Customer Reviews

Hive

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Since this is erotica I expected sex on every page. It was more like (dark) fantasy with erotic elements but few sex scenes in the beginning. The story really moves at a fast pace and it was a great straight fantasy story. Then when the action kind of slowed down the sex kicked in and the last third of the book was all action and some major hot HOT scenes.
THe end was good (I hate books that don't have a real end) but left some possible room for another book. Bring it on.

Every other review praises this book so I'll talk about the few rough spots I found. First, the description of the species that the main characters are from is a bit difficult to follow at first. They seem to be some cross between fairies and bees but it isn't clear. Second, even though we are told that males are second class (or below) there are still males who are quite assertive and hints that some sexual relationships are more patriarchical than one might imagine in such a society. Third, I found the scenes a bit jumpy especially as more locations and more characters are added. However for all these rough spots it is a good world, well connected and fairly described. The characters are interesting and the sex is frequent if a tad repetitious and overwhelming at times. I'm not sorry that I bought it and am glad it was recommended to me.

This book stands on it's own as a great fantasy novel. The story is compelling and draws you in quickly. The 500 plus page count is a blessing as you don't want the story to end. The erotic scenes are hot and of such a wide variety that everyone should find something that turns them on. The main thing is that while the erotic parts are woven intricately into the story, the story itself is very good. It also has some great plot twists.

Bring on the sequel, I know there is going to be one, it can't end here.

that you just will not be able to put down.....

Not since I've read 'Raptor Red' by Robert T. Bakker, have I found an author with the mastery of being able to take the reader on a fantastic and wonderfull journey through the mind and become part of the political, social, very sexual and erotic structure of a hive.

The book starts with the Queen bee assasinated by the head attendant of one of the five daughter princesses who must remain in a state of pre-pubescence until the death of the queen. Once the queen dies a race ensues with attendents obtaining the catalyctic 'royal jelly' needed for the princesses to undergo a biological maturing transition into queen before any of her sisters, since, there can only be one queen bee in the hive.

The book starts in a fury with an intensity that never seems to subside as we follow the new queen through the trails and tribulations of her new found, or should I say, new fought, power in the hive. The hive is obviously matriarchal and the females call all the shots as they are the only ones that can change males from the postion of workers or soldiers to that of drones, adult males, fully sexual, to be kept in private harems of the females......

The drones, of course, are there to be used and abused, but according to the rules of the hive, are protected, and usually hidden, by the female owners. Drones, on the other hand, are powerless to really resist the advances of any female of the hive .......

The authors skill and mastery thrusts the reader into the intrigue of the hive and the different classes of bees and bestows human qualities and attributes (body parts) on our players in such a magnificent and unintrusive manner that the reader is able to effortlessly identify themselves as a member of the hive to enjoy the story. The importance of 'human' sexuality and eroticism is not dumped on the reader but rather it's interwoven into the story to make it not only believable but sinfully delicious. ......

Certainly any reader that enjoyed the erotic book 'Cruel Enchantment' by Janine Ashbless should ask for overnight delivery from Amazon cause you are going to gobble up these 500 something pages of what I consider to be a masterpiece of an adventure and an erotic fantasy .......

I was expecting to get a good fantasy novel that had political intrigue as well as other things... but though the main idea was good the execution of it was not.