House of Moons 1: The Seeding
Kara FeyFantasy erotic romance
Available from Changeling Press
ISBN: 1-59596-064-3
September 2004
| Hana dreads the Seeding Ritual, in which a captured male is given aphrodisiac and forced to 'seed' many women, yet she can see no way to avoid being second without starting a war, and being the first casuality. Her sister, the Queen of the House of Moons, and the Daughters of Lore are feuding and she's there to facilitate peace between the houses. And though she dislikes the ritual, she also finds the male the Daughters of Lore captured magnificent. When it comes to her turn, she finds pleasure, and makes the male, Kiel, lose the control he held onto so tightly during Charla's turn. And when she's done, she sees hate in his eyes. Before the night is over, she learns the male is to be killed. And she decides to risk everything to save him for some reason she can't begin to understand.
House of Moons 1: The Seeding surprised me. For a relatively short story, it had far more elements involved in the story than I could've expected, and the author handled Kiel's rape, while not pleasant, certainly more realistic than I had been prepared to read. I'm not sure if the author deliberately, and subtly, made the ritual seem disgusting, or if it were my own emotions doing that, but either way that part of the book didn't seem shallowly done. The author left several things hanging at the end, surely leading to more books, but they also left me with the belief that those books might even be better than The Seeding . The sci-fi world Ms. Fey introduced is something I wait anxiously to explore. Kiel and Hana were erotic together, and also had stubborn yet interesting personalities. I very much look forward to more of the series. .
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Reviewer: Tara Black |
