Sought, Surrender, and the Alien Erotics of Inevitability

Dame Jodie Slaughter is back to discuss Sought by Evangeline Anderson, a sci-fi alien romance from the Brides of the Kindred series featuring twin alien heroes, fated mates, dubiously consensual erotic worldbuilding, and a surprisingly useful framework for understanding what different readers seek from romance. Rather than treating Sought as simply good, bad, hot, weird, or problematic, we use it…