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** spoiler alert ** When I downloaded this novel a few years ago, I had asked a GR friend who had loved it what it was about. She told me that this was about two aliens who came to Earth, one to produce a drug which needs human brains to do so, and the other, a sort of Jotan policeman, came to capture the first one. But both were suffering from the effects of the heat wave; which made them in heat like beasts.

The idea seemed amusing to me: a pretext for hot sex scenes, no more. And I postponed this reading. But as the number of 5 stars accumulated, I began to think that I should really try to read it.

Finally, I did. And I, who ordinarily reacts very badly to all that is rape, abuse, non-con and even dub con, I not only loved this novel, but I almost fell in love with this brute of Kane.

However, I have a few reservations:
1. It’s clear that the author is an unilingual Anglophone. For if he/she had really tried to learn a language other than English, she/he'd know with the utmost certainty that ONE DOES NOT learn to speak a foreign language so well that Tagen did in just a few days (or even a few weeks) and just by listening to a dull TV series.

If you want to get an idea of how beginners talk, watch the old cowboys and Indians movies and listen to how the Indians spoke. They only had a basic vocabulary and they structured their sentences as in their own languages (lame sentences). The most difficult thing for someone who is learning a new language is not only the acquisition of vocabulary, but mostly the way in which the sentences are constructed in that other language. And we have a strong tendency to build them as in our native language. I'm sure that an extraterrestrial language would be drastically different. So different that it’d be difficult to understand each other even with a good translator (see the movie « Arrival » if you want to really understand what I mean).

What's more, a beginner certainly doesn’t use such usual (but sometimes silly) phrases like "dead serious.� Can you explain to me how a dead man can be serious? Well, we rarely see a cadaver laughing, but all the same...

2. I am sure the regulations prohibit any Jotan police officer to leave a prisoner and his accomplice alone in his spaceship even for a few minutes, as Tagen did.

Moreover, Kane said further in the novel that his forward-looking father had made him take drugs to accustom him to their effects and so that he did not feel them so strongly. I was hoping that the somniferous effect of the drug administered by Tagen when he caught Kane would diminish while Kane was alone with Raven in the ship and that both could then flee away, leaving Tagen on Earth with Daria and her cat. But the author chose another happier for everybody ending.

3. I found Tagen to be a really pitiful cop. I would not trust him to investigate my cat's disappearance. Heat or not, he could have done better than listening to Law and Order repeatedly. At least he could have tried to stay tuned by watching the news channels. He would have noticed then all the damage done by Kane since his arrival on Earth (no need to speak English to understand information videos).
It is rather Daria who deserves the investigator title in this story.

4. Chapter 28 is completely useless. It’s just a long sex scene between Daria and Tagen, not even the first one, not even a really hot one. It could have been shortened to a few words. No need for another long booty-booty-bang-bang scene there.

5. And, by the way, even in stealth mode, a spaceship would not go completely unnoticed if it entered our atmosphere to land on Earth. Neither Kane nor Tagen penetrated our space with their "cloaks" of invisibility on. ;) They made their ships invisible only once landed.

That's why I give 4 stars to this novel.