Review: Story of Suspense , betrayal and love
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 29, 2014
KING OF THIEVES is the second instalment in Jane Kindred’s ‘Demons of Elysium’ erotic, fantasy series-a spin off from her House of Arkhangel’sk Trilogy.  This is the continuing story of airspirit demon Belphagor and the love of his life firespirit demon Vasily.  The Demons of Elysium is a sexually graphic M/M series where nothing and no one is off limits. KING OF THIEVES follows Belphagor as he attempts to close down a child prostitution and pedophilia ring in Heaven but in doing so will lose the only man that he has ever loved. The storyline advances the series about eighteen months.The focus of the King of Thieves finds Belphagor involved in a sting to take down a child prostitution ring but using demon children (known as the Lost Boys) is not high on the list of Heaven’s problems.  When Belphagor sets a plan into action, Vasily will unknowingly be used to aid in Belphagor’s scheme but in doing so will pull the demon lovers apart-possibly for the final time. A rescue attempt will find Vasily harboring a former Lost Boy and Belphagor , once again, caught in the center of a controversy involving Heaven’s angels and under aged teens.Jane Kindred has written another graphically detailed and sexually explicit storyline.  The reader is pulled into a fantasy storyline about Heaven’s missing and exploited children; where pedophilia is rampant amongst the Nephilum; and one man risks everything to protect the innocent from harm.Once again, the world building continues from the previous storyline wherein Heaven’s landscape is reminiscent of early twentieth century Russia.  There is a destructive chasm between the rich and the poor; between Heaven and the World of Man; and a proclivity to use the most innocent when sexual perversions are at the helm.  Many of the previous storyline characters play a secondary role giving King of Thieves a familiar edge.KING OF THIEVES is not a story for everyone.  It is, at times, difficult to understand the needs and wants of our leading characters.  Belphagor is a Dominant male who has fallen in love with a man who needs to be dominated but is not a submissive.  Vasily is a man/boy-barely twenty years old-who has fallen in love with Belphagor. He is nave, at times, a little slow on the uptake and is oblivious to the little nuances that make Belphagor the man that he is.  The relationship between our leading couple is sensual, sexual, graphic and bordering on abusive.  Belphagor is a demon who does not know how to love and in doing so pushes Vasily further away-every time.KING OF THIEVES is a story of suspense, betrayal, mystery and love.  This is not a romantic storyline but a story of love between two men who must learn to accept one another; open up about their pasts; and forgive. Jane Kindred’s stories are not about God and spirituality but about two worlds-Heaven and the World of Man-that are more similar than they are different.I was gifted a copy