Broken Vows

The Lost #1

by Evangeline Anderson

Daniel Becker is an artist who has been considered too “sensitive” for his own good by his father. After being accused of being gay, Daniel has decided to find out one way or the other. Unfortunately, he stops at the Crimson Quarter, where vampires roam, by mistake and gets marked by one of the Lost. He’s saved in the nick of time by a Guardian, a vampire who protects humans, from becoming even more of a victim. When that Guardian introduces him to the kind of love that can happen between men, Daniel is at once lost and found. His only problem is that he needs to convince his vampire that they need to be together. If he’ll listen.

Gabriel is a Guardian, atoning for the pain and bloodshed in his past. When he saves a young man from becoming an unwilling victim to another vampire, that young one’s purity is too much to resist. He needs to mark him for his own safety, but he didn’t count on falling for the boy. Gabriel feels the need to give him time, even after a mind-blowing sexual experience. Eight long years pass…can he break his vow and claim Daniel as the right one for him, or will he keep himself in a self-imposed prison for the rest of his long life?

Genres: M M Romance, Vampires, Romance, Erotica, LGBT, Gay, Paranormal

47 pages, ebook

First published July 1, 2007

About the author

Evangeline Anderson is a registered MRI tech who would rather be writing. And yes, she is nerdy enough to have a bumper sticker that says “I’d rather be writing.” Honk if you see her! She is thirty-something and lives in Florida with a husband, a son, and two cats. She had been writing erotic fiction for her own gratification for a number of years before it occurred to her to try and get paid for it. To her delight, she found that it was actually possible to get money for having a dirty mind and she has been writing paranormal and Sci-fi erotica steadily ever since.

Reviews

[Elisa Rolle]

Daniel is a 19 years old guy who doesn't know what he feels and who he is. In a futuristic world where samesex is sold in a restrict quarter near the quarter where vampires live, Daniel gets off at the wrong stop. He wants to know if he likes men and instead ends with a bite on his neck. But he is bitten by a rogue vampire and Gabriel, a Vampire Guardian, arrives to rescue him.

Gabriel is like the angel the name he wear: he is handsome and caring. And Daniel maybe has the chance to share love with a tender one not a stranger uncaring. And Gabriel agrees to introduce Daniel to the joy of sex, but only for one night: he will never bond an innocent like Daniel to him.

A very brief but enjoyable tale, I like Evangeline Anderson's style. Only a weak point: it is too short and I read the blurb of the next enstalment in the series and it's not about Daniel and Gabriel. Like in Pledge Slave, Evangeline Anderson has created two interesting characters, but has not given to them to chance to fully grow in the fantasy of the readers.

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[Danielle Thomas · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great short novel.

[Selenita · Rating 1 out of 5]

No me gusta la literatura erótica porque suele ser bien aburrida y repetitiva (leído un libro, leídos todos), pero me ha interesado esta mini serie de libros porque va de vampiros. Ese mito sensual y seductor que rodea al vampirismo me parecía interesante de explorar, por lo que pensé que podría merecer la pena leer algo erótico sobre vampiros. Obviamente mi elección ha sido un error. La única parte interesante es que parece ser (porque no se desarrolla nada, por desgracia) que todo el mundo sabe que existen vampiros (aquí se llaman "the Lost"), que viven en su propio barrio/gueto apartado del resto de la población, existiendo algo así como el pacto de que no van a cazar en la ciudad y la gente común no entra en su territorio (o se convierte en presa). Por lo demás a este libro le queda grande la etiqueta de "erótica"; es porno barato en el que todo es una excusa para ver sexo, da igual lo ridículo que sea. En este caso: Daniel va a otro sitio, pero se le pasa la parada y el muy idiota, en lugar de dar la vuelta completa a la línea o bajarse en cualquier otro sitio decide bajarse en el barrio vampírico (claro que sí, muy lógico). Allí lo ataca un vampiro malo y uno bueno, Gabriel, lo salva. Pero claro, el primer vampiro ya ha marcado a Daniel y Gabriel tiene que limpiar la herida mordiéndole, pero morder a alguien hace que tanto la víctima como el vampiro se pongan cachondos (además que decide morderle en la pierna, porque sí, lo que hace que se tenga que quitar los pantalones). Os podéis imaginar el resto.

Y si hubiera sido un erotismo bien escrito, pues al menos habría sido algo; pero, como digo, es porno barato consistente descripciones con un lenguaje crudo y frases típicas y cutres ("fuck me", etcétera). Bastante penoso y aburrido.

[Зинаида Пегушина · Rating 5 out of 5]

Очень понравилась история.

[Theresa · Rating 2 out of 5]

Rushed abrupt ending with time gap.

[Darkuria · Rating 3 out of 5]

It made me laugh lol.

[Mopest · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overall sweet story even though I'm not into paranormal genre. But I hate long separations and time skips.