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The 5th Gender

(A Tinkered Stars Mystery)

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By: G. L. Carriger, Gail Carriger
Narrated by: Michael Lesley
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A species that has no word for murder, has a murderer aboard their spaceship.

Alien

Tristol lives in exile. But he’s built a life for himself aboard a human space station. He’s even begun to understand the complex nuances of human courting rituals.

Detective Hastion is finally flirting back!

Murder

Except that Tristol’s beloved space station is unexpectedly contacted by the galoi - a xenophobic species with five genders, purple skin, and serious attitude. They need the help of a human detective because there’s a murderer aboard their spaceship. Murder is so rare, the galoi don’t even have a word for it.

Tristol knows this because he is galoi.

Romance

Which means that he and Detective Hastion are on the case...together.

Delicate sensibilities?

Contains men who love other men in graphic detail, regardless of gender, biology, or skin color...and lots of emotively sexy tentacle hair.

New York Times best-selling author Gail Carriger (writing as G.L. Carriger) brings you a light-hearted romantic cozy mystery featuring an adorable lavender alien and his human crush.

©2019 Gail Carriger LLC (P)2019 Gail Carriger LLC Crime First Contact Murder Romance Science Fiction Fiction Detective Heartfelt Fantasy Paranormal
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Funny, hot, enjoyable and oh so poignant, this is a wonderful tale brought to life perfectly by Michael Leslie. I have read the book multiple times and will undoubtedly re-listen to this at some point. I hope we get more books featuring these wonderful two.

I recommend this to anyone who will listen.

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If you like alien world building G. L. Carriger has an inimitably hilarious and cleverly devised writing style and story flow. If you need an uplifting read with sexy heroes and a twisted plot you want to listen to this well narrated book.

Funny sweet unrivalled plot

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a gentle take of love in future space. a very similar flavour to the sumage solution... if you like that, you'll enjoy yhis

star crossed lovers

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What a wonderful sweet story about love in its many different forms.

Tris and is Soul Mate must solve a murder, on a alien spaceship that hits a bit to close to home for Tris.

I really enjoyed this sweat short story

Who doesn’t love a purple alien

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I just hate it when the endearment baby is used...like, there are so many better ones that don't mean infant human. The fact that once Drey started using that word he seemed to forget that Tris actually had a name was also super gross and kind of infantilising. I would have enjoyed this story a whole lot more if that word didn't exist in it.
I do recommend this book though, it's a great story, and Michael Lesley was awesome.

great story but...

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