This is a short story. I started reading about 9 and was done well before 12. Tht being said, it didn't seem ridiculousy rushed as some short books do. There was lots of male-dominated animalistic sex, some development of feelings, and even a little danger and death mixed into the &#34;plot.&#34; It is a short story, so the plot is minimal and there is little character development. Honestly, everything outside of the main characters getting it on seems more like an afterthought. The one thing that really bothered me is the ending, though. After the guy & girl get together, they go back and eveal that the bad guys' plot has been uncovered and thwarted, but it doesn't say how. It seems to me it would have been cleaner to leave the resolution at the disposal of the green guy, or if it's a plot-continuation part for the next book, at the corporate guys in the ship. The news report just seems hasty to me.Spoiler Alert: A Tyger navigator is the only one who can safely program the Nav computer to get the ship through a dangerous asteroid belt, but because of unforseen delays our hero is cought onboard during his mating shift without a woman. A female Tyger with a secret crush on the hero offers herself as his sex-slave, basically, while he is in shift so that he doesn't go crazy and so he can nav the ship. Predictably, she falls for him even though she knows she shouldn't. He falls for but doesn't really get it. Meanwhile, there's a terrorist plot to blow up the nav computer onboard and thus crash the ship into the asteroids. The terrorist plants his bio bomb, which kills the nav computer. He then tries to escape thru the arboretum where the lovers were holed up. He sees the chick naked and tries to run past while Tyger tracks him down. Tyer catches him and rips his throat out after questioning him briefly. Tyger decides to manually steer the ship to the planet- a feat which hasn't been done in the last 100 years or more, and becomes a hero when he's successful. Unfortunately, he offers to set the girl up as his mistress. She takes off and he sulks for weeks. Then his parents make him realize he should marry her even though she isn't from the upper class. He runs off to get her to find she is on a ship and has just gone into heat. He goes to her, and you can guess the rest- he asks her to promise to obey, and she asks him to cherish her. Oh, then there was some little scene where we see the brains behind the terrorists being upset that it didn't work, and we learn that it's not about Ecoterrorism at all (which was hinted earlier), but rather about eliminating the competition of another shipping co. In the very end, there is a news announcement that the plot was uncovered, but no details as to how or by whom.Overall, a decent read for a fee novella, but I might have been less kind had I paid for this book. The submissive stuff was not over the top, fortunately, but isn't my thing so it detracted from my enjoyment some.
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