Chaos Croc by Naomi Lucas

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

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.

Chaos Croc

I love cyborgs and shifters, so this is the best of both worlds!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🩵🖤❤️💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏
Character development: ☺️😍🥰😁

The heroine: Janet – she is human and comes from a wealthy family on a planet called Kepler that is covered in oceans. Her family have a huge estate with lots of security to protect themselves, but their agri-lot had been plagued by issues and mysterious disappearances, so they contacted the Earthian Planetary Exploration Division (EPED) to send some Cyborg shifters to help them out in exchange for all of their product from this year. That is how she met Zeph, and like she normally did to protect her family, she seduced him to find out his secrets and make sure he wasn’t a danger to her family. Afterwards, she couldn’t even look at him because he got her heart racing.

The Hero: Zeph – he is a cyborg shifter, a crocodile, and he is a hero from the Galactic Wars. He and the shark cyborg shifter Netto took the job with Janet’s family and tracked down a leviathan inhabiting the ocean on their Agri-lot. Netto and Janet’s sister Rylie fell in love, yet after Zeph’s night with Janet, she wouldn’t even look at him, which made him angry. He wanted her and was determined to have her, so he kidnapped her before leaving the planet on his spaceship.

The Story: Little did Zeph know, but Janet’s five-year-old sister Lily was also on his ship when it left Kepler. Though Lily wanted to travel the Galaxy in a spaceship, like in her favorite video game. She was excited to go on an adventure since at home she could never do anything. She lived on an ocean planet but could never go swimming when she wanted. Zeph couldn’t return Janet or Lily because after kidnapping them, he was wanted by the EPED and his boss Nightheart, and he set back feelings that humans had toward the cyborg shifters a long way after his actions.

I liked the premise of this book and the fact that Zeph kidnapped Janet, though I didn’t really like some of the personality traits Janet had. She used her looks to sleep with competitors of her family to learn their secrets. She told herself she did it to protect her family, but really? Then she basically did the same thing to Zeph, using him then discarding him. I don’t like a heroine like that. I don’t like a virgin heroine, and my favorite heroines don’t need to be pure in all ways, but I don’t like them to use their beauty or their bodies for personal gain either. Too trashy and/or nefarious for my liking.

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