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Nicholas
Magic has never lead to happiness.
Nicky walked out of the Wild into the civilized world and within a few years he carved out a territory with a selected pack of loyal gang members. He had a secret to keep that not only could affect his hard won territory but also his very existence. Secrets are always found out, especially when that secret involves magic.
Magic was the backbone of the Miradryl Empire; wherever magic can be found the Empire moves to take it as its own. Those who can wield that power are the chosen and the privileged few. King Tiger, Battle Mage Arthur Magnus is searching for a special kind of battery, a Latent – a person who could control energy. The discovery of a new powerful source leads him to this backwater world. His intention was to force a union between them but then the magic decided to bond them forever.
Nicky and Magnus found themselves mage mated, not only was their magic intertwined but now their lives were as well. Their hearts were another matter.
Nicky walked out of the Wild into the civilized world and within a few years he carved out a territory with a selected pack of loyal gang members. He had a secret to keep that not only could affect his hard won territory but also his very existence. Secrets are always found out, especially when that secret involves magic.
Magic was the backbone of the Miradryl Empire; wherever magic can be found the Empire moves to take it as its own. Those who can wield that power are the chosen and the privileged few. King Tiger, Battle Mage Arthur Magnus is searching for a special kind of battery, a Latent – a person who could control energy. The discovery of a new powerful source leads him to this backwater world. His intention was to force a union between them but then the magic decided to bond them forever.
Nicky and Magnus found themselves mage mated, not only was their magic intertwined but now their lives were as well. Their hearts were another matter.
200 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2009
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Derekica Snake
24 books404 followersGreetings, gentle readers. My name is Derekica Snake aka kiix. This is the part where I write about myself. It is harder than it looks. It is so much easier to write about fictional characters…hummm. Wait. I have a light blub moment.
On a dark and quiet evening in the month of April, a little girl child came into the world in St. Joesph General Hospital. Upon seeing the little girl with the little curl in the middle of her forehead, the father was heard to remark…why does she have red hair? At that moment I’ve been known as the milkman’s kid, oops, I meant she’s been known as the milkman’s kid. See, this is why I write in first person. If it works for you, stick with it.
My favorite book was “Green eggs and ham”. Apparently my mother got so annoyed with me reciting it that it accidently on purpose got tossed out the window of a moving car. So I guess I started writing my own stories once I was taught to print. I’ve always loved writing fiction. In elementary and secondary school we were required to keep a journal. I didn’t want to. I love to write but not about myself. I just wrote little ideas down and handed them in. I graduated so I guess it was good.
I thought I was in deep fascination with a boy in grade seven who was very into Star Trek. I had no clue what he was talking about so I started learning about Star Trek and now it was what was his name? Sci-fi segued into Fantasy and from there I never looked back. I was a big Star Wars geek (pre-episode 1) and wrote pastiche Han Solo adventures as a teenager.
My writing began to lean towards my current selection of offerings. I initially was a little distressed. I thought I was off – way off. I was uncomfortable with the content and toned it down or cut it out completely on second draft attempts. However, it kept cropping back up and I thought I was going to have to pull my hair out to make it stop but then…on May 6, 2006 at 9:15 a.m. I discovered “Ai No Kusabi” on youtube.
That was also the same time that I realized that what I had been writing and hiding away for years had a name. Yaoi. If it had a name others were reading and writing it so I wasn’t the lone pervert out in the world. I took my hands out of my hair and put my fingers on the keyboard and embraced the world of Yaoi.
It only took me six months to figure out how to start posting stories on the Internet on www.adultfanfiction.net. It wasn’t long before I moved from writing AnK fan fiction to posting my own original Yaoi writing under the pseudonym kiix.
I started writing daily. I found a continuing education course on Professional Creative Writing in a local city and started taking courses. There were some tips and facts that were good but the social networking was the key. It was after this that I started actively exploring getting my works published. That expensive piece of paper honed my confidence enough to start sending out queries and posting my first drafts right to the net.
