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Close Liaisons The Krinar Chronicles Book 1 eBook Anna Zaires

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Close Liaisons The Krinar Chronicles Book 1 eBook Anna Zaires

Close Liaisons (The Krinar Chronicles #1)

I give this one out of five stars for the idiot heroine Mia, her alien stalker rapist Korum, and all kinds of inconsistent nonsense that drove my analytical mind crazy. Reading this was like watching a bad car wreck, I rubber necked my way through the whole thing thinking, “What a complete mess.” At times I wondered if this was satire, but at best I think its some kind of warped fan fiction. It’s a mix of Twilight, your least favorite Star Trek episode, and a smothering amount of bad erotica.

Why I didn’t like this:
1) Stalkers, rape, and domestic abuse are not romantic. Korum did more than run an internet search to learn about Mia. He implanted a tracking device in her body. He followed her after class and forced her into a car. Mia got into the car and began crying because she feared for her life. She had sex with Korum, and cried through most of it, because she didn’t think she had a choice. Mia saw herself as Korum’s sex slave, and felt powerless. With the K’s in charge she felt there was no way for her to leave the relationship outside of him tiring of her or her own death. Over time Korum separated Mia from her friends, her education, her internship, and then prevented her from seeing her family. He dictated what clothes she wore, where she would study, and how she spent her time. It’s classic abuse and I think Mia’s eventual “love” for Korum is better defined as Stockholm syndrome.

2) The protagonist Mia is an idiot. She thought, did, and said all kinds of stupid things. For instance, after being kidnapped by her extraterrestrial stalker, she sits in his apartment contemplating how human’s and the alien Krinar or “K’s” are compatible sexually. Korum then asked Mia if he could make her something to eat. Shocked, Mia blurts out a question about the K’s eating food. She was seriously baffled, which made no sense at all. In the five years of K occupation, humans are able to figure out they can have sex with K’s, yet their staple diet remains unknown. In the first couple pages Mia has this long ridiculous internal narrative explaining how when the K’s took over earth, they dictated the foods humans were allowed to consume. The reader’s expected to believe humans willingly accepted the loss of bacon, yet tolerated learning nothing about their alien overlord’s diets. The logic gets worse as Korum takes Mia out on dates to all kinds of restaurants. Which means either Korum’s the very first K to ever set foot in a human restaurant, or Mia’s an idiot.

3) The sex scenes are bad. This is not something I usually even mention in reviews, but it needs to be called out here. I don’t enjoy reading rape scenes, they’re a disappointing choice for a number of reasons. The rape scenes here were no different. What elevated them from disappointing to disgraceful was the victim’s mindset. She didn’t define it as rape, and instead she went along with calling it “forced seduction.” This is twisted and wrong. Its disgusting to see material like this get five star ratings. What is wrong with you people? So if you read this be ready, there’s more than one “forced seduction”. There’s a lot more copulation material than is normal or necessary for a book this size. These also read pretty much the same, until Korum starts sucking Mia’s blood. I’m not joking, the 2,000 year old space alien is also some kind of vampire. I wonder if this characterization choice was made with the intent of capturing the vampire urban fantasy reader. The vampirism adds in all the usual vampire troupes. Including the ever popular: alpha male “your mine” declaration, drinking blood is a sacred sexual aphrodisiac, and the alien “vampire” lover has an overwhelmingly perfect physic and is described as a territorial predator. I also found the protagonist switching back and forth between anatomically correct terms for genitals and the matching slang terms jarring.


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Close Liaisons The Krinar Chronicles Book 1 eBook Anna Zaires Reviews

I am writing this review after reading all three books written so far... rating the first book a smidge under 4 stars, but the other two books are a solid 4 1/2 stars for me. I am not going to re-hash plots, but know the books only get stronger as you get into the story line. To some extent I agree with the other reviewers about the first book- Mia is a naive, shy & somewhat awkward, college girl I wouldn't necessarily pair with an ancient (by our standards) alien. Korum, the leading hero/alien, did make me a bit squirm-ish at times in his domineering, overriding, I will make decisions for you, stalker-ish ways. It created a barrier to really liking him initially because we didn't have any why's. Mia made a number of poor decisions that I would hope any real girl/woman would not fall into. But, I was still intrigued enough by Korum, their world, the story line & other characters (I'll toss Mia into this mix as she was not the primary driver for me in book 1) to chase book 2 (Close Obsessions). I wanted to see where the story was headed was glad I did.

