Reviewed by Tammy
TITLE: Bitter Bite 
AUTHOR: Erin Leaf
PUBLISHER: Evernight Publishing
LENGTH: 140 pages
BLURB:
Alaric Normand is a solitary predator, so when he meets a man who kindles long-dormant emotions, he dismisses the attraction. What does he need with a lover? A consort bond spells nothing but vulnerability for a vampire who’s been alone for five centuries. Ex-priest Gideon Keegan has lost his faith, so when he witnesses a supernatural killing, how does he accept the reality of evil? And why does he feel attraction for such a violent individual, especially when he’s already in love with someone else? Everyone thinks Hannah Ward is an innocent, but she knows the truth: she’s done terrible things, and so she hides her affection for Gideon. She isn’t worthy of love, yet when a handsome stranger kisses her she falls hard, despite her sense that something is wrong. How can she have feelings for two men at once? Must she choose between the dark and the light?
REVIEW:
Alaric Normand is a 500-year-old vampire on a mission to avenge the murder of his last surviving blood relative.
Gideon Keegan is an ex-priest who is in love with his ex-student, a bouncer for a gay bar and oh! he is also bi-sexual.
Hannah Ward is a 21-year-old virgin, a bartender in a gay bar, has been in love with Gideon since he was her teacher in high school and they are both consorts to Alaric!
Alaric is not at all happy to meet his consort when he is so close to finding and ending the ancient vampire that murdered his “nephew” over a hundred years ago. The moment he touched Gideon though his ‘beast’ side whispered to him, consort! He denied it until Gideon unknowingly forced his hand and even then Alaric was not going to do anything about it as he reasoned that at 500 years old he was far too old to have a consort. It wasn’t until he was in the bar with Gideon and noticed the way he looked at Hannah that Alaric got the shock of life. He had not one but two consorts!
Gideon can’t believe that the incredibly attractive man he met in church lighting a candle for his late mother is a vampire. He knows there are a lot of evil beings around but it’s not until know that he has to acknowledge the reality of it. Gideon left the priesthood 2 years ago after he lost his faith after watching his mother waste away and die from cancer. Not only did he lose his faith but he couldn’t come to terms with the fact that the church deemed him to be and evil abomination because of who he was attracted to. And to top it all off, he has been in love with his now ex-student for a great many years.
Hannah is, if not happy then resigned to the fact that she is a 21-year-old virgin, truth be told, Hannah’s got absolutely no motivation to change her status either! Luckily for Hannah, Gideon got her her job as bartender in the same bar he bounced at. The only problem with that is that she now gets to watch Gideon all night every night but she doesn’t dare touch or tell him just how much she loves him. Hannah had an incredibly abusive father who not only drank a lot but he used to beat both her and her mother. One night after she finished high school Hannah walked in the door of her house to find that her father had just murdered her mother and when he saw her he came at her like he was going to kill her too. Hannah picked up the first thing she touched and threw it at her father. The book hit him in the “right” place on his face because the next thing she knew he was hitting the floor with blood coming out of his nose and he was dead! Because she was scared out of her mind Hannah blamed her dead mother for her father’s death but she could never forgive herself for telling such a lie.
When the three of them were all together in the bar the attraction was almost overwhelming. Alaric couldn’t help himself, he kissed both Gideon and Hannah. He accidentally breaks the skin of Hannah’s lip and tastes her blood, big mistake. Because Hannah is his consort tasting her blood makes Alaric pass out just when his nemesis comes into the bar looking for him. Later, Alaric tells both Hannah and Gideon that not only is the ancient vampire very strong he has very own demon and the demon can scent the fact that Hannah is innocent and it’s making him even more determined to get to them. After a bout of hot and heavy sex, Alaric decides to attack the vampire and demon on his own to protect Gideon and Hannah. And so begins the fight to vanquish the vampire, send the demon back to hell and save Alaric so they can have their happy ever after!!
All in all, Bitter Bite is a very well written love story with a definite twist to the overall storyline. I have no hesitation in recommending this book to all m/m, ménage, vampire romance story lovers!!
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