While I had to pony up time and money to self publish once the rejection e-mails came in, I didn’t mind. I think it was the start of something good. I think? I know it was the start of something good.
Welcome to my version of the world of Yaoi. I look forward to leaving my touch in your mind.
On a dark and quiet evening in the month of April, a little girl child came into the world in St. Joesph General Hospital. Upon seeing the little girl with the little curl in the middle of her forehead, the father was heard to remark…why does she have red hair? At that moment I’ve been known as the milkman’s kid, oops, I meant she’s been known as the milkman’s kid. See, this is why I write in first person. If it works for you, stick with it.
My favorite book was “Green eggs and ham”. Apparently my mother got so annoyed with me reciting it that it accidently on purpose got tossed out the window of a moving car. So I guess I started writing my own stories once I was taught to print. I’ve always loved writing fiction. In elementary and secondary school we were required to keep a journal. I didn’t want to. I love to write but not about myself. I just wrote little ideas down and handed them in. I graduated so I guess it was good.
I thought I was in deep fascination with a boy in grade seven who was very into Star Trek. I had no clue what he was talking about so I started learning about Star Trek and now it was what was his name? Sci-fi segued into Fantasy and from there I never looked back. I was a big Star Wars geek (pre-episode 1) and wrote pastiche Han Solo adventures as a teenager.
My writing began to lean towards my current selection of offerings. I initially was a little distressed. I thought I was off – way off. I was uncomfortable with the content and toned it down or cut it out completely on second draft attempts. However, it kept cropping back up and I thought I was going to have to pull my hair out to make it stop but then…on May 6, 2006 at 9:15 a.m. I discovered “Ai No Kusabi” on youtube.
That was also the same time that I realized that what I had been writing and hiding away for years had a name. Yaoi. If it had a name others were reading and writing it so I wasn’t the lone pervert out in the world. I took my hands out of my hair and put my fingers on the keyboard and embraced the world of Yaoi.
It only took me six months to figure out how to start posting stories on the Internet on www.adultfanfiction.net. It wasn’t long before I moved from writing AnK fan fiction to posting my own original Yaoi writing under the pseudonym kiix.
I started writing daily. I found a continuing education course on Professional Creative Writing in a local city and started taking courses. There were some tips and facts that were good but the social networking was the key. It was after this that I started actively exploring getting my works published. That expensive piece of paper honed my confidence enough to start sending out queries and posting my first drafts right to the net.
While I had to pony up time and money to self publish once the rejection e-mails came in, I didn’t mind. I think it was the start of something good. I think? I know it was the start of something good.
Welcome to my version of the world of Yaoi. I look forward to leaving my touch in your mind.
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August 27, 2014
Rounded up to 4 stars, only because of Nicholas. This book managed to hit multiple pet peeves of mine, but I still found myself caught up in the situation of the MC, Nicholas, wanting to know what would happen to him, even if it was going to be mostly sex, or pain, or pain and sex. I don't know if I'll read the sequel, but I might, because he was a vivid character.
The story begins with an info-dump world-building prologue that might have made me put it down, but gets much better after that. Nicky is a young man with magical abilities, both of his own and in his ability to support another mage's power. On a world with an indigenous magic-using population, under subjugation by an invading more-technological group who want to take control of that magic, everyone fights for survival and a place.
Nicky is smart, cunning, a good fighter and able to use his magical talents fairly discreetly. He makes a good place for himself amid local street gangs, until his abilities bring him the wrong sort of attention. He is clever, loyal, mouthy, snarly, short-tempered, and fun to be with as a narrator. And his past is as rough as his present. I really liked Nicky. The secondary characters were also interesting and fleshed out the story.
Now as for the pet peeves. First, the prologue. Second, it really needed an editor. Lots of typos, and several malapropisms of simple phrases ("it is mute" rather than "moot", "in lue" rather than "in lieu", "wailed on" for "whaled on") and other errors. And then the content one. The story is also as much sex as plot, which isn't my usual. But the author succeeded in pulling me through to the end and wanting more of Nicky, so I can't go less than rounding up to 4 stars in the end.
