First Taste

by Violet Williams

Freshman year is supposed to be about exciting new classes and making friends...Ramona Murphy never expected to fall for a professor. Dr. Celeste Adams is beautiful and mysterious and pushes Ramona to question if she should live the life her parents expect of her or the life she wants to lead.
But a string of gruesome student murders overshadow their love...all the victims have been drained of their blood. When the killer takes a special interest in her budding relationship with Celeste, Ramona must make a choice or she may be next...

240 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 10, 2011

About the author

Violet Williams is an erotica writer, saving the world via taboo tales...one e-reader at a time.

Reviews

[S.B. (Beauty in Ruins) · Rating 3 out of 5]

When Violet Williams introduced me to her newest project, she said she wrote First Taste to address "the lack of interracial, bisexual characters in 'new-adult' paranormal romance." Toss in a taboo student/professor relationship, a gruesome serial killer, and a vampire twist, and I was immediately hooked.

This was a very nice change from the kind of urban fantasies stories that seem to be in vogue lately, with a strong, confident, sexually mature heroine who is neither a wanton slut, nor a weak-kneed swooning romantic. Don't get me wrong, those stories can be fun, but they also get tiresome after a while, especially when the romance is used to disguise a plot too thin to succeed on its own.

The story is very well-written, well-balanced between eroticism and horror, with characters you really care about, and a plot that keeps you engaged right to the very end. There's clearly more of the story to come, and (for one) definitely welcome the chance to revisit Violet's world, but as a self-contained tale this works very well.

[Dk · Rating 4 out of 5]

With the recent rash of female protagonists in paranormal/urban fantasies that make everything within a 5 mile radius swoon for no apparent reason (I'm looking at you, Sookie!), it was refreshing to read about a character who is strong and confident in her sexuality and not just a damsel in distress.