Zo 's Gift Jory Strong A book in the Fallon Mates series. One look at the human female who is his match and the mating fever of the Vesti ignites in Miciah, making it impossible for him to deny what he wants. To go to Earth and claim her, he must choose an Amato co-mate. For him there is only one choice, the bisexual Iden. It'll mean breaking the cultural taboos of the Vesti, but for Zo, he and Iden will become lovers. Miciah intends to keep his sexual relationship with Iden a secret as they take Zo together. Iden has other ideas. What neither of them can know is they've starred in Zo 's dreams for a week, so when they show up in her reality, she welcomes the chance to explore their fantasies-and her own. Miciah and Iden may have come to Earth to claim a mate, but taking her home with them will change Belizair forever.
Jory has been writing since childhood and has never outgrown being a daydreamer. When she's not hunched over her computer, lost in the muse and conjuring up new heroes and heroines, she can usually be found reading, riding her horses, or hiking with her dogs.
I love this series of books and this one was just a great as the others. I will warn everyone that this book contains m/m scenes normally shared with a woman in the mix. I loved that Zoe was open to the needs of Miciah and Iden. She is also very accepting of going to a alien planet to live. This is a new take on this series and I was pleased to see that Ms. Strong was expanding her world's to accommodate a solution for the couple's that can't have children. I hope that she writes more books in this series. There are several people that were interesting enough to make me wonder what their story would be like.
June 26, 2015
I first read this book three years ago and I love it as much now as I did then. I will warn those that will object that this is a m/m/f story. There are several scenes where the male leads do make love to each other. I don’t want anyone saying that they weren’t warned up front before they got excited about the book and then where faced with disappointment.
We first met Miciah d’Vesti in ZERAAC’S MIRACLE. He was the other match for Ariel and instead of allowing a challenge that would have possibly allowed him to claim Ariel he allowed the match to stand. Miciah is the only child and he wants a mate to carry on his line. He never thought he would be matched with someone else until Kaylee, Ariel’s daughter from her first marriage, comes to his office and tells him that Ariel has a sister that she was never able to find. It doesn’t take long for the bounty hunters to find her and send a picture to Belizair. Miciah is instantly taken with her and goes to the one Amato he would consider being a co-mate with. Miciah has fantasied about Iden since the first time he met the priest. The Vesti have a taboo about lovers being the same sex however. This gives the two men the perfect opportunity to act on the mutual attraction and feelings.
I liked Miciah very much. He is all dominant alpha male that finds it hard to share a mate with even when that someone is a person he is attracted to sexually. Miciah is cautious and unwilling to give up control. He is afraid that too much change will harm his world and its people. He is a little taken aback when he sees Zoe for the first time. He didn’t think that he would feel an attraction as strong as the one he felt for Ariel the first time he saw her. I was glad to see that Miciah was open minded enough to embrace change when it smacked up beside the head. I also loved that he is a caring compassionate man that only wants what is best for his world and people.
Iden is a priest of the Goddess and Consort. He has also had feelings for Miciah for a very long time. He sees his opportunity to finally have Miciah when they go to earth to claim Zoe. Iden is also very attracted to the earth woman and is more than willing to go to earth immediately to claim her. Iden is also very dominant and he isn't afraid to show that side of himself. He is a little more willing to take a more submissive role when Miciah is under the influence of the Vesti mating fever. Like Miciah, Iden is compassionate and caring. He has watched the suffering of the people of Belizair first hand and wants to find a way to bring them hope. I don’t think either man realized that hope would be Zoe.
Zoe Andreadis has the psychic gift of empathy. However her gift at the beginning is more tuned to grief and despair. She has moved from place to place to keep the gift under control but she longs to settle down with a husband or companion. She doesn’t realize that she has a sister. Zoe is very open minded and more than willing to take on two lovers and even watch as the love each other. It has been Zoe’s dream to use her gift to help those in need but until she meets Miciah and Iden that is not possible. I was impressed at how easily she was able to learn and understand the technology of Belizair.
I enjoyed this story very much and I think that those that like the m/m/f storyline as well as paranormal romance with like this story. Oh yes, there is some spanking and the use of bondage in the story as well.
SPOILER SPOILER.……………….…...............…………….….............……………….…...........……………….…...............…………….…..............……………….…........................I really wanted to like this book and I think others will. My negative rating has more to with my personal taste or "hang up". I really dislike when the story's main tension is one person keeping a secret from another. Lies, even well intentioned, don't set well with me.
This was a very good book. I liked Zoe, Iden and Miciah and enjoyed their story. This book took the series in an unexpected but interesting path and I'm looking forward to seeing where it goes as the series progresses.
