LGBT REVIEW: VAMPIRE RENT BOY VOL: 5 (SEX NINJAS MUST DIE)

Vampire Rent Boy Vol: 5 (Sex Ninjas Must Die)

Author: DL Warner

Publisher: Sybaritic Press

Pages: 26

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Reviewed By: Sandra Scholes

Synopsis:
Tristan becomes a full-time bartender at Muttley's when Brecht meets with a bizarre and tragic end. Meanwhile, Keiko is being hunted by sexy and determined adversaries from her homeland. These ninjas have ways of making men talk—even Tristan falls prey to their charms! What is the secret that endangers Keiko and the gang at Muttley's? How will Frank react when Brecht's demise and Keiko's plight reveals the secrets that Tristan and his friends have been keeping?  

Review:
When Brecht's dead body is brought into Tristan's workplace, he has to ask himself what has brought them to this point as there are other issues they have to contend with like Keiko being pursued by ninjas who seem to want to take her back. These aren't any ordinary ninjas, they have ways of making their enemies talk, and anyone could be their prey, even Tristan.

Keiko can't understand why she's been running into things while she's been out driving, deer being one of them, and soon thinks someone is out to get her and retrieve her due to a deal she made with Klaus to keep a record of what she did during the day as a form of monitoring as she is a sex robot, designed to please and Tristan thinks her enemies might have wanted to take Keiko back and make a better, more efficient model that could also bring more money - and the catch is that while Keiko still exists, they can't, so that is motive enough. There is more to why this is happening as  Botcorp is one of the leading manufacturers of sex dolls and as Keiko had put some of her clients in hospital, they wanted her destroyed, but Klaus and his engineers had other ideas, ones that would keep Keiko alive.

The result of Brecht's death is due to a rogue Sewer Kraken in the sewage system - this might not have been expected, yet things do tend to happen to Tristan and his friends when they least expect it. I liked how Tristan is faced with a very human series of issues when Frank has to be made aware that no one he knows is what they seem. For the first time, even though it is suspected, Tristan admits he is a non human, a vampire who only preys in front of his lover, Adam. There is also the reveal that the other workers are non-human too. How Frank will take it depends on how he feels about them as friends as well. As things have taken a turn for the strange, rather than Tristan being the rent boy he's used to being, he has a new vocation as a full-time bartender, which he is taking to as all around him is sinking into chaos.

What I liked were the explanations of the resulting chaos and the sensual sex scene between Tristan and Adam and how Adam was prepared to go easy on him once he realised he was feeling fragile! I don't remember anyone writing this way before, introducing a vampire and other otherworldly people as well as an artificially created woman. By doing this, D.L. Warner has got Tristan to question how humane the humans are acting when they would frown upon a vampire living around them, but as we all know, humans have always been the great white hunters since the dawn of time.


Summary:
Between Tristan having to live with what he is around Frank and Keiko trying not to be turned-off by evil ninjas, D.L. Warner has brought us yet another of her amazing reads that will ensure you will look for her 6th novel in the series.