Review: Nitty Gritty Sci-Fi Erotic
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 29, 2013
Tracy St. John posted about Ravenous Virtue before it came out and she warned the crap out of her readers that this book wasn't going to be anything like what she's done before. I believe the exact phrase was, If you're going to read this one, make sure your big girl panties are on.My big girl panties were firmly in place and I friggin loved it!I adore her Kalquorian series but for me, in many ways the Kalquor guys have gotten too understanding and mushy. Don't get me wrong, I still think the average Kalquorian male possess all the qualities you should look for in a man. I still would gladly climb aboard the shuttle marked for Kalquor. I still enjoy a good romance, but sometime I need a book with the antihero type of men that are ruthless and unyielding.I've been dying for Tracy St. John to break out and do something like her first few books that made me fall in love with her stories.Ravenous Virtue is just what I've been waiting for. An unconventional love story, set in an awesome new sci-fi universe, with hot alien antiheroes as the abductors! While it's not nearly the most extreme erotic book I've ever read, it is probably the most extreme book Tracy St. John has ever written. It contains quite a few of my favorite things as well as a few things I've never read before. Comfort levels will pushed.Raven is a kick ass and practical gal that thankfully doesn't hold sentimentality high up on her priority list, making her the perfect woman to serve as protector and lover to Vendeen and Daagiis.Daagiis, aka Douglas Bringer, gets Raven to agree to come with him and serve his master, Gilothian supreme judge Vendeen. Daagiis knows Raven accepts to be an indentured servant under duress, but the Paatiin warrior shifter will do anything to protect Vendeen and save Raven.Raven happens to share a common goal with Vendeen, so while she's not thrilled with her new slave status or the feelings her new master invokes in her, she willingly serves and protects him.Vendeen and Daagiis are the perfect antiheroes and deliciously wicked Masters. Don't expect these guys to pull any punches. They'd fight to save Raven and each other. They'd even die for her and each other, but their love is a gritty twisted entity that is as warped as it is hot.And yes it's love.Early in the book you can feel the depth of emotion Daagiis has for Raven. It also becomes clear just how much Daagiis and Vendeen mean to each other. Anti hero love stories don't always use the term I love you. This one does but as a rule the words are not necessary, and the love the characters share is never conventional, yet it is still love.The first chapter for me was set up, I was more accurately hooked by the second chapter and swept away by the third. For me, the book kept getting better as it went along. I loved it and I hope Tracy St. John does more books set in this new universe.