I loved this book, I read it all week, unable and unwilling to do many banal tasks. It saw me at night and in the morning, at work and in my off time. Rarely do I come across a book that compels me like this, is satisfyingly easy to read and get through as well as being intelligent enough to keep my interest piqued in the world, characters and plot. You can tell immediately that even though this is a first book, it was written after a great deal of careful planning and world crafting.
This is a matriarchal society where men serve stronger females. Magic level is determined by jewel color, and one has the ability to level up to a higher color once reaching adulthood. For women this is the first time they have sex, where they can become more powerful with a trustworthy man, or be shattered and descend into madness with an untrustworthy one. This creates a balance between the sexes.
In the current world the natural order has been perverted. An evil queen has killed of powerful females and males who would be their rival. Powerful men are enslaved and forced to submit to humiliation, sexual servitude and even castration for her amusement. The only thing that can stop her is a more powerful Witch, but she hasn’t arrived for centuries and when she does, she’ll still have to survive until adulthood.
The book occurs in multiple levels, including a hell dimension with an overlord and daemon dead sortof like morally conscious vampires. There is also a race on the ground with wings, and one that is snakelike.
Daemon SaDiablo is the main male lead–an extremely powerful slave made to serve the queen and her legions for millennia. Somehow he had made rebellion an integral part of his personality and still strikes fear into the hearts of all, his nickname being “the Sadist.”
When a powerful witch is born, he could be her strongest ally or her worst enemy.
Read this book!! It blows all the others I’ve read recently away.
Daughter of the Blood (Black Jewels, Book 1) 
