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Rakshasa I #1
Rakshasa Book I, Part #1
Libby the Loser. That's what everyone used to call me behind my back. I wasn't popular, I wasn't strong, I wasn't brave.
All that changed after a chance encounter in a Canberra nightclub. Afterward, I began to dream; dream I was something else. A powerful creature of muscles and claws, something powerful and confident and everything I wasn't.
I dreamed I was in love with a man I'd barely met.
The dream world is a beautiful, wondrous place, but there's a shadow in my dreams. An eclipse, broken with a gunshot. Then I wake up.
Now my dreams are coming true. My body is changing for real. I'm shedding Libby the Loser like an old skin. I'm growing into something else.
But there are others. Others like me, and they don't get along. People are disappearing. People are dying.
The shadow is falling over the real world, too, and everything has changed.
Book One
Rakshasa
Rakshasa: Aurora
Rakshasa: Tigerheart
Rakshasa: Shadowfall
Rakshasa: Eternity
Book Two
Rakshasa: Moonlight - 20th of February, 2013
All that changed after a chance encounter in a Canberra nightclub. Afterward, I began to dream; dream I was something else. A powerful creature of muscles and claws, something powerful and confident and everything I wasn't.
I dreamed I was in love with a man I'd barely met.
The dream world is a beautiful, wondrous place, but there's a shadow in my dreams. An eclipse, broken with a gunshot. Then I wake up.
Now my dreams are coming true. My body is changing for real. I'm shedding Libby the Loser like an old skin. I'm growing into something else.
But there are others. Others like me, and they don't get along. People are disappearing. People are dying.
The shadow is falling over the real world, too, and everything has changed.
Book One
Rakshasa
Rakshasa: Aurora
Rakshasa: Tigerheart
Rakshasa: Shadowfall
Rakshasa: Eternity
Book Two
Rakshasa: Moonlight - 20th of February, 2013
37 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 30, 2012
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About the author
Alica Knight
20 books2 followersMy name is Alica (sometimes Alex if I'm feeling tomboyish) and this is my biography.
I write romance and, occasionally, erotica. I went to a really wild college, so some of my stuff is based on my real life experiences.
Sometimes a story is a retelling of how it went down, with names changed to protect the guilty. Sometimes it's just how I wished it *could* have gone down, but I crashed and burned in some way, or things didn't plan out the way I wanted them to. Sometimes a story is the road not taken... those are the interesting ones.
Enjoy.
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I write romance and, occasionally, erotica. I went to a really wild college, so some of my stuff is based on my real life experiences.
Sometimes a story is a retelling of how it went down, with names changed to protect the guilty. Sometimes it's just how I wished it *could* have gone down, but I crashed and burned in some way, or things didn't plan out the way I wanted them to. Sometimes a story is the road not taken... those are the interesting ones.
Enjoy.
My author Facebook page is here: http://www.facebook.com/RakshasaSeries
And my mailing list is here: http://eepurl.com/toBnX
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February 7, 2013
OKay, let's talk Rakshasa part 1 - not Book 1, just part 1. It gets a three from me but only because it ended before it started. Had it been the whole book and not the beginning of a serial, I would have easily given it a 4.5 or 5.
I was directed toward this book via a free kindle ebooks group and figured what the hell... It's free, the cover is HOT, and it might just tickle my fancy. If it doesn't, then no worries cause it was free. ;) One little click and my life may be changed forever... dun dun dun.
So I get up this morning all bright eyed and bushy tailed, (okay, that part is a lie. It was 6:30a.m. and I was looking forward to a fight with my kids about getting ready for school, but I digress) I crack open my eReader and I prepare myself for a steamy journey through uncharted Indian culture. I'm not very well versed in most cultures so this was going to be exciting. When I started reading however, I felt strange. You know how you walk in on a movie and it's only maybe 30 minutes in, and no matter how hard you try to pick up what is going on, you can't? That's how this book felt for me. I can't place why it felt strange but I can single out the good and bad aspects of the book and let you decide if I am right. ;)
First complaint is that it was wayyyyyyyy too short. Just when it started to get really good, and things were sort of falling into place, it ENDED. What the hell?!?
"Dear Alica Knight, on my incredibly long list of pet peeves the one thing that sits up top, is the ending of a story prematurely. I get that you want to do it in pieces, but don't nudge the hormone cauldron and then call it a day. Way uncool!"
^^^^ Yeah, this was me at roughly 7:15a.m. after I huffed and closed my eReader. I almost googled to see if I could find some fanfiction to appease the hungry beast but alas, here I sit channeling my irritation into a review and using my powers for good. lol Onward ho to the next book, I spose.
