Erotica is most often described as a tastefully written story with strong sexual content. It differs from pornography in that there is an actual story involved and a motive beyond just exciting the reader, and generally differs from average romance books in the amount (and sometimes graphic description) of copulation that occupies the text. That definition fits The Vampire Queen’s Servant by Joey Hill to a tee — and then some.
It takes a special author, I imagine, to write a story with such incredible eroticism without descending into pornography, particularly when BDSM elements are involved. But Ms. Hill does an admirable job of it, telling in fact a love story amidst all the hot-and-heavy action. It is a serious and adult tale that successfully tugs the heartstrings — and there’s more to come in 2008 with Mark of The Vampire Queen.
The Vampire Queen’s Servant tells the story of Lady Elyssa Yamato Wentworth, a thousand-year-old vampire, and Jacob Green, the man who desires to be her new servant, a job that entails sexual pain and pleasure at her hands as well as domestic chores. It is not a job many men, much less an alpha male, would apply for but Jacob desires it, for reasons he cannot wholly explain, even though it is not in his nature to submit to anyone. Their relationship is a dance, both of them desiring to dominate and yet both desiring to submit to one another as well. She is a predator, borne of a violent culture, but still a woman with a woman’s heart and womanly needs. He is red-blooded male with a hint of Irish brogue and an innate need to serve his lady, but not without question. They try one another repeatedly but his unswerving devotion confuses and delights her in the same breath, and he lives for the opportunity to please her.
The sexual and emotional tension between them is palpable and incredibly intense, and this book is so hot it should carry a cold-shower warning label. Despite that, however, there is love at its core and, yes, even romance, as elegant and remarkably innocent as an ideal first love.
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