*** THIS IS A RERELEASE OF A PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED BOOK ***Dr. Allison Baker is obsessed with saving the comatose New Species male. She has tried everything and there’s only one option left. Alli will break every rule and put her life in danger by tempting 880 to wake, using only her feminine scent and touch. She just has to kidnap him and crawl into bed with him to make it work.880 wakes in a … work.
880 wakes in a different world with a small female who’s been sleeping beside him, caressing him and wrapping her sweet body around his, teasing his senses. He lies silent and still, listening and evaluating each arousing touch, fighting his body’s reaction. Hatred flares when he discovers she’s human, but Mercile stole everything from him so he decides it’s fair to take her in return.
But things quickly change and he wants her at his side and in his bed. 880 has chosen a new name—Obsidian—the personification of dark and dangerous. He’ll fight them all to keep Alli. No one will stand in his way.
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i love this whole series but this was an especially good one!
Sometimes doing the right thing can be the wrong thing
This book is another wonderful addition to this series. Each time I read it, I get so caught up in the emotional roller coaster that I find myself crying for the last couple of chapters. It might be weird, but I think an author has absolutely outdone themselves when they are able to get you so emotionally invested in their characters that you cry at the HEA. I am looking forward to the next book by this author.
There were parts of this one that just tore my heart apart and made me wonder if I really wanted to keep reading it. But since I really wanted to find out what happened, yeah, I had to keep reading it.
Dr. Alli has worked with the NSO for a while, and while she does everything she can to take care of all the New Species that need help, there is one that she’s particularly attached too. 880 has been in a coma for months, and she wants to help wake him up. There’s something about him that draws her to him, and she sneaks into see him whenever possible and does what she can to care for him. But when her plans to help wake him are turned down, she decides that she’s going to “steal” him and put her plan into play. But…
There are a lot of things that happen in this one that I like. I like that the female New Species go in and basically starting laying down the law. I love that Justice and Tiger both get told off and told they should go a cell if Allison has to because they are just as guilty. It’s pretty dang awesome.
I loved this one. My only issue was the conflict resolution. Not as romantic as I would have liked. Definitely more realistic, but not as mushy as I wanted. But you have to love Obsidian. He was just perfect. Swoon-worthy.
I have read the entire series and loved it. Each story is unique and inspiring in its own way. The writing as well done & creative. I highly recommend reading the series in order to get the full effect and to have a real appreciation for it.
So I love hot, steamy books! Lots of sex? hell yes! This book provided that. I thought Tigers book was fire, this book is very close and it packs a punch!! Probably my favorite read from this series so far. Tigers book is a very close second. This series is just so great. Off to book 9!
*Audible version, I also love this narrator, she is fantastic!
Obsidian is book 8 in the New Species series by always amazingly creative Laurann Dohner. I this story Dr. Allison ‘Alli” Baker absconded with a comatose 880 (Obsidian) breaking not just human laws but New Species laws. I get why she did what she did but also do not condone it because she clearly did try every avenue before running off with the New Species.
Obsidian starts out pretty slow and boring but starts to pick up the pace a few chapters in which helps a lot but even with that I think Obsidian will always be my least favorite story in the series. Don’t get me wrong the story is well written and has way fewer edit than what I usually find in New species stories. The thing that got me was the story line itself, because Dr. Allison is a good doctor and yes her heart was in the right place and Obsidian’s attachment was a definite save for the young Dr and all of that was going along bumpily making the story interesting and then the struggling couple is separated for a time. I get why it happened but I had hoped for more about the few months while they were separated instead of just jumping into them reuniting. I guess just like in the movies there have to be cut scenes to make the story a certain size, it could be worse but it wasn’t because the characters were likable and interesting, I just wasn’t crazy about the storyline.
I am still really impressed with how well Laurann Dohner maintains the continuity of her New Species realm. Her attention to the character’s details and personalities from one book to the next has continued to leave me in awe because she never seems to miss a step when addressing other characters from previous books in the series giving us much needed updates on how those characters are progressing in their lives while focusing on the current main characters. New Species is still my all-time favorite series.
This Review was originally posted here
https://laurasbookbinge.wordpress.com/2020/03/08/obsidian-new-species-8-by-laurann-dohner/
a bit teeny and too much high school drama, but I am hoping the characters will age soon. maybe it is a young adult book and I didn’t notice? I will start the second book in the series because it is free, if I had to may I may not.