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Lord of the Deep

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I thought I'd give this author a try, as I enjoy erotic books and stories about shapeshifters and the like. This book was rubbish. I found myself actually scanning over the "erotic" parts because they were boring. There was no build-up, no sensuality, nothing hot about any of it. Just sex, sex, and more sex. Oh... and did I mention the Lord of the Deep and his love interest are constantly ready for more sex? The plot and sex are dull and unimaginative. I won't be buying any more books from this author. I was really disappointed. J.R. Ward writes more erotically this this author.

This story was a little weird for me and the sex was a little to much. A fish and and a mortal I don't know this is really too much fiction and no sence. This is my first read on my kindel.

Dawn Thompson, who also writes as Dawn MacTavish, is best known for her regency era historicals, often with a paranormal theme. From the lighter Highwayman tale (The Marsh Hawk) to her shapeshifter debut (The Ravencliff Bride), and now, she's pushed into dark, sexy, savvy Regency vampire tales that please romance readers and non-romance readers alike in the Blood Moon series (Blood Moon; The Brotherhood; The Ravening.) However, in her first book for Kensington Aphrodisia, first in a series called The Elementals, she offers us yet another facet of her immeasurable talent - erotica historical fantasy.

This book literally held me spellbound. The beauty of her words, her strong world building grabbed me from page one, pulled me into a story that is original, strongly visual that wouldn't let me go as a reader. As an author, I can only admire her talent. Thompson is one of the most beautiful, lyrical writers out there. Her prose sing. She really sets that quality loose in conjuring this erotic fantasy.

It's a tale of Selkies (NOT seals, but enchanted people of Scotland). This is a very old tale all of Northern Scotland, and though done in other books, rarely has the world building brought the Selkies forth so strongly. Myth says they were the most beautiful of men and women and they could come ashore to take human lovers. The romances were doomed because they could not stay on shore for long. Thompson takes this ancient lore and breathes new life into the tales.

Meg was accused of being a witch, so she is banished to the Isle of the Mists. Far away from everyone, she is entrigued when she spies the seals coming ashore late one night. From her darkened window, she watches enthralled, as she soon sees they are not seals, for they shed their pelts and turn into dozens of beautiful males and females. Naked, their glistening shapes contort, writhe, as they began a mating orgie. But then, Meg can barely breathe as she sees him--the Lord of the Deep, the Selkie King.

Meg faces a fate of giving her virginity to the shaman of a cult, and groomed to be a priestess, only that night as she watches the Selkie Leader on the beach, suddenly, her life takes a new path. In return, he spies Meg watching him and now wants her. Simeon is tired of his Selkie consorts, and is desirous of something "more" to his life. At first, he carries Meg off, thinking after they had sex, he would lose interest, as he had with so many others, but Meg is different, and he wants to keep her. Only Meg cannot exist long in his world, nor he in hers. Add in other factors working to keep these two lovers apart, you have a rousing story...lol...in more ways than one!

Once again, Thompson draws strongly on historical lore, then refashioned the myths and legends into her very own tale that leaves the reader breathless. The first of at least four "Lord" tales, Thompson hits her stride with this book from page one and doesn't stop, leaving you eager for Lord of the Dark, the next book in the series.

Outstanding literary erotic fantasy.