Review: lures you in...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 9, 2013
There is a complicated world being built here and I'm not sure it was entirely successful. There is sexual slavery and sterilization and electricity and trains but no mobile phones or computers- so a 1950's kind of world with slavery.  Bran is an abused slave who is bought by Alix and Holden to be retrained into becoming a more manageable slave.  I liked Bran and I very much enjoyed his story arc.  The book was short but it explored a lot of the different ways in which people experience slavery and what it does to them.  This is not strictly speaking an m/m romance, it's more like an alternative universe fable with some m/m sex in it.  I read a lot of m/m books and this is definitely one of the more memorable ones.I have to say I was a bit dubious mid-way through the book,  but by the end I was hooked and I do want to hear what else will happen to this cast of characters.