"imaginative take on both the vamp and Other World themes"
I finally bought an e-book. It's by Charlotte Boyett-Compo
and is called "BloodWind". It's a vamp story with an
intriguing twist. The hero is from a race/species that is
very militaristic. Terran women, the brightest, most
beautiful, and most fit, are kidnapped to help repopulate
the hero's world, which lost all its women when germ
warfare backfired. The hero is a beast is more ways than
one, but you and the heroine are sympathetic because the
hero was raised without love, or any human warmth, and even
as a baby was kept under a harsh regime. The hero keeps his
actual beast under control through special drugs. What he
turns into without the drugs led to ancient Terran,
specifically Celtic vampire myths. If you like alpha males
who are conquered by their love for their women, this is
the story for you. If you can't accept that the hero is a
product of his culture, and comes from a very violent,
macho, militaristic though technically advanced world, then
this story will get your back up.
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It also has a gory scene or two, and the hero undergoes
some brutal treatment, without suffering a single
scratch. When he goes all caveman on the heroine, it didn't offend
me, because at the same time, we see him helpless
(struggling hard but sinking anyway) before his attraction
to the heroine. And he never hurts her. His brutish
possessiveness was made understandable because you remember
the poor innocent baby he used to be, cruelly starved of
love, and you know that the heroine is the only source of
warmth he has ever experienced in his cold world. As a
reader, I saw his behavior as being like a child who fears
what he loves may be taken away - and all his life he has
been taught that the only way to respond to a threat is to
fight (he actually doesn't get that far, in that particular
scene, but the earth practically trembles! When it comes to
the heroine, he is all instinct and aggression, and he goes
by the "What I want I take" thinking that all the top males
like himself are encouraged in. He doesn't even realize
he's caught until much much later. He doesn't even admit he
wants to bed her, at first. he thinks he spent a fortune to
get her just cause he felt like it. From the beginning he
acts in uncharacteristic ways in her� presence, trying to
please her without knowing why. Yeah ... I really liked this story. Very imaginative take
on both the vamp and Other World themes. Carol Castellanos / June 2000
Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted August 21, 2002
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The Rysalian Empire, in their determination to crush their enemies, had unleashed their horror upon themselves instead. But the women of the megaverse and beyond, even unto Terra, paid the price. Plucked from their home worlds and enslaved by the Rysalian warriors, they were bought and sold, bred and discarded or slain at the whim of their captors … until the Resistance was born of their hate and suffering. The Elite warriors, the Reapers were the demons of every Terran woman's nightmare. And one in particular was a nightmare in his own right, a killer among killers. His name was Kamerone Cree. But the Resistance needed him and it fell to Dr. Brigit Dunne to do the unthinkable, the impossible--she must seduce Captain Kamerone Cree and make him fall in love with her to turn him from the Empire. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Rating: Contains graphic sexual content, adult language, and violence. Please note: this title was previously released elsewhere but has been revised for its NCP release. LENGTH: Full Novel--PLUS
SENSUALITY: Spicy
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