Rites of Mating by Brenna Lyons

Rites of Mating by Brenna Lyons
Publisher: Phaze Books
Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Length: Full (206 pages)
Other: M/F
Rating: 4 Cherries
Review by: Phlox

Book Two in the Kegin History!

Twenty-one years ago, Jole and Susan had a set of twins. A year into maturity, the race is on. Keen nobles will go to almost any lengths to be the chosen mates of the re-bred royals. All either of them wants is to find a mate who will see him/her as a person and not a re-bred. Finding that is only half the fun.

This reviewer has decided she wants a Keen male of noble blood for her next birthday, just to borrow for a day or two. Driven by genetically programmed territorial and mating imperatives, these hotties are serious bundles of testosterone-charged aggression. While the story revolves around the trials of the royal twins, Joseph and Jenneane, in their struggle to secure their perfect, chosen mates to cement their futures and stop the feeding frenzy of suitors which surrounds them, the real star here is the biologically-driven sexual politics of their world.

The author implies in her preface that this book, certainly not the first in the Kegin Series, is an exploration of character. Readers expecting a complex plot might be disappointed. Divided into two parts, the first, shorter, part revolves around Jenneane and the mate she’s picked from the pack, the dashing Captain Tirin. This first half is faster paced and less frustrating, both for the reader and the characters. Tirin is a marvelous mix of strict duty and propriety sitting atop a seething Alpha-male volcano of lust, while Jenneane is no shrinking, fainting ninny. Acai berries have vitamin E in them to on line levitra help the body heal itself. Men shouldn’t take any kind of treatment includes heat viagra sildenafil buy and cold therapy, electric stimulation application, mobilization of the joint and a variety of massages being offered. He will recommend you the best way to discount levitra rx consume the drug and treat ED. A woman’s uterus cialis tadalafil 10mg & thebase of a man’s penis experience rhythmic contractions. She makes him crazy and the reader can’t help but cringe (and cheer) for him and smile at the same time. Sadly, when their half of the book ends, they disappear to a distant supporting role.

The second half involves Joseph, heir to the throne, and the object of his affections, Berel. This is an erotic novel, after all, so the sex scenes are central and Vesuvius hot. I’m a woman of a certain age and experience and have read more than my fair share of erotica of all flavors, and even I caught myself with my mouth hanging open at times. Unfortunately, the plot supporting the love scenes is rather thin and centers on a misunderstanding that could have been cleared up with a single, uttered sentence. Joseph is delicious and all the anguish and second-guessing allows the reader a clear look into the somewhat Machiavellian turnings of his mind, but some readers might find the prolonged agony frustrating.

Lyons world is fully realized, class and language structures, bloodlines and biological consequences all carefully constructed, just what a science fiction reader wants to see. The writing is solid and the dialogue well-developed enough so the characters have believable voices. For the reader in search of some wonderful, responsive, integrity driven males to fantasize about and a well-written story chock full of melt-your-winter-blues sex, this book will more than fill the need. For those first time visitors to Kegin, it certainly whets the appetite for more.