Star Language by Charon Dunn

SPSFC 2023

Melina is super unlucky when it comes to mothers; hers is an abusive greedy drugged-up nightmare who sells her to traffickers. She’s a lot luckier when it comes to boyfriends – her big strong alien bae makes everyone thirst. The one department where her luck is absolutely on point has to do with her talent – a flair for learning languages that makes her the only one capable of performing translation duty once the aliens reach Earth. Trigger warning: SA, ultraviolence, 18+, explicit badness.

Adult • Science Fiction/Alien Invasion • Science Fiction/Colonization

lamichi author

Book has very strong themes surrounding sex slavery of young women and their later abuse from the mysterious aliens that rescue them for their own nefarious purposes. I felt the trauma suffered from the protagonist was well done.