Review: Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am and Oh By the Way, You're Mine..
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 14, 2013
As usual I picked up this freebie by it's cover.  Never read the description if I had I would have avoided.  While I enjoy mild erotica and vampire stories and adore them when they come together, I don't enjoy the submissive/dominant aspect and while the bondage was very mild and fully consensual it pulled me out of the story.  However, those are my issues and many other readers may enjoy those parts of the the story.  I should add the intimate scenes are lusty, explicit with adult language and are well written.  They include light bondage, oral, and a bit of backdoor action.  All acts are consensual.My main issue here is the universe building.  In this universe all vampires are born male, without souls and have "magical" abilities i.e. conjuring and transportation.  Certain human females are marked with the "tattoo" of their vampire mate, and carries her mate's soul.  However the female doesn't know what the mark is until her mate shows up.  If the couple are not mated by the time the female is 30 then she dies and the vampire is left soulless and basically a Eunuch, good for fighting the "Fallen" or the bad vampires.  Usually the female sends out a call for her mate and once the vampire receives it he goes to her, courts her, they have a public, rough mating, and then they live happily ever after for centuries. In addition, the "Fallen" find unmated female mate's blood very potent and so when they find an unmated vampire mate, they like to drain her.Given the above "rules" of the universe I found it irritating that it was never explained why Brianna doesn't call Ethan until she is nearly on her deathbed.  What makes her not follow the universe's rules?  I realize the concept of "mine" is very popular in vampire serials and has been done well in several i.e. Brotherhood of the Black Dagger.  In this book I found the "mine" and "love" came so quickly and she accepted it even quicker, that it seemed to all be about lust and possession of the body and no real connection between the minds.  As this is a short story/novella, I realize the "erotica" portions are what most people are after, but I would have liked to have more than Hello, You have my soul, drink my blood and bam bam bam thank you maam we are mated for life.If you don't share my issues, then may I recommend this.  As it is a well tightly written story.  The scenes with Ethan's brothers are humorous and for me some of the best in the story.If you have issues with anything I mentioned in the first paragraph, give it a miss.