Calore in vendita

Heat for Sale #1

by Blake Moreno, Mary Durante (Translator)

In un mondo dove gli omega vendono i loro calori in cambio di soldi, Adrien è uno studente universitario che ha bisogno di fondi. Senza una famiglia su cui contare, dà il riluttante permesso al selezionatore dell’università di offrire il suo calore vergine nell’asta online. Ansioso, ma consapevole che quella è la realtà della vita per tutti gli omega, Adrien spera che chiunque vinca il suo calore sia gentile.
Heath, un alfa ricco e più vecchio, viene colpito dalla somiglianza di quel giovane uomo con il suo amante morto, Nathan. Quando scopre che Adrien è il figlio perduto di Nathan, concepito durante il suo primo calore, anni prima che loro due si incontrassero, diventa ossessionato all’idea di reclamare un pezzo del suo vecchio amore.
Heath compra il calore di Adrien per un solo motivo: metterlo incinto, ottenere il bambino e andare avanti con la propria vita. Ma la loro innegabile passione lo sconvolge. Adrien non sa che fare con lo sconosciuto attraente e misterioso a cui ha dato in pegno il proprio corpo, ma presto viene soverchiato dagli effetti del calore e si arrende totalmente a Heath.
Una volta che Adrien resta incinto, Heath lo rinchiude nella sua immensa casa isolata. Man mano che il parto si avvicina, impara ad amarlo per l'uomo che è, non solo per il suo legame con Nathan. Ignaro del passato di Heath con il suo genitore omega e giunto a dipendere da lui anima e corpo, anche Adrien comincia a innamorarsi.
Ma mentre il loro amore sboccia, l'ombra di Nathan incombe. Riuscirà Heath a tenere con sé il suo nuovo amore e il bambino che hanno avuto, una volta che Adrien scoprirà i suoi segreti?

Calore in vendita è un MM erotico e standalone scritto da Leta Blake, sotto lo pseudonimo di Blake Moreno.

Genres: Omegaverse, M M Romance, Romance, Paranormal, Fantasy, Erotica, LGBT

223 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 14, 2018

About the author

Pen name of the author Leta Blake.

Reviews

[Heather K (dentist in my spare time) · Rating 1 out of 5]

I love, love, love Leta Blake but I couldn't bring myself to rate Heat for Sale more than 1-star. I really didn't like the story, and I don't think I'll buy another book from Leta's Blake Moreno pen name again.

I've read omegaverse books before, and I'm no stranger to knotting or mpreg, but Heat for Sale was a WHOLE different level. I was not prepared for dripping, self-lubricating assholes, chestfeeding, expanding hips, and birthing... I just... wasn't. I got bad, unsexy flashbacks to my own pregnancy, and I literally cringed and made a face every single time I read about wet, slippery holes... every time. Self-lubrication is a hurdle in M/M that my brain just can't get around.

However, the technical squicky details played a pretty minor role in my rating: the plot is what killed it for me. I HATED Heath and I would have NEVER forgiven him for tricking Adrien into giving up his virginity and birthing his child under false pretenses. The whole plotline with Heath and Nathan and Adrien was so twisted that it became sickening to me and incest-like in my mind. Look, I've read and loved books where someone falls in love with a deceased spouses/lover's child, and those stories are tricky to pull off, but flat-out omission and deception are NOT okay with me.

I actually wanted to punch Heath during the whole story. He made me furious.

I also really didn't like how Adrien's first heat was handled. He was a sheltered virgin and Heath is debasing and forcing him into this power-exchange relationship without his knowledge of even how heat and mating works. It felt sort of dub-con to me, and I was overcome with internal clangings of "wrong!!" the whole time I read it.

In addition, there was far too much sex for me. I don't like books that are one sex scene after another (personal preference), and I always like a build-up before the first hook-up scene, so lots of sex is a hard sell for me on a good day. This book was one sex scene after another. Just SO MUCH SEX, and I grew tired of it very quickly.

Finally, I didn't feel the love between these two... at all. I was utterly confused when they started confessing their love for each other. They barely talked! All they did was have sex, and Heath kept some very fundamental and basic information from Adrien the whole time. It was way too early for love-talks, and I didn't understand the emotions at all.

Look, if you love this book, I don't blame you- I get it! We each have our own preferences and tastes, and for you to love this book is totally fine and great! I love Leta, and I want her stories to find the right audience and sell well. However, this is absolutely not the book for me.

