The Sarran Plague by A.C. Katt

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One evolution of the Savage Romance was the Futuristic Romance; futuristic romance is, more or less, a sci-fi story, where essentially, the role of the Viking / Pirate / Warrior of the savage historical romance it's taken on by a big, bold and strong alien man. Usually the alien of the moment is a beautiful speciman who "sees" the earthian heroine with different eyes than the human male. Where for a earthian man the heroine is nothing special, for the alien she is wonderful and a treasure to be cherished.

The Sarran Plague is all above with something more. Tonas and Jonal are bonded warriors; in their culture a bonded male pair needs a female to be complete, to form a triad. It's a genetic thing, and they recognize the third part of their bond when they find her, and she is Anya, an earthian female. There is no predominant bond in the triad, it's not a question if the male / male bond is more strong than the female / male; the male / male bond is formed before, and it's like the beginning of the relationship, when they are old enough, and when their bond is strong enough, they have to find a female to complete the bond. In this perspective, The Sarran Plague is a "true" menages, but it can appeal to the m/m fans since the relationship between Tonas and Jonal has a lot of space and for good share of the book, it's the only one. And then there is also another man, Mark, an earthian doctor who will find his male bond warrior, and so, another chance for the m/m fans to have their share of manlove.

The book is also the classical futuristic romance since it is also almost completely set in a spaceshift. The clash in culture between earthian and alien it's also reflected in their physical appearance: the Alien are big and strong, all in all earthian like but only "bigger", in every sense. The author indulges quite a bit in the physical description of those fine specimen, also intimate details, but then, the sex scenes are not so detailed, so no worries, this is not only another excuse to have otherworldly "sex", there is a plot, and good portion of the pages are spent to tell you a story, it's not only sex.

Truth be told, I'm not a big fan of sci-fi novels, so I can give you only my "novice" impression. I think that the story is good, the sci-fi setting is well developed, but it's not boring. There is also a light side, see the character of Tigger, Anya's cat, that is a real "character", he has his own scenes, and in some of them, you listen also his thoughts and impression; I believe that this is the first time that a cat has a real role in a story.

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