My #bookreview of DANIEL’S FORK by Zeece Lugo

 DANIEL’S FORK by Zeece Lugo 

BLURB:

A vicious killer lurks in the dark woods of Daniel’s Fork. Cunning, daring, unrelenting, driven by a powerful obsession, he has killed with impunity for years, evading capture and justice. But now, a new adversary has come to town, and the hunt is on!

In a world without forensics, technology, science, with only the help of the village “witch” and his trusted companions, can William Evers, the new lord of Daniel’s Fork, catch the serial killer that has plagued the village for seven years and save the lovely Susanna from a fate worse than death?

Begin a journey to the future past, to a place 200 years in the future where humanity thrives as it starts over again. Meet Will Evers, the daring, arrogant, handsome new lord of Daniel’s Fork as he endeavors to catch an elusive killer and prove himself a worthy leader. Join his loyal companions and lovers whose only religion is their love for each another. Watch Setiyah, the wise healer, as she endeavors to resist and at the same time, accept, the roguish new lord.

At Daniel’s Fork, you’ll find no zombies, no post-apocalyptic terror, no technology, no religion, no monsters other than the human kind. Earth the way it should be. Mankind still driven by passion!

THIS NOVEL CONTAINS SOME STRONG SEXUAL CONTENT NOT SUITABLE FOR YOUNGER READERS AND OTHERS WHO OBJECT TO SUCH CONTENT. THERE ARE TWO CHAPTERS THAT CONTAIN EXPLICIT SEXUAL CONTENT THAT MAY BE OFFENSIVE TO SOME READERS.

MY REVIEW:

This tale starts 100 years after a pandemic wiped out a large portion of the population.  The survivors settled into small towns and settlements, one of them Daniel’s Fork, named by the founder.  The democratic government has now been replaced with a feudal type system.  After the death of the current Lord, a new
Lord has been assigned to Daniel’s Fork, and that’s where the story starts.

This story has 2 underlining plots, one between the healer, Setiyah, and the new Lord, William Evers.  And the other one, the unsolved murders of young men who were seeking the hand of a young village girl named Susanna.  All of her suitors ended up either murdered or mysteriously disappearing.

I really enjoyed the verbal fencing between the Lady Setiyah and William the Gorgeous.  I chuckled several times over the antics of Becca and Flora as they insinuated themselves into the Lord’s household.  My favorite scene is when Commander Evers answers the door in the nude, setting the gaggle of women to exclaiming over his well-endowed manly physique.

There are quite a few secondary characters, one of which is gay.  There is an M/M sexual encounter, which surprised me, more by the two men that were involved.

Myself, I found it a very light, enjoyable, fantasy story, and I look forward to seeing where the storyline and characters go.  I give it 4 feathers.