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Showing posts with label Rylon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rylon. Show all posts

It's Contemporary Romance week at SVZ!

"Boring"
"Bland and mushy sweetness."

These phrases used to be uttered by my lips, but NO MORE!

I used to think Contemporary Romance was for the sweet at heart.
The safe vanilla fiction for those girls with sparkly pink lip gloss and pedicures to match.

Color me surprised to find a few of my favored reads taking place in the plain ol' normal world.
No super powers or vampires.
No aliens or space ships.
Just normal.

Don't believe me? Try them for yourself!

I fully expected this to be just another smuttfest to satisfy my literary menage lust. WRONG! Amazing phrasing and unique insight into multiple relationships makes this peek inside the college dorm room more than a fling.

Emotionally intense moving on to deliciously smutty, menage again.

Starts light and morphs into a menage heartbreaker that I keep coming back to.

Hot. Dirty. Powerful. A favorite author of mine and luscious in audiobook format.
(Not menage. Ha! You thought there was a secret pattern. Maybe just a tendency. *wink*)


Happy Reading!

Kate's Crew
by Jayne Rylon



Nothing’s sexier than men with power tools.

Sultry summer heat has nothing on the five-man crew renovating the house next door. No one could blame Kate for leaning out the window for a better view of the manscape. The nasty fall that follows isn’t part of her fantasy—but the man who saves her from splattering the sidewalk is definitely the star.

When Mike personally attends to her injuries, she realizes her white knight in a hard hat has a tender side, giving her no choice but to surrender to the lust that’s been arcing between them since day one. In the aftermath of the best sex of her life, she whispers her most secret desire: to be ravaged by his crew.

She never expected Mike would dare her to take what she wants—or that the freedom to make her most decadent desires come true could be the foundation for something lasting…
My review guidelines can be found HERE.

COVER ART
  • Good layout with five bodies!
  • Where are the power tools?
  • Why are only two of the men looking at me? And that front guy, not digging that expression.

SEXUALITY
  • M/M/M/F/M/M
  • M/M/M/M
  • M/F
  • Voyurism

REVIEW
  • An erotic short, Quick and Hot at 39 pages.

  • Feels like an excerpt from a much larger story, jumps right into sex.

  • Two very steamy menage scenes that were creative <--Very Cool, and personal (didn't feel generic)

  • The action written in this story is outstanding, from the Jackie Chan leap to the underwater acrobatics.

  • A wondrous romp. I want more!

I received this ebook through the Cat Johnson contest on Southern Sizzle Romance. I won a gift certificate to buy Unridden by Ms. Johnson & had enough left over to pick up Kate's Crew as well!

Read an excerpt HERE.

Did you review this book too?
Comment with your link! (at the top of this post)

Sweet daydreams...


Mood Music — Sixx:AM LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL.





Night is Darkest
by Jayne Rylon

Some secrets refuse to stay hidden.

Lacey Daughtry’s perfect weekend is interrupted by tragic news of her brother’s murder in the line of duty. Plagued by a rash of mysterious phone calls, she turns to her brother’s best friends and fellow officers for protection…and comfort.

Spending time in close contact with Mason and Tyler, the two men she’s dreamed of since her first girlhood crush, seems like the answer to a prayer. Especially when they begin to explore the desire she’s harbored for so long.

But the partners are holding out on Lacey. Determined to suppress the most extreme facets of their lust, they agree to settle for sharing the woman they crave while concealing their desire for each other. Until Lacey cracks their resolve, unleashing a torrent of emotions that threatens to distract them when they can least afford it.

Their blossoming relationship is complicated by secrets. And the only way to evade the killer threatening their lives is to bare their souls in the darkest hours of the night. Or everything will come crashing down, just before the dawn.

Warning: After reading this book you’ll never look at a pair of hot cops, a cemetery or a can of Spaghetti-O’s the same way again.
My review guidelines can be found HERE.

COVER ART
by Natalie Winters
  • Nice use of color but still creating a dark effect
  • Not too fond of the headless models
  • Talented use of scale to showcase three characters

SEXUALITY
  • Erotica
  • M/M - Angry BJ
  • M/F - spaghetti-Os
  • M/M/F - VDP
  • BDSM - Super hot initiation scene

REVIEW
  • Cops, Murder, Abuse, Mystery

  • A bittersweet love story with a sick twist.

  • An emotional roller coaster complete with the loss of your stomach and the elation of flying

  • The dynamic between the triad is wonderful to watch develop

  • Tyler's hints about Mason's dominance were so perfect, helped get into a dom's head

  • Mason caves in amazingly quickly to admitting to his love for BOTH lovers... but I think that is because I was holding my breath the whole time he was trying to deny them!

I picked up this book after reading an excerpt at The Blackraven's Erotic Cafe!

This book was spotlighted on my Tuesday Teaser HERE.

Read an excerpt HERE

Sweet daydreams...


Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along!
• Grab your current read & open to a random page
• Share two “teaser” sentences sans spoilers
• Note the title & author


MY TEASE

"Tyler sank onto the cushion beside her, gripping her hand tight enough to fuse her fingers together but she couldn't feel anything beyond the numb shock coating her gut.

Her unfocused gaze latched onto the maroon crust of congealed blood beneath his trimmed fingernails...

The sinister smudges were the only part of her brother that would make it home tonight."

~ page 4, Night is Darkest by Jayne Rylon



It sounds like a spoiler, but at page 4 it is simply setting the stage.
Are you feeling teased?
Comment at the top of the post.

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