A sci-fi version of the Pygmalion story, Alarin is a late teen pickpocketing guy and sometime street hustler; one night he accepts the wrong deal and he would be probably dead on a dark alley if not for Maleus, a wealthy businessman passing by.

The society where Alarin and Maleus are living is a futuristic city divided in social levels that are reflected in the floor you are allowed in: poor people stay in the bottomside part of the city, where the sun cannot reach them, where vitamins and protei More...

My Thought

I came upon this book literally by accident and snapped it up because I liked one of the main protags name (Alarin).. We readers are a funny lot, you never know what will make us read a book.

The book is a mix of futuristic society meeting urban fantasy and I was intrigued by this more than anything else.

The story starts off with a young boy in what is called Bottomside in a fight literally of his life, this is not an unknown situation though as in this place it is really survival of t More...

This is a Futuristic/SciFi/eroitca book. The premise is interesting and the intrigue is easy enough to follow.

The blurb makes it sound like it is going to be much more of a D/s relationship than it is. I am a sucker for rescue stories and this one definately falls into that category but loses track somewhere. The emotional bond between Alarin and Bryce is strong and the climax is very good but the end just sorta....fades out.

There is no HFN or HEA. I assume there is another book but I am not t More...

Good plot and good storytelling it was a absolutely different from the vampire books i ve read till now i liked it dont believe the general rating, go and read it...

I've read this, although I can't remember a single thing about it. I'm gonna have to go back and reread it before I score it.

the flow is nice.
but i'm rather dismayed with the ending.