First of all, big warning: if you don't like a chick with masculine "characteristics" (don't let me go into details), you will not like this book. I think we have to be quite sincere, there are books written by men for men AND women, there are books written by women for women AND men, and then there are books written by men FOR men and by women FOR women. It's not impossible that men could enjoy romance only for women, I know there are out there men who read, for example, Danielle Steel, and more recently, Suzanne Brockmann. But they are aware that they are entering an exclusive playfield, a playfield that is open to special admission nevertheless.

Enraptured is a romance by women for women. It's a man on man story, but the I would not say that it's gay. True, being setting in a futuristic world where "homosexuality" is not more an issue, there is not even the smallest problem for the "all male" nature of the characters. More, being an inter-breed story, between Demons and genetically modified Humans, the issue is more the difference in race than the same-sex relationship. To add spicy to the thing, the Demons are an all male breed, their women all died for a virus centuries before, and they naturally modified their genetics to be able to reproduce between males. So yes, there is male pregnancy in there, and that is another plus factor for the submissive male to be more a chick than a rooster.

Said all that, it's a good romance? IF you try to read it knowing the purpose for which it was written, then yes: Enraptured is a funny romp, the futuristic setting is light and easy and the story didn't fall in the overadorned style that usually these stories have. The futuristic world is very much like a medieval "romance" setting, not the real Middle Ages, but more the fictional rendering that you often find in a romance novel; the plot is classic, the bastard son of a king raised in a monastery and subject to the lascivious attention of a villain, a powerful mage. Just when the evil father promised the innocent son to the villain for a much abhorred mating, an handsome stranger prince comes to the rescue of the "damsel" in distress. Only that the prince is not exactly a "prince charming", but more a demon with black leathery wings.

Where is the originality of the story? I think it's in the lightness, all events, even when dramatic, are more funny than angst. This is more a sexy romp than a sci-fiction novel. There are also a lot of kind homages to similar fiction out there: the human princes have long and colorful hair, they have to be virgin till they come to age, and so on.

So yes, if read with the right perspective, this debut novel by Scarlet Hyacinth is very nice, and I think I will read also the following books in the saga.

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I need to take a decision: or stopping reading any fiction by Rick R. Reed involving the El Train in Chicago or having my heart at peace that when the characters enter the subway anything of normal will happen. In this short story Oliver is coping with the loss of his partner, and husband of only few days, Ryan and he is not doing it well. Ryan was killed on the day they were coming back from their honeymoon, at night, just out of the subway.

In the months after the event, Oliver has replayed every moment of that ride on the El Train and the few steps they took before Ryan's killing. That is probably the strength of the story, the author plays with the reader's mind as he is playing with Oliver's: is it all real, or is it only an illusion? The events Oliver is replaying are really happened, or he is slowly descending into craziness. Oliver has even given an hint towards this second option, saying that craziness runs in his family even before all went to hell.

There is a big love story but this is not a romance. It's clear that Oliver and Ryan were perfect together, and probably if nothing happened to Ryan, Oliver would have never shown any mental issue. But the reader has only few chance to enjoy that love, few brief moments before the tragedy. They are not enough for a romantic reader. After that, it's all an horror tale, and even when the incubus comes back to haunt Oliver, it's not love, and Oliver is well aware of it.

So no, if you are a committed romance reader and what your are searching is a fairy tale love story, Incubus is not probably your choice. But if you consider that this is only a short story, and that often short stories lack in originality to be only a sex scene, maybe well written, but nothing more, than Incubus is surely something more than that, and it's worth a try.

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Next of Kin by Astrid Amara

In a futuristic world, the type I tagged Apocalypse Now, people live side by side with demons. Actually demons seem to have replace human in the most common jobs, and they are at the command of special men, the sorcerers. There are some big families of sorcerers, they are like the new aristocracy, and every sorcerer have some special powers, who more, who less.

Jay Yervant is one of those special men, but his powers brought more pain than anything else to him. He is a blazing man, like a human torch. He can't touch a human since he leaves deeply burns, and so he "banished" himself from his family. He became an Hell Cop, a special unit to fight the renegade demons. Jay has also another reason to disappoint his family, he is gay. But actually, other than feel desire for men, he has never acted upon it, since no lover can bear his touch.

Enter Brian, a 21 years old naive man... he is like a child in a candy store. Brian has always lived in a rural community which refused the modern technology, and above all the magic. But Brian didn't fit in the community and he left for the big city. Only that he wasn't prepared to what the big city is, he didn't know that demons were real, and not only a bogus the priest on the community used to scare the kid. Among all the caos the only thing normal seems his attraction to Jay, actually I didn't understand where and when Brian acquired all his sexual experience, unless in that community they did something else other than pray ;-)

Anyway it seems that Brian is the only guy able to touch Jay without being injured, and Jay was attracted to Brian even before discovering this "little" particular... maybe the days of Jay as a virgin are limited! If you think I'm joking, you are right, since the novella has a very funny mood on it. It deals with bloody killings, with body parts splattered all around, but I don't know how, it still manages to be funny. Maybe it's Brian's innocence, his fixation on having sex with Jay that makes him forget everything else around. Maybe it's also a bit the Cinderfella theme, since Jay is from a very wealthy family, but he chose to live far from them, and Brian is this poor guy living in a shitty apartment...

