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Polaris Rising, Aurora Blazing, and Chaos Reigning
3/5. A trilogy of scifi romances about three daughters of a noble house weathering political/military adventures and falling for dudes with uniformly giant muscles.
I'm about to complain about these, but do note that I did read all three of them, so, you know.
The thing is, this series is called "The Consortium Rebellion," the Consortium being the authoritarian oligarchy that controls human civilization and which runs – this is made explicitly clear – on forced and slave labor. The first book starts with one of the heroines running away from home to make it on her own, and I was like 'ah, okay,' thinking I understood where the rebellion came in. But . . . no. The rebellion is actually organized crime trying to take over, so the plot of these porny space adventures is . . . a bunch of incredibly privileged and wealthy people fighting to retain their wealth and privilege because maybe their system is terrible, but it's better than the alternative, and anyway it's fine because they're the nice authoritarians who sometimes give money to deserving poor people.
I mean, the books are 95% porny "oh what big muscles you have" space adventure romance but oh boy, that is a lot of don't think about it don't think about it don't think about it.
Content notes: violence, recollections of spousal abuse and child abuse, nonconsensual body modification.
3/5. A trilogy of scifi romances about three daughters of a noble house weathering political/military adventures and falling for dudes with uniformly giant muscles.
I'm about to complain about these, but do note that I did read all three of them, so, you know.
The thing is, this series is called "The Consortium Rebellion," the Consortium being the authoritarian oligarchy that controls human civilization and which runs – this is made explicitly clear – on forced and slave labor. The first book starts with one of the heroines running away from home to make it on her own, and I was like 'ah, okay,' thinking I understood where the rebellion came in. But . . . no. The rebellion is actually organized crime trying to take over, so the plot of these porny space adventures is . . . a bunch of incredibly privileged and wealthy people fighting to retain their wealth and privilege because maybe their system is terrible, but it's better than the alternative, and anyway it's fine because they're the nice authoritarians who sometimes give money to deserving poor people.
I mean, the books are 95% porny "oh what big muscles you have" space adventure romance but oh boy, that is a lot of don't think about it don't think about it don't think about it.
Content notes: violence, recollections of spousal abuse and child abuse, nonconsensual body modification.
