Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Chaos Croc by Naomi Lucas [Review]

Chaos Croc by Naomi Lucas
Chaos Croc (Cyborg Shifters #6) by Naomi Lucas
Format: ebook
Source: purchased
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Date read: April 3, 2019

Cyborg Shifters
0.5. Cyborg Pool Boy
 1. Wild Blood
2. Storm Surge
3. Shark Bite
4. Mutt
5. Ashes and Metal
6. Chaos CrocPaperback | Kindle
7. Ursa Major
8. Dark Hysteria
9. Wings and Teeth

Naomi Lucas
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Synopsis (Goodreads):
Janet was a maneater.

She knew what men wanted, took what she pleased and used that to her advantage. But the men who lived in the small colonies on her home planet were not the same as those who traveled and conquered the universe. They were nothing like the Cyborgs who showed up to solve all her family’s problems, especially the green-eyed god who crowded her space.
So she used him like she used the rest—and bit off far more than she could ever chew.

Zeph carried a demon on his back, one that scratched at the inside of his skull relentlessly. No one would guess that the neon green knight had a terrible secret, not with his charm and his lies. And because of his charisma, his razzle-dazzle darkness, the EPED used him for all he was worth. But sometimes missions can’t be fixed with diplomacy. Sometimes you have to follow your own instincts—even a croc’s instincts—to go after what you really want.
He wanted Janet. He wanted to keep her.
But the demon wanted something else entirely.
Thoughts on Chaos Croc: First off, I've really enjoyed this series overall. BUT. Sometimes the author takes narrative leaps that I have to puzzle over to figure out. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, as shown by the fact I keep reading these books, but the THING with Zeph took me a while to catch on to.

On the other hand, I'm still thinking about it, so it's in my head. Not in a buzzing, irritating way, either. It's just there. I'm circling around it. I think I'm okay with that.

(For the record, I do understand what happened. I'm simply puzzling over if I caught the clues I was supposed to catch. Because I thought things were going in a VERY different direction than they ended up going.)

So. Janet and Zeph. Janet was...not my favorite character in Rylie and Netto's book. She came across as hard and wild and as someone who didn't care who she hurt as long as she got what she wanted in the end. Which...I didn't love. I can't say I entirely understand her reasoning as to why she acted like she did, but I think I understand her a little more than before. And she really does love her family. That comes through loud and clear. She loves them enough to risk everything to keep them safe.

As for Zeph. Wow. That dude has baggage. Quite a lot of baggage. Baggage he needs to figure out if he wants to have even an inkling of a chance at a (mostly) normal life with Janet. The guy's a mess and he still has all the possessive, obsessive tendencies that his cyborg brothers have when it comes to their special someone. Which makes him dangerous. AS CYBORGS ARE.

Gloriously MESSY. And fun. And a little dangerous. And WHO IS THAT MYSTERIOUS MASKED STRANGER? I'd like to know more about him.

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