Kris’ review of Blue Lady by Shelley Munro.
Middlemarch Mates, Book Ten Saber and Emily are longtime mates. Happiness has been theirs, until the tragic loss of their unborn baby. Saber is desperate. Emily has shut him out, wallowing in depression. They inhabit the same house, but his loving mate has withdrawn, and he wants his happy, matchmaking woman back. It’s time to up the ante. Armed with a bag of sex toys from his wild twin brothers and a tropical island setting, Saber is determined to seduce his mate to his way of thinking, to drive the blues away, and he won’t take no for an answer.
This is a quickie story about a husband and wife trying to reconnect after the death of their baby. Sabar and Emily have just been going through the motions since the death of their baby daughter. Emily has been battling depression and Sabar is just lost without his wife. He is afraid of losing her completely if he does not do something soon. So after some advise he whisks her away to a small, private resort on Fiji to try to reconnect with her and seduce her. Emily is grieving for her baby and feels like it is her fault and thinks that Sabar blames her and is taking her away to talk to her about divorce.
There was a lot of communication things, blame and self-doubt that needed to be worked out between these two before they could continue their marriage and in this story they get worked out nicely. This is the second book I have read from this series and this couple and their situation was mentioned in the previous book, but this book could still be read as a stand alone. You do not have full details on exactly how the baby died but that is not the point of this story, it is the dealing with grief and loss and learning to live with it and move on.
It was a good story and I was glad to see them work things out. Because it was so short I had a harder time connecting with the characters. If I had read the other stories I think I would grade this higher because I would have been more vested in the characters, but as a stand alone story I give this a 3.5 out of 5.
This book is available from Ellora’s Cave. You can buy it here in e-format.
Thank you very much for the review. I do work hard to make my Middlemarch stories stand alone yet connected as well for those readers who enjoy the continuity. Thanks again!
I liked this story when I read it for review mostly because it did deal with some substantive issues re: grieving and the impact the death of a child has on a marriage. It is good to see so much worth in what many would see as just a “fluffy” erotic tale. Just goes to show how wrong some people can be.