Don Bradshaw's Reviews > Hidden Heart

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Tiffin is a slave new to the hard life at High Hold. He finds a measure of comfort in spending his nights pleasuring Sergeant Zander because a slave is never pleasured. High Hold is a warren of passage ways which are not easily learned but Tiffin has an even more difficult time because somehow someone is taking over his mind for short periods of time. Only the mages in Amaranth can save Tiffin and High Hold from an evil plot.
I did not find this story as compelling as the first two installments in the Amaranth series. The writing was still very good and the story flowed well but I with so much of the story focused on the hidden mage I didn't get the chance to know Tiffin. This could have been the author's plan as Tiffin's memories had been wiped clean. It seemed to me that he was too submissive for a new slave. The only time that he ever bucked authority was when he called Zander "Sergeant" instead of master. Tam and Raff from the two previous books were much more sassy and confident in maneuvering their masters. Tiffin may grow into this in time as the relationship between him and Zander grows but I doubt it. The interesting twist in this story was that Tiffin had one master during the day and another master at night so he was trained by two different men with the story written from Tiffin's POV. The trend that I'm finding in most master/slave books which I find amusing is that the master is always so thickly well hung that the slave almost always has the thought that he is going to be split in half. The slave almost always learns to love the huge dick quickly though and Tiffin is no exception. This was still a good story with Lane bringing magic into this story in a different way. I definitely recommend this third book in the Amaranth series.