The Naga Outcast’s Unwanted Mate by Robin O’Connor

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I thought I was dead, but my pulse is racing when I see the beautiful, terrifying creature that woke me.

Vera

My family maneuvered me like a worthless pawn, then cast me away. I was supposed to be executed but even that didn’t go right. When I wake up, my whole world is titled on its axis when I lock eyes with a monster.

He’s half snake, half man and somehow he’s the most alluring thing I’ve ever seen. When he touches me I can understand him and he says I’m his mate. But how’s that possible? I’ve never belonged anywhere. 

When more of his kind chase us, cast us out, and try to do everything they can to keep us apart. I must fight for what I want, fight to keep the one place where I’m wanted. In the arms of my mate.

Zathar

Cast out by my own Clan, by my very mother the Queen. I am left adrift until a skyship falls from the heavens, carrying with it my mate.

She is curvy and soft, everything I never knew I wanted. She’s perfect, and I will give up anything, climb any mountain, even crawl through the haunted ancestral caves if it means I can keep her. If only she’ll believe me when I swear she’s my heart.

The Naga Outcast’s Unwanted Mate

Not bad!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💚
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎
Character development: 😔🤓😘

The heroine: Vera – She was sentenced to die for a crime she didn’t commit. She grew up a debutante with a wealthy but vicious family who knew she wasn’t guilty but didn’t care if she went down for the crime of forging documents and stealing from her family’s biggest rival. Though they probably would have been prouder of her if she had been guilty, they disavowed her to save the family reputation.

The Hero: Zathar – he is a Naga from the Thunder Rock clan. He and his brothers lost their position in the clan and have no chance of finding a mate within the clan unless they can find some way of bargaining with his mother, the queen to restore their position. His friend wanted to try his luck with the females of the Bitter Storm clan, but Zathar wasn’t interested. Thunder Rock clan had scales blue and grey and sometimes silver, while Bitter Storm were red, and they hated all technology. Zathar didn’t mind the different colors, but he enjoyed technology. So, when something crash landed on the planet he was determined to find it first.

The Story: When they gas her after the court proceedings, Vera thinks she is being executed, only to wake up later from a stasis pod in a crashed spaceship with a snake-like male hovering over her. She thinks he is some sort of monster and starts screaming. Zathar had thought the small female was in a coffin, so when she opened her eyes and screamed, he was more than a bit startled. Though he could not deny that she had aroused him despite her pale skin and small frame.

Luckily Vera was from the future, an Earth that had already traveled to other worlds and though Vera had a a translator, it couldn’t understand Zathar’s language. Though for some reason when he touched her, they could understand one another. A bit too magical for my liking but at least they could speak to one another. Personally, I would have liked translators that were equipped with some sort of AI that learned new languages after speaking with other cultures for a few days, it would have been a better explanation. But I guess the author wanted to show that these two had some sort of bond.

It also disturbed me quite a bit how quickly Vera got attracted to Zathar. I mean most women, especially wealthy women, I would think are a bit afraid of snakes, but she easily went from first seeing him to wanting him before she ever got to know if he had a decent personality. Zathar’s society was very matriarchal with his mother being the queen. The females often fought each other and the males doted on the females. I was glad though that Zathar stood up to his mother when she wanted him to mate another Naga.

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