Really I don't know, usually I'm not a big fan of futuristic setting and too much blood around, but this time I read it all and would have been willing to read more. And in a nice play of contrast, both men preserve a type of innocence: Brian with his isolated upbringing has an innocent soul, even if he experienced sex, and instead Jay, who has seen too much and lived in a corrupted world, due to his special powers is still a virgin, at least on a physical level.

Red Sands by Nicole Kimberling

The story is set in the same universe as before, and this time has as main hero another Hell Cop, colleague of Jay. Actually Jay makes only a cameo for reference and instead Brina has a little role, where he confirms his naivete. Argent, Jay's colleague, is of a different sort from his friend. From what I understood, Jay comes from a sorcery family, and he has his special powers as a birthright, instead Argent chose to become an Hell Cop and was trained in the art of sorcery. Due to that, Argent, and his story, has a different feeling, it's more simple, and almost not "paranormal".

To balance a bit the lack of paranormal event, Argent chosen lover for the story is Michael, an half-demon half-human. From someone with demon blood you would expect from him to be something special, and instead Michael is an average man. He is a college professor, an anthropologist, who spends a lot of time far from his planet in some mission. When he is at home, he is not even a particular affectionate man, he has a family that obviously loves him, but he is detached from them. Michael's father was a famous rocker, and probably he used his relationship with Michael's mother, a demon from another planet, to gain popularity. Even if proud of his son, Michael's father was too much lost on his sex, drugs and rock and roll world to be a paternal figure. How strange that a otherworldly kid like Michael was subjected to the same destiny of the sons of the rich and famous.

Maybe since he is tired to be "different", maybe since he is alone, Michael's relationship with Argent flows in a nice and quite way; there is no paranormal event, no sudden passion, they meet, they like, they love, probably the only ordinary thing amid the extraordinary that is around them. Even Michael's special powers to read people mind by touch are neutralized by Argent's training, putting them on the same level of emotion.

Overall the lasting feeling is of a nice romance cop, and even the final solution is somewhat simple like that.

Touching Sparks by Ginn Hale

The last story is even more ordinary of the previous two, and I'm using the word ordinary in a derogatory way, remember that the futuristic genre is not usually my cup of tea.

No one of the two men involved in this story has special powers or half blood otherworldly lineage. Moran is an Hell Cop, and as all the Hell Cop, he was trained in sorcery, but all his powers are learned not inherited. He is the classical cop of wet dreams, dark, handsome and mourning. And as all the mourning cops, he needs a "fresh" boy to bring him out of his sadness.

James Sparks, Sparky for Moran, was the teenager kid who lived near Moran many years ago. Now he is a successful photographer who is stumbled in a drugs illegal market with illegal fight side entertainment. James is too good boy next door to let it go and obviously he asks help to Moran and forces the man to involve him as undercover spy. Moran has some trouble to match the memories of the skinny teenager with this young man, and he builds in his mind an imagine that is not exactly true: he sees James like a virgin damsel in distress that Moran has to help but not debauch.

This is the shorter of the stories and probably the less light of the three. It's a dark and gothic feeling, a sense of danger probably enhanced by the fact that no one of the heroes involved have special powers to shield them from death.

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Walk Among Us by Vivien Dean

I appreciated in the past Vivien Dean's originality, when she gave a twist on an unusual vampire romance. Now she creates another terrific (or horrific...) novel about an former priest who sees demons...

Calvin is back on his hometown near Chicago for his father's funeral. But Calvin is not mourning the loss of his father, since the man was an homophobic who kicked him out when he found his son was gay. But Calvin managed to build a good life in New York as an appreciated artist. Actually he doesn't know why he bothers to come back, since no one in the small town seems to understand his detached behavior. And then during the funeral a sniper killed a man and Calvin sees him perfectly. Matthew is a very handsome man with a brooding behavior and tormented eyes. The artist in Calvin is immediately attracted by this perfect image, and the man in Calvin is attracted by the handsome man.

In an usual romance, you would expected that Calvin is horrified by Matthew's action, but like Calvin is detached by his father's death, he seems to be detached by all the little world around the man. Calvin doesn't know the man Matthew killed, and he is more interesting in Matthew, than in the act he did. Probably Calvin closed something in his soul when his father kicked him out, he hid in the safe of his heart all the emotions, and now he has like a shield around him. A shield that protects him from the demons.

The demons prey on the mourning souls, and this is the reason why Matthew was at the funeral of Calvin's father. Matthew is only a man, not an hero. He is not thrilled by the idea to have the skill to see demons, and if possible, he avoids the crowd, so he has less chance to see demons. But here and there, Matthew's conscience nags him and he needs to do something to stop the demons. So he goes to funeral, the likely place to find mourning soul. But this time is not a relative of the dead who is mourning: Calvin doesn't regret his father's death, and so he is not the target for the demon.

The book is not very long, less than 90 pages, but it's very well plotted. It mixes very well the demon's matter with the erotic part, and the two erotic scenes in the book are really good and arousing. Calvin's character is a bit more developed than Matthew, even if probably Matthew is the most intriguing. All in all another very good book by Vivien Dean.

