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Book Title: Malthusia Fate
Author: Emma Jaye
Publisher: Purindoors Publications
Cover Artist: Nero Seal
Release Date: 14 August, 2020
Genre/s: Dark, genderfluid parallel universe,
omegaverse (non-shifter, scientifically plausible)
Trope/s: Hurt/comfort. Abuse/oppression survival
Themes: kidnap, scientific experimentation, forced pregnancy,
religious/political oppression. Knotting/heat
Heat Rating: 4 flames
Length: 130 000 words
It is the first in a series but works alone and has an HFN ending.
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Our perfect society is tainted.
Blurb
I run because I don’t have a choice. I run for those who can’t, for those inside me.
The Three Faced God should have chosen my Fate, should have molded me according to the needs of my fellow Malthusians, but some assume they are above even God. I should have been at least a beta, hopefully an alpha, but never this. They thought changing my body would change my soul, that I’d be a compliant omega while they used and experimented on me. Others die, others submit, and say its their Fate. I know different. A malthusian caused this, one of my own kind. They think they’ve won, but I’ll win, simply by living another second, another day. But can I survive alone?
Adult content, a gritty, alternate universe storyline, including genetic engineering, captivity, torture, domestic abuse, forced pregnancy, and murder. Alpha, beta, and omega genderfluid characters.
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Excerpt
Sunlight streamed through the windows. People were doing chores, inside and outside. How could the betas go about their normal routine as if nothing had happened? Because it doesn’t matter to them, SHE didn’t matter to them. There was a replacement on the way. Life would go on for the Grabars as if Ma had never been here. Well, Tav would remember her.
A cheerful whistle came from below. One moment Tav stood in the bedroom, the next they were hurtling out the front door, launching themselves at the surprised beta, screaming, punching, ripping at clothes. The beta fell backward, letters flying up in the air. Tav landed on top of the stunned beta, who only tried to defend their face from the hysterical assault of a child.
“Tav? Tav, what the hell? It’s just the post-beta,” Sayen shouted as the older beta tried to pull the struggling, nightshirt-clad youngster off their victim.
Strong hands grabbed Tav’s upper arms. Tav left the ground and stared into Pa’s bloodshot eyes. His bare, hairy chest, beard, and musky scent enforced his identity.
“You will not embarrass her by behaving like a wild animal. You and your siblings are her legacies. Act like it.”
Without another word, he placed Tav back on his feet, growled, ‘Deal with it’ at his sibling who had arrived, breathing hard.
Telish strode back into the house, wearing only his formal kilt, not looking back at his devastated child. Tav stood there, the anger gone, watching Ma’s mate, the alpha who had put her aside, had killed her, walk away because he had more important things to do than take time to comfort or explain why Tav no longer had a Ma. Tav didn’t matter, any more than Ma had mattered.
Sayen shooed the rapidly growing crowd away as Daven led Tav by the arm to the stone steps of the porch. Daven sat Tav down and put their jacket around the child’s shivering shoulders. The house stretched out on either side of them, the autumn flowers in the window boxes Ma had planted moved to and fro in the cold wind.
In a week, the weather had turned; Tav’s world had turned. Soon, everything would die as winter took hold. Somehow, it felt right that the whole world would soon suffer like Tav suffered.
They sat side by side, untie and nibling, silently watching the normal goings on of the estate for a good ten minutes. The estate went on as normal. Tav didn’t understand.
Not even the post-beta looked at them as they came out of the house after Sayen treated the scratches. They grabbed their bicycle and pedaled back toward the main road.
“What did the post-beta do?” Daven asked.
Tav didn't have a logical answer, so they shrugged. A long, heavy arm draped over Tav’s shoulders and squeezed. Tears prickled Tav’s eyes. Daven might not say it, but they did care, at least a little. Unlike Telish.
“Come on, Tav, there must have been something. I’d expect that sort of thing from Zep, but not you.”
