A Jeri Review: Theoden: A New Haven Series Prequel by Nicholas Bella

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Rating: 3 stars out of 5

This is the prequel to a series that I haven’t read. It has just never been on my radar. But this looked interesting and being that it was a prequel, I was basically starting at the beginning. Vampires, dragons and werewolves oh my!

Lots of prequels (I have found) are not very long. Not so with this book. It was loooooonng. It follows the life of Theoden- starting as a young boy up until he is quite old. Being quite old as a vampire is relative though.
The first half of the book really sucked me in. (Sucked me in, vampires. Get it?) The world that is built was really interesting. The lives of the vampires, dragons who aren’t necessarily in animal form and werewolves that are used as toys.
And while the first half was interesting and I enjoyed it- there was this thing that bothered me a bit. As the youngest vampire, Theoden has to submit sexually to his brothers whenever he wants. He hates one of his brothers, but all three are rather rough with him. But he has to just submit. Seemed kind of rape-y to me. It could really turn people off.
Anyway…. after the first half being rather detailed and covering a rather short amount of time, the second half jumps centuries at a time. There is a story going on, but really it is mostly filled with sex. The whole book is filled with sex. Hate filled sex, loving sex, rape-y sex, voyeuristic sex. I think if you cut 90% of the sex scenes, this book wouldn’t even be 100 pages long.
And I get it- the author warns you that it is filled with sex. But I felt like there was a decent story there that was just overshadowed by…sex.
This was a tough one for me, but ultimately I can only give it 3 stars
Cover art: Jay Aheer.  The cover art works for the character and draws your attention. Striking.

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AMAZON US

AMAZON UK

Book Details:
The New Haven Series Prequel
Dark Paranormal Erotica/GLBT/BDSM
Kindle Edition, 346 pages
Published March 21st 2018 by Dark Desires Publishing, LLC
Price: $4.99 Ebook/$ Paperback $13.50
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One thought on “A Jeri Review: Theoden: A New Haven Series Prequel by Nicholas Bella”

  1. Thank you for your review! I’ve had this series on my radar for a long time, but other series seemed more urgent to get to first. I have to laugh, because one person’s too much is another’s not enough, and my current mood is one wanting a bit of plot to go with sex scenes. I’ve been getting annoyed by my usual PNR and UF books because…so much plot, too little smexy times, and what smexy times there are are mostly teases (how do these guys just stop the hot&heavy, and not get blueb@ll$?)with maybe 2 actual all-the-way sex scenes in a book. So I’m definitely bumping these Nicholas Bella books up on my TBR mountain to try next!

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