Second complaint is that I had a hard time differentiating between dream sequences and reality. I mean, it's not rocket science so I feel like a tool for suggesting it, but the writing was a bit cloudy in certain sections and I had to stop and think and re-read to make sure I was on the same page as the writer (haha, see what I did there?). That can take away from the overall feel of the book for me. If I spend more time trying to deduce and assemble than I am reading, then it almost loses it's appeal. =/
Third and final complaint is that I wanted for 'Libby the loser' to be more accessible. I aligned myself more with the bar hopping floozy of a best friend than I did with Libby (Who is actually Elizabeth, btw. o_O). Make Libby more accessible and relate-able. She could have been anyone and no one and the only thing making me want to be in her shoes, was Ishan (I need a second to drool). Ishan didn't really get a shining role and the two things that stick out for me about him, is bright blue eyes and white fur. Yeah, don't ask... it is what it is. heh I wanted him to be more memorable than a sexy piece of la la land ass. Oh, and I would have liked that he didn't hop from "ohmigod I can't touch her because she is from another clan" to "Hey baby, let's get it on." He was like a hyper-charged supernatural teenage boy who still believed in cooties. It made me sad. =( <----- See that sad face? This is serious business folks!
I was surprised to learn that Alica Knight (a pen name of course) is in fact a member of the male persuasion. I read through the whole book and never once thought that anyone other than a woman had written it. It was a little on the safe side with the 'sensuality' but most works are if they aren't written for the erotica genre. Still, the fact that he pulled it off and I was never the wiser, is something to be commended.
Even with my complaints, I still really liked the book. Sure it wasn't perfect and a great number of things could have been changed or tweaked, but it was still a good read. It would have been better if I didn't have to buy the whole book in 5 different pieces but it's still attention worthy. Maybe next time I will look a little more closely to make sure the book I get isn't a serial. Lesson Learned! Who knows, I may pick up the rest of the books at some point if I see they are free again but until then I will sit and stew over what is and what could be. >.<
I was directed toward this book via a free kindle ebooks group and figured what the hell... It's free, the cover is HOT, and it might just tickle my fancy. If it doesn't, then no worries cause it was free. ;) One little click and my life may be changed forever... dun dun dun.
So I get up this morning all bright eyed and bushy tailed, (okay, that part is a lie. It was 6:30a.m. and I was looking forward to a fight with my kids about getting ready for school, but I digress) I crack open my eReader and I prepare myself for a steamy journey through uncharted Indian culture. I'm not very well versed in most cultures so this was going to be exciting. When I started reading however, I felt strange. You know how you walk in on a movie and it's only maybe 30 minutes in, and no matter how hard you try to pick up what is going on, you can't? That's how this book felt for me. I can't place why it felt strange but I can single out the good and bad aspects of the book and let you decide if I am right. ;)
First complaint is that it was wayyyyyyyy too short. Just when it started to get really good, and things were sort of falling into place, it ENDED. What the hell?!?
"Dear Alica Knight, on my incredibly long list of pet peeves the one thing that sits up top, is the ending of a story prematurely. I get that you want to do it in pieces, but don't nudge the hormone cauldron and then call it a day. Way uncool!"
^^^^ Yeah, this was me at roughly 7:15a.m. after I huffed and closed my eReader. I almost googled to see if I could find some fanfiction to appease the hungry beast but alas, here I sit channeling my irritation into a review and using my powers for good. lol Onward ho to the next book, I spose.
Second complaint is that I had a hard time differentiating between dream sequences and reality. I mean, it's not rocket science so I feel like a tool for suggesting it, but the writing was a bit cloudy in certain sections and I had to stop and think and re-read to make sure I was on the same page as the writer (haha, see what I did there?). That can take away from the overall feel of the book for me. If I spend more time trying to deduce and assemble than I am reading, then it almost loses it's appeal. =/
Third and final complaint is that I wanted for 'Libby the loser' to be more accessible. I aligned myself more with the bar hopping floozy of a best friend than I did with Libby (Who is actually Elizabeth, btw. o_O). Make Libby more accessible and relate-able. She could have been anyone and no one and the only thing making me want to be in her shoes, was Ishan (I need a second to drool). Ishan didn't really get a shining role and the two things that stick out for me about him, is bright blue eyes and white fur. Yeah, don't ask... it is what it is. heh I wanted him to be more memorable than a sexy piece of la la land ass. Oh, and I would have liked that he didn't hop from "ohmigod I can't touch her because she is from another clan" to "Hey baby, let's get it on." He was like a hyper-charged supernatural teenage boy who still believed in cooties. It made me sad. =( <----- See that sad face? This is serious business folks!
I was surprised to learn that Alica Knight (a pen name of course) is in fact a member of the male persuasion. I read through the whole book and never once thought that anyone other than a woman had written it. It was a little on the safe side with the 'sensuality' but most works are if they aren't written for the erotica genre. Still, the fact that he pulled it off and I was never the wiser, is something to be commended.
