WE ARE MERIDIANS: BOOK ONE

There I was, merrily reading along in this science fiction book. Then WHAM, [a:S. Ghali 17898688 S. Ghali https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/f_50x66-6a03a5c12233c941481992b82eea8d23.png] ruined it completely. How? They depicted the main female character as having an irresistible attraction to the alien who was her enemy minutes before, a member of a race she's been raised to consider lower than animals. Of course, she doesn't understand what she's feeling, and I imagine she'll fight it to some extent, but that was it for me.