriger
A species that has no word for murder, has a murderer aboard their spaceship. ALIEN Tristol lives in exile. But he's built a life for himself aboard a human space station. He's even started to understand the complex nuances of human courting rituals.Detective Hastion is finally flirting back MURDER Except that Tristol's beloved space station is unexpectedly contacted by the galoi - a xenophobic species with five genders, purple skin, and serious attitude. They need the help of a human detective because there's a murderer aboard their spaceship. Murder is so rare, the galoi don't even have a word for it.Tristol knows this because he is galoi.ROMANCEWhich means that he and Detective Hastion are on the case... together.Delicate Sensibilities?Contains men who love other men in graphic detail, regardless of gender, biology, or skin color... and lots of emotively sexy tentacle hair.New York Times best selling author Gail Carriger (writing as G.L. Carriger) brings you a light-hearted romantic cozy mystery featuring an adorable lavender alien and his human crush.
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Author
G. L. Carriger
Pages
222
Publisher
Gail Carriger LLC
Published Date
2019-05-18
ISBN
1944751394 9781944751395
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"Dnf<br/><br/>Like many other romances this started out very well until the exact moment they got together. The dialog turned unbearably corny. Honestly I don't mean to sound sexist but Drey was not believable as a human man. "Poor baby" I never in my life have heard that from male lips unless it was to be condescending. There were so many pet names in general it made me squeamish. “Baby is not an odd word? Your younglings are sexually taboo, are they not?” Maybe should have just left this quote out entirely. What a mood killer.<br/><br/>Tris had word vomit haha. It was very endearing and cute. But the author overstated things so obviously Tris doesn't like females, at all, in any species, even if they aren't females but act like one, yes we get it. I did enjoy Tris's identification speech though. I found it unique and fun.<br/><br/>The author gave a lot of alien words that didn’t seem well established. Also there were many instances that made me uncomfortable. At one point Tris calls humans "Gender unstable". I kept reading hoping that Tris's fun carefree self would carry me thru. But in the end this felt like more of a fangirls dreams than a believable story."
Ashley
"I loved the world building and exploration of gender. The mystery element also carried my interest, as did the sociological, and physical exploration between species. The character development could have been a bit better, maybe it was part of what made this person alien, but they were very two dimensional. "
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Felix Beaudry