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There isn't much to say that hasn't already been said to praise this book. It was dark, compelling, heart-wrenching, and uplifting all at once. The struggle of their race as they live in squalor, starving and fearful. You experience it all right with them. You develop feelings for them right along with Sarah. Samaritan was crude and horrible, but still a puzzle who made a complete turn around, yet still retained his own personality and showed glimpses of a softer man beneath his hardened shell. Sanford was amazing. Perspective and caring, and the bond he has with his son T'aki despite how he regrets bringing him into such a world, but you know he'd never go back and change his decision. I also loved the connection between Sanford and Sarah. Their relationship progressed so naturally, and the way Sanford viewed her, struggling with his feelings until he knew that she was it. The one he wanted. When they came together physically, it wasn't unnatural and sick, it was two souls joining together in love. This was not a book with kinky alien sex with another species, but a story about love overcoming the physical appearance of another. A story of compassion and acceptance. I could not put this down the moment I started (even though I had to once it was around 3:30am and I needed to get up in the morning for my kids, lol) but I finished it in two days. It was absolutely a wonderful, yet terribly sad, beautiful story.


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Cottonwood edition by R Lee Smith Romance eBooks Reviews

This is another win from R. Lee Smith. I liked this one better than the previous one I read about the zombies, although that one is still good. I really liked Sarah a lot. She was an optimist and wanted to see the best in people and the world. I loved Sanford and T'aki. The book would not have been the same without T'aki. I'm so glad Smith kept him in there. He was adorable. But immediately when I started reading this I knew the s*** was going to hit the fan at some point. It reminded me a lot of the movie District 9, except I actually really liked this. I never read books like this but I will read anything by Smith. She just has this amazing way of telling a story and getting you to think about deeper issues in life and humanity. I loved the relationship between Sanford and Sarah. It was this slow burn and a beautiful, quiet love.
To compare this to the cockroach-from-space District 9 movie doesn't begin to do it justice. But that's a great movie, so it's a start.

This romantic sci-fier is a beautifully-crafted apartheid story, depicting the segregation of aliens and humans on Earth. There are some political and didactic undertones, but it doesn't condescend you. Nor does it choose sides. Instead, it leaves you profoundly moved, shocked, out of breath, and whip-lashed in a collision of human pride and shame.

Few books can rival this story's narrative spirit, sexual audacity (human/alien copulation), and depravity of villains. RLS forcefully shoves you into the concentration camps with these oppressed other-worldly characters and rips your heart from your chest as you see them as men and women and children, and not as extraterrestrial creatures. You live alongside them, sharing their dreams, friendships, humor, fears, brutality, starvation, and death.

The sci-fi elements are very soft, doesn't bury you in the nuts and bolts of speculative science and world-building. In fact, this is the fastest pace RLS script I've read to date.

The romance is not an overarching focal point, but this love story is more powerful than the majority of high-maintenance, non-communicative, self-absorbed relationships crowding today's romance genre. In a drama that is full of grief and suspense, the smallest moments between this H/h--her fingertips beneath the plates of his outer shell, their shared breath, their simple declarations (I am you and you are me)--bring the atrocities of their hardships into painful focus. Their sexual mating may be considered perverse by mainstream standards, but the mechanics are insignificant in lieu of the poignant, soul-deep connection between them.

Look as hard as you can, you won't find any flaws in this story. Yes, it's harrowing and weird and speculative. But the MCs are the paragon of heroism, the ending is uplifting, and the plot elements are brilliant down to the smallest detail. When finished, you might struggle to pick up another book right away, knowing that absolutely nothing will compare.

If you haven't read anything by RLS, this book is an amazing discovery of this author's artistry. It will hold your interest through every hard-to-read page. I was actually pained when I reached the end. I found myself flipping forward, chanting, "No, no, no." Not because the ending wasn't satisfying. The contrary. I was so embedded in the story, I had no desire to emerge. No doubt this will be the best book I read this year, as it has certainly joined my beloved shelf of all-time favorites.
I keep waiting for an R. Lee Smith book to disappoint me, but I'm not holding my breath.I've read five so far, and they all have engaged and delighted me. I am in a dilemma, though, about how to write about them. The cover of this one doesn't help me any. The main character would not recognize herself in this portrait. A caseworker in what is essentially a concentration camp, Sarah thinks of herself as an ordinary human being just trying to do her job.

The problem is, she's a decent human being in an inhuman setting. You see, the 'refugees' in Cottonwood aren't just refugees—they're aliens. They were rounded up and put into camps 'for their own protection.' Her very decency creates conflict for her and has consequences beyond her imagination.

One of the 'bugs,' as the aliens are called, has never given up hope for escape. Gradually Sarah is drawn to him and his dream of escape. How to maintain her humanity as she learns more and more of the inhumanity of the corporation running this camp challenges her beyond anything else. It is the inmate, labeled Sanford because of the son he is raising, who teaches her the way.
There isn't much to say that hasn't already been said to praise this book. It was dark, compelling, heart-wrenching, and uplifting all at once. The struggle of their race as they live in squalor, starving and fearful. You experience it all right with them. You develop feelings for them right along with Sarah. Samaritan was crude and horrible, but still a puzzle who made a complete turn around, yet still retained his own personality and showed glimpses of a softer man beneath his hardened shell. Sanford was amazing. Perspective and caring, and the bond he has with his son T'aki despite how he regrets bringing him into such a world, but you know he'd never go back and change his decision. I also loved the connection between Sanford and Sarah. Their relationship progressed so naturally, and the way Sanford viewed her, struggling with his feelings until he knew that she was it. The one he wanted. When they came together physically, it wasn't unnatural and sick, it was two souls joining together in love. This was not a book with kinky alien sex with another species, but a story about love overcoming the physical appearance of another. A story of compassion and acceptance. I could not put this down the moment I started (even though I had to once it was around 330am and I needed to get up in the morning for my kids, lol) but I finished it in two days. It was absolutely a wonderful, yet terribly sad, beautiful story.