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[Shin Mon Thway · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ah .. my first Leta Blake book 😌 and I always thought I’d pop my cherry with “Slow Heat” but let’s face it, it’s a really long audio and I haven’t found enough time to binge listen that in one day although I already owned the audio. 😁 That being said, this is such a solid A/B/O book packed with insanely erotic smut, intense attraction between MCs, somewhat intense angst sprinkled with a little bit of family drama and mystery so this gal can’t ask for more. 😎


Heath has been pining his dead lover for such a long time so when he found a lost piece of his dead lover from years ago, he knew he had to own that omega. Purely driven by selfish personal reasons, he purchased Adrien’s first heat to breed him off an heir and be done with him. However what started off as an ill intent attempt to desperately hold into a past ghost turned out to be so much more. Heath found himself not able to bare to hurt innocent, submissive, pliant and trusting Adrien’s heart. The two men thought they could get a happily ever after if they just cocoon in their little bubble of happy nest waiting for the arrival for their son. But demons are lurking in the shadows trying to ensnare Heath and Adrien from getting their well-deserved fairytale ending. So Adrien must learn to forgive the father of his child and try to build trust again between them if he wants to become the one and only omega who truly owns Heath’s heart and soul.


Loved the beginning! 😍 The author certainly didn’t shy away from the depravity of her built/up world and the sex was full-on intense even from the very beginning. 🔥 Liked the small part of chase and run between Heath and Adrien and I like the somewhat intense angst and struggle between them before their HEA. I don’t like my ABO books entirely full with rainbows and unicorns but packed with actual struggles and emotions. 😌 I don’t think Heath never truly loved Nathan (Adrien’s omega parent) and what was between them was definitely an infatuation and an unhealthy obsession. It’s nice to see Heath being able to escape his own emotional prison after all these years.


That being said, you’d ask me why not 5 stars this book? Well, I’m a known fastidious reader and I do pick up the small details of a book or a movie when I read/watch them and there’s something that seriously miffed me in this book. 😒 Hear me out, when Adrien first met Heath, his cock was such an enormous mammoth one that Adrien only managed to fit the glans in his mouth to suck. Cue and fast forward one week later after the heat, they were separated for a week here waiting for the confirmation of the pregnancy. Meanwhile, from what I understand, Adrien was anxious and can’t focus on his studies and has been sick with baby blues. So I definitely don’t think he’s been practicing to deep throat the mammoth cock of Heath with the biggest banana he could find on campus during that week. 🤷‍♀️😂🤷‍♀️ However, when they met again for the first time after the pregnancy was confirmed, Adrien swallowed that “enormous mammoth” cock until the pubes tickle his mouth??? 😳 So the mechanics of how from just fitting in the glans of the cock to his mouth to swallowing that whole “enormous” shaft down his throat within one week “without any practice” is beyond my comprehension. 🤦‍♀️ I’m sorry if you are annoyed by my ranting and think I’m such a nitpicker, but details do matter for me. 😩 And that my friend is why this book isn’t 5 stars and is deducted a star from me. But for what it’s worth, the smut in this book was out of this world and finger-licking, mouth-panting, scorchingly delicious! 🔥 Anyhow, I really enjoyed it despite from that one little annoying fact and I hope to see more books in this sensual and depraved world.



4 we are yours and we belong to you heart and soul stars
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[Eugenia · Rating 4 out of 5]

AUDIOBOOK May 2021: 🔥🔥🔥Damn! Michael Dean does this erotica justice!🔥🔥🔥 I still loved the story, but was even more aware of the crazy omegaverse Leta Blake/Blake Moreno created here. 4 Stars still ❤️❤️

EBOOK October 2018:
Scorching hot and so dirty!!!!!

And I loved every filthy word of this erotic omegaverse story!!! 🌋🌋🌋🌋

Honestly, this was a pornalicious delight that was well written (it's Leta Blake, after all). Thank the gods for proper, well-written smut!

Cash starved omega puts his virginity, first heat, and breeding up for auction. Broken-hearted alpha bids on him because he realizes this beautiful omega is his dead lover's son.

Yeah, this is too good to miss. MPREG, knotting, slick, dirty talk, and lust....you just need this in your life. Trust me!

[Evelyn Bella (there WILL be spoilers) · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book answers the question: What would you do if you found out your baby daddy used to fuck your actual daddy and the only reason he wanted you is because he's dead and you look just like him?

If that sort of question has ever occurred to you. Herein lie answers💀

Sickest part though, the dead daddy wasn't even in love with Heath. Heath has somehow kept the flame burning for his dead ex who was only into him for money, cheated on him multiple times and aborted any resulting pregnancies from those affairs except this one time.

Like, that man didn't even love you and now, all these years later, you go after his son who looks just like him. Is that not creepy?

Also, how in the hell do you compete with your dead daddy for the love of your alpha?

No. Immediately jail.

And Adrian didn't know the real truth behind the omega his alpha had loved before until 87% in, and even then he found out by overhearing.

"You bred your lover's son? That's demented.'

Yes, Heath, that IS demented.

There's nothing that can convince me otherwise.

Poor Adrian. So in love with his alpha that he'd suggested naming their baby 'Nathan' after Heath's dead love, not knowing that was his own father.

HOW IS THIS NOT SICK?!

