Fireflies
Author: Lacey Reah
Publisher: iUniverse
Pages: 100
Reviewed By: Sandra Scholes
Synopsis:
Linda is a calculating, career-driven woman whose perfect world is shattered when she is seduced and transformed by a vampire-like creature called a nymphomite. Linda becomes a beast, feeding off the energy of orgasmically-charged blood. Convinced that her humanity has faded away, Linda adapts to her new instincts of hunger and sex. She hunts women primarily, for their longer and more frequent orgasms, and becomes a master of prolonging and intensifying their pleasure. But she never expected to find a woman like Jesse, and Linda's decision to spare her life instead of feed off her leads to a shocking turn of events that will make Linda question her beastlike identity and the humanity she thought she had lost. Cover Illustration by Meghann Pardee.
Review:
At the start readers are confronted with Linda, a woman who likes to go out alone and watch the fireflies play around in the dark, but she gets more than she expected to when she stays out too long. Her husband worries about her safety, but Linda is sure that nothing untoward will happen to her as long as she is careful. Lacey informs us that Linda is afraid of no one, not when she can use martial arts to her advantage and can ward off men twice her size with her abilities. She gives off a grace and defence that is almost superhuman, yet also sexy.
Linda is a woman who has gone through a transformation, she has an admiration for her own kind, even going so far as to consider making love to other women after her husband, Pierre had got her to admire her own femininity. When she has taken her stroll that night she sees a woman who she admits is otherworldly, strange, yet beautiful who fits the stereotype of vampires with red eyes and harbouring desires of the flesh. The fireflies are a metaphor for a woman's sexual interest in other men or women, and, of course, the desire to feed, as the woman Linda meets has for her. Her questions only go so far as to find out if she is up for being seduced by her and being her nourishment. As their conversation has intrigued her, they give their names, hers being Natasha, a strange name for someone so foreign. Fireflies are beautiful, Linda finds out, but when Natasha mentions the nymphomites, she instantly wants to know more.
The nymphomites live in the shadows, in the deeper rocks of the park, and at no point during their conversation does Linda get nervous or fearful as she is aware of her own strength, and so Natasha as she's the one doing the wooing. We find out that Linda is satisfied with having Pierre as her lover, he has the perfect moves, impresses her in bed and out, makes her happy when she is sad, but most of all he proves to be her life partner, but it doesn't stop her giving in to these nymphomites when they come to take her.
Summary:
Fireflies is a delicious story of sensual delight and sexual expectation of a woman's natural bisexual nature and it unfolds in a way that can be enlightening and disastrous to others. I enjoyed this story and would advise readers to keep an eye out for other titles by this writer.
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