Book Review: The Spy Who Stung Me
Honeytrap, I’m home! Signing up for an intergalactic dating app was not in my job description. But when the government agency I work for needs someone undercover to investigate a potential human trafficking ring, I’m the only woman for the job. Everyone in the agency says I’m too unfeminine and coarse to pull this off, but I’ll show them I can be as sweet as honey. The mark? A seven-foot-tall alien man named Hunnei Ral Xeric who looks like a bee-themed superhero. In our communications, Xeric is considerate and earnest—but that has to be a facade. Maybe my time here on Earth has jaded me, but Xeric isn’t like any man I’ve met before. It only gets worse when I start asking questions about his proboscis and he starts going off about how enjoyable he finds it to suck the nectar from between— This is supposed to be a sting operation, dang it! So why is my heart all abuzz? Planet WLN269 Needs Women is a new shared world series that imagines what it would be like if human woman decided ...