** spoiler alert ** 
 Okkk so it might be weird that I liked the beginning of the book a whole lot more than the ending and arguably middle. In fact, I would've been perfectly happy if the story had ended shortly after Venomous and (oh god I've actually forgotten her name; will look up but what does that say about her? it's Lumen! oh my god, and it's not even a boring, common name like I thought) Lumen were rescued by the Ra. Just give me some cute in-laws and 'that's all folks,' and this story would've gotten a solid 4. 
 Maybe even a 5 if it didn't have what I'm about to mention in this aside: DO NOT JUDGE ME. I know the beginning has a rape scene. I know it's gross and uncomfortable and wish it could've been not-done at all. That's why I skipped over that scene. It was terrible. Especially since I didn't feel like it made much of a difference to the story until I'd already lost interest. 
 Let's start with the bad. Something that bothered me more the longer I thought about it: what female characters am I supposed to like? Besides Lumen, who tragically underwent a gruesome transformation that changed her from a sympathetic everywoman to a badly done cliche. Intro Lumen was understandably cowed in the spaceship god-knows how many years ahead of our tech and security measures. I get the feeling conclusion Lumen would've floated out to freedom on her magical vagina, no doubt having gotten the nasty Lodo to fall in love with her for no goddamn reason. (cough Beowyn cough) 
 There are, to my knowledge, four other female characters in the book. There's Lumen's wicked step-I mean mother-in-law, the frigid wife of one of her future harem-members, a cool chick named Deathly, and a Vudmarin (?) who frankly made me cry. V's imaginary but I still hope she gets to be an astronaut billionaire in the next life. It's the least the universe could do. V doesn't count b/c she died in the beginning, before other women turned into jealous haters. Deathly, well, is in the story much less than the other two Ra and that's a damn shame. 
 The male characters are lucky and get treated far better. The best are Lumen's Ra harem and Beowyn and his general partner. I don't have much to say about them except that I got a real kick out of Venomous introducing himself as "Am He, Venomous One." Very adorable and badass. (Though, the less I liked Lumen, the less I liked him, tbh. Cobra and Fiercely stayed fierce.) 
 I liked how in the beginning other aliens are grossed out by her the same as she's grossed out by them. It was nice.