A wildlife biologist is dropped into an interstellar reproductive study in I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com, the first volume in a madcap sci-fi romance series by Kimberly Lemming. Lemming (That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Human) is known for her novels' over-the-top silly and sexy shenanigans, and this romp is no different.
The heroine, Dorothy Valentine, is filming warring meerkat clans when she and a lion she calls Toto are beamed up by aliens. They crash-land on an Earth-like planet, where the climate and some plants are familiar but the bright-pink T-Rex and hot alien men are new. After not one but two of the horned, tailed men start competing for Dory's attention, a small owl-like alien shoots them with darts containing a serum that triggers the men's mating bonds.
Dory didn't ask for any of this. Even if her new mates are extremely attractive and highly skilled, she is determined to find the head researcher in charge of the study, "punch him right in the face," and escape the billboard- and dinosaur-covered planet. What follows is a fast-burn romance with plenty of jokes about research funding, snack foods, and the importance of studying a habitat thoroughly before trying to re-create it. Plenty of action scenes and a nice sequel setup keep the plot moving.
Fans of Lemming's distinctive brand of humor, characters with specialized anatomy, and wacky but detailed world-building will be thrilled. --Suzanne Krohn, librarian and freelance reviewer