The Vampire Queen's Servant (Vampire Queen, #1)

The Vampire Queen's Servant (Vampire Queen #1)

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Paranormal erotica from an award-winning author who stands out in a genre known for its out-of-the-ordinary love play." (Romance Studio)

Lady Elyssa Yamato Amaterasu Wentworth is a centuries-old vampire who's been given a new servant-Jacob, a total alpha male unaccustomed to submitting to any woman's wishes. What really binds Jacob to her are not her sensual midnight hunge...more
Paperback, 373 pages
Published July 3rd 2007 by Berkley Trade
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Daisiemae
May 18, 2008 Daisiemae rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Vampire/BDSM erotic readers
Recommended to Daisiemae by: Blackbook
This is NOT a book for the faint hearted. There are some VERY strong BDSM elements to it. There were several times I felt myself wanting to cringe from the things Jacob is put through to prove his submission to Lyssa. Being an alpha male, he has some problems with being submissive, but in Lyssa's world that is not allowed. It is made very clear throughout the book that Vampires must be dominate, and demand nothing less but submission with all of their slaves, but honestly some of it was hard to...more
Marion
This book is about Lyssa the Vamire Queen and Jacob ( a human) who applies for the position to be her servant. Jacob was trained by Thomas who was Lyssa's previous servant.The problem is that Jacob is an alpha male and he is not submissive. Both Lyssa and Jacob try to dominate the other but also want to submit to each other. There is alot of sexual tension as well as romance and quite a bit of violence from Lyssa (after all she is a vampire). I was not sure I would like this book but was pleasan...more
L8blmr
Oct 14, 2008 L8blmr rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Fans of PN erotica and or BDSM
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Heather
Jul 07, 2008 Heather rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Vampire erotica and romance fans.
You should read this book! At first I was put off by a review I read that said there was a lot of violence in this book... I disagree!

This is really a love story. The story is about Alyssa- a 1000 year old vampire queen who was somewhat recently parted with her human servant Thomas. (For those who read the vampire genre we know what a human servant is.) Along comes Jacob- handsome man who swears he is the one to serve her and be with her. He tells her that Thomas himself trained him and that he...more
Kelly
Apr 01, 2012 Kelly rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: paranormal romance readers
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VampFanGirl
Joey W. Hill is a very unique author. She can turn the simple evolution of a couple's relationship into an epic romance, baffling the reader with the scope of this ability within the confines of three to four hundred pages. Hill is an author to be savored and dedication of time is necessary in order to appreciate her artistry.

Lady Elyssa Amaterasu Yamato Wentworth is a vampire queen not only by birth but also by the shear force of her personality. A thousand years has given Lyssa plenty of time...more
Sparklybearsy
This was my first Joey Hill book and it wont be my last. The Vampire Queen's Servant by Joey .W. Hill is book one in her 'Vampire Queen Series', it's certainly not for the faint of heart or if you are used to something a little more tame and vanilla. This book delves into BDSM and D/s in a big way. Jacob is one of those sexy Alpha men that has you drooling, nothing about him says submissive but when he sees Lady Lyssa he wants her, he learns her ways, how to look after her, be her servant. It's...more
D.G.
Feb 18, 2013 D.G. marked it as dnf
Shelves: reviewed
I just couldn't take the whole premise.
Purplepaperreader
This series has received very high ratings on Goodreads, and from other reviews it's plain to see that there is a market for these books and I guess I have to assume that these are good examples of the best of the paranormal Domme market (an albeit very small sub-genre of paranormal erotica).

But for me the book fell flat as the world building was just plain non-existent, and the writing contained overly dramatic dialogue and it was majorly lacking in descriptive detail. The first 1/3 of the boo...more
Ridley
I won't be doing a full review because this book just sort of lost me somewhere. Maybe it's because I spent a week and a half to read it, stopping to glom the entire Girl Genius archives in the middle of it, but I don't think so.

The book shares three things in common with literary fiction: a trade paperback price, a love of figurative language and a lack of emphasis on plot.

