Review: Truly Exceptional
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 18, 2013
An amazing book, a real genre-bender. Sci-fi/horror/erotica/romance. Long, and there is lots of violence, including rape. Interspecies love. A fabulous romance between a human woman and a (warm-blooded) lizardman. This book would not be for everyone. It is unremittingly dark, but the romance is one of the best I've ever read. I really believed that Amber and her lizardman, Meoroq, who is sort of a warrior priest, would make it as a couple and transform the world (Not Earth, Meoroq's world). Read more of the reviews here before deciding whether to try this book, even just read the sample on Amazon or whatever and get a taste.Starts out slow, but it's fascinating even in the slow opening--which is up to about 16% of the book, setting up how Amber and a group of really horrible humans came to be on Meoroq's planet and also setting up the hero and his world and place in it. At least five times while reading this book, I told myself it would be DNF. I couldn't take anymore, it was so unremittingly dark. But then I couldn't stand not knowing what happened to Amber and her lizardman.The payoff at the end, the explanation of how Meoroq's world and culture became what it is: fabulous.