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Adrift: The Collection
The Captain’s Men
The Prayer and her crew have been lost in space for four years. Thomas is lonely and homesick; Zachery is angry and mutinous; Rick is just terrified. And all of them are really in need of some hands-on time with their captain.
The only thing holding them together is their captain, whose methods are unconventional but extremely effective. But now the captain has a choice to do they continue their fruitless search for a way home or try to start a new life in this strange galaxy?
The Captain’s Encounter
The captain’s luck is finally changing. They’ve found an inhabitable planet to land on. The whole crew—and his lovers—are happy to set foot on terra firma again. But the fertile landscape hides a secret. When the captain finds himself abducted by an alien life form, he’s got limited time to get back to his crew before they succumb to infighting. Only the alien is so very attractive…
The Captain’s Calamity
Having welcomed an alien into his crew and his bed, the captain has more than enough to worry about without the looming threat of a birthday he’d rather forget.
When his ship develops a catastrophic malfunction and crash lands, he and his men follow Rux to an abandoned city in search of replacement parts, one disaster follows another. Worse yet, Zachery, is developing a crush on the one member of the crew he really shouldn’t…
The Captain’s Promise
Now that the crew of The Prayer have settled down on an alien world, their captain intends for them to forge a new life for themselves. But his plans are interrupted when the ship receives a distress call from a nearby planet. While most of his lovers are excited, First Officer Antoine argues that responding might endanger the crew. As it turns out, his fears are well placed…
The Prayer and her crew have been lost in space for four years. Thomas is lonely and homesick; Zachery is angry and mutinous; Rick is just terrified. And all of them are really in need of some hands-on time with their captain.
The only thing holding them together is their captain, whose methods are unconventional but extremely effective. But now the captain has a choice to do they continue their fruitless search for a way home or try to start a new life in this strange galaxy?
The Captain’s Encounter
The captain’s luck is finally changing. They’ve found an inhabitable planet to land on. The whole crew—and his lovers—are happy to set foot on terra firma again. But the fertile landscape hides a secret. When the captain finds himself abducted by an alien life form, he’s got limited time to get back to his crew before they succumb to infighting. Only the alien is so very attractive…
The Captain’s Calamity
Having welcomed an alien into his crew and his bed, the captain has more than enough to worry about without the looming threat of a birthday he’d rather forget.
When his ship develops a catastrophic malfunction and crash lands, he and his men follow Rux to an abandoned city in search of replacement parts, one disaster follows another. Worse yet, Zachery, is developing a crush on the one member of the crew he really shouldn’t…
The Captain’s Promise
Now that the crew of The Prayer have settled down on an alien world, their captain intends for them to forge a new life for themselves. But his plans are interrupted when the ship receives a distress call from a nearby planet. While most of his lovers are excited, First Officer Antoine argues that responding might endanger the crew. As it turns out, his fears are well placed…
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September 3, 2020
It was very sweet, a little silly, yet sincere and relaxing to read. Although there’s smexy stuff, it’s not so detailed that it overwhelms the characters or story. It’s really a story about loving, trusting friendships. I also like that there’s disability rep, ace rep, trans man rep, a couple of lesbians as side characters and a touch of alien tentacle porn. There are also robots but nobody has sex with them.
October 16, 2020
Reread October 2020: Each reread makes me like this less. It's short and passes time and does have a certain charm, but the underlying ableism and aphobia as well as cis-centrism is grating.
Original review 2017: Adrift is a delightful, sweet and not entirely serious (and a bit ridiculous) read about the crew of The Prayer, a spaceship that has been lost in space for four years after being teleported to an unknown location way outside the Milky Way by a hostile alien force.
The plot (and I use this term very loosely here) revolves around the various relationships between several of the crew members, who make up for a delightfully diverse cast. As they drift through space in their old but ultimately rather comfortable vessel, they form new connections, get to know each other better, have fights, make big decisions and get creatively physical, all while trying to figure out how to do the best of their predicament.
There really isn't much substance to the story or really to the characters or world-building, but I still enjoyed reading this a lot and I'll definitely pick up book 5 which isn't part of this collection.
One big flaw of the series is the treatment of the female characters. Of the 11 (human) crewmembers (number 12 is the cat), 4 are women. With one exception, all of the men are POV characters at some point, and they all have elaborate friendships and relationships with each other - but somehow, the women are not part of any of that. There are tiny hints at their own relationships with each other, but there's really barely anything about them at all. Which really is a shame, since the little we do get to see of them seems awesome!
Another thing that bothered me was the way some of the crew members talk about Echo and Antoine, who are both on the ace-spectrum, and in Echo's case I suspect not neurotypical. Terms like "freak", "creepy, "alien", "robot" and "not normal" are often thrown around which made me very uncomfortable. This treatment doesn't necessarily come from a place of maliciousness, but mostly from a lack of education and partly from not knowing Echo/Antoine well, and as the relationships form and/or get deeper, the name calling stops/gets questioned and apologies are made.
Which is good, but doesn't take away from the discomfort it caused.
Original review 2017: Adrift is a delightful, sweet and not entirely serious (and a bit ridiculous) read about the crew of The Prayer, a spaceship that has been lost in space for four years after being teleported to an unknown location way outside the Milky Way by a hostile alien force.
The plot (and I use this term very loosely here) revolves around the various relationships between several of the crew members, who make up for a delightfully diverse cast. As they drift through space in their old but ultimately rather comfortable vessel, they form new connections, get to know each other better, have fights, make big decisions and get creatively physical, all while trying to figure out how to do the best of their predicament.
There really isn't much substance to the story or really to the characters or world-building, but I still enjoyed reading this a lot and I'll definitely pick up book 5 which isn't part of this collection.
One big flaw of the series is the treatment of the female characters. Of the 11 (human) crewmembers (number 12 is the cat), 4 are women. With one exception, all of the men are POV characters at some point, and they all have elaborate friendships and relationships with each other - but somehow, the women are not part of any of that. There are tiny hints at their own relationships with each other, but there's really barely anything about them at all. Which really is a shame, since the little we do get to see of them seems awesome!
Another thing that bothered me was the way some of the crew members talk about Echo and Antoine, who are both on the ace-spectrum, and in Echo's case I suspect not neurotypical. Terms like "freak", "creepy, "alien", "robot" and "not normal" are often thrown around which made me very uncomfortable. This treatment doesn't necessarily come from a place of maliciousness, but mostly from a lack of education and partly from not knowing Echo/Antoine well, and as the relationships form and/or get deeper, the name calling stops/gets questioned and apologies are made.
Which is good, but doesn't take away from the discomfort it caused.
March 19, 2017
I really enjoyed this collection. The characters are all unique and well-developed, interesting in their own ways, and the sex scenes are hot! The writing is well done and compelling. Plus, these stories are funny. The antics and attitudes of the characters, and some of the things they say, made me actually laugh out loud more than once.
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