Lia Black
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Where Willows Won't Grow door Lia Black
Nude oil wrestling, human sex slaves, non-con, fantastically drawn aliens, some torture and one survivor of an annihilated race. Step right up, buy a ticket, enter this dark whore house and set your kinks free.
Well written with really three stories woven into one. There is Gareth's crisis of the faith in which he leaves the Brotherhood to become a village priest. There is the journey of Fydelis and Gareth to collect souls and clean up the mess that the Crusaders left behind. Lastly, there is the love between Gareth and his guardian Fidelity now become Fydelis. This was a wonderfully complex story that could have benefited by better editing. This is my first book by Ms Black but will not be my last.
My reactions to this novel are primarily positive, but not simple.
If you like data-dumps, this book will confuse you, but I enjoyed discovering what Apex is via how the perceptions of Derek, the human detective, and Kayle, the variant detective, differ. We learn in bits and pieces how Earth came to be in such a mess, and why Apex rules what is left of humanity. I liked that not everything makes sense until later, including the haphazard detective work, and even then what's messy is that way because communication is hard, and even worse between antagonistic species. And I like that the resolution is a bridge, or the start of a bridge.
It's that start that leaves me wanting, even though I liked the end. There is another half of their worlds that we've yet to see.
I do wish I knew what the title meant or referenced.… (meer)
If you like data-dumps, this book will confuse you, but I enjoyed discovering what Apex is via how the perceptions of Derek, the human detective, and Kayle, the variant detective, differ. We learn in bits and pieces how Earth came to be in such a mess, and why Apex rules what is left of humanity. I liked that not everything makes sense until later, including the haphazard detective work, and even then what's messy is that way because communication is hard, and even worse between antagonistic species. And I like that the resolution is a bridge, or the start of a bridge.
It's that start that leaves me wanting, even though I liked the end. There is another half of their worlds that we've yet to see.
I do wish I knew what the title meant or referenced.… (meer)
I never thought I'd be too keen on slave stories (by which I don't mean the master-slave/BDSM sort, but the actual 'owned person' sort), but I've read two in the past month and have been pleasantly surprised. The fact that this one is set in a dystopian fantasy world certainly plays even more into my interests.
The characters here are wonderful - they're dynamic, easy to connect with, and are very much a part of their world. Sev and Demetrie are great and the way they interact with others contributes not only to the reader's understanding of them, but also of the world in which they live.
I highly recommend this one.… (meer)
The characters here are wonderful - they're dynamic, easy to connect with, and are very much a part of their world. Sev and Demetrie are great and the way they interact with others contributes not only to the reader's understanding of them, but also of the world in which they live.
I highly recommend this one.… (meer)
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- 3.6
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