The story begins with an info-dump world-building prologue that might have made me put it down, but gets much better after that. Nicky is a young man with magical abilities, both of his own and in his ability to support another mage's power. On a world with an indigenous magic-using population, under subjugation by an invading more-technological group who want to take control of that magic, everyone fights for survival and a place.
Nicky is smart, cunning, a good fighter and able to use his magical talents fairly discreetly. He makes a good place for himself amid local street gangs, until his abilities bring him the wrong sort of attention. He is clever, loyal, mouthy, snarly, short-tempered, and fun to be with as a narrator. And his past is as rough as his present. I really liked Nicky. The secondary characters were also interesting and fleshed out the story.
Now as for the pet peeves. First, the prologue. Second, it really needed an editor. Lots of typos, and several malapropisms of simple phrases ("it is mute" rather than "moot", "in lue" rather than "in lieu", "wailed on" for "whaled on") and other errors. And then the content one. The story is also as much sex as plot, which isn't my usual. But the author succeeded in pulling me through to the end and wanting more of Nicky, so I can't go less than rounding up to 4 stars in the end.
January 2, 2015
That story plot is really shaken, underdeveloped and almost disturbing.
It was waste of my time.
It was waste of my time.
January 24, 2020
★★★☆☆½ ~ 3.5 Stars
I'm just going to say it, I was excited to find something new to me by Snake. I love the Blood Nation series and accept the flaws in editing and grammar but I was hoping that in paying $3.99 for each book in this series for a total of $12.00 that editing and spelling would have improved. I'm here to say that this is among the worst three books I've ever read with these quibbles. I seriously had to take my head and just compensate for every error that took me out of the story.
I'm being extremely generous with a 3.5 stars overall for the series.
I'm just going to say it, I was excited to find something new to me by Snake. I love the Blood Nation series and accept the flaws in editing and grammar but I was hoping that in paying $3.99 for each book in this series for a total of $12.00 that editing and spelling would have improved. I'm here to say that this is among the worst three books I've ever read with these quibbles. I seriously had to take my head and just compensate for every error that took me out of the story.
I'm being extremely generous with a 3.5 stars overall for the series.
February 7, 2014
As I said in the discussion topic, a little editing would have made this a five star book.
February 2, 2020
Fascinating premise
The writing style in this book took a bit for me to get into. But once I did, I found that I enjoyed the flow and I very much liked Nicky. I don't know how I feel about Magnus yet, but I have hopes that he'll be a perfect mate for Nicky once Nicky teaches him to have a strong fine control over his magic.
The writing style in this book took a bit for me to get into. But once I did, I found that I enjoyed the flow and I very much liked Nicky. I don't know how I feel about Magnus yet, but I have hopes that he'll be a perfect mate for Nicky once Nicky teaches him to have a strong fine control over his magic.
July 22, 2015
Dirty, desperate, dystopian worlds are not usually my thing. I like things happy and pretty but Derekica Snake may have just changed my mind.
As her vampire series, Blood Nation proved, the author has a talent for creating complex, captivating characters. In this new series, Powerline one character, Nicholas, dragged me into his dark world and kept me there.
A feisty, tattered hero who sacrifices his own comfort to protect the clan he has gathered around him, Nicholas is a natural leader. For me, Nicholas is the book.
Magic, power, and two men who have a lot to teach each other both in and out of bed. Yes!
Powerline #2...already downloaded :)
As her vampire series, Blood Nation proved, the author has a talent for creating complex, captivating characters. In this new series, Powerline one character, Nicholas, dragged me into his dark world and kept me there.
A feisty, tattered hero who sacrifices his own comfort to protect the clan he has gathered around him, Nicholas is a natural leader. For me, Nicholas is the book.
Magic, power, and two men who have a lot to teach each other both in and out of bed. Yes!
Powerline #2...already downloaded :)
March 5, 2015
Great story. Not so great edits. Still, great story.
December 6, 2015
2014 Rainbow Awards Honorable Mention (5* from at least 1 judge)
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