Reviewed:
Les Lumens likes to frustrate the hell out of me! He writes great stand-alone stories that just BEG you to read the previous one (and the subsequent one, as well). Oh... and as USUAL this story was GREAT! LOL
Plot: "Yawn"... just your stereotypical "young man goes camping and meets & has hot, passionate sex with the Queen of the Harpies, receives ANOTHER magic ring and helps align the Harpies with the "people" you'll meet when you read his "Serpentine Destiny" story in his "The Ancient Peoples" series" (...and don't be stupid... just read it!). See what I mean? ...pure "boiler plate" - Les Lumens style (LOL).
Technical: You can say most whatever you want about Les Lumens, or his other pen name(s?), but what you can't say is that he isn't one of the most skilled technical writers around.
Appeal: You might not think having sex with a giant bird is sexy, but damned if he didn't make it so! The appeal of this story is 90% the quality of the writing and 10% interesting plot/sex scenes. THAT said, the sex was STEAMY as hell ::whew!:: and the appeal (mine, anyways) is "Get your ass back to that keyboard Les and write the next one!!!"