2016 SF/romance, second of of its series. Fiona Russell has also been
kidnapped from Earth into an alien civilisation…
There's a certain inevitability to the framework, perhaps innate
to the premises of the series, with most of the aliens at least
subconsciously thinking of the human as some kind of experimental
animal and only the hot captain falling for her and having to convince
everyone else; but where this got interesting for me was where it
broke away from its template.
The action takes place mostly on a large space habitat, and Diener has
fun with the sorts of thing that can go wrong there (deliberately or
otherwise). The science is very soft, of course, but one does at least
get the feeling that there are rules and even powerful characters
can't just magically make things right again.
There's relatively little romance in this book, and while the SF plot
is interesting it can't carry the whole story. Fiona gets some
characterisation to separate her from Rose, but new hero Hal is
basically old hero Dav with a different command.
I didn't love it, and the continuing use of "airspace" for "territory"
still rubs me wrong, but I'll try at least one more.