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If All the Sand Were Pearl by Pepper Espinoza

First of all the setting: I would say a fantasy world... there are not high-tech elements to make it a futurist novel, and the only "modern" intrusion, is the presence of some plastic dildos... in the past there were dildos but they are made of wood, I believe. So yes, I will go for the fantasy.

Anyway, in this fantasy world, same sex marriage is not forbidden, even if it is not common for the simplest reason: wealthy families needs heirs and in a same sex marriage a natural heir is not possible. Jag is the last son of a once wealthy family; since he was born when all his other siblings were just betrothed or married, he was left with a decision: become a scholar or a priest. He set for priest and he was happy with the decision at 12 years old, but later one thing of priesthood left him "unsatisfied": chastity. Anyway he has never had a chance to be sexually active and so he really doesn't know what he is losing. He only knows that he dreams of the hard body of a man rather than that of a woman. So when financial problems push his family to negotiate an arranged marriage also for him, the only choice he is left is the gender of the betrothed... and he chooses a man.

Jag has never seen before his betrothed and he fears the wedding night. He is not sure of what expecting, and since he is rather young, also the physical appearance of the man is a huge problem for him. And then, is he enough attractive for the other man? Jag is lithe and small, he has the body of a scholar and he only knows that his betrothed is a big man used to work outside. The more innocent problems swirl in his mind, the same questions a virgin maid would have in the same situation.

Brace lost the hope to find a suitable partner long ago. He prefers man and no noble family would allow him to marry one of its son. And now he has a last chance. But he doesn't want to marry a man compelled to take a decision he doesn't like. And so he sends to Jag a gift, a very rare pearl, worthy enough to buy back his freedom and allow to him and his family a comfortable future. With that pearl in his possession, if Jag will decide to marry him, he will do that only according to his real desire.

Brace is a good man; he has no problem to find a willing partner for a one night tryst, but he wants a long term relationship. He doesn't want an husband to fill his nights, he wants a man to fill his days. Brace is true and simple like the life he likes: his horses, his travels... More than a lover he needs a companion.

In the end, you would expected for Jag to be the brooding one, the scholar type, and instead Jag unveils to be a young man waiting to be freed, and Brace could be the key to his freedom.

The story is pretty classic, and in this case "classic" is the right term, since this novel has an old fashioned style, but it's also erotic, the sex scenes are good and explicit, but always in line with the mood of the novel, even if that plastic dildos make them a bit kinky.

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No Fear in Love by Jamie Craig

This is the second story I read in the A Calling of Souls anthology by Samhain Publishing, and like the other one is a story about a night which changes forever the life of two men.

Weston and Mark were buddy friends since they were teenagers; from a small English village, they share everything since they both feel stranger among other people. Probably Weston realized before his friend what that strangeness was, he loves his friend Mark, and it's not a friendly love. But Weston probably is more cautious and probably he fears to leave the comfort of his small village life and so he searched shelter in the church and in the chastity: he became an Anglican pastor. He removed passionate love from his life and most of the time he is content with it. Not when he is with Mark.

Mark chose to leave the small village for the big city, for London. He still returns back sometime, mostly to spend time with his best friend Weston. Also Mark is gay, but he has not chosen chastity... instead he tried to search his love in a lot of men, only to realize that he has just found it, and he is Weston. So now Mark is determined to spend a night with Weston, to prove him how it could be between them, and to have at least that night for them.

And so Mark consciously seduces Weston, he destabilizes his friend beliefs, and he puts the seed of doubt in his mind; is the church only a substitute of what Weston really wants? can he risk his comfort life for the uncertainty of a life with Mark?

I like both Weston than Mark, but in both of them I found something to blame: why Weston didn't dare to fight for his love and instead chose the easy way of becoming a priest? if he knew that his friend was gay (and he knew it since he said that Mark went to him the first time he was with a man), why he lied to himself?

On the other hand Mark... perhaps he didn't realize to be in love with Weston before moving to London and realizing that he was searching the man in other partners. I could think so, and thinking in that way, I find him nicer than Weston, since he decides to do something, he decides to risk their friendship in the hope to obtain love.

The story is not very long, 60 pages, and since it's mostly a one night story, there is not much space to develop the characters. They haven't the chance to interact with other people, the issue of Weston being a priest is not so much a problem, if not for him, there is not judgment from outside. There is also no space to develop Mark and Weston's relationship as friends, to let us know how they were as young gay teens in a small village. The story is appealing and I'd like to read something more both before than after the central night.

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Cover Art by Anne Cain


Cover Art by Anne Cain


Cover Art by Anne Cain

The novella is quite nice, a mix of western yaoi and romance, even if the yaoi component is not so strong to maybe discourage the M/M readers who are not fan of that type of novels.

Drew is a renegade werewolf, he was kicked out of his pack at 28 years old when he finally decided to come out from the closet. Drew is not an old fashioned shapeshifter, he is an website developer and so he has no problem at all to pack his things and move to an isolated cabin near a small town. And so he jumps on his bike and heads toward a new life. On the trail, he stops to do a "change" stop, means that he needs to shift, and he stumbles upon a strange creature, a young boy with silverly skin and two little black wings like a bat. The boy is frightened and shocked, and Drew decides to help him: astride Drew's bike, with Drew's leather jacket covering the bat-boy's wings, they ride toward the sunset.