'Did Heath even love him, or was he just a piece of Nathan that he'd managed to scavenge?'

Valid question to ask yourself, Adrian.

"When you bought my heat, it was so you could have a piece of him?"
"Yes."
"And when you fucked me in the heat cabin, you wanted to knock me up because I was Nathan's son?"
"At first."

Your honor, the prosecution moves to convict and requests the maximum penalty in the land.

Fuck that, TWO life sentences.

"So you're going to leave me, too?"
"Maybe. I am Nathan's son, after all."

💀

This book needed more of a grovel. This is not the kind of betrayal you get past in 9% of the story that's left.

Adrian needed time to be angry and betrayed, and Heath needed time to convince him that he loved him for him, beyond what his feelings for his father were. They didn't get that.

This book wasted SO much time on describing the sex during the heat and failed to deliver on what should have been the primary focus of the story.

Also, there's a time and place for everything. The moment your omega that's just had your baby finds out you were madly in love with his father and only got with him because of that is maybe not the best time to say 'Yes, I loved your father and he was cruel to me but I'm grateful for what I had with him because I wouldn't know you without it.'

Do people even think before they speak?

And Heath's friend telling Heath how Nathan wasn't the right match for him because he'd always been the one in control and could bring him to his knees but Adrian was the one for him because he loves him so submissively, adoringly and trustingly.

Gah.

Baby, they're saying he should be with you because you're weak.

And Adrian forgives him because "You loved Nathan so much you bought me so you could have a piece of him back. If you love me even half as much as —"
"More. I love you more."
"No, you don't. Not yet. And that's okay. You WILL love me more. I'm going to be everything Nathan wasn't."

Babes, that's not—

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[Cadiva · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is as hot as the proverbial fires of Hell. But it's also about lots more than just the heat and the sex and the powerful need to mate.

This is a non-shifter Omegaverse but it's not related to the other world author Leta Blake has created in her Heat of Love series (Blake Moreno is her pen name for more darker reads.

Here there isn't as much attention paid to the expansive world building of Alpha Heat and Slow Heat. This book is much more focussed on the intimacy of an alpha and omega's intense bonding during First Heat.

Now, that's not to say there isn't any world building, this is Leta Blake after all! Through dialogue, the narrative builds up an omegaverse in which the alphas aren't necessarily the jerks and where the omegas have a lot of control over how they deal with their heats and producing offspring.

Inspired in part by the superb Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, the presence of Heath's now dead omega lover Nathan hangs over the plot because we, the audience, knows he was Adrian's father but the young man doesn't.

This is a wonderfully paced story, the heat level is incendiary and full of all the erotica associated with this genre. There is insatiable need, knotting, dirty talk, commanding behaviour from Heath and submission from Adrian.

There's also a building level of tension as the reader knows eventually the secret will out.

I really enjoyed this book and I hope Blake/Leta intends to write more in this world.

#ARC kindly received from the author in return for an honest and unbiased review

[D.L. Howe · Rating 5 out of 5]

Heath is scandalous af!

Leta is so good at making these omegas feel vulnerable. Everything that Adrien went through just to handle his first heat was humiliating.

Then when they refused to tell him anything about the alpha that bought his heat. Gah! I mean damn, he was already nervous.

And then when he finally meets the alpha who tells him to strip as soon as he sets foot out of his car. To demand he show him his hole before he makes you jack off and then lick your cum off his shoe. Can you say degradation?!

You soon realize that Heath had a reason for treating Adrien like he did. And he failed miserably. While he was good at separating his emotions at first he soon realized that Adrien may look like his omega father who was Heath’s lover but otherwise that’s where the comparisons end.

Adrien is everything that Heath always wanted.

The steam was great of course, but the emotional connection was stellar. I loved how much Adrien loved being pregnant, it was so sweet.

Compared to Slow Heat, this was a much lighter read. Sure it had a little bit of angst but mostly it was just a sweet, delightful little treat.

[Kati *☆･ﾟ · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.25*** stars


For everyone who is all for equality, Leta Blake’s Omega Verse books are hard to read. The world she paints is ugly where omegas are treated like meat, have fewer rights and are less worth in the world and the familiarity to reality is shocking sometimes.


Blake said this book is infused by the story of Rebecca (loved the movie, btw) and you can see that throughout the story with the ghost of Nathan looming over the blossoming love between Heath and Adrien. Only that Nathan was not only Heath’s former lover but is also Adrien’s omega-father - what inclined Heath to buy Adrien’s first heat in the first place - bc of their likeness in looks and his urge to regain something back from what he’d lost.

What I didn’t like particularly in this book was that alphas where painted as lovesick puppies who fell easily for their omegas while the omegas took advantage of that, taking what they needed and leaving behind the alphas with bruised hearts. I think the idea was to portray Adrien as someone special and therefore his relationship with Heath as something almost unique - as he wanted to be loved and give it back.

