“I can have whatever I want. I own you.”Qillian Wehr is the last of his kind. A bloodline of unspeakable power.To the Imbrian government, he is a weapon. A last resort in their age-old war with Rhyolus.His leaders want insurance. They want an heir. They need a genetic match. And now, they’ve found her.Exotic. Stunning. Lethal. Rushkah Ekhayl would murder Qillian in his sleep if she got the … his sleep if she got the chance. She’s Rhyolusian. She is his enemy.
The Last Dominant is a scorching enemies-to-lovers romance where a taste of treason unlocks desires of submission and control. For mature readers only.
Publisher’s Note: This steamy sci-fi thriller contains elements of power exchange.
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The Last Dominant is a richly woven tale of two individuals whose civilizations are locked in a generations long war with no end in sight. Rushkah, a seasoned warrior, is captured and only kept alive so that Qillian, an Imbrian Minister, can impregnate her and produce more offspring with “the push”. Long held prejudices fall away as the two enemies give in to their unrelenting need for each other.
I loved every page of this book! I am a huge fan of Eris’ writing style. Her worlds are so descriptive and the dialogue between characters, especially during the smexy times, just makes you feel all the feels. I know I am not doing it justice with the way I’m describing her style, but I appreciate an author who knows how to use and cares about the words they put down on paper. Highly recommend!
Amazing and captivating, great world building ‼
A very good book, a captivating story told wonderfully and skilfully and interesting questions that were raised and convincingly treated in the frame story. The main characters were drawn credibly and wonderfully and the side characters were interesting and good, that they demand their own little story, in which there could also be a nice epilogue to this story.
There was no HEA but a calming nice interim conclusion.
Without reservation a full reading recommendation for this year.
This book is an impressive exercise in restraint. One of the pitfalls in balancing science fiction is either not enough world-building, or too much. This is an erotic piece with power exchange, and yet, like truly good science fiction, the setting is not merely flavor text or drapery. It impacts the motives, the obstacles, and the resolution. A tight and immersive experience.
Eris Adderly has an excellent talent for creating unique worlds and drawing you into them as though you were there. This story was so different than anything I’d read before. I absolutely loved it!! If you’re looking for a book with a tough heroine, a OCD hero, and some off-the-charts chemistry, this book is for you! Sooo good! Five DOMINATE ME Stars!
Amazing world-building, an engaging plot, a dominant male and some hot, kinky sex
Well if that isn’t enough to make you want to read the book, what’s wrong with you? To many dark sci-fi romances forget the whole sci-fi part of the story, they are virtually no different to a contemporary romance. This didn’t suffer from that failing. We had some really good world building and a love across the divide theme.
Quillian and Rushkah should be mortal enemies, their planets have been at war almost forever it seems. However they have more in common than would first appear, including some fairly rare DNA from which the title of the book originates.
I absolutely loved Rushkah and Quillian, neither was perfect and both battled their feelings for the other. The chemistry they shared was palpable and this is one steamy and kinky read. Quillian discovers a hitherto unknown dominant side and whilst Rushkah’s head rebels at the idea, her body, soul and heart have very different ideas.
The story is written third person from both POV’s, so I found it easy to connect to and understand both characters. The plot held my interest and moved with good pace. It had enough detail and thought put into it to satisfy the part of me that has read sci-fi and fantasy for over 30 or so years.
If I was to criticise anything it would be that some parts of the story could have done with a little more fleshing out. The book didn’t lack detail but this was one occasion where I think a few more scenes, or longer scenes would have actually added to the book. However that is very much a case of what I personally would have liked, this is still an excellent story and one I really do recommend.
“They’ll know soon enough.”
Two people. Opposite sides of a war that has gone on forever, lost meaning as to its original intent. Prisoners both, each in their own way, they discover that in them perhaps lies a way to a different future. That future, however, may not come in the manner in which the powers in charge may have originally intended. And with that discovery they will help their respective peoples know “soon enough” that using force sometimes comes with unintended consequences. Both good and bad.
That line from the novel is one of many incredible points in Eris Adderly’s The Last Dominant, recently released from Blushing Books. It is as powerful sentence I have read in a novel (set in context, obviously) as this reader has read in a good while. This book is a tour-de-force, and one that I cannot speak highly enough of. I could wax poetic about so many scenes in this novel, and yet to give in and do so would be to spoil it, so I won’t. What I will say is that the author has created what appears on the face of it a simple Enemies to Lovers story, but it doesn’t take long for the reader to see that things are not that simple and cut-and-dried. A more accurate description might be a prisoners’ love story, but beyond that I will not say, so as not to spoil it. The words here are just incredible; the mood is set perfect in every scene (the opening scene is one that was so spot on that I was astounded to hear later that the author has never spent time in the military). The dialogue is as crisp, sharp as anything I have read recently, and it sucks you into the story so well that you suddenly find you are so much farther along in the story than you expected because you’ve gotten so caught up in it. The interaction between the two protagonists (Qillain and Rushkah) just crackles with tension and suppressed emotions in all the perfect places, and when the tone shifts as their relationship changes, the progress of it is incredible to watch unfold. And the sex scenes? Well, they are everything one would hope for, especially if you enjoy a pair of strong-willed people engaging in some very sensual D/s dynamics. It is just such a compelling, incredible story in so many ways that all comes together in a story that pulls you along without ever letting go.
There is nothing in this story that I would call a complaint, so it is hard to write of anything I as a reader would have asked for differently. I might have wanted to learn a bit more about Rushkah’s team (esp. after that opening scene), but in the context of the novel it makes perfect sense as to why that is not possible. It is a sign of just how good this novel is, however, that what would otherwise be minor, throw-away characters in any other novel are elevated to the status here of being “God, I wish I knew more about what they’re going through!” Perhaps Ms. Adderly will grace us with their story sometime in the future. 🙂
I know 2019 is still fresh upon us, but if there is any one novel that I will tell readers they must read this year, this is it. Go. Purchase it. And prepare to be drawn into the world of The Last Dominant.
You are in for an incredible ride.