Review of “Chains Of Frost” by T.A. Grey
★ ★ ★ – Finished, and found it okay, but with room for improvement.
Chloe Bellum's life is one big mess. Literally.
She’s a succubus, who is nearing her 29th birthday. In the supernatural world, this means that on the first New Moon after her birthday, she will have to survive on… well… sex. Now, that in itself probably wouldn’t be a problem. It is modern times; a young woman can be frisky if she wants. But, what she hadn’t accounted for was that her father had handed ownership over her to a complete stranger. And vampire war lord.In order to escape this archaic fate, she and her sisters accidentally summons a super bad demon. Woops. Furthermore, her incredible hot, vampire lover/owner Tyrian doesn’t exactly seem pleased about the whole ordeal either. In fact, he’s only interested in keeping her out of harm’s way. All that sex stuff? He offers up his warriors as a solution.
**I have some very mixed feelings about this book. **
On one side, I loved the plot and the simple world where supernatural beings live among us.
On the other side, it could benefit from some tightening up.
Despite everything, there were a lot of things I enjoyed in this book.
The Main Characters Chloe and Tyrian, I found their connection pretty believable. They’re thrown together in this out-of-nowhere situation, where they find out that her deceased father expects them to shag it up. As if that wasn’t weird enough, they both have no proper time to get to know each other, or think if they’re even ready to have a sexual relation with anyone.
I enjoyed that part a lot. Their resistance seemed like a very natural response to me. Yet, the author also manages to deal with the whole sexual need without making the plot development suffer from it.
It’s an erotic read, and if you don’t like mature content, this book definitely isn’t for you. Sex happens. A lot. Which makes sense, considering that as a succubus, she needs the sex like us mere mortals need food.
There are, however, also some things that I personally would have preferred were different.
I didn’t care much for the side stories at all. Sure, it’s nice to know that they’re all getting some, and it sets up for a perfect little world where everyone is paired with their ideal mate—but I just didn’t care about the other. I wanted to know more about Chloe and Tyrian. I wanted to know more about their past, their families, their scars, their sorrows and their joys. I wasn’t particularly interested in whether the resident healer found together with her vampire warrior or not.
And even though it could be totally relevant, it just seemed like it was made up of numerous shorter stories rather than one complete work. Chloe barely noticed the other people around her. Which, admittedly, who can blame her when the super sexy vampire lover is in proximity?
Yet, some relationship between the characters would have made the side stories that much more interesting. If Chloe cared if they got together, I would care.
Chloe’s sisters, I didn’t particularly like them a lot. One was an incredible brat, and the other had a very dysfunctional relationship with her new owner. I know it was probably meant to be hot, but I just didn’t feel it. Hence why I probably won’t be reading on in the series, despite how much I actually enjoyed this book.
All in all… an enjoyable read—recommended for people who likes paranormal erotic romance.