“Adrien’s good for you in all the ways Nathan never was, because he doesn’t put you on your knees. He lets you stand tall and be an alpha. […]”

I don’t know somehow this whole omegas are the overpowered ones in society but selfish and uncaring with an alphas heart and alphas are the powerful ones but succumb to lovesick puppies for their omega’s needs didn’t work well for me.




Overall I enjoyed reading this book - esp towards the end it turned incredibly sweet and adorable - but not to the extend I expected, tbh. But even though I seem to always struggle a bit with Leta Blake’s omega verse books I’m looking forward to the release of Bully for Sale. We already heard quite a bit about Heath’s nephew, the out-of-hand Ned. I’m excited to see him becoming a better man and alpha.

[Ariana (mostly offline) · Rating 4 out of 5]

*4,5 stars*

A Daphne Du Maurier ‘Rebecca’ style-romance in an omegaverse where omegas sell their bodies and heat in auctions to alphas?

The scenario immediately caught my eye, and knowing Blake Moreno is Leta Blake’s second pen name for her darker books, this was a must!

If you have read 'The Difference Between' you know that it deals with some pretty heavy themes. 'Heat for Sale' is raw, intense and agonising in the first third, but the rest is pure romance!



We get thrown straight into the deep end at the start when Adrien, a shy young omega student who has been brought up in a religious community where modesty and restraint are valued and preached, realises that he can’t avoid his fate of selling his virginal body and first heat any longer.

The thought alone is horrifying. He doesn’t want to be sold like cattle. It was sheer agony watching him try to convince himself in a rather innocent way that …

It couldn't be that bad. Every omega did it. He'd be just like anyone else. He just wished he didn't have to.

Adrien is quiet and reserved, inexperienced with anything to do with sex and his body, and the whole procedure is completely humiliating for him. No wonder! What made it ultimately worse is the guy who puts him up for auction. Phil must be the sleaziest and crudest slimeball I've come across, and I would have quite happily punched his nose (or anything else tbh) every time he uttered a sentence.



Of course Adrien is nowhere near ready for what is about to happen to him - his first heat which has been bought by a mystery guy. So when he sets off to a remote cabin to meet his buyer, the tension rockets sky-high.



Because we know that Heath has only bought him because he wants is a child with the guy who has his dead lover’s genes. He is determined to keep the transaction with Adrien for what it is – a business deal. With no feelings involved.




But then the heat is on. Heat being the understatement of the year. It is more like the metal-melting scorching temperature of a volcano erupting again and again and … again … for a whole week!



I admit I also needed 'a bowl of stew' after reading that!

As the relationship between Adrien and Heath changes, it becomes increasingly complex. I adored the alpha/omega vibe, the older/younger MC dynamics, the dominant/submissive interactions between the two men (no BDSM here, guys!), all topped with a hefty secret on Heath’s part!

Heath tries so hard to keep Adrien away from his heart when it’s obvious he has no chance because Adrien gives him something he's never had before …

complete and utter, boundless, unrestrained, and unreasonable trust.

Maybe there could have been a little bit more controversy when Adrien finds out about Nathan and Heath destroys this very trust, but then again, this is not in the younger man's nature.

I thoroughly enjoyed this scorching-hot, brilliantly written omegaverse romance!

(And I couldn’t help but chuckle at Adrien’s pregnancy and childbirth experiences, like hormones, lactating and the lot. I wonder how many women wished exactly that on men before!)

ARC received by the author in exchange for an honest review.

[Saimi Vasquez · Rating 3 out of 5]

Adrian siempre tuvo una vida protegida del mundo, desconociendo todo lo que deberia saber un Omega. Pero cuando se acerca su primer celo, debe tomar la decision de con quien pasarla, y ya que no conoce a nadie, acepta que la universidad le arregle la venta por una subasta en linea. Desesperado por el dinero, pero siendo un omega romantico, desea que el hombre que compre su celo (y tal vez el hijo que puedan tener), se enamore de el y quiera conservarlo para siempre. Asi que cuando conoce a Heat, cree que puede ser su pareja para siempre. Sin embargo, Heat guarda un secreto que quizas pueda destrozar los suenos de Adrian. Seran ambos capaces de superar los errores del pasado para vivir en una real y sana relacion?

Es una historia sencilla, dentro del tipico universo Alfa, Beta, Omega del autor, no tiene mayor drama. Y aunque nos mantiene todo el libro con la "angustia" de que pasara cuando se entere, el final resulta anticlimatico. Los personajes no tienen mayor profundidad, y aunque me gusto mucho mas Heat que Adrien, no puedo negar que el autor los hizo el uno para el otro.
En fin, la proxima vez que quiera leer Omgaverse sencillo, sin drama, para pasar el rato, y que pudiera resultar un poco dulce, seguro que buscare otro libro de este autor.

