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A review by czgathers
Blue Coral by Naomi Lucas
5.0
Originally was not going to write a review but if you’ve somehow stumbled upon this before reading books 1 or 2, or if you’re feeling blah after those books, this is meant for you and past me. Kinda spoilery but not really?
I did not totally like Viper and I really didn’t like King Cobra. Those heroes were too much: too pushy, too demanding, too aggressive, teetering the line of SA in my opinion. The heroines were…blah.
With Blue Coral, we have a heroine of color, Shelby, (love a black woman from infinity to infinity…) who is CHILDFREE, in a series that has breeding as one of its main things. And our hero, Vagan, while driven by this instinct to procreate, is on board and is staying on board with a childfree life. He wants to be worthy of the heroine and keep her safe. Thinking of buying the physical copy because I liked it and want to reread, that’s my criteria for keeping/buying physical books.
Do I like how much trauma the hero and heroine had to go through just literally to live? No, and I don’t like that for our heroine of color either. Fighting for their lives every fucking chapter. HOWEVER, I don’t see their attraction as trauma bonding necessarily.
You get a lot of answers to questions you had in books 1 and 2, and I can see the set up for book 4 and beyond. I’ll keep reading, but gimme more Vagan and way less Vruksha and Zaku.
9/18/22 edit: bought the paperback, reread & changed my rating from 4 starts to 5.
I did not totally like Viper and I really didn’t like King Cobra. Those heroes were too much: too pushy, too demanding, too aggressive, teetering the line of SA in my opinion. The heroines were…blah.
With Blue Coral, we have a heroine of color, Shelby, (love a black woman from infinity to infinity…) who is CHILDFREE, in a series that has breeding as one of its main things. And our hero, Vagan, while driven by this instinct to procreate, is on board and is staying on board with a childfree life. He wants to be worthy of the heroine and keep her safe. Thinking of buying the physical copy because I liked it and want to reread, that’s my criteria for keeping/buying physical books.
Do I like how much trauma the hero and heroine had to go through just literally to live? No, and I don’t like that for our heroine of color either. Fighting for their lives every fucking chapter. HOWEVER, I don’t see their attraction as trauma bonding necessarily.
You get a lot of answers to questions you had in books 1 and 2, and I can see the set up for book 4 and beyond. I’ll keep reading, but gimme more Vagan and way less Vruksha and Zaku.
9/18/22 edit: bought the paperback, reread & changed my rating from 4 starts to 5.