Review: Couldn't put it down!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 11, 2012
My Wicked Gladiators is the first book that I have read by Lauren Hawkeye, and to say it held me hostage would be an understatement!! This is one of those great books that you are willing to miss sleep for. I couldn't wait to see what would happen next!Alba is the wife of the pater familias, and they run a ludus (a training facility for the gladiators they own). She is very bored with her life, but her one joy is watching the gladiators train. Two of them have caught her eye, but she can do nothing about it. According to the Roman traditions the wife may sleep with any slave she wants except the gladiators, because they must store up their seed to fight better. This doesn't stop her from seducing Marcus, the champion of their gladiators, and having her way with him in her bath. (LAWD ... all I can say about that encounter is HAWT!!!) She feels very guilty about forcing Marcus to sleep with her and betraying her husband, UNTIL her husband comes to her with his new plan to save the lodus from running out of money. He is trying to secure the patronage of Baldurus, one of the wealthiest men in the city, but Baldurus wants them to have a child before he will sign off on anything. Alba has thought she couldn't have children come to find out the problem was Lucius, her husband. He forces her to lie with one of the gladiators until she conceives a child. Needless to say she is pissed about that!! Through this though she finds pleasure in being powerless to not only Marcus but to Caius too, she comes to care for both of them and them her. Can she have a life with her gladiators away from the bindings of Rome??I hope I was able to tell you enough without giving away too much of the story. There is so much to love about this book!! Oh goodness these gladiators are hot as hell!! The loves scenes are smoking hot!! This book is told completely from Alba's point of view please don't turn it away because of that! You would be missing out on a true gem!!ARC was provided by the publisher for an honest review.