[Leta Blake]

Coming October 18 from my Blake Moreno pen name.

Heat can be sold but love is earned.

In a world where omegas sell their heats for profit, Adrien is a university student in need of funding. With no family to fall back on, he reluctantly allows the university's matcher to offer his virgin heat for auction online. Anxious, but aware this is the reality of life for all omegas, Adrien hopes whoever wins his heat will be kind.

Heath—a wealthy, older alpha—is rocked by the young man's resemblance to his dead lover, Nathan. When Heath discovers Adrien is Nathan’s lost son from his first heat years before they met, he becomes obsessed with the idea of reclaiming a piece of Nathan.

Heath buys Adrien’s heat with only one motivation: to impregnate Adrien, claim the child, and move on. But their undeniable passion shocks him. Adrien doesn't know what to make of the handsome, mysterious stranger he's pledged his body to, but he’s soon swept away in the heat of the moment and surrenders to Heath entirely.

Once Adrien is pregnant, Heath secrets him away to his immense and secluded home. As the birth draws near, Heath grows to love Adrien for the man he is, not just for his connection to Nathan. Unaware of Heath's past with his omega parent and coming to depend on him heart and soul, Adrien begins to fall as well.

But as their love blossoms, Nathan's shadow looms. Can Heath keep his new love and the child they've made together once Adrien discovers his secrets?

Heat for Sale is a stand-alone m/m romance by Leta Blake, writing as Blake Moreno. Infused with a du Maurier Rebecca-style secret, it features a well-realized omegaverse, an age-gap, dominance and submission, heats, knotting, and scorching sex scenes.

[Trio · Rating 4 out of 5]

Though she’s using the pseudonym Blake Moreno, everything that’s great about a Leta Blake omegaverse novel still comes through clearly in Heat for Sale. This sensual story has all the intense sex I could want, plus a few darker elements which combine to create a gripping romance. While the relationship between the main characters is the focus of this tale, issues like race, class, and politics are touched on briefly and (hopefully) leave the door open for future novels.

This intriguing plot piqued my interest right away. Adrien, a young omega in need of funds, who agrees to sell his virginity and first heat to the highest bidder. Heath, a wealthy, older alpha, who realizes that Adrien is the son of his deceased lover and bids desperately to win the auction. What an appealing scenario!

Between the primal lust and the power dynamic, the scene of Adrien’s first heat and breeding is intensely erotic. The passionate connection these two men make as cold, domineering Heath callously directs a vulnerable, submissive Adrien is delectable.

The highlight of the mating scene for me is the graphic description of how Adrien feels as his body is gripped by his first heat. Moments of clarity surface as he ponders his rapidly disintegrating intellect, then desperately gives in to omega instinct and embraces his overwhelming lust.

What was intended as only a business arrangement quickly becomes a smoking hot romance when they conceive a child. All thoughts of his career and dreams for his future fall away as Adrien embraces the sensations of pregnancy and his sexual submission to Heath. Likewise, after being manipulated by his self-serving ex, Heath revels in Adrien’s open, honest affection.

I like this aspect of Blake Moreno/Leta Blake’s omegaverse stories. Despite their instinctive biological drives, both alphas and omegas still have room to be true to their natures. While some alphas might only want an omega for breeding and child care, others want to love and nurture their family. Likewise, where Adrien’s omega parent only wanted Heath for his wealth and hot alpha sex, Adrien finds the life he’s always wanted.

Adopting the pseudonym of Blake Moreno, leaves Leta Blake free to explore some pretty taboo elements in Heat for Sale. The relationship between Heath and Adrien, plus their twenty year age gap, not to mention the process of auctioning someone’s virginity and the right to breed them, are definitely on the darker side. Without getting too deep into how “alpha centered” this world is, Moreno still makes the point of how little control omegas have. Hopefully we can look forward to future novels where Ms. Moreno explores this aspect more fully.

[Kazza · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well. Okay. So, wow. I didn't read the blurb properly before getting this book, that's on me. I thought shifters. No. Ah, no. It's not shifters. It's this omegaverse... thingy, complete with leaking and squirting bits and heavily, and I do mean heavily, self-lubing arseholes, dripping cocks, and knotting. I have read this type of thing before but much, much tamer versions. The amount of bodily fluid in this book is something to behold. Or maybe I just like cleaning things up too much and I thought about it too much, because I felt like cleaning as I read.

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And sometimes Heath carried Adrien. That takes me back. Yep, back to some old-school het romance, I have a Pavlovian responsive fondness to it while being a bit aghast all at once.

The sex was pretty graphic, no complaints, but what happens is there is this gentle, more feminine adjective driven prose, and then the word cockslieve and you're my dirty slut comes on out and, bam, you're hit in the face by this strange dichotomy of raunchy erotica sandwiched in between the flowery adjectives - and leaking.

