Rachel's Reviews > Tribe

I'm surprised by how much I'm enjoying this series. I suppose it's not what I expected out of your typical alien romance but more than that it's so different from anything I have ever read before. I love the characters the author has created and how much emotion shines through on the pages. The alien reminds me of a mashup of a spider monkey gorilla and the cowardly lion but despite their many animalistic qualities they have very different and distinct personalities. The world she has created is also quite imaginative and I'm looking forward to exploring more of it and all its inhabitants with the strong female lead Lily.
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I do have one tiny little detail that has been nit-picking at me through the whole series though, the author went to pretty detailed lengths to explain how she is keeping up her hygiene on this primitive planet even explaining how she tinkled while living up in the trees and unable to go to ground but never once mentions what she's doing when she needs to go poo!? I know it's a silly fact to focus on but it's been bugging the Beetlejuice out of me. And why we are on the subject of bathroom matters I know in book one it was mentioned that the aliens "leak water" very rarely but it was never written that one of them every went number 1 or 2, you would think that on one of the many pit stops they make so Lily can "leak water" they would need to go also instead they stand with their backs turned waiting and listening like sentries every time for Lily to finish! Okay enough bathroom spoilers.