Empire: After The Fall by Cat Marsters

Empire: After The Fall by Cat Marsters
Publisher: Changeling Press
Length: Short Story (117 pgs)
Genre: Futuristic, Paranormal
Other: M/F, M/F/M, BDSM, F/F, F/M/F
Rating: 3.5 Cherries
Review by Bittersweet

“No one hides from the Empire. They see everything, they know everything.”

After the Fall, one superpower emerged to rule the whole world. The Empire knows everything about everyone, and no one can hide from it. No one except a psychotic vampire mercenary known as Carver, who has fought both for the Empire and against it.

On the edge of the Empire, a wave of Neo Puritanism has stifled Nalina, a fiesty shape-changer, into a passionless marriage. But when rebellion strikes and the terrifying, corrupt Emperor stakes his claim on Nalina, it’s Carver she turns to for help.

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War, rubble and destruction, a strange necklace placed upon a woman and a mercenary all in one place at a given time. Confusion was my first thought as I encountered this situation in Empire: After The Fall, however, soon enough, Ms. Marsters began to give me clear coherent answers as to what was going on.

As I delved deeper into the story I found myself falling for Carver, that raucous vampire with a heart of gold and a body to match, just as Nalina was.

Nalina herself is easily liked as well, for she is a character one can identify with: Haven’t we all felt at times obliged to what society, parents or friends impose on us? Amidst all the destruction and havoc occurring in her world Nalina is able to find the liberty to be herself. However, I would have liked to see a little more of her character out of the sexual terrain.

Characters like George, the Emperor or others (don’t want to spoil any surprises) fit smugly into the plot, which although seemed to advance a bit slowly at times, ended up rising to its challenge.

Glimpses of humor along with large doses of love and very wild sex (as usual Mrs. Marsters descriptions are wild and vivid) make Empire 1: After The Fall a hot read for these warm summer nights.