Book Reviews

Book Blurb

Lance devoted his life to serving a vampire, Elizabella, until the day she committed suicide. These tragic events bring another vampire, Tavok, into his life. Though Lance knows immediately that he and Tavok belong together, he wonders if he deserves to find love while still so overcome by grief.

Tavok can hardly control himself when he meets Lance, his fated mate. Tavok knows Lance needs time to grieve, and he does his best to wait. Everything is perfect when they finally make love, but then Kadlin, Elizabella’s twin, arrives and makes no secret of his desire to possess Lance. Kadlin disappeared years ago after aligning himself with a demon, and Tavok will do anything to keep him away from Lance.

When Kadlin spirits Lance away to the demon realm, Tavok is racing against time to save his mate before Kadlin does something that will separate the two lovers forever.

 

Book Review

This second adventure in the "fantasy vampire" world with the feudal structure where vampires hold most, if not all, the positions of power, tells the story of Tavok, Ettore's younger brother who briefly appeared in book one, and Lance, the servant of the female vampire who kidnapped Ettore's mate. While she herself is dead, she has a very "worthy" and super-villainous successor in her twin brother, Lord Kadlin, who makes life impossible for poor Tavok and Lance.

Tavok is overjoyed when he finds his mate, and wants nothing more than to make love to Lance. While they do manage to get there relatively quickly, Lance holds back and that drives Tavok crazy. He has no idea what could be the cause, and him wanting to be dominant all the time doesn’t even appear on his radar. Until Lance tells him. But even then, Tavok doesn’t get how important it is for his mate.

Lance is still mourning the loss of his previous employer, the female vampire who went crazy, then killed herself, but he does feel drawn to Tavok.He also has no qualms about being turned, but having to submit to Tavok all the time grates on his nerves. Not that he says anything, he just lets it fester. Getting abducted and mistreated by the evil Lord Kadlin may not help, but it does put the whole "issue" with Tavok into perspective for Lance.

The second volume of this series is much bloodier than the first, with more violence, and adding demons as well as powerful priests to the picture. There is also less romance, and even though Tavok and Lance eventually find a way to be happy together, it isn't the sweet kind of happiness that Ettore and Simon found in book one.

 

If you'd like to experience vampires in a fairy tale-like setting, but don’t want to miss the brutality and blood sometimes associated with them, if you enjoy two males battling for dominance in a covert way (almost passive-aggressive) but with neither of them willing to give in, and if you're looking for a story full of aggression and an intense battle with "evil", then you will probably like this short story.

 

 

 

 

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Additional Information

Format	ebook
Length	Novella, 23300 words
Heat Level
Publication Date	21-June-2013
Price	$3.99 ebook
Buy Link	http://www.evernightpublishing.com/saving-his-mate-by-marie-medina/