Ciaran is an half-fairy half-demon who was summoned on earth. Till that moment he lived a secluded life on Fairy Land, his grandfather raised him only since he had not the courage to kill him as an infant. Ciaran's mother, a fairy, was kidnapped by a demon, and Ciaran is the result of that dramatic event. He is a shame for his fairy relatives, and when he is summoned on earth, the men who did it wanted to treat him like a slave. So Ciaran is quite skittish, and when he meets Drew he is all big black eyes blurry and frightened.

Drew and Ciaran start a cohabitation in Drew's little cabin that is almost a marriage: Drew works at home to gain the bread, and Ciaran cooks and cleans, and during his free time, rides a bicycle up and down the hill (see where I see a bit of yaoi influence, other than in the big black eyes?). Even if Drew is gay and attracted by Ciaran, he doesn't do nothing to frighten more the boy, and Ciaran, not used to human or fairy contact, his totally unaware that there can be more between two men than sharing house and meal... at least till the moment he doesn't see a soap opera on television and he starts to wonder.

All in all the novella is a sweet romance, with barely a kiss and something more at the very end of the book. But it's nice and tender, and I like the hybrid that is Ciaran, even if the demon's side of him shows only in his wings, there is nothing of demoniac in him other than that.

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Starting this book I was expecting a quite dark and gothic story, and instead the overall mood of this one is light and almost funny.

Ryzelmei, Ryzel, is an incubus. He is not a lesser demon like all the incubi, he is the son of Asmodai, and so he has some powers more than usual. In his life out of hell, this turns into him being a very wealthy man, with some thriving nighclubs and poshy hotels, that allow him to live in a comfortable way with only one pursue, find a good meal twice a day. Obviously a meal for an incubus means sex, but Ryzel, in his human form, is a very handsome man, a bit on the pale side, with waist long black hair, so it's not a problem to find willing partners. And lately Ryzel has also stopped to feed to death from his partners, and so his meal leaves him with only a faint recollection of a nice experience.

Then Quinlin, Quin, stumbles upon one of those nice experiences; Quin is blind but he has a gift, he can see auras, and so what he "sees" his a stronger aura that is encompassing a weaker one. He obviously interferes, and knocks out Ryzel with his cane. He doesn't do serious damage to the incubus, but enough to get notice. To Ryzel, Quin appears like a succulent meal and something more; to the incubus eyes, Quin is stunning and beautiful, to everyone else eyes he is quite average... what is between Ryzel and Quin that pulls them together and bonded them in a way Ryzel has never felt before?

I like Quin's character since, even if blind, he is not at all a weak or dependent man. Usually when you have a disability, you develop some other skill, and Quin develops his strong will. He is a pissy bastard! He is not friendly, he is quite brisk and he likes things done as he wants. He is not one to indulge or mourning, and he is also open enough to recognize his body desires; after meeting Ryzel, he can't deny that his body wants the man, and this doesn't change not even when he discovers that Ryzel is an incubus. It's not quite a problem for Quin, his grandmother, a seer, foretold everything and took the right measures to ensure an happily ever after for her grandson.

I believe there are some yaoi influence in the story, but they are not so strong or strict... Quin is obviously a top from the bottom, he is always feisty and talkative during sex, always giving orders even when he is on the receiving end. He doesn't like to be ordered around probably since he developed an independent core to make up to his blindness, and that attitude is brought on also during sex. Quin is also an hyperactive man, he is always in motion, or doing something, laziness is not a word in his vocabulary... for example, everytime they have sex, Quin is always the first to wake up, and more time than not, Ryzel doesn't find him in bed afterward.

On the other hand, Ryzel, as a demon and powerful man, should be the top in the relationship, but he never fulfils the general expectation. In life he is caught in the middle between feisty Quin on one side, and his powerful father on the other; during sex he always plans great things in his mind, things to do to Quin, and always ends following Quin's wishes... poor Ryzel would be a really frustrated demon, if not for the simple reason that he is a "sex" demon... sex is joyful and playful, and so Ryzel is like that, a man who enjoys the moment, who is able to savor the little things of life, who is willing to try and compromise if the prize of all of that is being good.

All in all Blind Desire showed to be a very nice, light and enjoyable story, with some a real funny core... and I believe the author has something in mind for Haskell, Quin's friend with benefits, and an horse... something I wouldn't mind to read.

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HellBourne series is not exactly a romance but more a discovery journey. It's the story of Lucifer "Luc" Hellbourne, half-fae half-devil, who is trying to find his place in the human and otherworldly world. After 20 years spent as Alpha male's lover of a werewolf pack, Luc is on the loose; his werewolf lover dumped him to marry a woman and have kids, a thing that even Luc, with all his special power, can't have. Wandering alone after so many years living in a pack is disconcerning and when Luc sees a night club called the River Styx, he feels a bit at home, and enters the club and a new stage in his life.

Obviously the Master Vampire of the club, Nikko, is all of the idea to make Luc his own personal thrall, and Luc, at first, is not against the idea: Nikko is a very good piece of a man, not exactly the emaciated vampire of legends. He is a stud, and Luc is not against the idea to have a rebound lover like him. Nikko is thinking to have found his personal pet, and in his magnanimity, to give protection to Luc, but he doesn't know that Luc has no need of his protection, Luc stays and goes when he wants and how he likes.

