Consequences: Owned by the Vampire - Out of the Fire #1 by Candace
Blevins
Blurb:
Daniel was part ogre and part human, way back in the sixth
century. Now he’s a nearly seven-foot-tall genius vampire who consults for
NASA. Since he lives an hour and a half from his coterie, he maintains his own
flock, and he purchases slaves through the Concilio, rather than dealing with
the hassle of enticing shapeshifters to voluntarily provide his sustenance. He
has needs few would volunteer to slake.
Mariah is a sexy gazelle shifter, tall and lithe. She grew up in flyover
country, and despite the Concilio’s rules against shapeshifters playing
organized sports with humans, she played high-school basketball in her small
town without getting caught. However, a college scout turned her in, and now
she’s owned by the Concilio, trained as a pleasure slave.
Daniel hitches a ride to Italy with a friend to attend an auction, and he
returns home with a statuesque gazelle who was aiming for an applied physics
degree on a basketball scholarship. She’s intelligent enough she doesn’t annoy
him simply by opening her mouth, and sturdy enough to withstand the things he
plans to do to her.
It isn’t the ogre part of Daniel’s personality that’s needed
toning down over the centuries, but his inner Viking. Razing and pillaging,
indeed.
My review:
This book started out rough. If I didn’t know and trust the
author I might have quit early on but she made it worth the pain of the first
few chapters. I had to remove myself from the characters in this book as the
S/m dynamic was important to the story but to tough for me. I continued Daniel
and Mariahs story and was thrilled with the way the author took their journey.
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