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Book 3, Michel (The Strigoi Chronicles):
The liege-lord of Hel is the demon Michel du Velours. Suave, debonaire, and always well-groomed, he is the antithesis of his vassals. A man who rules with an iron fist. A man with enemies.
Dreu, the half vamp/half-demon cleric, spent 900 years avoiding his father's clutches. When his werewolf lover, Fane, is assassinated by his own pack, Michel offers Dreu sanctuary.
Hel is exactly what Dreu expected... and then some. As the heir apparent, the simple cleric finds to his dismay that the right of succession has some pitfalls.
The liege-lord of Hel is the demon Michel du Velours. Suave, debonaire, and always well-groomed, he is the antithesis of his vassals. A man who rules with an iron fist. A man with enemies.
Dreu, the half vamp/half-demon cleric, spent 900 years avoiding his father's clutches. When his werewolf lover, Fane, is assassinated by his own pack, Michel offers Dreu sanctuary.
Hel is exactly what Dreu expected... and then some. As the heir apparent, the simple cleric finds to his dismay that the right of succession has some pitfalls.
- GenresM M RomanceParanormal
67 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 28, 2013
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Nya Rawlyns
54 books42 followersNya Rawlyns cut her teeth on sports-themed romantic comedies and historical romances. She found her true calling writing about the wilderness areas she has visited but calls home—in that place that counts the most, the heart.
She has lived in the country and on a sailboat on the Chesapeake Bay, earned more than 1000 miles in competitive trail and endurance racing, taught Political Science to unwilling freshmen, and found an avocation in materials science.
When she isn’t tending to her garden or the horses, the cats, or three pervert parakeets, she can be found day dreaming and listening to the voices in her head.
She has lived in the country and on a sailboat on the Chesapeake Bay, earned more than 1000 miles in competitive trail and endurance racing, taught Political Science to unwilling freshmen, and found an avocation in materials science.
When she isn’t tending to her garden or the horses, the cats, or three pervert parakeets, she can be found day dreaming and listening to the voices in her head.
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August 12, 2013
SPOILER ALERT: contains spoilers for book 2 of the series, Fane
In Michel, book 3 of The Strigoi Chronicles, Nya Rawlyns gives us more than a brief look at Michel du Velours, Demon King of Hel and father of Dreu, the half-Vampyr, half-demon monk-with-benefits. We met the “man in Armani” in book 1, and got to know him a bit in book 2, but book 3 immerses us — and Dreu — in his world.
After watching Fane, his werewolf lover and mate become a sniper’s target, spraying blood over the snow and falling into a ravine, Dreu’s only concern is to recuperate from his own gunshot wounds enough to exact revenge and retribution on the pack which took his wolf down. The only place he can do that is under his father’s care — the father Dreu doesn’t entirely trust, for very good reasons. His medical needs are seen to by Rafe, the demon doctor; his physical needs by his father’s right hand demon, Jefrumael, with a bit of help from a s/he demon Dreu calls Nurse Kinky. His emotional needs are nil: he has shut down everything except the desire to destroy the weres. All he needs to do is learn to fight.
The fight will be uneven. Even a Vampyr-demon hybrid can’t count on a favorable outcome, when his diminutive 12th century build is pitted against a pack of XXL testosterone-fueled weres-with-a-grudge. Dreu’s introduction to hand-to-hand with young and not-so-powerful demons leaves more than his ego bruised; he needs to learn not just the moves, but also the capabilities of his own once-ignored demon side, all under the very watchful eye of demon-dad.
Michel has his own reasons for granting his son’s request to be taught combat skills, reasons he holds close to his silk-clad chest. It’s obvious that there are wheels within wheels operating here, power struggles for control of Hel among them. Dreu must determine when and where his own interests line up with his father’s, and when and where the two stand on opposite sides of a fiery chasm. Jefrumael stands straddling that chasm, but whether as a demon full of uncertainty, a shield between father and son, or a bridge connecting the two, Dreu isn’t sure.
As she does so exceedingly well, Rawlyns brings Dreu to the last well of who he believes himself to be and then holds his head under until belief is shattered and reality emerges. She has masterfully built the tension between belief and reality for Dreu over the first two books, without making them in the least faded almost-books waiting for their successors to give them meaning. In this book, she continues that passion play, in some ways independent of what has gone before and what is still to come, and yet very much a part of an organic whole.
Nya Rawlyns’ writing earns her a seat on the dais among the most outstanding and finest living authors in her genre, and likely any other genre in which she cared to try her hand.
In Michel, book 3 of The Strigoi Chronicles, Nya Rawlyns gives us more than a brief look at Michel du Velours, Demon King of Hel and father of Dreu, the half-Vampyr, half-demon monk-with-benefits. We met the “man in Armani” in book 1, and got to know him a bit in book 2, but book 3 immerses us — and Dreu — in his world.
After watching Fane, his werewolf lover and mate become a sniper’s target, spraying blood over the snow and falling into a ravine, Dreu’s only concern is to recuperate from his own gunshot wounds enough to exact revenge and retribution on the pack which took his wolf down. The only place he can do that is under his father’s care — the father Dreu doesn’t entirely trust, for very good reasons. His medical needs are seen to by Rafe, the demon doctor; his physical needs by his father’s right hand demon, Jefrumael, with a bit of help from a s/he demon Dreu calls Nurse Kinky. His emotional needs are nil: he has shut down everything except the desire to destroy the weres. All he needs to do is learn to fight.
The fight will be uneven. Even a Vampyr-demon hybrid can’t count on a favorable outcome, when his diminutive 12th century build is pitted against a pack of XXL testosterone-fueled weres-with-a-grudge. Dreu’s introduction to hand-to-hand with young and not-so-powerful demons leaves more than his ego bruised; he needs to learn not just the moves, but also the capabilities of his own once-ignored demon side, all under the very watchful eye of demon-dad.
Michel has his own reasons for granting his son’s request to be taught combat skills, reasons he holds close to his silk-clad chest. It’s obvious that there are wheels within wheels operating here, power struggles for control of Hel among them. Dreu must determine when and where his own interests line up with his father’s, and when and where the two stand on opposite sides of a fiery chasm. Jefrumael stands straddling that chasm, but whether as a demon full of uncertainty, a shield between father and son, or a bridge connecting the two, Dreu isn’t sure.
As she does so exceedingly well, Rawlyns brings Dreu to the last well of who he believes himself to be and then holds his head under until belief is shattered and reality emerges. She has masterfully built the tension between belief and reality for Dreu over the first two books, without making them in the least faded almost-books waiting for their successors to give them meaning. In this book, she continues that passion play, in some ways independent of what has gone before and what is still to come, and yet very much a part of an organic whole.
Nya Rawlyns’ writing earns her a seat on the dais among the most outstanding and finest living authors in her genre, and likely any other genre in which she cared to try her hand.
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