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Short Fiction Friday: “This Is What I Want” by Megan Hart

Short Fiction Friday is a feature I’ve seen on my dear friend Courtney’s blog, Once Upon a Bookshelf and on Audra’s blog, Unabridged Chick. Credit goes to them. I am but a sheep in need of knocking through some short stories … baaaaa.

“This Is What I Want” by Megan Hart. © 2007. Found in Naughty Bits 2: An Anthology of Short Erotic. © 2010 Spice Books. ISBN 9780373605415. Source: NetGalley

Synopsis

Eve Grant has been hurt in the past and so she decided to come up with an online alter-ego, Eris Apparent (because her computer will never let her down like men have). Eris posts a daily sex blog full of various fantasies all about an unknown man, and has quite the following. Eve loves the instant gratification she gets from the website, it’s a thrill to refresh the page to see what new comments are there. Ignoring a memo about personal web surfing on company time, Eve begins checking her blog from work. Leaving her desk unattended one morning to grab a cuppa, the IT specialist—”six-foot-four of gorgeous and a half inch of fantastic”—Lane DeMarco gets  a peek while fixing her computer. Soon Eris has a new follower — Tell_Me — and slowly they go from commenting to each other on the blog to steamy instant messaging. But what happens when her online playtime collides with her real life?

Review

Once again, Megan Hart delivers.

No one reads erotica for the plot, but Megan always weaves the two together, giving us an actual story as well as some, okay a lot of, steamy goodness. The plot, while good, is predictable (we the reader know that Tell_Me is Lane despite Eve’s cluelessness and of course, they eventually get together) but who cares? I read erotica to escape, to forget about the craziness of a day.

And Megan gives us that, and for that simple reason I’ll always recommend her. She knows how to write a fantastic sex scene. No awkward adjectives or nouns to be found here, and I love how the h/h are never really described too terribly much, leaving the reader to picture someone of their choosing perhaps? *wink*

Teresa

Teresa (nom de plume: Torrance Sené) is a self-proclaimed geek, a Janeite, a lover of werewolves and bad-ass angels, an aspiring novelist and an avid book reader who freelances as a web designer. You can follow her on Twitter at @eireannoir.

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Taking Chase by Lauren Dane

Taking Chase by Lauren Dane (Chase Brothers #2) © 2006 Samhain Publishing. ISBN 9781599983011. eBook. Romantic Suspense. 245 pages. $5.50 US [ Purchase ] Source: My Bookstore and More Purchase

Photobucket Synopsis: Cassie Gambol is on the run. In what seems like another lifetime, her ex-husband nearly ended her life and effectively ended her successful career as a vascular surgeon. But even though the justice system found him guilty of attempted murder, he fled while awaiting sentencing and Carly Sunderland became Cassie Gambol.

Shane Chase, a man who’s held himself away from commitment since his fiancée dumped him several years before, knows the beautiful newcomer is hiding something. He’s wildly attracted to her strength and her underlying vulnerability as well.

And now, Cassie’s ex is back and he wants her dead.

Review: This review was a bit hard to write.  The book has so much to recommend it and yet…and yet….

Let me start with the good stuff.  If an author wants to tackle domestic abuse then this is the way to do it.  The author obviously did her homework well.  She gave us a heroine who most people would not think of as a possible victim of domestic abuse. She is a well to do surgeon with money that her father had left her, and her ex-husband was a doctor too.  This makes the good point that domestic abuse is not about class, religion or race, it’s about sick people doing sick things.  Read more

Maya

Maya is a mechanical engineer and an avid reader with a love of history, mythology and culture. She is a typical Aquarian with a mean streak of reality but loves books of a paranormal and supernatural nature.

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Golden Eyes

Golden Eyes by Maya Banks ©2008 Loose-ID. ISBN13: 9781596326408. eBook. Paranormal Romance. 141 pages. $5.99 US [ Purchase ] Source: Loose ID Purchase.

Synopsis: When Sheriff Duncan Kennedy finds an injured cheetah in his mountains, he brings it home, determined to find out how she got there and stop the poachers who were hunting her. When he later checks on the cheetah and instead finds a gorgeous, naked woman with an arrow in her leg, he’s completely flabbergasted.

For six months, Aliyah Carver has been trapped in cheetah form. Taken by poachers who import exotic animals to illegally hunt, she stayed in animal form to avoid detection. She escaped the hunters, but now she faces another problem — a devastatingly sexy sheriff who now knows her secret.

Review: Ok, so what’s really new about this right? The answer is nothing and everything. Most paranormal shifter novels the male in the novel is the shifter while the woman is the weak human, not so in this novel. The storyline is similar to all other shifter novels in that the H/H have to struggle with the fact that one of them is a shifter and the feelings they have for each other.   Read more

Maya

Maya is a mechanical engineer and an avid reader with a love of history, mythology and culture. She is a typical Aquarian with a mean streak of reality but loves books of a paranormal and supernatural nature.

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