At the same moment Luc is in a three-way: his former lover Bran wants him back, his actual lover Nikko doesn't want to let him go and there is a new young vampire with the face of an angel, Jerrod, who needs his help, and how can a demon not being drawn by an angel?

Hellbourne is a continuing series, I have the feeling that also the following novella in the series will be centered around Luc and his search for a new home, and probably his real mate. The quality of the story is way better than the first attempts by this same author, she always plays with stereotype (the Alpha Male werewolf, the Master Vampire), but this time they are all elements mixed in a slightly more original way. Not that the previous short stories weren't good, but I feel like this new novella being more mature and complete.

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Russell and Gray were in high school together and they were also sweetheart. Gray as singer and Russell as leader guitarist, they founded the Survival, a rock band very popular in the local circuit. But one fateful night Gray's stepfather, Johnny, made a move on Russ and when he refused his advances he set up Russ with another guy to be found by Gray. Obviously Gray dumped Russ immediately and Johnny managed to lock him out of the band. Now three years later Russ is still mourning the loss of both Gray and the band. So when he is accosted by Eddie in a pub, and the man proposes him an "evil" pact, Russ makes a big mistakes and accepts the help.

Eddie is a twisted guy who has sold his soul to the devil. In exchange of a lot of powers, he needs to collect souls, and he starts doing it with all the men around Russ and Gray. But when Russ and Gray have the chance to meet again, love is stronger than ever, and maybe it will give them the strenght to face the devil.

The story is pretty complex, and there are a lot of supporting characters that enter and leave the scene. Even if it's not directly connected, the setting is the same of another novel by D.J. Manly, Payment Due, and like in that book, the two main lovers will have to fight a lot to be together, and before the ending, they will experience a lot of things, some good and some very bad, and unfortunately they will not go out without being deeply scarred.

Survival plays with what is good and what is evil, and maybe it doesn't end how you will expect it... maybe demons are not the evilest ones.

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The best word to describe Angels of the Deep is "dark"; it started in the dark, both literally than figuratively, to continue always in the dark. Even when it's daylight, the darkness is there, and sincerely I always had the feel, reading this book, that there was like a cloud covering the sun, and even if the events take place during the day, no real sunlight was allowed in the story. The only light I perceived was the artificial one of neon, a light that was cold, in this way reinforcing the darkness and also the coldness. No sunlight means no natural warm. All in this book was dark and icy.

I realized that I concentrated more on the feeling it left me than on the story, but it's also hard to give you a short summary of the story without giving up the end, but I will try. At the beginning of the book Beck is an orphan, a ward in the hand of a priest; unfortunately Beck is suffering an unspeakable hell living with the priest, a pedophiles who calls Beck his Angel. As expected in this situation, Beck is escaping reality building a world of his own, till the day an ancient woman appears and "frees" Beck from his hell. Jump ahead in time, Beck is now an adult, married man and soon-to-be divorced. It seems that he loves his wife, Cat, but not in the way he should love her; Cat is a good woman, but when Beck is near her, I feel more friendship than love passing between them. On the other hand, Beck is feeling something strong for someone he should not, Sean, his partner in the police facility they both work for.

Also Sean is aware of the feelings between them, and he would be willing to try, but Beck is unwilling. He finds all the right excuse, he is married, he can't do that to Cat, Sean is a co-worker... strange enough one of the excuse is not that he is not gay, as if the gender of them is not important... Anyway I had the feeling that the real reason was that Beck is still traumatized by what happened to him when he was a child. Beck is the exactly profile of an abused child, unable to tighten real bond with a lover, reluctant to speak of his problem, ready to lie to  therapists when they near the real problem. The only thing that I will not add to the other typical thing is Beck being gay, since, first of all it seems not to be one of his "trouble", and second, as I said before, his relationship with Sean is strange, and being both men seem not to be the real problem between them.

All right, telling you these things, I covered more or less 50 pages of the more than 300 pages of the book, and I can't say more, since from this moment on the reader is plunged inside the story right in the middle of the event and will resurface only in the end. The author don't prolong the broth with water to make it last, but serve the main course and let the reader to deal with it in full play mode. The story takes is direction and goes straight to the end without hesitation and not leaving to the reader neither the time to breath. I was turning the page hoping to find a moment to stop, and instead there wasn't neither one. The book is 300 pages long, but no one of these pages is an embellishment, they are all center stage events.

Kirby Crow is not famous for being sexy, she is more famous to be a teaser (she will never be free of that title after letting me suffer for one very long book, Scarlet and the White Wold 1, for a kiss, and for another even more long book, the second in the series, for a sex scene...), and Angels of the Deep confirms it; even if, truth be told, there is sex in the book (and not only in the last chapter) and there is also a continuous running of eroticism in all the pages, all the characters, not only Beck and Sean, are all very physical, and their body reactions are pretty clear and described. So the only moment that the icy cloak I felt on the story is raised, is when that sexy running surfaces here and there.

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The StarCrossed series by MacLeod and Valentine is not a simple series to read, since it tests a lot of "romance" boundaries and not only. Above all it questions the main rule that good is white and evil is black and they don't mix, and even if mix, in the end the evil has to go through a purification process to be considered good. Here instead, the evil is evil and remains evil till the end, enjoying its lustful life in plenty.

