Release Day Review: Smoke Dance by Samantha Cayto #Review #Giveaway

Title: Smoke Dance
Series: Alien Blood Wars #7 (Standalone)
Author: Samantha Cayto
Publisher: Pride Publishing 
Publication Date: January 7, 2020
Length: 262 pages

Reviewed by Truus

Synopsis

What lurks in the dark is not always a monster. Sometimes it’s your deepest desire.

Willem is a good drone, a consummate pilot and an obedient and deadly warrior. He has sat out the war with Dracul for many years, raising the only hybrid daughter among their kind. For years, he kept that information from the others, but when Will answered the call to arms, his secret came out. Yet there is one more secret that could change Earth forever. Because he is determined to both keep it and help bring the war to an end, he will not risk taking another lover. The problem is that he didn’t count on the irresistible temptation of the club’s sous chef.

Damien’s life has been hard. Coming out as gay left him homeless and desperate. If not for the kindness of the strange Stelalux family, he would have ended up living on the streets for years. He loves being a chef and would do anything for the family, now his friends. He didn’t plan on falling for one of them, however. The new and compelling Willem tests his resolve to not get involved with any man, and despite his best efforts, he finds himself lured into the man’s bed.

With new trouble brewing, Will has no choice except to turn to Damien for help. The human is willing to put himself at risk, not only out of gratitude, but also out his growing love for Will.

Reader advisory: This book has some violence and a gay conversion subplot. The book is best read as part of a series.

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Review

Willem and Damien

At first sight you see a cook prepare breakfast for a large hungry family, all male except the little girl Annika. On the second you see the Stelalux alien vampire family with a daughter who is Queen Bee and sees and knows everything, her father, Willem, whose eyes follow Damien, the human sous chef, everywhere. When you’ve read more of this series, you’ll recognize Val and Mackie as master/slave, they are happy with a pregnancy, there is Emil, Alex and many more.

Damien was saved from the streets by Emil and works extra time to give Emil’s large family their meals. Damien is very attracted to Willem and thinks he doesn’t notice him. How wrong can he be?

With Dracul and his son Bran lurking just around the corner, the danger for the hive is near.

To get close to Bran and able to destroy him, the Stelalux family have to use a human and they ask Damien for help. He has to go back to the nightmare his family put him through. Everything in Damien wants to help dismantle Bran’s cover and the awful place where young boys get indoctrinated with horrible ideas.

Willem is so in love and afraid to lose Damien when he finds out about his real origin.

What a wonderful action-filled, entertaining book this was.

In the center of it all is Annika, wise, all-knowing, a girl, daughter, and queen.

She is like a hurricane’s eye, peaceful and kind, around her there is the fuss.

All the events around the Stelalux family are special, and there are a lot of things happening. The love story here is about Damien and Willem and gosh it’s so delightful to see them, their sexual encounters are hot, their connection is strong, the love between them, growing fast and steady. The whole story was excellently developed and flowingly written. Be aware to take note of all the different characters. Even though it's a series this can be read as a stand-alone. The series has a continuous story, but every installment has a different partnering.

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Random Review: Dangerous Dance by Samantha Cayto #Review #Giveaway

Author: Samantha Cayto
Title: Dangerous Dance
Series: Alien Blood Wars #2
Publisher: NineStar Press
Publication Date: May 29, 2018
Length: 185 pages

Reviewed by Truus


Synopsis

What lurks in the dark is not always a monster. Sometimes it’s your deepest desire.

Long ago, Val made the decision to stick by his captain against mutinous shipmates. He has spent a millennium on Earth protecting humans as a matter of honor. He also made the fatal mistake of falling in love with a human boy who died trying to birth Val’s son. He’s sworn to never open himself up to such pain and guilt again.

Mackie was forced to run away from his family to save himself from homophobia and abuse. He learned to live by his wits and the sale of his body. He’s reinvented himself as a brat with a need to be dominated and tamed. He thought he’d found the perfect man in Val, only to discover he had given his heart to a vampire—one that pushed him away when an ancient, hidden war reignited.

As Val and his cohorts battle with their old crew members, he tries to keep Mackie at a distance from the danger and his heart. But Mackie will not be side-lined as either a soldier or a lover. He is waging a war of his own to win Val back.

The next chapter in the alien war is heating up. A deadly drug is flooding Boston, threatening to turn the city into a battleground. Val and the others need help, and one bratty twink might be the best weapon they have. He may also be the key to unlocking Val’s heart and giving him back the happiness he lost.

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There are good and bad vampires... the ones who want to take over humanity and the ones who live among the humans, love them and protect them against the bad and dangerous vamps.