Now, the reverse snob in me hates literary fiction, so anytime things start to resemble it, I get cranky. Not only that, b...more
Penny Watson
The Vampire Queen's Servant by Joey Hill (Read April 2009)

I would like to think that I am not the squeamish type when it comes to romance novels. However, a book classified as a BDSM erotic vampire novel sounds a bit daunting, does it not? Since reading A Mermaid's Kiss and A Witch's Beauty, I have become a serious Joey Hill fan. My good friend and fellow writer Michelle heartily encouraged me to start her vampire series, and so I acquiesced, all the while harboring some reservations about the B...more
Anita
I couldn't get into this book. Half the time, I thought it was a poorly written sappy romance. The other half of the time, it seemed like an slightly edgy paranormal romance/erotica. It doesn't speak well for the writing that I never once cared about any of the characters. Too many cliches, too redundant, with a generally uninteresting story line. Even the "edgy" scenes were fairly boring because it really didn't matter to me if a character was hurt.

Premise: 1000 year old vampire queen takes an...more
Awilk -will work for books-
This was a terrific read. The only problem I had, and stopped it from being a 5 star read for me, was that even though the author kept telling me how cruel and self-centred Lyssa, the main female character was, she didn't show me enough for it to be real for me. She did do a few cruel and nasty things, but I saw a lot more of her being loving and caring.
Jacob was a well rounded character and I could not of enjoyed reading about him more. The joy of reading about an alpha male trying to submit fo...more
ISbeauty01(Master's)
This is a summary of this series of books.
All of the "Vampire Queen Servant" series are fabulous.
They usually involve a centuries year old female vampire that has tremendous powers. All vampires at this hierarchy have servants usually humans. Their relationship with their servants is typically what these revolve around. These are dark, complex books that contain graphic sex, bdsm, m/m, f/f and any device you can think of. Normally the female vampires (Queens) have come from a traumatic backgroun...more
Tristin
Ok so this is the first time I’ve felt the need to justify my review. All in all I really did like this book which a 3 rating doesn’t exactly reflect. I came to this rating from two angles. The first angle being the content and the story line itself, which I loved and from that perspective would have given it a 4! The second angle being how easy of a read it was, which I found very difficult and from that perspective I would have given it a 2. It was difficult for me to read because there is a l...more
Sophia
Going into the this story, I had reservations whether I would like it or not, but I tried to be open-minded because of how much I enjoyed other people's reviews and the blurbs on the story.

What's my hang-up? Well I'm pretty traditional about which gender should be in the dominant role in a relationship. As it happens, I learned pretty early on that I could rest easy about the book. Yes, the heroine, Elyssa, is the power player as she is not just at the top of the food chain as a vampire, but sh...more
Mariachiara
Scritta veramente bene e con grande pathos analizza la figura del vampiro in una nuova luce, più sensuale e crudele al tempo stesso. Il rapporto tra il vampiro e i suoi servi di cui si nutre….la natura dominante che lo guida nella vita e nei rapporti sessuali, la sua natura possessiva ma al tempo stesso non monogama….tutto è molto interessante e raccontato veramente bene. Impossibile non amare i personaggi principali della serie Lyssa e il il suo servo Jacob. Tra loro non dovrebbe essere possibi...more
Charley Ferrer
A fabulous book about D/s and Vampires and strong Dominant women. Reading this book is what actually lead to me writing my new books BDSM FOR WRITERS and BDSM THE NAKED TRUTH. I wanted to kidnap Jacob (the main character) but had to settle for a TV interview for my show PLEASURE with author Joey W. Hill during the Authors After Dark 2010 event. While there I was asked to speak on the writers' panel to help normalize BDSM and then was asked if I'd consider writing a book on BDSM FOR WRITERS(hence...more
Leontine
There are some authors who are meant to push your boundaries and throw you in uncharted territory, for me Joey W Hill is such an author! THE VAMPIRE QUEEN’S SERVANT is a story about how Jacob becomes the servant of vampire queen Lyssa. A very simple given but the journey they undertake is executed with such depth of character and rich detail of vampire culture that it kept boredom far away from this story.

In THE VAMPIRE QUEEN’S SERVANT I got a first taste of the vampire culture which bears a cru...more
Jane Stewart
No interesting character development or plot. Cruel female vampire tortures her servant for unrealistic or vague reasons.

STORY BRIEF:
Lyssa is a powerful 1000 year old vampire. Her previous human servant Thomas died. Thomas chose Jacob as his replacement and sent Jacob to Lyssa with a letter of recommendation. Thomas also trained Jacob in things he would need to know. Jacob wants to be Lyssa’s servant. She tells him he must be totally submissive and endure torture from her. Much of the story is L...more
Rhianna
Lady Lyssa doesn't want another human servant. To take another would mean losing him the way she lost Thomas, the monk who served her faithfully for hundreds of years. But Thomas' dying wish is that his mistress be protected and cared for. As queen of the vampires Lyssa's enemies are many and she cannot show weakness. The greatest of these being the mysterious illness that has plagued her for some time now.

