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Darquepunk Nuit #1
Rapacious
In Nuit Four space station’s lawless sector, Kyn’s estranged love, Anja the Sixth, finds trouble: flesh tech users creating sexbots have copied her celestial bio-design. As a fallen biomechanical servant of the gods, Anja’s bio-dats can’t be toyed with. Faced with murderous sex dolls and a sealed flesh tech lab, hellhound shifter Kyn must protect her ex-love and take care of Anja’s Femflesh duplicate despite her worst fear: watching Anja die again.
101 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 20, 2017
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About the author
Elizabeth Watasin
54 books115 followersElizabeth Watasin is the author of the Gothic steampunk series The Dark Victorian, The Elle Black Penny Dreads, the cyberpunk Darquepunk series, and the creator/artist of the indie comics series Charm School, which was nominated for a Gaylactic Spectrum Award. Winner of a Rainbow Award 2015, Best Lesbian Fantasy and Fantasy Romance, for Medusa: A Dark Victorian Penny Dread. A twenty year veteran of animation and comics, she lives in Los Angeles with her black cat named Draw, busy bringing readers uncanny heroines in shilling shockers, science fiction, and diesel fantasy tales.
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March 16, 2017
'Rapacious' is a big departure from Elizabeth Watasin's other works so, whether you're a virgin or veteran reader of this author, know that this has a different style.
Fair warning, despite the plot having sex-bots and sex dolls, this is NOT erotica...at all. It's a rather grisly and gory "science gone wrong" action novella that takes place in an illegal bordello made up of flesh-bots, fake women or female parts made for the sole purpose of providing sexual gratification. If that sounds like something out of a stereotypical horny male teenager's wet dream well...you'll find out why it exists. The story setting is not meant to be appealing.
It's hard to articulate this one...Yes, it's dark and grisly but I think there was an edge of camp, as-well. I got the feeling that we're meant to take the relationship between Anja and Kyn seriously as well as who they are as individuals. However, other characters and the flesh-bots? Not so much.
Anja is a bio-mechanical woman (a human/machine mix) and Kyn is a mute shapeshifting hellhound assigned to protect her. As crazy as that sounds, this author has a knack for making unconventional heroes work.
Their mission is to retrieve Anja's stolen bio data and, in the process, figure out the why, who, and how behind the theft.
There's definitely a "this is so wrong" feeling to the book, similar to the unsettling feeling I get when I catch an episode of Dr. Who or the X-files. And, in fact, it sort of felt like a sci-fi television episode because the entire book takes place in one location in real-time with no breaks.
As an action story, it's fast-paced and highly visual. There's a lot of detail imparted in a short narrative and I found myself benefiting from re-reading / re-visualizing some passages.
The kicker for me was that the story ended somewhat abruptly and on a darker note. The novella was bookended with the main conflict wrapping up but it felt like a cliff-hanger at the end of a season for a television series.
I can see some readers being put off by this story (the grisly, the camp, the mocked but male gaze aspect) while others may have a lot of fun with it. For me, it was both but I basically want more. It felt like we were just scratching the surface for these two and I'm completely intrigued and want to follow them into the next adventure.
4.15 stars.
Fair warning, despite the plot having sex-bots and sex dolls, this is NOT erotica...at all. It's a rather grisly and gory "science gone wrong" action novella that takes place in an illegal bordello made up of flesh-bots, fake women or female parts made for the sole purpose of providing sexual gratification. If that sounds like something out of a stereotypical horny male teenager's wet dream well...you'll find out why it exists. The story setting is not meant to be appealing.
It's hard to articulate this one...Yes, it's dark and grisly but I think there was an edge of camp, as-well. I got the feeling that we're meant to take the relationship between Anja and Kyn seriously as well as who they are as individuals. However, other characters and the flesh-bots? Not so much.
Anja is a bio-mechanical woman (a human/machine mix) and Kyn is a mute shapeshifting hellhound assigned to protect her. As crazy as that sounds, this author has a knack for making unconventional heroes work.
Their mission is to retrieve Anja's stolen bio data and, in the process, figure out the why, who, and how behind the theft.
There's definitely a "this is so wrong" feeling to the book, similar to the unsettling feeling I get when I catch an episode of Dr. Who or the X-files. And, in fact, it sort of felt like a sci-fi television episode because the entire book takes place in one location in real-time with no breaks.
As an action story, it's fast-paced and highly visual. There's a lot of detail imparted in a short narrative and I found myself benefiting from re-reading / re-visualizing some passages.
The kicker for me was that the story ended somewhat abruptly and on a darker note. The novella was bookended with the main conflict wrapping up but it felt like a cliff-hanger at the end of a season for a television series.
I can see some readers being put off by this story (the grisly, the camp, the mocked but male gaze aspect) while others may have a lot of fun with it. For me, it was both but I basically want more. It felt like we were just scratching the surface for these two and I'm completely intrigued and want to follow them into the next adventure.
4.15 stars.
May 21, 2017
The author said she was stepping outside her comfort zone when she wrote this and she was not kidding! Not an easy read, not for the squeemish either. Very gorey ;-) I think it looses one star because of the fact it is so dark but it might be gained when I re-read it again at some point. It is part of a series anyway and I am looking forward to learn more about these characters in book 2.
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