Thursday, March 3, 2011

Drink With Me by L. Rosario

Oh, when you feed from the same things you are made of, it is hard to separate emotion from the encounter. Imagine the one you love having to get close to someone else just to survive. But being forced to watch at the same time? I don’t know if I would be strong enough to do so without having major issues!
Sylvia succumbed to the Blood Ritual to spend eternity with the man she loves. Now she faces a much different, and more difficult, challenge. She must watch as her man feeds from another. Will the woman in her falter with jealousy, or will the queen she has become reign supreme?
Sylvia went from human to Queen of the vampire coven. Some thinks she is too weak, too close to still being mortal to be Queen. Others are jealous and with her to fail. That she secretly doesn’t drink from humans only backs up this claim. Thus she finds herself with her love, the ruler/Master of the coven, when he is to feed. Calmly watching him feed from another should prove that she can be Queen to some. But watching him feed from a beautiful women raises the jealous woman in her.

Sylvia didn’t expect watching him feed to raise the vampire hunger for blood! This hunger is strong enough to overcome her aversion to feeding from humans, at least with the Master there. And he speaks another hunger in her, the sexual hunger she always feels around him. Blood and sex go together for vampires, one lust increasing the other. The Master is present and willing to accommodate the sexual hunger while his servant takes care of the blood lust. A perfect solution for everyone.

Drink With Me is super short but a great spicy read. This continues the story & characters from Blood Ritualbut works great as a little erotic stand alone too. The love is strong between the Master and Sylvia. He is in her mind and worries about her even as he is ‘feeding.’ She hasn’t developed any ‘powers’ yet, but is willing to torture herself to secure both their positions. While there is more/stronger sex here, I feel the story is better developed. We understand the working of the coven somewhat (power-play big time), being big vamps overshadows their past or backgrounds, and the bond between them is firmly established from the start. And of course, I get my continuing of previous characters.

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