Even with my complaints, I still really liked the book. Sure it wasn't perfect and a great number of things could have been changed or tweaked, but it was still a good read. It would have been better if I didn't have to buy the whole book in 5 different pieces but it's still attention worthy. Maybe next time I will look a little more closely to make sure the book I get isn't a serial. Lesson Learned! Who knows, I may pick up the rest of the books at some point if I see they are free again but until then I will sit and stew over what is and what could be. >.<
October 11, 2013
I only read PART 1 of Rakshasa but I wont be finishing the rest and this is why.
SPOILER:
I could go on but overall I feel my time is better spent reading the ingredients list on dog food.
SPOILER:
I could go on but overall I feel my time is better spent reading the ingredients list on dog food.
December 22, 2012
The synopsis begins with the narrator, Libby, complaining about everyone calling her Libby the Loser behind her back.
Actually, the only one constantly referring to Libby as a loser is herself.
This book (if you can call it that - the page-count was 30 or 40 pages, which I don't think counts as a novel) was supposed to have a HINT of sensuality.
It actually consisted of about 20 pages of meaningless sex and 5 pages of pondering said meaningless sex.
There was also 5 pages of strangeness, 5 pages of talking and 5 pages of feeling like a loser.
That's what this book was.
I gotta admit, having seen the absolutely stunning cover, I expected more than just meaningless sex and a stupid chick feeling like an insignificant loser all the time. I've been there, and most authors managed to make me actually believe the heroines sentiments.
This was just bad and hardly fleshed out. I'd like the author to go back to her manuscript, triple the page count and make it interesting and believable.
Actually, the only one constantly referring to Libby as a loser is herself.
This book (if you can call it that - the page-count was 30 or 40 pages, which I don't think counts as a novel) was supposed to have a HINT of sensuality.
It actually consisted of about 20 pages of meaningless sex and 5 pages of pondering said meaningless sex.
There was also 5 pages of strangeness, 5 pages of talking and 5 pages of feeling like a loser.
That's what this book was.
I gotta admit, having seen the absolutely stunning cover, I expected more than just meaningless sex and a stupid chick feeling like an insignificant loser all the time. I've been there, and most authors managed to make me actually believe the heroines sentiments.
This was just bad and hardly fleshed out. I'd like the author to go back to her manuscript, triple the page count and make it interesting and believable.
August 16, 2013
Definitely a good preview of what is to come in the series, but way, way, way too short. I know it was a preview or starter to the series, but the point of that is to draw me into the characters and make me want to read more. I do want to read more because I think the story could get very interesting. However, I don't want to read more if each portion of the story is this short because I just can't really connect with the characters in such a short amount of time. In order to really connect with a character, I need to learn something about who they are and I just didn't get that here for the most part. Yes, we learned about the Rakshasa in a very small way, but that was pretty much it. We still don't know much of anything about who Libby or Ishan are as far as personality goes. I needed more detail and insight to draw me into the characters. This short story was definitely well written though and I do think the series has potential.
June 7, 2015
I read this as a part of the Red Hot Beginnings Box Set.
It had a really good premise but I just felt that it was rushed. There was very little depth to the story and the characters. Certain things were taken for granted and scenes were just explained away. A lot was left up to the readers imagination to work out. I really enjoy world building and this unfortunately had little to none. This would be a 1 star but got an extra 1 due to my favourite animal being a cat.
It had a really good premise but I just felt that it was rushed. There was very little depth to the story and the characters. Certain things were taken for granted and scenes were just explained away. A lot was left up to the readers imagination to work out. I really enjoy world building and this unfortunately had little to none. This would be a 1 star but got an extra 1 due to my favourite animal being a cat.
November 11, 2014
I know I was being generous awarding this Free Kobo read two full stars. I didn't do it out of sympathy or. to help champion the cause. Perhaps it had something to do with reading it at 5am!
With the right guidance and decent editor Rakshasa could become a mild success.
With the right guidance and decent editor Rakshasa could become a mild success.
Want to read
December 20, 2012Free on amazon
April 10, 2013
Good start. Looking forward to the next one. Only complaint too short.
April 30, 2013
Nicely written story. It had a refreshing angle - weretigers. Liked the main character but could have done with a bit more action. Will probably read more from this author.
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January 1, 2014*downloaded for free on ARE
Want to read
October 10, 2013Currently free on amazon.
February 3, 2015
enjoyed reading this book
February 11, 2015
unusual
A different story than I expected but pretty good. Needs some work to make me want to read the next one and its a cliff hanger. Entertaining but short.
A different story than I expected but pretty good. Needs some work to make me want to read the next one and its a cliff hanger. Entertaining but short.
September 3, 2016
Great
Great intro for a wonderful storyline. I can't wait to get more money to buy the next ones in line.
Great intro for a wonderful storyline. I can't wait to get more money to buy the next ones in line.
February 7, 2013
Ok.. I gave it 2 stars because it was were-tigers
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