Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus

Yeah, I'm gonna call this story 'fucking for pheromones!'

First of all, there's no world building.   The world, the human race, is fucked.   Why?   Don't know!   The kids are kidnapped and trained to be Avengers at eighteen.   Why do they not try propaganda instead of stealing them?   Don't know!  Why are they so desperate to be on an ice world, with creatures they call ice vampires, that drain their life force?   Don't know.   (Or they need some verb-whatever crap from the world, but we're never told why they need that shit.)

Then we add in some 'atheism is a religion and if it takes over, we won't be able to celebrate Christmas!'   Which seems like hyperventilating for no good reason.   Atheists may try to use reasonable arguments to convince others that god doesn't exist, but they, in general, don't try to abolish other people's beliefs because they're in the minority.   They don't have a history of conversion, nor of censoring, or banning based on religious beliefs.  You know who does have a history of that?   Christians.  

But, hey, if those are religious defenses and constructs, then just make atheism a religion, so you can prove how evil it is by using the same tactics Christians have used in the past. This doesn't make the book look shallow, stupid, illiterate, or hypocritical!

Then let's take the 'ice vampires are grossed out by sex-pheromones which will happen if we have dirty, dirty sex!'   So, then she goes on about how they don't have much time, and it has to be really heavy sex.   Except they fool around with foreplay until they almost die, and then at the last minute have pretty tame sex.   There's oral, there's penis-in-vagina while he's facing her, but there's nothing extraordinary to the sex.   

But, no, we're not done yet.   The purple prose, dear god, the purple prose.   Not all the time, but just enough to have screaming skies, and some stuff that I understood even less.   No, thank you, book, I will not be reading anything else in this series.   (I assume it's a series, and the world building happens in other books.  I have no interest in even researching this, however.)

Reading Challenge: 20/500