Fear Me Not

This is a really interesting book about humans and aliens. Not many years ago a ship filled with aliens crash-landed on Earth. The aliens had evolved from reptiles but, to fit in with their new, and hopefully temporary home, they altered their bodies to appear like humans.

Their diet, though, is utterly different as they consume emotions that have been someone distilled into a drinkable liquid. To aid in this manner some humans have volunteered (with a lot of money promised) to have an alien organ put into their bodies. This organ will somehow absorb the emotions of the mostly young people who have them in their bodies. The emotions can then be withdrawn from the organ and processed to be used by the aliens.

There are, of course, numerous problems. The aliens are divided into several types. One group is concerned with finding out facts. Another group are the keepers of the law and the final group are executioners. All this, of course, plus other differences cause numerous problems for both the aliens and the humans.

The book centers on one girl, Victoria. She's worried about her ill sister (which is why she is there, to earn enough money to get her sister the care she needs) but she ends up having more to worry about as she gets involved in alien politics and finds herself attracted to one of the aliens. Matters get way worse when even bigger problems arise and then, to top it all off, Victoria finds out something about herself that no one, including the aliens, can understand.

It's something that will bring unwanted attention and danger to her.

My favorite part of the book is the way the author sets up the alien culture and how it is in many ways similar to ours but in many ways it's not. The author is also realistic on describing a shady background activity on the part of the government that could have terrible consequences.

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