Leona D. Reish

I really wish to tackle the short books on my TBR list, and to give even more emphasis on books with very few reviews.

Now, I was expecting this book to be a horror fantasy, I didn't expect it to end up as an erotica as well. If you dislike that specific genre, you should probably look elsewhere.

Wight Snow takes place in the POV of two different villagers: Julia and Mathius.

Julia is a former farm girl turned upper middle class heiress who inherited a really large house she has been unable to sell (I will presume it's a bloated McMansion or something), and so to curb her boredom and loneliness, she rents some of the rooms to tenants. She falls ill with the flu and when she regains her health enough to meander around her house, she discovers one of her male tenants is having a really raunchy scene in her living room sofa. Huh? Yes, I am not entirely sure why she seemed so ok about it. But again, she didn't mind renting the guy a room even though she knew he was an alcoholic. She finds the action to be both disturbing and stimulating, much to her deeply held puritanical rural beliefs. The next morning, the two lovebirds are still at it in the guy's room and she decides to wander in the village. Little does she know that a mysterious fog and white shrooms are everywhere. Most of the city is deserted, and everyone left behind are in a sort of crazed state where they have been left to their primal instincts.

Before she is gang raped by a horde of zombified villagers who seemingly obey a strange blonde woman with lilac skin, she is rescued by Mathias, a mason who was working in the clock tower when the infection spread and somehow spared from it. They try to flee the village until the blonde woman has both of them captured.

Mathius now becomes the focus to the story as he wakes up chained to a table and the blonde woman heals a serious wound he suffered during his capture (I presume his spinal cord was severely damaged or something). The woman introduces herself as Eliza and she is completely flummoxed by his ability to resist the infection that affected everyone else. Little does he know, his fate as Eliza's sex slave will prove to be uncertain and likely very miserable...

I was uncertain about the story at first because I didn't find Julia to be a sufficiently interesting character. Deep down, she is really horny, but a sense of morality and timidity keep her from engaging in her carnal desires. Mathius on the other hand is really intriguing. He admits that he felt tempted to experiment his good fortunes with the hordes of available women in town, but he opted against it because whatever ailment they are suffering from forces them to do the ahem you-know-what without rest. His good judgment to stay alive surpassed his interest to score.

The fact that Eliza has pretty much put a ring on him and will use him as her guinea pig for some nefarious purpose has indeed piqued my interest to read the sequel and hope we discover what will happen to him.

Due to the fact that I did find the story disjointed because it opted to stick to first POV between two characters that were not equally interesting to me, I awarded this book 3 1/2 stars.… (plus d'informations)