Jacob Green has hunted vampires alongside his brother Gideon for most of his adult life....more
Syahira Sharif
In this time where EL James's 50 Shades of Grey kept popping up in any conversation regarding 'conventional' erotica (which apparently set a standard for everyone to disregard an actual storytelling and comprehensible language), The Vampire Queen's Servant is surprisingly enjoyable to read and written by the wildly talented author who managed to blend sexual intensity and characterization in one book without compromising anything.

The Vampire Queen's Servant is a paranormal erotica with enough r...more
Jen

Loved this story - Jacob is one of the hottest humans I've read about in a LONG time!!

The book basically was about Lady Lissa, the oldest Vampire living - and she is not a happy lady. She is actually pretty sad. She's had a rough life.
Her husband Rex use to beat on her, pretty badly too - since she's a vampire, she's able to heal, but she still hurts like anyone else. Only Vampires don't get to pass out from pain, they just have to endure it. It was pretty sad :(

She had a Male Servant - Thoma...more
Bobs (Reader Unbound)
I wanted to like this book.I tried. I really did. But it was so difficult for me to read it. At the beginning everything was excellent and just as a thought I found myself a new favorite series, things started to fall apart.
The biggest reason because of which I had such a difficult time with this read was the BDSM part. I can tolerate this kind of erotic relations, I can even find them appealing, but only when they are i small dozes. While reading The Vampire Queen's Servant, at some moments I...more
Joy
I took a rest reading about vampires so this one took a backseat after I explored other genres like fantasy, magic, and the like. After reading something I didn't enjoy, I decided to try this one. My copy is an e-book and this is one of those I downloaded after I saw it in the "related books" or "you might also like". After browsing the ratings (note: I didn't read the reviews), I decided to get the whole series since I'm one of those who always likes to follow something.

I wasn't expecting anyth...more
Lmb
Jun 30, 2010 Lmb rated it 2 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Paranormal fans, vamp fans, angst lovers
This book was only OK to meh for me. I think some of it had to do with expectations based on reviews I read & some was just down to falling into stale cliche's & borrowing to heavily from other author's worlds.

Also - it was actually quite slow & too much repetitive angst. I'll tell you right now, I don't do angst very well. Esp. if it's tired & overused "plot development" ploy's.

I had been hearing a lot about Joey Hill lately. That she is a solid writer who really has the abili...more
Joanna Tsiou
I am in a bit of a dilemma in how to rate this book! Yes it was suprisingly well written and yes the whole "woman-dom, man-sub" was something we don't see often but I think my problem is that BDSM doesn't really do it for me no matter who gets to play dom and sub. But I knew that before opening the book, what bugs me is that I feel as if nothing was really resolved in this book and yes the next one is the rest of the story but I would like a more satisfying end to this one.

Spoilers are bound to...more
Erica Chilson
Rating: 3 1/2 stars.

I did like the overall premise of the book. I just wished there were more of it. A lot of repetition. I hope this is the case of the 1st (in the series) book curse. I will continue to read the series before I abandon it. I have seen many positive reviews for the following books. Hopefully the story picks up in the direction I can see it leading. I love naughty bits in my books but I find them more stimulating when it is within a storyline and has meaning. The amount of story...more
DavinciKittie
GraveTells original review: http://gravetells.wordpress.com/2011/...

TLDR recap:

The oldest living vampire and the last queen of the Far East Clan, Lady Elyssa Amaterasu Yamato Wentworth, still suffers from the pain of losing her human servant and her husband. Jacob Green is, among other things, a vampire hunter trained to hunt and kill her kind but is strangely drawn to Lyssa in ways he does not yet understand. Even a perfect match takes a little breaking in, and Lady Lyssa excels at control. Str...more
Heather McDaid
I cocked up quite spectacularly with this series, because last year I read Vampire Trinity , which turned out to be the sixth book in the series. Luckily it worked at a stand-alone,but now I'm trying to right that wrong slowly but surely. I can see some of the links, like the role of Gideon (the one name that stood out from the sixth book in this one), but it didn't ruin anything in terms of reading anew.

So, to my current predicament: I work at Ann Summers and I am sick of talking about 50 Shad...more
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