Judith’s review of Blue Lady (Book 10 in the Middlemarch Mates series) by Shelley Munro.
Saber and Emily are longtime mates. Happiness has been theirs until the tragic loss of their unborn baby daughter. 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 They inhabit the same house but his loving mate has withdrawn, and he wants his happy, matchmaking woman back.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.
In her Middlemarch Mates series, Shelley Munro has written a series of very cute and erotic tales about love and romance, the problems in relationships, and the clash between humans and shifters, all set in exotic settings in the South Pacific or the land down under. In this short story Saber is a feline shifter and this is Emily’s second marriage. Their unborn child was killed when Emily was injured in a home invasion event, and now she and Saber are at a very difficult impasse in their marriage. Saber doesn’t know how to get through the walls of silence and depression surrounding his wife. Emily is full of fear that Saber will abandon her and their marriage because she didn’t protect their unborn child.
This short little tale highlights the difficulties all couples face when they lose a child for any reason. In this story there is a cause and a clear placing for blame. Even so, these two seem intent on self-accusation, especially Emily, who was emotionally abused in her first marriage and begins to wonder if her first husband was really right about her failings. This “quickie”is very erotic and yet it is a love story full of genuine caring and the efforts of one spouse to re-connect with the other. It demonstrates the hurt and destruction people do to themselves when they fail to share fully in their mutual grief and close themselves off from the support and healing their love can bring them both.
So I recommend this little story as being fun to read and instructive in its own cute and erotic way. The story itself is a “marriage” of entertainment and insight into the human condition. I give this short story a rating of 3.75 out of 5.
This book is available from Ellora’s Cave. You can buy it here in e-format.
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