Nica Berry: Venom’s Bond

August 8, 2007

Venom’s Bond by Nica Berry
From: Loose-Id

Krait’s unmistakable red hide squatted next to Anole’s. A limp form rested against Krait’s chest. Jared. Marquez watched in horrified fascination as one clawed hand wrapped around Jared’s wrist and brought the paper-thin flesh to his snout. He bit
A chill rushed through Marquez. “What are you doing?” The ball dropped from nerveless hands and rolled behind him. He took a step forward, and another, until a pair of strong, scaly arms encircled his waist. “Let me go!” His voice rose high, panicky. “They’re going to kill him. Let me go, let me go!”
He flailed and kicked at Gharial, but the lizard refused to let go. He tried to drag Marquez backwards, but Marquez grabbed onto one of the roof supports for the dwelling so he couldn’t be moved.
Eilis rushed over and clapped a hand against his mouth. “Hush! You’re only making it worse. Leave them alone. They’ll take care of him.”
Furious, Marquez shook his head. Over her shoulder, Jared lay, limp as ever in Krait’s arms, a new expression of pain on his face. As he watched, Anole drifted over on all fours next to Krait. The green lizard stripped the loincloth from around Jared’s waist and then from around his own. The lizards had no external genitalia; instead, they had a sort of pouch at the base of their tails. Marquez watched, half-sick and half-aroused, as Anole’s genitals emerged, shiny and red and thick.
The lizard had not one phallus, but two, and he clearly meant to use them on Jared.
Marquez would have shrieked if it weren’t for Eilis’s hand. He wriggled and struggled while Gharial gently pulled him backwards, trying to make him loosen his grip. With her free hand, Eilis pried at his fingers. “You have to trust us, Marquez. If there were any other option, they would have done so.”
Gharial sent, although the emotion was overlaid with concern. Not for Jared, but for him.

This book asks the question… Do you think the Geico gecko is sexy? Would you do him?

I have to admit that after reading the scene above I suddenly understood the warning Loose-Id provided for this book. Publisher’s Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: Sexual torture in a medical setting, violence, dubious consent, M/M rape, M/M interspecial, M/F interspecial, voyeurism.

In fact Nica may have written a single book that encompasses almost every major plot device that might turn me off. Child like men being raped, Ilsa, She Wolf of The SS style female guards and doctors torturing men and killing gay men, Gang rape, bleeding anuses, sex with creatures that in no way are humanoid but look exactly like lizards. Any one of these situations I have seen handled by writers before and made to be acceptable within the story they were telling. But… here you are smacked in the face bluntly with no finesse.

This story crossed every line and dotted every T as far as making me gag on some raw subject matter. I find myself lacking the stomach to even go into a detailed analysis of where this book went wrong so let’s just say “from the beginning”. I fail even to think of anyone who might consider this a gay romance, but if bestiality and rape is your turn on… here ya go. I myself am going to try and forget I read any of this.

I will not say that Loose-Id should not publish books like this or rant about censoring their content, I am very open minded but I must say simply that none of it was even remotely sexy in my opinion.

Grade F from me due to mislabeling torture/bestiality as gay romance. Sorry.