Deadly Submission

by Desiree Gelsi

Rickelle Vale has been taken from her home and everything she knows. Forced to live among strangers, she must suffer the torment of Ivan, an Alpha male with a reputation for fierceness and a hostile temper ... and he's decided to claim Ricky for his own. Refusing to surrender to his dominance is dangerous, but for a man surrounded by secrets, submission could be deadly.. Rating: contains violence, graphic sexual content, and adult language

Genres: Paranormal, Erotica, Shapeshifters, Paranormal Romance, Erotic Romance, Werewolves

228 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2005

Reviews

[Praj · Rating 1 out of 5]

Reading a lackluster erotica about a self-confessed submissive to a bunch of horny alpha werewolves is God’s way of telling that either you make too much money or are in a dire need of several psychedelic drugs.

[Aimee · Rating 4 out of 5]

This one surprised me. I didn't expect to like it. So, needless to say, it caught me completely off guard. I'm not sure it's quite a 4 star. But I couldn't bring myself to only give it 3 stars. It was a little slow at times and I would have liked to delve deeper into the characters. It just seemed to skim over the surface. But I found myself drawn into the story, regardless.

I wouldn't necessarily classify it as erotica as I've seen others do. It does have it's share of sex scenes, but not much more than your mainstream PNR. The romance was sweet, if not believable, and I found myself routing for them. I'm not really going to go into detail, I'm too tired. But, overall, it was an enjoyable read. I think I read in one of the other reviews that there is a sequel. I'll definately be looking that up.

[Nar - · Rating 5 out of 5]

Rating - 5 Star ★


i loved this book ...
i loved how Ivan was this tough hard guy but turned it to a totally softy just for Ricky
but i would actually like it if there was a book on Sasha, Ivan's elder brother hmm, hes a real bad bad guy and also a tough guy;
it would be real good to see him fall in love ❣



ACTUALLY! there is a book on SASHA :O wow haha! :)

[Cindyg]

Not much to say, it just didn't grab me...was a struggle to get through it.

[Rosalie]

This was really bad.

[Carinae L'etoile · Rating 2 out of 5]

I found this blurb about the book on another site: Rickelle Vale has been taken from her home and everything she knows. Forced to live among strangers, she must suffer the torment of Ivan, an Alpha male with a reputation for fierceness and a hostile temper ... and he's decided to claim Ricky for his own. Refusing to surrender to his dominance is dangerous, but for a man surrounded by secrets, submission could be deadly.. Rating: contains violence, graphic sexual content, and adult language

Heroine: Rickelle Vale (Ricky)
Hero: Ivan

First and foremost...if you're looking for a smutty read, this ain't it, honey. Move on. Nary a whip, spank or Dom/Domme was to be found. To be honest, for me...there was no violence, there was no graphic sexual content. When I pick up a book about BDSM I expect the c bomb to be dropped, crops, whips, spankings and a whole lot of penetration in all holes. Not in this story. Adult language? I may have seen the word shit in there somewhere.

Overall calling this book erotica/bdsm/smutty read is a bit of a misnomer. I've read far hotter sex scenes in Christine Feehan's Dark series.

The hero (Ivan) is an Alpha male in a werewolf pack. Ricky is kidnapped and brought to their...compound? Cabin? Whichever. They all live there.

It is an incredibly slow moving, yet cloyingly sweet romance. They don't really get down and dirty nasty until 1/3 way through the book. Even then, it's not even doing it nasty in a way that makes my bad girl private parts tingle. It was more of an, "Oh. Ok. That's it? Right. Moving on..."

This was a sweet and tender kind of book, despite the very misleading synopsis.

I found it to be ok. Like its sequel, Sweet Submission, there were typos that had me rolling my eyes and gnashing my teeth. My grammar sucks, but I can spell and know the difference between when to use an apostrophe and when not to. I know the difference between your and you're, as well as there/their/they're. Whomever edited this did not.

If you can overlook typos and an incredibly bland vanilla sex book, this is for you.

[Jenee -Jenee's Book Blog · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book a couple years back and I remembered loving it, so I decided to read it again to refresh my memory and write a review. This book is not a simple werewolf love story. Ricky is kidnapped and sold to a pack of wolves for breeding purposes. She is taken away from her son and parents. She is taught by a human woman, Angel, the proper etiquette when dealing with the Alpha and Beta wolves of the house.
The two Alpha's are Roman (nicer of the 2 and seems to have some kind of connection with Angel) and Ivan (he is mean, treats women horribly and will kill you in a heartbeat). Roman buys Ricky bc he knows she is the last of a special kind of werewolf like Ivan and might be his last chance at a mate.
Ivan is slowly drawn to Ricky throughout the first half of the book. And of the higher up werewolves can order the women to provide "favors" and if they refuse they die. Kind of harsh, but I really liked the way Ivan warmed up to Ricky. He was hott, jealous, possessive and extremely dominant! I loved this book!!!

[Tanya · Rating 1 out of 5]

The story was good but the ending could have been better, I get that this was a maiden and hero story, but Ricky was to weak, A Alpha wolf needs balance and Ricky was to weak, to balance Ivan, Yes she mellowed him with his temper and aggression, but where is her balance? still weak at the end, She was supposed to get this courage and to the unthinkable, not wallow in self pity. but good book

[Nyssa · Rating 2 out of 5]

To me this is porn in book form. It's mainly sex scenes. The plot and all the other stuff just doesn't seem important to the author to fully finish in my case. Now this is just my opinion, but the author starts to show a back story about Bri and others but never fully finish it. Then, she starts a plot about a possible war, but never mentions it again after a few sex scenes...I guess in Sweet Submission they would probably pick up from where it was left off.

[Johanna Sawyer · Rating 2 out of 5]

The book read kind of choppy. Ivan was supposedly a scary alpha, but he never portrayed any of that in the actual book, which kind of left me hanging. Everyone was real wary of him but the book never depicted an actual scene in which I thought it warranted. I wasn't convinced. I wasn't really too sure about the ending either because the mother who begged to go back to her son didn't really connect well with the son after they were reunited. Go figure.

[Kathy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book. I've read it multiple times. I don't know if its the depth of the characters or the unexpectedness of some aspects of the story, but I've loved it since the first time I read it. I think I'm also kind of a sucker for atypical heroes though so that might have something to do with it. Again, this story and subject matter is a little darker than some might expect.

[Rhave · Rating 3 out of 5]

can figure it out yet... someone recommended it.

thank you powers of deduction.

[Steph]

Great book