Sci-Fi novel with a focus on romance between human and alien.
Just finished playing mass effect and I think it changed something chemically in my brain, bonus points if there is tension between the two/multiple races.
Not the focus, but *The Temujin Saga* by Adam J. Whitlatch has an alien/human couple in it.
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*Strange Love* by Ann Aguirre – I wrote in my review of this book back in 2022: *”You cannot convince me that Ann Aguirre didn’t romance Garrus Vakarian for every ME3 playthru.”*
Also, I’ve suggested *Fortune’s Pawn* by Rachel Bach (book 1 in a completed trilogy) for people who like Mass Effect. The FMC gives fem!Shep vibes, and there is a strong (humanoid alien) romance.
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A Thousand Words for Stranger by Julie E. Czerneda
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A Half Built Garden by Ruthanna Emerys
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Somebody’s already mentioned “The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet” – which definitely fits – and “The Final Architecture” series by Adrian Tchaikovsky also has Mass Effect-ey vibes, I think (less romance, but more of the intrigue/tension/multi-species crew stuff).
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The NEanderthal Parallax by Robert Sawyer starting with Hominids
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The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet
Not the focus, but *The Temujin Saga* by Adam J. Whitlatch has an alien/human couple in it.
*Strange Love* by Ann Aguirre – I wrote in my review of this book back in 2022: *”You cannot convince me that Ann Aguirre didn’t romance Garrus Vakarian for every ME3 playthru.”*
Also, I’ve suggested *Fortune’s Pawn* by Rachel Bach (book 1 in a completed trilogy) for people who like Mass Effect. The FMC gives fem!Shep vibes, and there is a strong (humanoid alien) romance.
A Thousand Words for Stranger by Julie E. Czerneda
A Half Built Garden by Ruthanna Emerys
Somebody’s already mentioned “The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet” – which definitely fits – and “The Final Architecture” series by Adrian Tchaikovsky also has Mass Effect-ey vibes, I think (less romance, but more of the intrigue/tension/multi-species crew stuff).
The NEanderthal Parallax by Robert Sawyer starting with Hominids