Spain - Natural Consequences - Elia-Barceló
Found whilst updating the blog on my book from Catalonia, and debating with myself whether or not to split Catalonia and Spain into separate countries. I did, as this book looks great.
16th October 2025:
The book arrived.
The Physical Book:
The book cover is a little dull, not really telling you anything about the contents of the book. But that's fine, it's a well put together book with a nice feel and a good flexible spine. It's only short book with a touch over 180 pages. A nice few introductions by the translators and by the author also.
16th Feb 2026:
Bought the book on a family holiday. And I'm ripping through it at a super fast pace. Absolutely loving the book. I'm not a complete prude, but I do feel uncomfortable with sex scenes, and this book pretty much opens with a human male becoming the first man to have sex with an alien female. usually this sort of action is a side line in a book, but this book takes that action and plays it out to an entire book that unfolds and takes some incredible twists. Essentially the female alien impregnates the male human, and then we follow the inter galactic diplomatic and consequences. This is a very funny and insightful book. The author is a self proclaim feminist and it shows in the story, with gender role reversals at a personal and historic level.
I would recommend this book, because it is so playful and well executed. There was a bit of a dry spell, when two aliens got into a lengthy discussion on their own planet's gender history and ensuing political framework. But other than those few pages, it was a super lighthearted and fun read