The Pirate and the Naiad

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A pirate captain. A naiad who despises him. 

Raiya despises humans. They abducted him from his home, kept him in captivity, and forced him to fight other nymphs. But when a pirate ship crewed by both naiads and humans rescues him, he is confused at seeing them working and living together. What’s more baffling is his attraction to the ship’s captain, with his calm confidence, broad shoulders, and steely grey eyes. Even so, Raiya will never give in to his desire for a human.

Silas is the pirate captain of the Naiad’s Revenge. His mission is to lead the crew in their fight against the Order. But when Raiya comes aboard, Silas can’t deny his attraction to the scowling naiad stalking around his ship. However, Raiya clearly loathes Silas, so there is no point wishing for something more.

As they fight alongside each other, Raiya realises that Silas is different from the humans he’s dealt with before. Still, after everything humans have done to Raiya, could he ever love one?

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THE PIRATE AND THE NAIAD is the third novel of the A NAIAD ROMANCE series. Each book contains a HEA with no cliffhangers and can be read as a stand alone.

Content notes: sexual content, swearing, captivity and abuse of nymphs, violence.

Overview

Here we are with our dearest captain Sillas and his sweetheart Raiya. From this book, apart from concentrating on the love stories of each couple, the fight of the Naiad's Revenge crew against The Order also takes center stage.

We will begin to better understand the world and the physical and magical laws that coexist in it and that apart from humans and naiads there are other creatures, for example dryads among others that we will see in the following books.

From now on we will have training sequences, action, adventure, fights... let's say something like Pirates of the Caribbean, but in MM (which if you ask me, it's better ✨😅✨).

Review

It was good. I enjoyed it.

I think the best description for this story would be Enemies to lovers with a bit of D/s dynamics and age gap (between 7 to 10 years apart). I would even say that it has a bit of a found family since Raiya does, in fact, find a new family after losing his own.

I love that all the books in this series not only focus on romance, but also deal with other aspects, such as family relationships. It makes the plot more complete and deep.

As for the characters, at times I got very angry at Raiya and his tendency to judge without giving others the opportunity to explain themselves, nor does he have to think about what situations have led others to make that or this decision. And although I understand that those reactions came from the pain and suffering that Raiya suffered, it seemed very selfish of him not to stop to think that the others (Shai and Sillas) have also gone through painful situations.

Sillas, uff... Sillas is a man on a mission: to protect as many naiads and dryads as he can and stop The Order. He is a good man, kind and fair. Good leader who cares about his crew and is just what Raiya needs to heal his wounds and Raiya is what Sillas needs to heal his loneliness.

This romance by itself is a great story, but it's even better since it has an underlying plot in which we see fights, action, adventure... wow that was really good.

Finally, as for Ceto, I hope that in the next few books he can find someone who loved him and appreciated him as he deserves.

Looking forward to book 4!