Product Description

Victoria Stark is an Imperial Navigations Pilot known among the sentient battleships as the Victorious Star-for sacrificing her captains to save her ships. Strong-willed and resourceful, she has never lost a ship she's flown-and never serviced a captain she's had. Captain Ravnos of the Mercenary dreadnaught Hellsbreath rules his crew with an iron will. First Officer Seht is a skeldhi prince whose specialty is erotic discipline. They're on a mission, and in need of a nav-pilot. Kidnapped into service on the Hellsbreath, Victoria is caught between two very different men locked in their own private and erotic power struggle. To complete the mission and return to her duties as an Imperial Officer, Victoria must become Prince Seht's rehkyt-a pet, literally and figuratively. Not allowed on the furniture and kept at the end of a leash, Victoria discovers that there are worse things than servicing your captain...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #74005 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 484 pages

Customer Reviews

Be prepared for intense m/m & /f action!
Wow. I read this in the ebook format, and was very excited to discover it was out in paperback - so excited I had to buy this version, too. I love Morgan Hawke - her world building and plots are well above average for the genre, and her characters are strong, proud, and sexy. The plot description given above is decent, but think about the British Navy going into space, complete with rum, sodomy and the lash. There are some scenes of f/f as well, but the main attraction is the m/f/m threesome with the Captain, First Officer, and Victoria. There is love in this story, but it isn't for the faint of heart, because it starts with the relationship between the Captain and his male First Officer. In fact, [..] the website for the author, says she has written the back story on how the two of them first meet, and I can't wait until it is published! If you liked the Morgan Hawke story in the anthology Hard Candy, you will enjoy this book.

Victorious Star - Definitely A Keeper
Practically everyone reviewing this book has gushed over the sex scenes, which are definitely hot and not for the faint of heart or easily offended. There's strong BDSM, m/f and m/f/m scenes as well as one other consensual act that can't be mentioned here. However, what makes Victorious Star worthy of the 5-star rating is the overall story itself.

Ms. Hawke has brilliantly fused such diverse ideas ranging from the 80's cyberpunk movement to Anne McCaffrey's 'The Ship Who Sang' and even throwing in a bit of ancient Egyptian language. She has created a universe full of sentient ships and fascinating races and peppered it with large interstellar battles worthy of C.S. Forester and Patrick O'Brien with enough action and derring-do to make even 007 wipe his brow.

That's a good thing because if the book depended on the strength of its characters it wouldn't have succeeded as well. Unfortunately the three main characters - Captain Aubrey Ravnos, his second-in-command, the skheldi blood prince Seht and their soon-to-be submissive, former Imperial nav-pilot Victoria Stark - aren't as fully fleshed out as they could have been.

Aubrey and Seht have what seems to be the standard Dom/Dom relationship in books such as this one and frankly it seemed a little improbable that Seht, a blood-prince from the warlike and rather vicious skheldi, would choose to be less than overly dominant towards a human (Aubrey) whom his people regard as nothing more than pleasure toys and slaves.

Victoria Stark, known as the "Victorious Star" for her habit of rescuing ships from nearly impossible situations brought about by incompetent captains goes from tough, [...] and self-assured to submissive without a really tangible transition point. She maintains the attitude, but that seems less about her personality and more about a plot device that moves the story along. She likes the sex, but often has interior monologues that make her (and the reader) wonder why. There's no deeper look into her need and desire to be dominated, especially by these two alpha males. Also, the few m/m scenes weren't as intense as I'd hoped.

Overall though, Victorious Star is a compelling read and a good book from a talented author. I've read on the author's website there's to be both a sequel and a prequel. That's great because it would definitely help flesh out the lives of the characters more.

Interesting blend of the future adventure genre with the erotic romance genre
A surprisingly successful blending of two genre that normally don't really go together. Yes there's the Empresses' New Clothes but that's really erotic romance captured by aliens sub genre. Victoria is a Nav-pilot who is augmented so that she can interact with the sentient ships. She likes them much better than her superior officers and often saves the ship at their expense. She is an Imperial officer but is dumped outside the Imperial borders to wait for pickup and reassignment after embarrassing her two superior officers by winning a battle after they abandoned ship. She gets in a fight with the nav-pilot of the mercenary ship she ran off and kills him. She is abducted by the ships captain Ravnos to act as the nav-pilot for his ship. But she is shared with his lover Seht one of the non-human Skeldhi who normally hate humans except as pets and sex toys. There's an interesting villain who apparently is like the energizer bunny he just keeps going and going. The character development is good and the characters compelling with a good plot and some humor.

But this book has light non-consensual sex, same sex sex, BDSM, Ds, MS and is not for those who find these distasteful. Although over all its good enough it might change your mind. Hopefully this is the start of a series.