Zoe is a psychic, having both empathetic gifts (mostly feeling sadness and despair coming from people in emotional pain) and she has the sight and is able to see things coming but usually can't help the people she sees in trouble. She finds that when she stays in one place too long her gifts tend to overwhelm her so she's constantly on the move. She was given a fortune a while back saying that when she falls in love completely her gifts will align together to work in a way that will allow her to help others. Zoe lives for that day, hoping that one day the problems brought by her gifts will be worthwhile in the end. When she starts dreaming of 2 men night after night she knows she meant to be with them and is excited but not surprised when they show up in her life.
Miciah is a council member that is the ruling body on his home planet of Belisair. He was the Vesti match for Ariel (from book 2 Zeraac's Miracle) but since she was already bonded with Zeracc (who was her Amato match) and Komet (another Vesti that wasn't a match but was chosen by Zeraac) he gave up his claim on her to see her happy. Miciah's a good guy and does his best to be a good representative to his people. He wasn't expecting Ariel's daughter to come with him with claims of knowing who his match is and is surprised but very pleased to find out about Zoe. One look at her picture and he knows she's the one for him and proceeds to make it come about as quickly as possible.
Iden is a Amato and a priest for his people. He spends his life helping his people as much as he can, and in this time of despair on his planet there's much need. He particularly has a hard time helping the women of their planet that have become infertile since the biological attack on their planet since there seems to be little hope of a solution. Iden is attracted to both men and women and has always had an attraction to Miciah but, due to cultural issues with men/men relationships held by the Vesti, Miciah has never been willing to be with Iden in that way. When Miciah comes to him, offering that they be partners in going to claim Zoe, Iden agrees but only if Miciah will agree to give in to their attraction for each other. Miciah agrees as long as Zoe is ok with them being together in that way.
Zoe is on Earth and end up at an arts festival in her travels. She has been having intimate dreams of both Miciah and Iden for a week and knows it's more than just a dream so she's not surprised when they show up at the festival. They barely get out introductions and before they're all over each other. They spend the night and part of the next day having sex and spending some time together but before they've even spent 24 hours together, Miciah and Iden are taking Zoe to the transportation chamber to take her back to their planet. They get her to trust them and agree to go to their home with them but they don't really explain much of anything before performing the binding ceremony with Zoe before transporting them home. Zoe takes everything in stride and doesn't freak out at being in a new place or that her lovers now have wings. Miciah and Iden promise more answers but both get pulled away by urgent business as soon as they get back to the planet. Zoe ends up meeting Ariel, who is her long lost sister and finding out more about her new home through her.
Things go really quickly in the story and the same day she arrives, Zoe is in the market place with Ariel and sees a Veszti woman in pain (seeing her emotional pain through her gift). Zoe decides to try to help and when she does, she's drawn in to a vision with the woman, one that seems to be a vision from the Vesti god that sends them on a trip to Earth to save a human girl with the genes that would make her welcome on Belisair. This gives the woman hope because she now has a daughter to raise but by going to Earth without permission they broke some laws and don't know how their actions will be taken. Regardless of this, Zoe finds the need to help other women as well (and all within her first couple days on the planet). While all this is going on, there's also strife between Miciah and Iden because, although Miciah is willing to give in to his urges to be with Iden in private (with Zoe's blessing and encouragement), he's not open to showing their relationship publicly. Miciah and Iden have to work things out and Miciah is forced to come to terms with his needs vs. his people's prejudices and the worry over what the people he represents on the counsel will say about him going against their cultural norms. Things aren't easy but I really liked the way this book ended, with hope and change for the future and, of course, a HEA for Zoe, Miciah and Iden.
I really enjoyed this story. Zoe, Miciah and Iden are good characters that I liked. I also really liked how the story line for the series is going and how it's addressing not only the need for human women for mates to save the races from dying out, it also addressing the women suffering from being left infertile. The ending of the book was great and I'm really looking forward to seeing where the series goes from here. I'd recommend this book. Thumbs up. :D
bastante bueno, Kaylee hace de nuevo una aparición y de ahí se disparan los eventos necesarios para solucionar el futuro de las parejas que ya estaban vinculadas antes del virus y para que estas razas empiecen a cambiar para mejorar su vida, no solo en su percepción de que las humanas lo cambiaran todo, si no que además en sus costumbres y aceptación de las relaciones M/M Me esperaba lo que paso con las bebes que nacieron, aunque no la manera en que lo hicieron, fue muy tierno.
I do love Zoe's story, love how she comes to be with Iden and Miciah and how the two men must work to make things right between the three of them. I wish that Zoe was more honest with her mates, but otherwise a good read.
