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Stardusted and Starfalling

5⭐️.5🌶
So remember I read Starshipped as an ARC and loved it?  As soon as I caught up with ARC reads I jumped back to these and read books one and two in the It's Definitely Not Aliens trilogy.  They were both excellent.  Book one Stardusted sets everything up; introduces Sky, Raven, and Amelia.  It sets up the Enil, which are the robot creatures and the halix, which is the Pladian info cache that Raven accidentally downloads into her brain.  Can you say Jack O'Neill much?  Book one also highlights the pull between Sky and Rae.  Even after she discovers Sky is an alien, there is no denying she's still crushing on him.  There is some very hot steam in the first book, but we don't get past making out (in the stairwell) til book two.  Stardusted was a great first book.

5⭐️2🌶
Starfalling was also phenomenal.  Sky and Raven are on the run from the Enil and License 16, the secret government agency.  (Think Men in Black.)  They go to Florida to get to Bast, Sky's Pladian partner.  Bast is a riot, he is crazy snarky and picks on both Rae and Sky.  They learn a little more about how much data downloaded into Rae's brain from the halix.  Rae's health is really impacted by the halix.  Sky and Rae are in close proximity to eachother while they're on the run.  They also have to switch out vehicles a few times on the run, which turns Rae into a criminal, which she hates.  The while situation pushes Rae outside of her comfort zone, but she takes everything pretty well considering.  Sky and Rae's attraction heats up and this book is quite a bit spicier than the first.  It was a good solid book two.  I was tempted to skim through book three again even though I just read it.  I wasn't quite ready to leave these characters yet but alas I've got to get back to ARCs.  I want to get physical copies of this series.  I plan to re-read them in the future.  It was a great trilogy with wonderful banter, found family and mercifully a happy ending.  Sky is such a sweet, caring manlien.  I'm looking forward to reading more books by Elle DeYesso in the future.  I enjoy her writing style.
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