Jace and Konnor are demon twins who now live in "peace" at Salem, managing a night club. Jace is the same demon that, in Demon Tailz, a previous short story in this series, eat alive a man who was mourning his lost lover... the fact that the man was searching that fate to be reunited with his lover in an alterlife, and that Jace, in a way, helped him, doesn't change the true that the demon enjoyed his "meal". There is then the little fact that this is a twincest story, but well, I believe that this particular kink is now quite surpassed, and almost normal, and then we are talking of demons here, so, well, human laws don't exactly apply to them.

In Objects in the Mirror the reader has the chance to know something more on the past of these two demon brothers and so understand why they are so bound together; but he has also the chance to see that these are not "tamed" demons, they have not conscience: when it's time to hunt, and eat, it doesn't matter if the prey is innocent. Maybe of the two brother, Jace is the more bloody and lethal, but it's not that Konnor is innocent, his unwillingness to hunt is more a question of like or not like than a conscience issue.

Jace and Konnor are the main characters but not the only important in the story; there is also Gennady, their vampire adoptive father, and Fallon, his young werefox lover, and Jericho, almost an adoptive brother. And then a lot of other minor characters, all of them with the same characteristic: they live in a border zone, between right and wrong, between good and evil, and no one of them is perfect. Even the angels in this story have their little dirty secrets.

As I said the two authors test a lot of "no-way" rules of romance: twincest, sex in shifted form, the rule that the good hero, even if behaving as a villain, has to not mingle with the real villain, and if he must, at least he has to not enjoy it. It seems almost that the real good one, the innocent souls in this story are doomed, and only the ones with cracked halo are allowed to survive. And then the authors play also with the main romance rule, the one that says that the good hero has to be beautiful and the villain has to be ugly... in this story instead you can't recognize the evil from the good from the outside exterior, since it seems that all of them are in their way beautiful, the authors manage to make beautiful even the demons in their demon form (with tails, claws and horns).

It's quite a strange book, but just the fact that it doesn't pass and go letting you unaffected is a proof that the main scope it was targeting is reached, it makes wondering and doubting the reader his own belief on what is right and what is wrong.

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1) Demon Tailz: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/486448.html
2) Opposite Ends of the Spectrum: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/523638.html
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Again the demon story by this duo of new author MacLeod and Valentine is one of unexpected interest and pleasure for me to read. Why unexpected? since if you asked me before if I would like to read of the debauching of an angel, involving demon shape monsters, probably I would have answered with a big NO! And instead I was again enthralled by the story.

Kelly is a male beautiful androgynous angel: with beautiful long scarlet hair that match his wonderful scarlet wings, Kelly is the main attraction of a freak show. Before being taken in captivity he was not a strong angel, and since he is almost starved, he is really weak and unable to escape his prison. Then the owner of the freak carnival decides to put in cage with him an incubus, Dekin. At first Dekin is fair and gentle with Kelly, he almost convinces him that he will not harm him in any way, not only he convinced Kelly he also convinced me, that I was just imagining him like a "good" incubus... but Dekin is a demon and he behaves like a demon.

Between remains a captive forever and being an alley of a demon, Kelly chooses the dark side; but even if he makes a bargain with a devil, he still remains an angel, with his beauty and innocence. Never ever during all the book, Kelly looses his inside goodness and his calm and serene behavior, even when subjected to the worst thing that could be happen to a pure soul, the violation of his body, Kelly is forgiving and welcoming, he is a real martyr. If not for the way in which the authors manage to build a relationship between Kelly and Dekin, I don't know if both characters would be independently nice: and instead, in this way, Kelly comes out with being a strong character, in attitude if not in body, and Dekin like a more brooding demon as I was expecting; he is almost like a dark hero, someone who has to do unholy things in name of the good angel that is waiting for him. Only behaving in a good way Dekin feels enlisted to love an angel, Kelly becomes is criterion.

There is a lot of sex in this novella, down and dirty sex, it's almost like it has to be so down and dirty to exalt the purity, of the loss of it, of Kelly. Some of it, in particular in two scenes, it's quite a non consensual sex, one almost a rape, so be ready and warned. But as I said, I believe that it was necessary to give a dark background to the angel to shine as much as possible.

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Reading this book I realized that I don't know much about angels and demons, and about the Creation and the Fall of Lucifer. These are five stories about love between angels and demons, and about the power of clean all the mistakes that sometime love has.

Hunter and the Prey: Lev is an Angel. He trains the young Angel to be warriors and to destroy the evil creatures that roam the human world. But he can't destroy one of these creatures, the demon Alael, cause he loves him. And when Alael decides that it's time for them to be together, no one can deny them.

Angels of Blood: Irael is a fallen angel who proclaims himself god of a tortured world. The Order of Chaos is not happy with the angel's behaviour and want to destroy him. But Adon, one of the Angel of Creation, has his own plans on Irael, and he will do as he wants and the winner takes all.

Unholy Need: Nichael is an angel who has to hunt and kill a powerful mage, but during his mission he stumbles upon Nias, a young demon. It seems that Nias displeases Lucifer and he was sent in a mission where he clearly can't survive, and Nichael has to help the young demon, cause now he can't let him go.