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I'm stumped on what to make of this book really, or how to really rate it. I read it in two days, pretty good for me at the moment. I appreciated the homage to Rebecca, but it's a very loose resemblance. I did get sucked in, I liked the sweet, virginal omega, Adrien. Naïve little omega that he was. Heath wasn't a chest-thumping Neanderthal of an alpha, so that was pretty good. The thing is, the book needed deeper character development, definitely deeper characters, and some depth to the world building - nests and heat cabins aside.

Honestly, I'm not really good with wombs and babies and 'chestfeeding' and, once again I'll reiterate... babies!! All the hormones and pregnancy stuff. Eesh. I have to tell you, pregnancy, the reminder thereof, and the first year of a child's life, they're not my favourite times. Nope. I find it hard to get enthused about it. I avoid anything babies and pregnancy, I did when I was young, I totally do now.

My advice is come for the erotic gay or MM fictional reading - if you like this whole knotting and leaking and self-lubing arse business - and stay for the escapism. Don't expect too much regarding the world and grab a few drinks, a couple more, and have some fictional escapism and kinky fun.

[Gabi · Rating 4 out of 5]

The world-building was great, similar to Slow Heat, but there are little differences. The biggest one might be, that there are no mates in this world. At least it wasn't mentioned at all.

My first impression on Heath was not good. I didn’t like him. He was a commanding, dominating asshole, but I realized he was just protecting himself. And eventually he slowly thawed out, but sometimes he reversed back to being a typical alpha. And the things they did in the sex department, was a bit degrading and humiliating, but Adrien liked it, so...

With Adrien it was the opposite. I liked him at first, he was sweet, a little shy and unsure thanks to his upbringing, but as I got to know him better, I did not like what I saw. He was too accepting, comfortable and settled into things so easily. I mean, he did have questions, but he believed the answers too easily and just let himself pampered and... hmm... he wasn't very strong-willed. And that's why the following quote bugged me.

"Now, rubbing his gradually expanding stomach, he had a hard time understanding what had seemed so important in all that academia, what had held his attention so tenaciously. This new life, his changing body, and his slow-growing relationship with Heath seemed much more compelling"

Adrien was saying this while high on hormones and felt content. Thankfully he did think it over later.
Priorities change, when you have a kid, but if you have plans for your own future, you shouldn't abandon them. Just because you're a parent, doesn't mean you're not allowed to have a career, it doesn't mean you have to put aside you're hobbies or whatever makes you happy, outside from having a family. I mean, if that's what you want out of life, just to be a Mom/Dad, that's fine, but life should be more than that.

So anyway. I didn't have such intense feelings about this book than Slow Heat and Alpha Heat, so 3.5 stars, rounded up to 4.

I also invite you to read Vvivacoius's review (I hope they don't mind), they said it best.

[Sara · Rating 1 out of 5]

Plot
Adrien is an omega approching his first ever heat. It's normal for omegas to auction off their heats to earn money while having their needs taken care of. He's nervous and scared as his religious opbringing didn't allow him much information about heats, mating, and pregnancy. Adrien has little choice, though, if he wants to become a professor. Getting his degree will require money. Lots of it.

Heath is hurting and broken from the loss of his lover, Nathan. Though, their relationship was filled with trouble, Heath still loved the omega like no other. Now, he finds out that the son Nathan had years prior to their meeting is auctioning off his first heat and breeding. Heath decides this is his chance to get a piece of Nathan back by having a child with Adrien.

What did I like

* The omegaverse. It felt fleshed out and real considering the length of the book. This is not shifter story, which, I liked.

* The sex was okay. It wasn't the best I've read, but the scenes were also a little ruined for me by some of the stuff I didn't like.

* The pacing. For the most part the pacing felt good, except at the very end where I thought the story could have spent a little more time resolving the main conflict.


What didn't I like
Hooo boy, here we go. I had some major issues. Mainly with Heath. So let's start with him.

Heath...
* Knowingly and intentionally deceived Adrien. He did not give all the relevant information for Adrien to make a good, informed decision before signing their mating/breeding contract. That's lack of informed consent. I feel like this was too brushed under the rug. Every supporting character excuses Heath's actions. Sure, they don't entirely support him, but they are quick to jump to his defence once shit hits the fan.

* Took advantage of Adrien's innocence and lack of knowledge. Adrien is a virgin and because of the religious society he grew up in he knows basically nothing of heats and the rules of it. At the very beginning Heath thinks to himself, that normally omegas can demand to be asked consent at even a change of position. Adrien isn't aware of this. He follows Heath blindly and obeys all commands. I want to make clear that Adrien's submissiveness does not bug me. Being submissive in bed is nothing to be ashamed off. But Heath, even after he realises Adrien doesn't know anything, never informs or at least talks about boundaries with Adrien. Which leads me to...

