Blood Eclipse

Blood Eclipse #1

by A.J. Llewellyn

Vampires have come -out of the closet- and they-re buying up real estate and running brothels in the City of Angels. Rory bitterly hates vampires. After all, one of them murdered his friend. So when his best friend Dennis begs him to accompany him to a vampire brothel on his birthday so that he can experience what is widely believed to be the sex of his life, Rory tags along reluctantly.

Rory and Dennis both find their worlds changed forever as the sun goes down on Eclipse. As they enter the er-revamped Magic Castle, they discover sex, love and blood can mix. Dennis finds himself falling in love with the mysterious Thiago and Rory is taken by Carden who is so beautiful, Rory isn-t even sure if he-s real-but evil is everywhere, permeating everything as the night closes in around them.

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

185 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 1, 2009

About the author

A.J. Llewellyn lives in California, but dreams of living in Hawaii. Frequent trips to all the islands, bags of Kona coffee in the fridge and a healthy collection of Hawaiian records keep this writer refueled.

A.J’s passion for the islands led to writing a play about the last ruling monarch of Hawaii, Queen Lili’uokalani as well as a non-erotic novel about the overthrow of her kingdom written in diary form from her maid’s point of view.

A.J. never lacks inspiritation for male/male erotic romances and on the rare occasion this happens, pursues other passions such as collecting books on Hawaiiana, surfing and spending time with friends and animal companions.

A.J. Llewellyn believes that love is a song best sung out loud.

Reviews

[Amanda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Blood Eclipse is a great start to the series. I really enjoyed it and I'm already starting the second. After finishing this first story, however, I'm left with one burning question - why don't the vamps need lube?

[L-D · Rating 3 out of 5]

As a standalone book, this novella was a little short and underdeveloped and ends in a nasty cliffhanger. But if you buy the entire series and read them one after the other like I did, it makes it more enjoyable. Rory hates vampires after his friend, an MMA fighter, is killed in the ring. Determined to write a book that talks about the fighting world, Rory realizes the best way to learn about vampires is to spend more time with them and accepts a job at a vampire brothel. He doesn't expect to become extremely attracted to a beautiful vampire prince, Carden.

This was an interesting premise. I will say that aspects of this story made me uncomfortable - mostly the fact that boyfriends were hookers. Okay, it's not exactly cheating if you know that's what your boyfriend does, but it definitely tickled my jealousy bone.

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

This story packs a punch and leave you wanting more. Vampires have come out of the closet. The focus of the story is two friends and the vamps they connect with, it begins with Dennis going to a club for vampire sex, Dennis has never been in love before but fall immediately head over heals for Thiago. Rory a man who hates vampires due to past experiences finds himself working at the club and drawn to the mysterious pureblood Cardan. There are a lot of players in this book from Cardans lover to their boss and a witch among many others who want eternal life. Once you've finished reading you'll be left with more questions than answers many if which I hoping are answered in book two Rapture. Great collaboration yet again from Llewellyn and Manly.

[JenMcJ · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting story but it is more like a soap opera. Caden and Rory are the central main characters (so far) but there are a bunch of characters milling around with them. It is hard to tell who is going to be main characters in the next installemnt(s).

Be forewarned, this is not a book with a tidy HEA or even a HFN. It ends with an abrupt cliffhanger that ends literally in the middle of a scene.

[Katerine Borgia · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really liked this book! It was a fun read, the characters were all multi-layered and even though they were flawed, there was something one could identify with each one.

The relationships in this book are complex and beautiful, a real love story.

It's past-faced and fun, yet still dark at times. It was a great read.

[Jean · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not sure yet what I think of this series. This first book was sexy, but I'm not in love with the characters yet and it really did stop in the middle of the story. We'll see how I feel after the next book.

[Evamaria · Rating 1 out of 5]

No idea why I read it - I don't like vampire romance, and this one's no exception. I also don't like 'true love' that suddenly appears out of nowhere with mythical connections and without knowing anything about the other person except that they're hot.

[Ism · Rating 4 out of 5]

A strange, erotic story between Humans and Vampires with lots of erotic scenes.

[Alex Latham · Rating 4 out of 5]

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