Several centuries ago, Val lost his human partner while he was giving birth to their child.

He decides never to fall in love again. And here he is… pushing Mackie away because he was getting to close. They had a wonderful BDSM relationship and now it’s over.

Mackie, a beautiful young man who ran away from his homophobic and abusive home, is now living under the protection of the club where he is a dancer. He is witty and a brat, demanding a strong dominant hand from Val… only Val packed his bags and Mackie had to move into the club to live.

An undefinable drink does strange things to humans and there are people dying. They have to stop the enemy. Mackie thinks, by making himself useful in this battle, he will have a chance to win back Val’s heart.

This is a good developed story, consuming, well written with a pleasant pace, no rush and certainly not too slow.

Mackie and Val's  relationship was put down with a great dynamic. Their scenes are delicious to watch. They both have well-established personalities.

The whole vampire scenery was great, it almost made me wish, the good parts of it, could be real.

The story stayed strong and compelling, the plot was really well put together, it didn’t weaken.

Overall an engaging read which I enjoyed very much.

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Release Day Review: The Inconvenient Pet by Samantha Cayto #Review #Giveaway

Author: Samantha Cayto
Book: The Inconvenient Pet
Series: Alien Slave Masters #5
Publisher: Pride Publishing
Publication date: January 17, 2017
Length: 150 pages



Reviewed by Morningstar


Synopsis

When a distant planet’s ownership is in dispute, conquering aliens turn defiant human males into pampered sex slaves.

Wen, a Travian cadet on his first mission, stumbles upon a secret settlement of humans and Travians on New World Colony Seven. Affable by nature, he’s still recovering emotionally from his traitorous lover’s near-fatal beating. When faced with the terrible decision to put himself back in the control of a powerful male, he chooses the imposing human male who raises both his fear and his interest.

Jonathan Dax is a first generation space child from New World Colony One. Against his better judgment, he has become the liaison for the settlement. He doesn’t trust Travians, including the fetching youth who kneels before him, begging to become his ‘boy’. The idea of becoming anyone’s master is repugnant. He hates the way Travians have claimed human boys as ‘pets’ and is loath to mimic their ways. Yet, he cannot deny that Wen appeals to him.

At first both Dax and Wen consider what they do in the privacy of Dax’s quarters a form of duty and no more. But the intensity of the pleasure and the emotions they share is impossible to ignore. They each must overcome their pasts and prejudices to form a real bond. Within the bucolic settlement, however, sinister forces are at work, and they threaten to destroy Wen and Dax’s budding relationship.

Reader Advisory: This book contains sex scenes of both non-consensual and dubious consent, as well as scenes of violence, abuse and torture.

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Review

I’ve read this series right from the start and each time I pick it up wondering how the author will make me fall in love with the characters and the harsh brutal environment they live in once again and each time she does it tenfold.

The Travians are a species that hold customs the humans find brutal and cruel, which they are. They take human boys as sex slaves, claiming them through sex, and owning them through brute force. Sometimes the Travian is cruel and abusive, even for Travian standards, and sometimes a bond grows so strong the human and alien do not want to part. The Travian’s have no need for the planet that the humans are occupying but they are determined to get rid of them all the same. Now with a Travian rebellion on the rise they now have their own internal issues to deal with, and fast.

Most of the stories have taken place nearly completely on the Travian ships. The last book gave us a look deeper into the rebellion that has taken root and this one brings us even deeper. I was pleasantly surprised and overjoyed to see this one was not. The setting, on a dust bowl of a planet, was completely different from the previous stories as well as the dynamic between the humans and aliens being subverted. Because this time it was the Travian cadet, who is considered a runt, Wen was the captive of the human Commander Jonathan Dax. A man of imposing size and strength, nothing compared to one of the aliens but strong enough that Wen feels safer with him once he is caught then someone of his own kind.

This one also takes a different route from the others with the dub-con and non-con that were in the previous ones, which I loved, but I must say the complete turnaround from those stories to this one gave it a fresh appeal that I completely loved. Since Wen is Travian he doesn’t see being taken as Dax’s boy as a bad thing or the sexual bond that needs to happen to cement his loyalty to Dax. He understands the custom so he gives himself freely to his new master. 

I thought the mistrust between these two felt realistic and a cause really for a lot of the issue since the mistrust runs not just on an individual level but toward each species as a whole. That one is one aspect of this story that I love watching change with each book and each couple slowly changing the minds of those around them. I cannot wait to read the next one to see how this rebellion among the Travian’s plays out and how the human may or may not help stop it in its tracks!

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