Tav stiffened, insulted and a little afraid of the implications. “Why? Don't you think I can be aggressive? I'm not an omega; I don't blindly accept everything.”
Daven squeezed again. “Oh, I know that, pup. Although I’ve known omegas who packed quite a wallop before they manifested. I remember a certain scamp called Per who threw an apple at me after I stuck my tongue out at them.”
Tav turned wide eyes to Daven. “Ma did that?”
Daven chuckled. “She, or rather they at the time, most certainly did. The lump on the back of my head lasted a week. Now, what did the postie do to warrant a beating by Tav the Terrible? Because if I agree, I'm going to chase the offender down and punch them myself.”
“They were whistling.” It sounded ridiculous to Tav as soon as the words left their mouth.
Daven heaved themself off the porch, pulling up their sleeves. “Right, that’s it, bloody nose time.”
Tav jumped up and grabbed Daven’s arm, the post-beta didn’t deserve a bloody nose.
“No, don’t,” Tav giggled.
“I’ll have to take it out on you then,” Daven said and swung Tav up into their arms. After reducing Tav to a gasping wreck by tickling them to within an inch of their life, Daven turned Tav to face them. Tav’s brief happiness crashed.
Oh God, I laughed, I actually laughed, and Ma isn’t even cold yet.
Daven’s smile disappeared too. “She wouldn't want you to be sad. It was her time, part of the Almighty’s plan. Your Pa’s right, the best thing we can do to honor her is to carry on and be the best we can, but don’t think any of us aren’t upset. We all are, and although I wear kilts, not dresses, I promise I’ll be here for you, ok?”
Tav blinked back stinging tears, and Daven put them down. “That's the brave Tav I know. Go get dressed then start on your schoolwork; I'll be in later. Try not to attack any more delivery betas, even if they are whistling. They didn’t know, ok?”
Drawing up every ounce of courage, Tav nodded and went back inside to make Ma proud.
My review:
This book was so not what I imagined it would be. It's really an unique story with unique characters, but from the cover and the blurb I imagined something else. It wasn't bad, I enjoyed reading it, but there were some chapters that were boring. I almost DNF'd 3 times. I was so bored at the beginning, nothing important happened, we only got to know one of the main character and his big family. I know it was important for the story for seeing the big picture, and to see the world the author created, but it was really boring for me.
The world building and the whole Mathulsia was really interesting, I love unique worlds with it's own life. The alpha/beta/omega body changing was so cool, Tav and Mir both were amazing characters and I loved them.
I knew that it's not really an mpreg book, but still... I couldn't shut my brain down, because it wanted mpreg, m/m and dark. And this book wasn't either one of them. I just kept waiting for the darkness, but it never came. And with the biology thing, it was m/f , and the pregnancy wasn't a surprise either. It's the only thing why I couldn't enjoy it as much as I wanted it to.
I loved Mir and Tav and it was important to see their life from the beginning to that point where they met. But. It was a really long and sometimes boring way to finally reach the point where their life and history collide. (And okay, sometimes it was dark, mostly for Mir, but I thought it would be much more darker...) But after it, it was just perfect! I couldn't put it down, and the earlier boring chapters were in the past. I loved reading it and was really curious what the future will hold to them.
And that cliffhanger... oh! my! god! Come onnnnn!!!!
As I said, the world building with the characters were amazing, superb even! If there weren't for those boring scenes for me, it would be a favorite 5 star read, but this time only 4,5, and the waiting will be killing me. I need the next book! I'm sure that book will rock my world.
About the Author
Emma was destined to be a little quirky after being born as an unexpected twin in Hungry Bottom (Yes, it’s a real place).
Known as the Queen of Angst because she loves putting damaged, often sweet and funny characters through hell before letting them have a HFN or HEA ending.
She blames her rebellious muse (who looks like Chris from the Paint Series) for the erotic aspects tickling the angst and the humour climbing into bed with the erotic.
When not writing or reading in leafy Sussex, England, she herds Birman cats and sons; both groups argue that there are too many of the other sort.
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