Tara van Beurden's Reviews > The Star King

This is the first in the trilogy that Grant wrote before her Otherworldly Men series (which I read last year) and whilst this was still an enjoyable space romp (and I love me some space romping!) the inspiration for the later series was starkly obvious. The religion used as the basis for society in the Otherworldly Men universe is an evolved version of the one used in this trilogy as is the fact that the religion is used in the manner it is. Moreover, the personas of many of the characters bear striking similarties to the later series. Now working my way through this earlier series, I’m kinda glad I started reading the later series first, because I don’t think I would have enjoyed it as much had I come to it after reading this series. Having said that, its still an enjoyable read. The characters are fun, there’s a good dose of spaceships shenangians, the sex scenes are strong without being pornographic and there’s minimal use of over-the-top lovey-dovey dialogue that usually haunts romantic novels. I would still definitely recommend it to other sci-fi/rom-com fans.