As I read book 2 (Close Obsession) &3 (Close Remembrance) I moved to seeing Korum in a different light and I liked him even more when I understood his worldview. If he is ancient, alien, and his culture is much further advanced, he WONT think or act like a human... read without judging his actions/motives based on our perspective but from his point of view. This perspective change made a huge difference for me. I liked Mia well enough but felt she was a bit one dimensional and could have reflected more growth/maturing, especially in the first book. I re-read book 1 after finishing book 3, and I enjoyed the first book soooo much more. Understanding the "whys" removed a lot of my reservations around Korum's actions, allowing me to really enjoy his character.

Anna Zaires world building is really strong, the world she created has a lot of depth, and makes sense. I think she should continue to write new story lines in this world with some of the interesting characters she introduced along the way... I would love to hear their stories.
This book was disturbing and creepy on so many levels. After the sample, I greedily purchased this book. The plot line seemed like a really cool idea, smarter alien races rights the wrongs of Earth setting us on a healthier course, etc, people live peacefully but still in fear of the aliens etc. Yeah I can get that, what else would make a great love story other than girl falling for said alien her family is afraid of? Then it all just gets weird..

I feel like the author couldn't decide if the aliens were aliens or yellow eyed daylight walking vampires. There was no 'love'. Our heroine gives up no fight and just decides, oh hey, I'll give him my virginity because he's a weird stalker and he will take it anyway.

Umm.. wtf? And that's just the tip of the creepy iceberg.

I returned this book, it for sure had a weird rapey vibe that didn't sit well with me.
Close Liaisons (The Krinar Chronicles #1)

I give this one out of five stars for the idiot heroine Mia, her alien stalker rapist Korum, and all kinds of inconsistent nonsense that drove my analytical mind crazy. Reading this was like watching a bad car wreck, I rubber necked my way through the whole thing thinking, “What a complete mess.” At times I wondered if this was satire, but at best I think its some kind of warped fan fiction. It’s a mix of Twilight, your least favorite Star Trek episode, and a smothering amount of bad erotica.

Why I didn’t like this
1) Stalkers, rape, and domestic abuse are not romantic. Korum did more than run an internet search to learn about Mia. He implanted a tracking device in her body. He followed her after class and forced her into a car. Mia got into the car and began crying because she feared for her life. She had sex with Korum, and cried through most of it, because she didn’t think she had a choice. Mia saw herself as Korum’s sex slave, and felt powerless. With the K’s in charge she felt there was no way for her to leave the relationship outside of him tiring of her or her own death. Over time Korum separated Mia from her friends, her education, her internship, and then prevented her from seeing her family. He dictated what clothes she wore, where she would study, and how she spent her time. It’s classic abuse and I think Mia’s eventual “love” for Korum is better defined as Stockholm syndrome.

2) The protagonist Mia is an idiot. She thought, did, and said all kinds of stupid things. For instance, after being kidnapped by her extraterrestrial stalker, she sits in his apartment contemplating how human’s and the alien Krinar or “K’s” are compatible sexually. Korum then asked Mia if he could make her something to eat. Shocked, Mia blurts out a question about the K’s eating food. She was seriously baffled, which made no sense at all. In the five years of K occupation, humans are able to figure out they can have sex with K’s, yet their staple diet remains unknown. In the first couple pages Mia has this long ridiculous internal narrative explaining how when the K’s took over earth, they dictated the foods humans were allowed to consume. The reader’s expected to believe humans willingly accepted the loss of bacon, yet tolerated learning nothing about their alien overlord’s diets. The logic gets worse as Korum takes Mia out on dates to all kinds of restaurants. Which means either Korum’s the very first K to ever set foot in a human restaurant, or Mia’s an idiot.

3) The sex scenes are bad. This is not something I usually even mention in reviews, but it needs to be called out here. I don’t enjoy reading rape scenes, they’re a disappointing choice for a number of reasons. The rape scenes here were no different. What elevated them from disappointing to disgraceful was the victim’s mindset. She didn’t define it as rape, and instead she went along with calling it “forced seduction.” This is twisted and wrong. Its disgusting to see material like this get five star ratings. What is wrong with you people? So if you read this be ready, there’s more than one “forced seduction”. There’s a lot more copulation material than is normal or necessary for a book this size. These also read pretty much the same, until Korum starts sucking Mia’s blood. I’m not joking, the 2,000 year old space alien is also some kind of vampire. I wonder if this characterization choice was made with the intent of capturing the vampire urban fantasy reader. The vampirism adds in all the usual vampire troupes. Including the ever popular alpha male “your mine” declaration, drinking blood is a sacred sexual aphrodisiac, and the alien “vampire” lover has an overwhelmingly perfect physic and is described as a territorial predator. I also found the protagonist switching back and forth between anatomically correct terms for genitals and the matching slang terms jarring.