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Fang-tastic Books
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Please, enjoy my blogging and forgive my unabashed pleasure in the overuse of descriptors.
For a more intimate encounter, come along and meet me at the bottom of the page.
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OCD, Vampires, and Rants, oh my!
Do you enjoy author interviews?
"I don't care what the author thinks. I just want to be inside their world!"
Every once in a while I will do a *Randomness* post. Usually my thoughts, and to reward anyone willing to climb inside my head - I add contest links that have some sort of vague relationship to whatever I was ranting about.
Max Fitzroy, the legendary Highwayman, had slain scores of demons with a razorlike whip and a burning need for revenge. Now, to rid himself of the demon inside him—who'd cursed him with immortality and stolen all sensual pleasures—Max needed a witch's familiar, the one creature he'd made a career of killing.
But the Highwayman wasn't prepared for the familiar named Aby. The sleek and sexy conduit to the demon world saw past his swirling shadow as easily as he scaled the walls she'd erected to protect herself. Max needed Aby to grant him his freedom, and then he needed to slay her. But how could he destroy the only creature he'd desired in centuries?
"He hadn't known what the woman had been that night he and Rainier had made love with her. But since learning her truth, he'd stalked familiars as if they carried the plague and he was the cleansing fire."
~ pg.81 The Highwayman by Michele Hauf
I moved out of my parent's house 8 years ago, and had to leave my ungainly collection of books behind as well.
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*Do you relate to the Pirate vs. Ninja rivalry? Do you want to? Follow this path, curious grasshopper, and all will be revealed...
Are they just comic books in disguise? The answer is purely personal. I never read comic books as a child. As an adult (and graphic artist) I am intrigued.
Now I hear whispers about graphic novels everywhere...
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"I was shoulder-deep in water so hot it made my skin pink. I was so hot I was almost ill, because I was still fully dressed, including all my guns."
~ pg.560 Narcissus In Chains: An Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Novel by Laurell K. Hamilton
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According to the Real Simple article HERE, I am:
Alcohol helps that.
No comment.
Aren't we all, just to be civilized & polite?
Except my own.
That's one way to put it... In fact, my husband would put it that way and then give me a naughty little smile...
Probing, now that has just got my brain in the gutter!

Pleasure by Eric Jerome Dickey
I was drawn to this book by the cover art and genre, erotic fiction. I have never read Eric Jerome Dickey, and the blurb caught my interest.Born in Trinidad and living in Atlanta after a relationship gone bad, Nia Simone Bijou is an ambitious writer who has it all. Except for the one thing that’ll give her the control she craves—and the power she deserves: absolute, uninhibited sexual satisfaction. Now, in the sweltering days and nights of summer, the heat is on. Nia’s fantasies will become a reality—with man after man after man. She will shatter the limits of erotic love. She will open herself up to experiences she never dared before. And as her fantasies begin to spin out of control, she’ll discover the unexpected price of the extreme.
NOTES on my current reading state of mind:
- Half way through the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series. Fast paced, suspense, action, drama, blood, violence, perversion & sex.
- Stalled 3/4 of the way through two books, a spy romance & an egyptian vampire romance. Predictable.
With that grain of salt I reveal to you that Pleasure is not living up to my expectations, yet. I am about a third of the way through and I am skimming over to the good parts.
The initial first chapter is a great hook. I find myself wondering about the sex of the narrator but in no doubt that they are extremely sexual.
Not to give away too much...
* The dictionary comment is not a dig at the author, simply a note that my vocabulary was challenged during this reading. I enjoy a challenge, but it also has made me very self conscious about my current writing skills. I find myself double checking the correct usage of effect and affect... la sigh
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Imagine that!
"No, we HAVE to watch True Blood."
Let me reward you, my two fellow Zephyr Riders (and any others that may wander my way).
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*Some requirements, um, required.
"I thrust it into him like an invisible hand, shoved it into that pale body and felt an answering spark deep inside him. I felt my power flare and recognize a piece of itself."
~ pg.374 Blue Moon: An Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Novel by Laurell K. Hamilton
Only posting the book contests I have won seems a little bit, um, snide?
*snirk* How about catty?So here is a chance for you to enter in some contests against me - may the luckiest reader win!
Wendy's Minding Spot

"I never liked the way vamps felt when they went hard and otherworldly. They didn't feel like flesh then, almost plastic like a dolphin, but harder, as if there was no muscle underneath, nothing but solidness like a tree."
~ pg.165 Burnt Offerngs: An Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Novel by Laurell K. Hamilton
Remnants of Power: A Skindancer Novel by Lawrence V. Stryker.
* Some sort of storm of power in the background
* Erotic: Lighting goes from his hand to his...
* A male lead character - maybe a dancer?
* Is that a tattoo on his chest? I want to see more!
* Erotic, violent & romantic themes?
* Magic?
I couldn't seem to move my gaze away from his eyes. They were the strangest shade of green blue, almost like they couldn't make up their mind. Neither could I. Bedroom eyes. Oh yeah... and with the way he's moving on that pole I can think of a whole lotta things I would do in a bedroom with him, while staring into those eyes. "What the!" Is he staring at me too? There is no possible way. This is his job. I'm nothing special to him. Just a possible candidate for a soft grope and another twenty bucks in his ass crack. But I would get to touch that tight... "Whoa!" He's staring at my chest! No, my necklace. My new necklace. This is the first night I've ever worn it. At least in public, unprotected, outside of my shirt.
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