Review: A Bloody Legacy by Lily Luchesi

Posted on April 27, 2017 by Sarah Fairbairn

Give in to the darkness within.

Rebecca Renfield and her best friend Johanna Seward are reopening an old sanatorium to start their psychology practice when Bec discovers old recordings from a John Seward pertaining to someone with her surname. What she finds in the recordings are unnerving, but their new night-shift doctor promises to provide the distraction Bec needs.

Victoria Draconis is a mysterious, beautiful woman who opens doors into levels of pain, pleasure, and submission that Bec had never imagined existed.

*Reader’s NOTE: This one’s not for the kiddies! It’s a F/F BDSM Novelette for 18+*

A Bloody Legacy is short but intense. A fast paced, sultry and enticing read.

In true Lily style, there is a domineering and sexy female vampire. But instead of the main vampire vixen getting her fangs stuck into a sexy male detective and fighting paranormal crime, as in Lily’s Paranormal Detective series, this vampire goes after Bec Renfield a recent psychology graduate for pure pleasure.

The story opens with Bec and best friend Johanna in the process of renovating a 19th century asylum to open as a private mental health centre. Dark historic truths are revealed thanks to the discovery of old patient files and phonograph recordings within the derelict main building of the asylum. With not many pages to get a lot of action crammed in things heat up fast once Bec meets Victoria, one of the night doctors her and Johanna have hired. Bec turns out to be the perfect submissive for dominatrix Victoria. The book finishes quickly and you are left wanting more, wishing you had more time with the characters.

Some erotica can just be pointless porn, tacky and flat, but Lily’s characters have a depth to them and there is a definite and entertaining story behind.

**I read an ARC in exchange for an honest review**
***Note for Lily: You’re a saucy minx and have a wickedly delicious imagination! -also- I felt all warm and fuzzy when I saw my name in the front :-)***

Lily Luchesi is a young author/poet born in Chicago, Illinois, now residing in Los Angeles, California. Ever since she was a toddler her mother noticed her tendency for being interested in all things “dark”. At two she became infatuated with vampires and ghosts, and that infatuation turned into a lifestyle by the time she was twelve, and, as her family has always been what they now call “Gothic”, she doesn’t believe she shall ever change. She is also a hopeless romantic and avid music-love who will always associate vampires with love, blood, and rock and roll.
Her interest in poetry came around the same time as when she was given a book of Edgar Allan Poe’s complete work. She then realized that she had been writing her own poetry since she could hold a pen, and just had not known the correct terms. She finished her first manuscript at the age of fourteen, and was first published at twenty-one.
Her debut novel, Stake-Out (Paranormal Detectives Series Book One), was published by Vamptasy Publishing on May 19th, 2015. Book two, Miranda’s Rights, was released on January 8th, 2016. Book three, Life Sentence, was released on August 2nd, 2016 by Vamptasy Publishing, and book four, Right To Silence, was also just accepted by the publisher and will be released on January 17th, 2017.
She had a short story, “Undead Ever After” in the CHBB Publishing anthology Love Sucks (released on June 13th, 2015). Her first erotic short story, “Have No Fears”, was published in the Hot Ink Press anthology Naughty Bedtime Stories: In Three Words on October 10th, 2015. She will also have a short erotic horror story, “The Devil’s Dozen”, in the Hot Ink Press anthology Death, Love, Lust, which was released on February 4th, 2016. Her horror short “Too Young To Kill” was released in the CHBB Publishing anthology Lurking In The Shadows on June 28th, 2016.