Genre: Futuristic Fantasy, Romance
LGBTQ+ Category: Gay
Reviewer: Linda, Paranormal Romance Guild
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About The Book
Fifteen hundred years ago, Earth became a very dark place to live. A cabal of evil men was attempting to make the population into Serfs ruled over by the cabal.
Five families decided to leave Earth and find a distant planet to begin again. A group of pioneers traveled to Pleione in the Pleiades star cluster, but the original intention of a utopia soon disintegrated into a world not much better than Earth. The basis of the new system is run like the ancient Roman Republic with a strict caste system. Fifteen hundred years later, the pioneering five families rule the planet with an iron grip.
This is the world in which Jericho Goldsmith, a man from one of the five elite families, and Tenzin Fenn, a Serf sold into slavery by his family, meet and fall in love. But can the two men forge a loving relationship and remain together when they come from such disparate backgrounds and everyone is against them?
The Review
It is 3550 – it’s been fifteen hundred years since five families from Earth decided to find a new planet to live on after evil men there decided to enslave the population. After terraforming Pleione, they settled in and set up a new society. Now they could start over.
Unfortunately, after hundreds of years the population forgot, about Earth and believed Pleione had always been their home. The society was worse than Earth’s with serfs and slaves, with the rich in charge.
Jericho Goldsmith is from one of the original families, and his father spends his time reading all the histories of Earth that he can find in books that are illegal. Jericho invested in a gold mine that is dwindling, much like their wealth. Jericho now has only one servant, Odin, who works outdoors and is like a friend. He needs another to clean but can’t afford to hire a servant, so he does what he must and goes to the slave market.
The Goldsmiths do not believe in owning slaves, but with his back against the wall, Jericho has no choice. He sees a young man, weak and thin, and buys him with the promise that he will give him his freedom someday. He takes his metal collar off and gives him regular clothes, and gives him his own room with a bed and blankets. He also has his own bathroom to use.
Tenzin Fenn once a serf and is now a slave, and for the past six years has suffered at the hands of the masters who owned him. He was beaten, raped and every other indignity he could be subjected to. His owner was Xerxes Ore Miner, a man who brought him to the slave market after discovering his brother having sex with him. The brother didn’t suffer, but Tenzin did.
When Jericho sees Tenzin, he immediately knows he has to purchase him and give him a better life. But the fact that he’s a slave must to be kept a secret from the family. Odin helps Tenzin out, and when Jericho’s uncle pays for them to have a cook, everything but their finances seem to be finally working out. But keeping secrets is hard, and those secrets are discovered by someone who is looking to hurt Jericho.
This story is a bit sad, with slaves brutalized and no one caring. It’s filled with lies, betrayals, romance and sex in a society that punishes the poor while the rich flourish.
5 stars.
The Reviewer
I am an avid reader the mother of 3 sons and grandmother to seven grandchildren. Since retiring I have been doing more reading while volunteering as a CASA worker. CASA is an organization that works with the family court system to ensure that children are in the best living situation. There are way too many children that get overlooked in the foster care system and I visit homes and make visits to the parents. I was born and raised in New York and my husband of 50 years and I live in Upstate New York.
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