The Breeder

Wasteland #3

by Eden Bradley

Destined to serve the desires of an entire city, all she wants is one man. Or maybe two-

Born to the Temple, Nitara knows the Great Goddess-s plan for her: to bring life into what is left of an arid and wasted Earth. Since puberty she has been trained to arouse and titillate, to ensure the continuation of the human race.

As is the custom, the man captured for her is strong of blood, though considered little more than a wild animal. Yet when she looks into his eyes, she sees no primitive creature, but the man whose face and hands haunt her sensual dreams.

For Akaash, a hunter and warrior, it-s his shame that he will be sacrificed to a goddess he doesn-t believe in, for a people who are not his own, leaving behind his Wanderer clan-and his bonded lover, Dhatri. Locked in the bowels of the Temple, he has a month to ponder his fate, all while falling helplessly under the spell of the virgin temptress who will soon take his life.

With each tortuously erotic encounter, however, Akaash realizes that Nitara is as much a prisoner as he. If he can just get a message out to Dhatri, there may be a slim chance both of them can escape-

Warning: Sexual acts in a prison cell, by the sea, in the desert, on an altar, with every possible combination of dirty deeds between two men and one very lucky woman, and all of it hot enough to melt sand! And her panties. If she were wearing any.

Genres: Romance, Erotica, Fantasy, Menage, Post Apocalyptic, Erotic Romance, M M F

78 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 27, 2009

About the author

New York Times & USA Today Bestselling and award-winning author Eden Bradley aka Eve Berlin has published a number of novels and novellas, both print and e-books, with Berkley Heat, Bantam/Delta, Harlequin Spice & HQN, Black Lace Books and Samhain Publishing, as well as venturing into self-publishing. Her books have been translated into German, French, Romanian, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Polish, Indonesian and Japanese. Eden has appeared regularly on Playboy Radio and conducts workshops on writing craft and writing about sex. Eden speaks regularly on BDSM safety, psychology & practice, as well as sexual positivity for women.

She loves art, shoes, tattoos, reading smutty books, chocolate and sex, of course, not necessarily in that order. You can visit her website: EdenBradley.com or her group FB page Dirty Minds Social Club!

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Reviews

[Tracy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Darker Than I Was Expecting
By now the world of Wasteland, a post-apocalyptic earth over 100 years after solar flares in 2012 decimated life on the planet, is at least familiar, if not particularly a fun vacation spot. In fact, this bleak, desolate world is a shattering backdrop for the four novellas by four authors that feature and highlight the four different caste systems that are left for women in that world. Eden Bradley assumes the mantel for the third book and offers us Nitara's story. Born of a Breeder, she has been chosen by her goddess to follow the same path, and educated on all things sensual and sexual from a very young age. She anxiously awaits her ceremony of the sacrifice, where she will ascend to an alter and take her first male, abandoning her virginity and offering her body for reproduction.

There's just one teeny tiny little problem. After copulating with the male sacrifice, she will then plunge a dagger into his heart and bathe herself in his blood as entreaty to the goddess for her fertility. For years she's been groomed for and wildly anticipating that day, until a flash of intellect and fear in a fellow novitiate's sacrifice just prior to her own causes her to wonder if the sacrifices are quite the mindless animals she's always been led to believe.

Akaash, the Wanderer stolen from his people and his bonded lover Dhatri, is quite certain he's no mindless animal. He's being chained and kept drugged and isolated but for visits from Nitara that are for the purpose of inflaming his sexual need to the point of nearly willing sacrifice and its wreaking hell on his heart and mind. He is broken over the loss of his freedom and his lover, resentful of his impending death and under no illusions about life. He is also drawn to Nitara, despite knowing she is his doom, and the month-long preparation becomes time for them to share their minds and hearts as well as what limited abilities they have to share bodies. Can Nitara can save them both from the heinous crime against humanity that approaches? Will she dare? She is his only hope.

I have to say, I have no complaints with the narrative and development of plot with this novella. It was considerably more fleshed out in both character and conflict than the previous entry, The Whore by Lilli Feisty. I have, however, a significant problem with this particular novella that hearkens to my reason for reading erotic fiction to begin with. Obviously the best of the bunch offer a solid story with likable characters and, for my personal tastes, a happy ending along with smoking sex scenes that titillate and arouse. Well, in The Breeder, the sex was hot, and there was plenty of it, alternating from self satisfaction to M/F to M/M/F, and I had no complaint about that, but here's the thing...it's really hard for me to enjoy an erotica novella that starts out with the brutal slaughter of a man followed by the murderess slathering her body with his still hot blood.

