hooo-boy...I remember reading reviews on this book and laughing about it...then I forgot about it, saw the pretty cover, and borrowed it. NOW I remember the reviews, and wow, were they accurate! This author's idea of world-building an alien society is to insert made up sounds/"foreign vocab" to substitute English words in extremely cliche conversations. And populate said alien culture with pale, blonde, violet-eyed, hulking, gorgeous human-looking people. And have them fall in love with each other based on looks and not personality or chemistry. But really, it was the terrible foreign language substitutions that really made me weep bitterly. ;___;