The Vampire Queen's Servant

Three words... WOW!

This is the most romantic vampire novel I have ever read. And considering my track record in collecting and reading vampire novels (I think I have read more than a dozen's dozens of them). I self proclaim that I am qualified to say so that THIS IS INDEED THE MOST ROMANTIC VAMPIRE NOVEL. Also I have to admit ABVH isn't this romantic. And please *rolls eyes* don't even mention twilight for me coz that is such a common childish romance. Vampirism is just an added spice to it. You can atually find the same romantic context in other non-vampire novels.

Vampire Queen Lady Elyssa Amaterasu Yamato Wentworth is a thousand year old vampire one of the last old blood lines of the royal family of vampires. Vampire hubby Rex just died and her monk of a human servant recently died due to illness. But her precious servant didn't die before training and sending his last gift to his mistress.

Enter Jacob, ever gorgeous stunning hunk, trained to be the perfect servant for lady Elyssa. I don't know if its true love or serendipity. But Jacob endures the torments and humiliation that Lady Elyssa makes him do even though his fighting with his own self for he has the personality of an alpha male. She pushes him away afraid to loose another human servant and that she won't be able to endure another lost. So she goes on torturing him and doing things enable for him to walk away from her. One morning Jacob nearly did walk away but came to a realization that he is drawn to the lady Elyssa more than carnal cravings nor love, that his mere existence is to take care of her. He knew it the moment he saw her for the first time when he was still a vampire slayer together with his brother.

Aside from the story revolving around the sexual hunger and blood lust of vampires and their relationships with their human servants. The book also tells Lady Elyssa's struggle of keeping her status/power in the vampire political structure. Upon the death of Rex her husband, the vampire council has been pressuring her in remarrying. In the long run you would notice in the story how she put a strong alpha female facade which in fact she is now suffering of a blood diseases that has been killing most vampires already and its slowly killing her. Its also the very same reason why her previous human servant sent Jacob to her coz he knew about his mistress condition even though she kept it from him. She hides it from the council for if it goes out it will be an opportunity for her opponents to use it as a disadvantage to other throw her from her current status.

The book ends when Lady Elyssa showed her true vampire form to Jacob hoping that he will turn back and bail out from her. But all he did was accept her whole heartedly. The story doesn't end there however this book has a sequel "The Mark of the Vampire Queen" Unfortunately I can't find its sequel to any bookstores here locally nor in ebay.. T.T I can't aford buying it in amazon or in Barnes and nobles coz to ship it here in the Philippines will cost more than the book. >.<

The book is an excellent example about the saying "People do crazy things when they are in love." I mean where do u find a man who will drop everything, change his career and train himself on how to care for you and even accepts you even if you keep on shoving him away specially even after seeing the monster in you... literally.

I bet in this day and age no such man exists anymore.. and if I do stand corrected it will be one in a billion.

SWAGBELLY: A novel for Today's Gentleman...

So you might be asking why a girl like me read this book, if it said its a novel for today's gentleman. First i got intrigue with the cover art... mmm a smooth yellow banana print on a black book. I got it from the shelf and read the back cover. Interesting, a book about a life of a pornographer, publisher of an adult magazine titled Swagbelly.i searched for the book in ebay and got it for p180 over p620 price in the bookstore. Fair deal. Love ebay.

I bought the book thinking i might read some erotic scenes, love play and such. But as i flip the pages its more than a porno book. As mentioned, story is about a multi-millionaire guy named elliot who is a jew and is a pornographer publishing Swagbelly (originally a pirate word, meaning Fat with plunder). Story starts in his two-bedroom apartment, a year after his divorce and moving out from a million dollar town house thats now with his wife. Wife is living rich with a $10million divorce settlement and $15million plus child support for their 13 yr old son. I find the wife an ungrateful bitch to think she was just a secretary when she met elliot... and i find elliot and idiot for marrying a person who just sued him for sexual harassment. The story takes us deeper how millionaire socialites spend there money, how they can easily buy themselves through each situation, how people attach themselves like leches to them hoping they can get a little bit of the money. A man thinking that women tend to flock to them because of their good looks. A man maturing realizing that the women flock to him because of his networth not with his looks. A man realizing with over $100 million he feels lonely lost and disturbed for loosing his wife to her mountain climbing instructor which he paid for. His son hating him and converting to a different religion. Moral of the story is simple, "Money can't buy everything."

Near the end of the book, Elliot's current girlfriend/fling or whatever since he fucks and dates almost all the models posing in his magazine, breaks the news that she might be pregnant. Ofcors Elltiot acted like any man asking questions if its his or could be somebody else considering her work, she denys it and says his the only one. He sends her to his private doctor for a "so called accidental abortion" but couldn't help get guilty by it so he stormed into the clinic to stop it. In the end his son wasn't really converted into a christian since he made a scene and woke up in a hospital with tubes attached to himself, his wife saying he needs a bypass.

A wonderful nice story full of life lessons. But really I would still wish i have his fortune, I mean it has been proven if your successfully rich in life you family/love life really sucks. And if you are having a nice family/love life you are just either a middle class in sociaty or poor.