* Use of slurs. Heath calls Adrien "slut" and "cocksleeve". Adrien does like this, but frankly that is something Heath should still have talked with him about. Personally I don't care much for it either, but that is just a personal prefence.

* first interaction with Adrien. Heath asks Adrien, as soon as he steps out of the car, to strip and show him his hole. Outside. Like immediately. Then he gets him on his knees to suck him off then lick the cum off his shoe. Like wow. That is a hot scene, sure, but there are multiple boundaries that should've been discussed before it.

* wants to be called Sir, yet doesn't allow Adrien to choose what he wants to be called.

In general a lot of my annoyance with Heath is the way he was dominant. There is nothing wrong with being dominant. But Heath assumed a lot of things and never discussed them with Adrien. Right from the get go assuming a dominant position in the relationship. A relationship Adrien didn't enter on informed grounds. A relationship Adrien couldn't really refuse due to financial reasons. A relationship Adrien had no idea what the rules of were, since, he was technically bought by Heath. Heath had a position of power, which, unknowingly or not, I think he abused. Of course the story is written so that Adrien loves everything Heath does. This is just fantasy and wish fulfillment, but I still found it disturbing. That was also why I could never fully enjoy their sex scenes. Heath enjoyed Adrien's innocence, having all the power, and being the one to teach him everything. He never gave Adrien a chance to fully think for himself if that is what he wanted, too.
Heath might've redeemed himself with lots of groveling, but he was forgiven so quick. Way too quick. Wish the book had spent more time showing him being sincere in his effort win back Adrien's trust. Not just saying he's sorry, but actively doing things to repent.

* Adrien
While my biggest problem by far was Heath, Adrien never sat well with me. His character felt flat and not very well fleshed out. He had some motivation and dreams to be a professor, but that side of him felt a little discarded through the story. It is a short book, but I'd have liked to spend more time in Adrien's head where he wasn't just thinking of Heath.

* Lance
Annoyed the shit out of me. He knew more of omega biology yet didn't insist on informing his friend who was about to go to a heat fuck cabin? Way to be a good friend. I also felt he dismissed Heath's betrayal too much. Some of the other side characters defending Heath immediately I can get, seeing as they were friends of Heath. But Lance was Adrien's friend. He had no reason to be sympathetic toward Heath. Lance was honestly a shitty friend to Adrien.

Final thoughts
This story could've been great, but its characters had too many issues for me to see past. I've enjoyed other of Leta Blake's omegaverse stories, but this one was just not for me. In the end I land on 1 star for this one.

[Amarilli 73 · Rating 4 out of 5]

In linea teorica questo libro rappresentava un concentrato di cose che non leggo: o/v, mpreg.
Poi mi sono decisa perché la sinossi era stuzzicante e - inutile girarci intorno - la cover particolarmente invitante.
In concreto, mi è piaciuto molto (anche se non credo che farò tante altre incursioni in questa nicchia).

Ci troviamo in una società dove gli omega costituiscono una classe sociale di grado inferiore, non hanno accesso agli stessi diritti o al medesimo livello di istruzione e benessere; quindi, per sopravvivere, ma anche solo per studiare, è stata strutturata una modalità legale di offerta di calore/progenie in favore degli alfa, con tanto di asta, rialzo, conquista degli esemplari più ambiti.

Adrien si adegua al meccanismo e viene vinto dal ricco Heath, anche se qui si inserisce l'elemento non conforme. Heath sa che Adrien è il figlio del suo amante morto e sogna di poter generare quell'erede che non è riuscito ad avere dal padre di Adrien.
Non c'è nulla di incestuoso, in realtà; i due non hanno alcuna parentela, ben presto i sentimenti per il vecchio amante vengono sostituiti da sentimenti nuovi e genuini per il giovane omega.
E in effetti la narrazione si fa interessante, quando, oltre alle solite scene di sesso selvaggio (i nodi, gli orgasmi senza interruzione...) si delinea l'evoluzione del rapporto tra i due, dove l'omega continua ad essere pieno di dubbi e diffidente, mentre l'alfa deve impegnarsi a far crescere il legame di fiducia tra loro due.

Una classica storia d'amore, tutto sommato, con le classiche incomprensioni, gli ostacoli e le difficoltà di mettere su famiglia.
A suo modo rilassante, con un fondo di dolcezza al di là delle tematiche.

[True Loveislovereview · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5 stars Heath and Adrien...

When Adrien sells his virginity and first heat to the highest bidder he doesn’t know anything about heat and knotting... he is all alone in this world and needs money to study.
Heath can’t believe his eyes when he finds out his dead lovers child is selling his heat. Heath will buy him at all costs to have a part of Nathan....

Adrien is nothing like Nathan...

When they are together Heath is very committed and something beautiful is growing...
Only... Heath’s secret about Nathan can break their bond and Heath is terrified Adrien will leave him when he finds out.