Call me crazy, but that's not quite the sensual, sexual image that fosters a lot of yummy feelings, and it does nothing to endear me to the world in general and the story in particular. While the first two books also paint a grim picture of the world of Wasteland and a somber view of the decline of the human race, they also offer something that this one didn't quite manage to pull off...hope. I don't think I'll be spoiling too many people if I say that yes, there is a "happy" ending in this novella. That's assumed going in. But what continues to bother me is that it's "happy" only for the three main characters, Nitara, Akaash, and Dhatri. It's less happy for the victims-in-waiting of the next sacrifice, or Nitara's twin brother, castrated as a child and forced into servitude of the novitiates because their mother ran off with a Wanderer years ago. Without the hope for a brighter future for all, this novella left me feeling way too disturbed and focused on the bad big picture, not on the eroticism of the three leads. Nor did I think that the emotional connection between Nitara and Akaash, and then Dhatri, was sufficiently explored or developed to help keep the focus off the grim reality.

Erotic romance is supposed to be erotic and romantic, and unfortunately, due to the circumstances, for me, this one just wasn't, regardless of how well written it was.

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Reviewed for One Good Book Deserves Another.

[Erin Kyle · Rating 3 out of 5]

There is a lot of steam (ahem) in this book. M/M/F, M/M, and M/F, so if any of those combinations bother you, perhaps you should find a different book to read. For such a short book, this was pretty well-packed. I haven't read any of the other "Wasteland" books so I can't say whether I suffer from some fundamental lack of information, but I had no problem understanding the plot. IMO, this can be read as a stand-alone.

I do wish we got to know Dhatri more; right now, he seems a bit like a placeholder, not a *real* man.

And lastly, I do wish we got to see more of the trio's life together. The story stops just when I was getting truly interested!! I wanted to dig in and watch the trio make a life together. Alas....

But for what it is, this is a pretty good read. Interesting world, very steamy, intriguing from beginning to (too early) end.

[JoAnne Kenrick · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another excellent tale of love in the Wasteland. This series is fantastic. I hope there will be more to follow!! Lots more :)

The world building, characterization and voice, it would be hard to tell which author wrote which story, if you didn't know -- they are all written as if by the same person.

[Heather in FL · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really can't believe so many women before Nitara went through the ritual with absolutely no feelings for their sacrifice. I loved how she questioned everything around her and ultimately went with her heart.

[R.G. Alexander · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was very lucky to have gotten to read this book before anyone else. LOVED IT!

[Lynn Edgar · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Breeder is a post apocalyptic story with women in charge and the men who served them. Very erotic!

[Bergströms Bookshelf · Rating 2 out of 5]

Short read/listen under 3h.
A Freebie and quick listen audiobook narrated by a couple of my fave narrators -but even though I AM a sucker for gritty post apocalyptic read, and love me some good old fashioned throuple-ing… this just didn’t ring my bell.

And, let me tell you why…

Sure, some might have issue with virgin de-flowerings as a blood sport in some post apocalyptic Thunder Dome setting. Sure, not everyone gets off on public sex, bloodshed, carnage and sacrifice - all to secure a successful baby-making. But for me, this wasn’t the case. I just couldn’t stand the flat and sad 3rd person narratives total lack of personality or humour. So there. Doesn’t matter how great a narrator you get to voice your book if the text is total crap. Sorry, not sorry.

[JP · Rating 5 out of 5]

AWESOME STORY 😁

This was a bit different from what I thought it would be, but definitely worth reading 😃. After the Earth gets scorched, women are whores or breeders 😉. Men are captured in the wasteland, used for sex and killed 😢. Thanks so much Eden, I'm really looking forward to reading this series 🤓.

[Nikki · Rating 2 out of 5]

My friend and I listened to the audiobook on a short road trip… it was okay. Halfway through I was just confused on what was happening. If you like little plot and lots of spice, it’s pretty good. If you want more character development and plot, this isn’t one I would immediately reach for.

