I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com: 03/08/24

I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com by Kimberly Lemming (2025) is the start of the Cosmic Chaos series. Dorothy "Dory" Valentine studies meerkats for a living, that is until she's eaten by a lion only to wake up aboard a spaceship run by alien owl people. To her surprise the lion has been picked up too and thanks to some weird goo the two can talk to each other.

From the title alone the book has light novel vibes. A lion standing in for truck-kun blends together the Oz books with modern day isekai stories. The author and her main character are both genre savvy enough to see the connection and the lion gets named Toto.

Things spiral out of control from there. Dory ends up in a three-way relationship with an owl intern as her guide. There are dinosaurs, AI generated living spaces, and a whole bunch of weird stuff. But honestly on a par with the Oz books at their weirdest.

The big difference is that there is sex. Lots and lots of sex in situations that are often ridiculous. That seems to be the tone for my 2025 reading: ridiculous sex in ridiculous situations or locations.

This scifi isekai light novel romance also sits on the Road Narrative Spectrum. Dory and her two alien lovers make up a family of travelers (33). Their destination is utopia (both in the sense that the owl people have tried to make an ideal habitat for their captured species) and in that it's an unknown planet (FF). The route there is the maze (CC), in that there is danger around every corner.

Five stars

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