Okey... I read this in one sit and couldn’t put it away. It was steamy and hot as hell. The journey from first to last page was intense and I was as terrified as Heath.
Appealing written story, bit by bit we get to know Heath’s story with Nathan... and the strong connection between Heath and Adrien.
Engaging personalities, enticing environments, good plot. The whole package..... I loved it!!

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[Aeren · Rating 2 out of 5]

He pensado mucho y en principio decidí no puntuar pero no me parece justo porque con otro autor vacilaría menos, así que corrijo.
No está mal escrito pero hay poco desarrollo del mundo en el que transcurre la historia, para mi está construida como una novela erotica: unas cuantas descripciones y diálogos con multitud de escenas sexuales y kinks típicas del género, desde la humillación a la lactancia, definitivamente no ha habido suficiente "groveling", por mi Heath hubiese dormido en la caseta del perro una temporada y el otro chico es un felpudito el pobre... Lo sé, es típico del omegaverse, pero igual se le fue la mano, en esta ocasión al menos.
Edito para añadir un medio spoiler, existe el semen curalotodo 😂
Solo para amantes del más clásico omegaverse.

[Jazer (catching up on TBRs) · Rating 2 out of 5]

I think I liked Leta's Slow Heat (at least when I read it) and thought I'd read this now since it's been sitting in my library and starting to get lonely. LOL

I don't know how to feel about the entire plot other than it was unique and strange. Plus the auctioning heats was new to me. But halfway through, I just scrolled through all the sex scenes because I was more interested in how the story will resolve. I'd say, I would've liked a little more grovelling. Say, exchange some of the sex scene pages to a few more pages of grovelling, sweetness, or even tenderness. Not having enough relationship development outside of sexy times was a letdown.

[Keira Andrews · Rating 5 out of 5]

Review to come!

[Ronie Reads · Rating 5 out of 5]

When my parents brought me home. My bed was a dresser drawer. No, you did need a car seat before ya was discharged from the hospital.

[BevS · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sorry Leta, too much sex in this one for me [did I actually just say that??? 😀], although as usual Leta's writing was spot on and the world building was great. I liked Adrien and grew to like Heath, although I wasn't happy that he kept such a big secret from his younger lover.

Copy received via Leta's Patreon, of which I am a proud member.

[Theresa · Rating 1 out of 5]

Heath was disgusting. This Omegaverse was depressing. DNF.

[Zuzu · Rating 4 out of 5]

The last 2-3 chapters got a bit melodramatic but, overall, I really liked this story.

[~✡~Dαni(ela) ♥ ♂♂ love & semi-colons~✡~ · Rating 3 out of 5]

Forget sweet and cuddly. This book focuses on a dark and obsessive kind of love.

Passion, sex, alpha/omega power exchange ... so HAWT XXX, yet I couldn't fully enjoy the story because I seriously disliked Heath.

Heath's fixation on Nathan (Adrien's omega father) was all consuming and his feelings toward Adrien never rang true.

Plus, Adrien forgave Heath for his incredible betrayal far too easily.

The next book is about Heath's spoiled, entitled nephew who I'm not sure can be redeemed.

[BR11 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Oh, Leta and her Alphas and Omegas. Her books are incendiary. The level of hawtness is off charts on this one.
Recommend!

[MishyJo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jury’s out on this one. Can’t decide if I just kinda liked or really liked it.

[Vallie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Damn!! Leta Blake as Blake Moreno writes some intense erotica. This story depicts an ABO universe without shifting, where the relationship between Adrien and Heath revolves around Adrien’s heat and following pregnancy. HOT HOT HOT HOT! I absolutely loved it!

[Debra ~~ seriously slacking on her reviews ~~ · Rating 4 out of 5]

This story started off a bit dark. Adrien's in a difficult situation and seeing it through his POV you could just feel the discomfort and humiliation he was suffering, putting his heat up for sale and being bought by the seemingly cold and domineering Heath. Once the initial set-up moves onto Adrien's pregnancy and nesting in Heath's palatial estate, it morphed into an erotic romance.

I enjoyed Adrien dealing with his pregnancy and seeing the relationship change. Heath and Adrien spend most of that time in a bubble, nesting and having sex and falling in love, but there is something Adrien doesn't know about that has been driving Heath from the beginning and although the situation changes as they fall in love, the secret remains and we know at some point it will all come out.

The story is completely centered on Adrien and Heath, with small sub-plot involving Heath's family, that honestly I expected to cause more issues, but resolved pretty easily. While the start of the story was a bit uncomfortable, it was ultimately an enjoyable mpreg erotic romance, with an interesting set-up and a little bit of drama, that kept me reading.

[Dana aka ♥Belladonna♥ · Rating 3 out of 5]

Had all the smutty goodness I love, but lacked the solid world-building I like in Omegaverse novels.

[Andi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Re-read July 26, 2022

Yep, I still really liked it.

4.5 out of 5 stars