Order of the Highest: Talah is a demon spy, former lover of Sepha, a powerful ancient demon, he has to lure one of the Highest, a powerful group of angel warrior. But when he meets Aridas, he knows to have found the only thing missing in his life. But can he be free from the binding he has with Sepha?

The True Fall of Lucifer: After years and years of loneliness, Lucifer has to admit that he misses his former lover, Michael. And since also Michael wants Lucifer back, what prevent the fallen angel to reunite with his true love?

All the stories are pretty short, more or less 30 pages each, but are full of details and reading it you have a feeling of light and shadow, of deep black and flash of blinding colour. There are also many hints of bondage and submission, of pain that enriches the love making.

All the book is setting in a fantasy world, so it's not strange to see all these angels and demons around, they are not some otherworldly creatures in a normal world, they are normal creatures in a mythical world.

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"Famous for the notorious witch trials of 1692, the small seaport town of Salem, Massachusetts had been trying to smudge out the horrible image of murder and injustice for centuries. In a complete turnaround, the town had begun welcoming anyone who was a self-proclaimed witch, and by the early 21st century, one in four Salem residents claimed either to be a witch or to know one."

It seems an idilliac situation, isn't it? A place where everyone would be glad to come, if he is interested on the paranormal side of life. And so it's not strange that Cash Rowan, ghost and demon hunter, chooses Salem as his final point for the Halloween night. But Cash is searching a specific demon, and maybe this time he is lucky. Jace is the owner of the Demon Tailz, a upper-class night club, and he welcomes Cash at open arms... the reader is expecting a hot night but it is not what he will have.

Cash is not searching for sex, and Jace has that side of his life covered since he is in a relationship with his twin brother Konnor. To know what it will happen, you need to read the story, since if I tell you more, I for sure will spoil it, it's only 25 pages long. But despite being so short, the story is really really nice.... well maybe nice is not exactly the right word: it's a mix of splatter and comic, love and sex, Ghost (the movie) meets "The Night of Living Dead" or something similar... I didn't know if I should feel horror or smile or be a sappy romantic.

There are at least three unexpected events: when Cash reveals his real purpose, when Jace helps him, and when Konnor comes back home. All of them gave me a feeling of surprise and a need to re-read the scene to be sure to understand well what it was happening... and since it's, as I said, a 25 pages long story, I believe it's quite an achievement. Can't wait to read the following chapters in a series that I believe will be a favorite of mine.

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It's not the first time that I read a fantasy romance regarding Angels and Demons, but usually they didn't effect me too much, I didn't find any fascination in them. Instead this short novel by Molly Church, only 29 pages, has the feeling of a longer novel and it appealed to me in a strange way, since it mixed another element usually I'm not fond of, the D/s role play.

Yare'ach is a warrior angel, mortally wounded during a battle. The female Hellborn who finds him, instead of pitying killing the angel, decides to take him to her lord, Ayve. Ayve is a demon, a fallen angel, and he has a sadness inside of him that nothing seems to soothe. The Hellborn feels that this wounded angel and the demon have something in common and maybe she hopes to please her master with a new toy.

But for Yare'ach being used to live in Hell is not simple. As an Angel he was incorporeal, his body had no needs, nor for food or sex, and so he is totally unprepared when it slowly start to make request apparently without consent from its own owner. Yare'ach and Ayve start a D/s relationship where Yare'ach learns to be the perfect submissive, since it's in the Angel's nature to follow the orders of a superior lord. I like Yare'ach's character since his uncertainty and unsteadiness seem true, even if, in a way, he is not a full grown or independent man: he doesn't discern between good and evil, he doesn't know what they are, he is happy only when someone else could tell him what to do and give him directions and a safe place. Ayve is a complex character not fully developed in this short story: we know he is a brooding man, that he is sad and not happy, but that he finds comfort in Yare'ach, in taking care of the Angel, sometime more like a father than a lover.

I like also the setting, a medieval fantasy world, Hell is an huge stone castle without any of the modern comforts, always surrounded by an eternal night. Other than some hint on the characters having wings, there is nothing that make this a fantasy novel, no magic, no paranormal events, and also for this I liked the book.

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At the beginning of the twenty century a family of three, mother, brother and sister are travelling by train to reach the future husband of the young woman. It's not a marriage of love, but an agreement: the older man will provide a comfortable home to the two women and will pay the tuition for the young man, too weak and bad illness to sustain himself and his family. It's years that Edwin is weak in body as in mind, having continuous nightmares that don't allow him to sleep and subsequently worsening his health.

Then at one of the stop the train couples up a private car, that of Sir Marco Sartori, "illusionist, hypnotist and spiritualist extraordinaire", who also offers "tonics and restoratives to cure what ails you". Edwin is drawn both by the man than by his written promises: maybe if this man could heal him, his sister Alma would be not forced to marry a man older than their late father.

Indeed Sartori takes good care of Edwin, immediately understanding what is the "disease" of the young man, and what causes him to not sleep at night; with a simple hypnosis, Edwin reveals his desire for men, and for Sartori in particular, and Sartori is more than ready to seduce Edwin and to benefit of his innocence.

