Broken Pentacle by Eden Rivers
Publisher: Loose Id
Genre: Paranormal
Length: Full (175 Pages)
Other: M/F, M/F/M, F/M/M, Ménage, Anal Sex, Fisting
Rating: 4 Cherries
Review by Eglantine

After a year spent recuperating from a rogue witch’s attack, Sky agrees to draw Jaimis — her former lover, torturer, and rapist — out of hiding, determined to discover the identity of his followers before they subject others to the hell she suffered. With her magic shattered from the trauma, she needs to rediscover her sensual nature before she reclaims her gifts. Hesitant to trust, she didn’t plan on bonding with one witch, let alone two. But if premonitions prove true, the key to healing and survival lies within a scorching ménage.

Alec blames himself for failing to protect Sky when the rogue witch left them close to death, and he’ll do anything to see Jaimis dead.

During interludes when they’re not scrambling to stay one step ahead of death spells or human thugs, Alec strives to reawaken Sky’s sexual nature, eager to help mend her broken magic. He entices her into sexy baths, making love under the pines, and erotic desserts in which he coats her with honey and fruit. But when Sky and Zach, their bodyguard and Alec’s former lover, turn the tables and put Alec on the menu, he’s ill equipped to let his guard down and accept their tantalizing ministrations.

As Alec struggles to overcome the violence and loss in his past, his deepening bond with Sky and renewed affection for Zach pull him into a web of conflicting loyalties and attachments. And yet to survive what lies ahead, the three of them must pull together in a tangle of bodies, hearts, and magic, combining power and passion.

Publisher’s Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: Anal play/intercourse, bondage, male/male sexual practices, masturbation, ménage (m/m/f), violence.

Is it possible for broken people to fix each other? Can the victims of a rogue witch’s unspeakable acts of violence and violation help each other to heal? This is the central question asked by Eden Rivers in this excellent tale. The answer may not be the world’s greatest surprise – the book’s strength doesn’t lie in twists and turns and unexpected developments. Its charm is that it takes the reader on a journey of recovery along with the wounded witches that are the main protagonists, while not letting up on tension and action for a second.

Ms Rivers paints a shockingly vivid picture of the hellish experience that left Skyler and Alec crippled in spirit, their magic broken. She takes these characters out of the safe places they hid in for a year – as authors are wont to do, we’re nothing if not cruel – and puts them in a situation where they have no choice but to revisit the pain, face it and overcome it.

Fortunately for both of them, they have Zach. A no-nonsense kind of guy who is loyal and strong, but also understanding, he provides the anchor for his two friends to cling to as they venture into the shattered-glass landscape of their damaged psyches. But did it give a better understanding about what Gout is? No. tadalafil overnight Kathi Keville and Peter Corn, authors of “Herbs for Health and Healing,” stated that poor circulation may cause impotence in men because damaged or impaired blood vessels simply fail to fill with blood and expand which buy viagra online is required to attain a strong erection. Some people have a chain reaction, such as a heart buy uk viagra attack or heart failure. It online pharmacy for levitra shouldn’t have to take a back seat, especially when you give so much to others.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. The characters seemed real. Their overactive libidos are not just presented as normal, the author weaves an explanation into the narrative that put my rising incredulity to rest. The well-written sex scenes are numerous and explicit. Though it is not depicted to provoke arousal and is not particularly detailed in that aspect, Alec and Skyler’s flashbacks do contain descriptions of rape.

The only niggle I could think of if pressed, is that there is so much sex in the book it’s almost too much. That said, not one of the scenes left me cold. They were believable, unforced and appropriate for the situation.

Ms Rivers has crafted a book to be proud of, with characters whose struggles come across as believable, in a world with magic that is described in such a way that the suspension of disbelief is no effort at all. I found myself unable to put the book down when it was bedtime. All in all a great read which I highly recommend to lovers of paranormal erotica.