Lee Savino writes a great menage series about Berserker werewolves. I’ve reviewed them here before. This book takes place in that world, but isn’t a strict part of the current timeline in the overall story, kinda. Lee and a bunch of other authors got together to write a set of books called Night of… They are all RH books, meaning 1 woman and at least 4 male partners. Night of the Berserkers is part of that set.
Now, you might remember back a couple of weeks ago, I posted something about my thoughts as to what made an RH vs. what made a menage. Part of my theory was that as soon as more tools than orifices came into play, it turned into an RH. Ava Sinclair pointed out that she thought of it as the way that the relationship breaks down. In a menage setting, gene, ally everyone’s having sex together, all the time. Not all the time and not always, and it depends on the relationship. But in RHs, generally you are getting a 1-1 encounter and the relationship dynamic is different. The men are all in a relationship with the same woman, but not necessarily in any kind of sexual relationship with each other (even if they aren’t actually doing each other, having sex with the same person at the same time counts as a sexual relationship, in my mind). I’m really interested in what other people think about it.
Anywho, back to the Berserkers. Anyone who has read the series is familiar with Yseult. She is a witch. In fact, she is the witch. She trains Sabine, she helps out the sisters in the original Saga, she helps the Berserkers. She’s sneaky and sometimes a little shady, but I’ve always kind of liked her, so I’m really glad that we get to see a story for her.
Yseult’s witchy sisters have gotten together to send her back to find out what spell was used to bind the Corpse King a thousand years ago so that they can try to bind him again. The only problem? When she gets there, she discovers that her witchy magic is gone. She still has her spaewife innate magic, but not her learned witchy magic. She has no clue how she’s going to figure out what’s going on now.
Meanwhile, back that the ranch… Ok, not a ranch, King Lycaon’s castle, one of his guards has woken from a dream where he sees a woman he doesn’t know but has known forever. Two of the Berserker guards go out on patrol and find Yseult where she is lying asleep in a field. Sadly, they have to take her back to the castle, where she has to be tested so that they can find out if she’s the type of woman that the king likes.
Oddly enough, the day after I finished reading this book, my husband and I were watching some documentary and they talked about King Lycaon. Sadly, I’ve slept since then and all I can remember is that he was king of Arcadia, somewhere in Greece and that he managed to piss off Zeus somewhat spectacularly.
Anyway, 4 of the Corpse King’s guards, Tristan, Ivar, Lars, and Magnus, are incredibly drawn to Yseult. This is especially true for Magnus after she manages to help him control himself. Together, they all decide that they are going to do everything they can to protect Yseult.
This is a great story and I like the way that it adds to the world. I love finding out more about Yseult at all and about her past. I’m not quite sure how it will fit in with the rest of the world and the storyline in general, but I do feel like it advanced it some and I’m eager to see what’s going to happen in the next Berserker books.
I really don’t have too much to say down here because the book is really short enough that anything else I would say is going to spoil something. So, go pick it up and enjoy it for yourself. Happy reading!
In Between the Pages 