Viper

Naga Brides, Book 1

By: Naomi Lucas

Narrated by: John Masterson, Elizabeth Hart

Long have we been alone; without brides, without females to warm us during the long nights, without sweet mates.

But we see them from afar, the brides that could be ours. Kept away from us by walls and weapons. Females we long for greatly...obsessively. Human females. And the one with red hair? I want her. I saw her first.

I will fight to the death for her. She is mine. So, we’ll come together and make an exchange with their men that will benefit us all. After that? To the winner goes the spoil. Let the hunt begin...but the red-headed female is mine.

Viper is the first book in Naga Brides, a series about bride-hunting aliens with the charm of a snake, the wiles of the devil, and the will to do anything for their females.

©2021 Naomi Lucas (P)2021 Podium Audio

Not for me. Loved the spice tho,...

So you will love this if you enjoy alien romance where the guy is more animal than man, and has a snake body,.... no legs and he's super forceful with the seggsy times- I mean there's definite sketchy consent,... that was too much for me, but if thats your thing, then this is the book for you :) the spice scenes are frequent and pretty detailed, they're great. This just was not my favorite for sure.

Interesting

Interesting series, not a waste of time or money.
The only con with this series is, the males have no legs..
so, the story is great but a legless man is cringeworthy as in uuugh.

The Choice is Yours

I did read some reviews prior to listening, so I knew there may be at least blurring of consensual situations. Some people are more sensitive than others and that’s okay. I took the grain of salt and decided to read it. I’m going to go ahead and confirm that it is more than blurred, in my opinion and definition of consent. I think if the author would have used different language to describe certain feelings, thoughts, and actions, it could have helped. You can have a primitive feel without it being non consensual. I think at one point the MFC basically internally monologued that she decided to stop fighting him off and just let him go at it several times. Use of pheromones in my book is fine, which are used in this book. That may not be okay with you. I wanted to find a book similar to Pheromone (OMG totally recommend), but this was not it. There was also a power imbalance that did not help things consensually.

The world building was on track. It does, obviously, have spice. The spice made me feel icky, as I’ve already explained above. Also, I can’t say that my brain found snake men attractive, so I told my brain that they were men with lizard tails. If you find snakes sexy, I won’t yuck your yum. The book really didn’t reach much of a plot peak for me, but did set up for the next book. It was meant to be a cliffhanger, but I didn’t feel invested enough to care. The narrators were good, nothing negative to say and nothing extraordinary.

MMC was confusing by the end for me. He acted like he was more brute/animal/base needs, but then he has moments of being very intelligent and working computers. MFC was fine, I guess. She’s a little confusing, too. She describes herself as basically past her best years (physically), that she never got undressed in front of past partners, and put all of her focus on career… but then suddenly started trying to manipulate him like she thought she was a pro?

I’m not reading further in the series. It didn’t keep my attention sparked and I didn’t like the ick.

Well written but not my cup of tea

I love alien romance books but this one was another rapey and stockholm syndrome type book

hot and scaley

I really liked this story. the male voice was perfect and i like the dominace in the male. It was peppered with feeling, empathy,compassion and growth. The female narrator took me a bit longer to adjust to.

I'm usually not a fan of overarching stories where the plot develops between multiple books unless its the same characters. however this does have an ending so it's not nessacary to keep reading.