This is book 4 of the Fallon Series As I said in a previous review I read these books out of sync. It didn't really matter, except for the end of this book, but as I read the prequel first the end of this book made sense. Zoe is a female with the Fallon gene. She is also psychic. She knew the men were coming for her. She just didn't know what it would lead to. Miciah, a vesti is a council member. Part of the group that are making and imposing the laws that effect the human females paired. He has to chose an Amato to pair with on claiming Zoe. He know's there is only 1 he can chose. Iden a priest. When they were first introduced they had a mutual attraction. As it is in the Vesti culture there is no same sex pairings so Miciah refused to act on it. Pairing could help them be together without being together. Once she accepted them and returned to their home planet Zoe knew this is where she was meant to be and that her gifts were going to be helpful. That she was meant to help the woman of the planet. The 2 mates chosen for her were called upon to perform urgent duties. Before going off to council Miciah shows Zoe why he tested to see if he was a match for her. Ariel's daughter Keylee has been having dream visitations from a golden lady. She told him that Zoe was Ariel's missing sister. He takes Zoe to meet Ariel so she isn't alone on her first day on the planet. While they are at the market Zoe's gift draws her to a woman so depressed she is borderline suicidal. When their bracelets touch in greeting Zoe is shown a vision in which there is orphaned children back on earth. Zoe and the woman go back and rescue the child. They return and the woman keeps the child. This happens a couple of more times. All the children test positive for the Fallen gene. In the end Zoe tells her mates what she has been doing. They call an emergency council meeting and she shows them her visions, Kaylee show's hers as well. This proves to all that the Goddess and God are working to bring life back to the planet. Through out the series we knew that the woman falling pregnant would have twins. 1 of each At the end of the book Cyan gives birth to her twins. The first to be born. When Rykken and Laith bring out there girls they turn them so the wings are showing. Everyone is ecstatic because they weren't sure if the babies were going to be Vesti or Amato. While holding them they swapped them over so they were each holding the others child. The babies changed to match that father. Awe struct they knew the Fallon had returned.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
Having only read one other of the series I was so intrigued by the concept that I went searching for & found this one. I love the place they met (sounds a lot like Burning Man if you ask me); to Zoe’s gifts, the tension between her two matches & their own story within the story.
I loved how she created a whole world, a back story, and history without bogging down the book. The love that developed between the trio is amazing, they build a relationship which is heightened by the mating fever that they are exposed to.
Zoe is special, she is a psychic of rare talent and this helps her, when she moves to the new planet with her lovers. The gods that created their world also created or sent some of their people to Earth, so the story links up well. I loved this story although I personally wouldn't have kept that kind of information from my mates that she did, we all have our own ways of dealing I guess.
I liked that as their relationship grew they embraced all parts of the relationship and even took on a cultural taboo and made it easier for others to face their fears.
I'm hoping to read the rest of the series, but I believe this was the last one she wrote, before she had to take a break (don't quote me but I might remember this as something she had on her website) due to her mother passing. You can catch up her on her website here, or even on her page of Ellorascave , or on Goodreads.
Well enjoy this new read. It's out of this world (of course I had to come on..) Aisha
I like Jory Strong's writing, it is erotica but with a story that also contains some heart. I liked the M/M/F aspect in this book as well.
Zoe was a nice, earth-child character, she was nomadic (with reason) and took to her new planet and all its inhabitants with comfortable acceptance and empathy. She was also comfortable about her partners sexual predelictions. I also liked the fact that this book dealt with issues surrounding same sex prejudices, racial tensions and personal hang-ups. There was a lot of sex in the book but the characters are pretty hot and deliciously compatable in the bedroom, so score a big one there.
I hope Jory Strong keeps writing this series as, for me, it really is a good one, well worth the read. Hopefully Zantara gets a jersey. Oh, and it was nice to see young Kaylee from Zeraac's Miracle pop up as, once again, she is delightful.
So on re-read I wouldn't rave as an erotica but it is a good story and has definite hot parts with sex. The tongue in the ear kept distracting me as that is not a turn on at all for me. Nipping or sucking an ear-lobe sure, but sticking a tongue in an ear canal, not at all. First read Jan 2011 2016 April 18
Loved the story. I usually cannot handle guy on guy action but this way okay. Half way through you will want to shake one of the heroes because he is just really really stupid. Just admit what you want already. Anyway, love this series!! It is a great ménage series. I will definitely have to look into more from this author!
I purchased this book I don't know how long ago and I wanted to clean up the series! I enjoyed the main story line with Zoe's psychic abilities and Belizair's cultural developments but I'm a bit over menage for the sake of it... I'd sort of like to read more on the development of this world, but not sure I really want to continue this series (if that makes any sense whatsoever!).
I really really want to like these books. But its a great storyline interrupted by too much gratuitous female only submission, punishment and spanking. Ugh yet again. I'll say it again... if the only way to erotic for you is through dom/sub, pain or gender bias... you are doing it wrong.
So on re-read I wouldn't rave as an erotica but it is a good story and has definite hot parts with sex. The tongue in the ear kept distracting me as that is not a turn on at all for me. Nipping or sucking an ear-lobe sure, but sticking a tongue in an ear canal, not at all. First read Jan 2011
Really liked Zoe's character. I have really enjoyed this series so far. If you love reading sci-fi menage romance then this is a terrific series. Looking forward to the next one.