[Jan · Rating 2 out of 5]

After The Wanderer, I found The Breeder a bit lacking. The world was still as intriguing, the women forced to serve as breeding facilities by religion, the kidnapping of the more sturdy men of the Wanderer clans to get a healthier population...
The girl who has doubts about killing a man as a sacrifice for her Goddess of love. It's all excellent. Unfortunately the story never took off. I liked Akaash, with his love for his mate and his sense of failure and shame at being caught. I liked Nitara well enough, though she didn't really have a personality, but I think that makes sense when considering her upbringing.

It was mainly the dialogue. It never felt natural. It never flowed. I wondered if maybe it was the author's idea of showing the difference in culture between the characters, and between their world and ours. Which I thought could have been brilliant, but it wasn't.
The stinted dialogue made the distance to the characters too big, and I never felt connected to either of the characters. I never really believed they loved each other.

So all in all, disappointing.

[Ren Puspita · Rating 3 out of 5]

The 3st novella at Wasteland series

After apocalypse at 2012, Earth was broken, and the survivor build a new life. But they become unfertilized and because of that women is so rare and they divided to 4 class, The Wanderer, The Whore, The Breeder and The Priestess.

This novella tell story about Nitara, The Breeder. Her temple always sacrifice men, because their belief, to impregnate The Breeder, Earth must receive blood from the men that do that. Nitara herself had a doubt. She don't accept the way of her temple. It cause her relationship with Akaash, man what supposed to be her Sacrifice more deeper.

Akaash himself is Wanderer, a warrior. He feel ashamed, because as a warrior, he's so easily captured and he don't know if he can face his lover, Dathri again. He must accept his destiny to die at the hand of woman that lure and seduce him, but who have doubt at her eyes. Together, they planning to escape from the temple. To escape from Nitara's duty, to Akaash to reunite with his lover, and for them three to finally live as a freedom people.

This one better than 2nd novella, The Whore, even the story too short.

Note : The novella contain many sexual scene such as anal sex, m/m scene, and menage

[Netanella · Rating 3 out of 5]

First paragraph: The scent of burning sage hung heavy in the air, along with the tinkling of cymbals and a keen anticipation. The citizens of Kroy Wen filled the Temple of the Great Goddess—The Unnamed One. Hundreds of men gathered together in the vaulted caves that housed the Temple, pressing as close as the guards would allow.

"The Breeder" is the third story in the multiple-authored world of "The Wasteland", a well-built post-apocalyptic world about 100 years or so after some type of nuclear catastrophe. In Bradley's story, Nitara is one of the city's Breeders, pampered and protected in the city, but obligated by the religious rulers to propagate the species as well. Akaash is a Wanderer, captured by the city guard to become Nitara's Sacrifice to the goddess.

This was a quick, enjoyable read for me. Surprisingly, there was a well-developed emotional connection between Akaash and Nitara, and enough interesting side characters. I'm stoked to read R.G. Alexander's "The Priestess" next.

[NhaughtyV says Damn the Zon Save the Reviews · Rating 2 out of 5]

Warning: Sexual acts in a prison cell, by the sea, in the desert, on an altar, with every possible combination of dirty deeds between two men and one very lucky woman, and all of it hot enough to melt sand! And her panties. If she were wearing any.


I think the warning was better than the book...this was not my fav of the Wastelands series...maybe the pirates from the last one spoiled me...had some smexy scenes, but just couldn't get attached to the characters enough to care...

[Marilicious · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a well developed story. I liked that Nitara questioned her role as a breeder and their practices. We were able to experience Nitara and Akaash's growing to care for each other. The scenes between her Akaash and Dhatri were pretty hot.

[Sarah thomas · Rating 3 out of 5]

not my favorite in the wasteland series... i found the beginning to be very boring but in the end it didn't disappoint

[Lizzielvr · Rating 2 out of 5]

I hope the next one in the series is better.

[Maria Almeida · Rating 5 out of 5]

loved it Thank You Eden Your the Bomb

[Angie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Enjoyable read, will certainly look for others in the series.

[Stacy · Rating 4 out of 5]

best of the series. good sex scenes

[Yoru · Rating 3 out of 5]

super interesting book ! ^^