Till now the story could be well a nice and interesting historical gay romance, but there is the problem of Edwin's family, of its maintenance, and the other usual problem in tales like this of the quite impossible situation of living as two male lovers in that age. Katrina Strauss chooses the paranormal way, and I don't spoil the story, since it's in the blurb of the book the publisher decided to post, but for me it's only a nice and "believable" end (for how much believable could be a paranormal twist) to a very nice story. Truth be told, I didn't feel necessary the paranormal twist, probably I would preferred an improbable happily ever after for a "pure" historical romance.

Anyway the setting in a travelling train, and the description of Edwin's past life are really interesting and original, being Edwin not the usual strong and invincible hero, but not being neither a "female in disguise" type of character; on the other hand, Sartori is only hinted (don't forget that the story is only 50 pages long), but when he enters the scene I almost could see the colors and the sparks, and the cheering of the public... he has all the fascinating aurea of Houdini, maybe helped in this by the really nice cover by Anne Cain, almost too pretty for an ebook short story... I hope that the publisher will release something else by the same author and will use that cover for a print edition, it's not often that I see covers that deserve a space on a bookstore shelf.

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The title has a double meaning: Pablo is an hustler in a futuristic world. In this apocalyptic setting, the profession of whore is centrally controlled as every other profession, but obviously is not a revered one. There are different level of prostitution, and Pablo unfortunately is on a low level, he walks the street by night. When one of his clients expresses a bit too much of interest in him, bordering on violence, Pablo knows that it's time to change line of work.

He replies to an ad by a coven of three magicians in search of a Touch: here the first meaning of the title, a Touch is a human being able to arise and direct sexual powers; obviously this could imply physical contact and maybe also sex, but Pablo is not worried of that. Better being an independent worker with the possibility of choice, than depending on the will of strangers night after night. And here is the second meaning of the title, since Pablo is looking for some touch, but not a physical ones, he wants a connection with someone, something that goes beyond the merely sex act.

The three of the coven are quite different: Zee is gentle and caring, always with a tender touch for Pablo; Tole is brisk and rude, not violent, but he almost seems to despise Pablo; and finally Win, the man from which Pablo wants more touch of everyone else. He can't resist to the beautiful man, but it's not only a physical reaction: Win is among the few who, seeing Pablo, are not only seeing a whore. He is actually interested in what Pablo likes and wants, and put Pablo's needs and desires in front of his own.

The story has a paranormal turn almost at the end, and maybe all the question is not so well explained. In the story there is far less sex than expected and this maybe is not even a bad thing, but above all it's not the multiple menages it was hinted in the blurb. There are only three sex scene, and one you can forget since it's Pablo's work before meeting the coven, the second is the only full and for me interesting one, and the third is more or less a making out with multiple partners but with not full sex included. So, strange to say, the book is more my cup of tea than expected.

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I remember the previous book in this short series as original and almost funny. The author decided to take two "classical" paranormal heroes, like a Werewolf and a Vampire, and pair them together; it's not here the originality, but in what she made of them. Forget the classical paranormal description, the Vampire dark and brooding, the Werewolf strong and dominant... here we have a Werewolf who by day is an antique dealer and by night a private investigator; but more than his job, it's his behavior that it's not usual: Nicholas is an annoying man, who likes is life simple and a bit detached; he had not a simple childhood, and he is pretty cautious to let other people near him. When he meets Alex, he can't prevent the young vampire to overrun his life, but he does everything in his skill to take him on the other part of the invisible line he has drawn between them.

Alex is the exact opposite of Nicholas. He is pretty touchy feeling, he likes to have a human contact with people around him... he is not the classical lonely vampire who avoids love as much as the sunlight. And in fact Alex has no problem with the day light and this allows him to be the perfect partner for Nicholas. But Alex would like to be more than a business partner for the Werewolf. And till when the werewolf doesn't decide that he is ready for commitment, Alex will amuse himself with the nice cop Doderberg, who unlike Nicholas, is more than willing to be a donor for Alex.

Again the story is not very long, this time only 30 pages, but it allows you to know a bit more on Nicholas and Alex and to have some nice insight on their life together. At the end of the previous book I had some doubt on them as a couple, since it was not clear what Nicholas wanted and if Alex was too distracted by Doderberg. This novella clears a bit the scene, and since I'm cheering for Nicholas and Alex, I'm happy to see that they have good chance to be together.

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At the beginning of the twenty century, Jack is a young Englishman in Santorini; he is following a dig near a church and he makes a stunning discovery: the tomb of a man; the burial seems to be prehistoric, but there are remains from all over the age, till the last, an eighteen century coin. The peasants are murmuring of evil, the tomb was not in a holy place, and the body was chained. But Jack is not a man who can be scared by superstition, and so he takes with him the skeleton, actually freeing it from its "eternal" rest.

Then Jack begins to receive strange letters from a man named Belas, a man who promises to Jack fame and fortune in exchange of very little from him: his blood.

The story now resembles a bit the myth of Eros and Psyche, with Eros pretending by his spouse that she never looks at him when he visits her at night. Belas asks to Jack to wait for him at night, blindfolded and naked, ready to satisfy Belas' desires. But probably Belas also satisfies Jack's desires, since the sexual attention of Belas are not unwelcomed by Jack. And even when Jack realizes that Belas is killing people in the village, he can't blame the man who is searching his vengeance; in the contrary, Jack offers himself as weapon for Belas' vengeance.

But then enters Gabriel, a young doctor. Gabriel fancies Jack, and he is convinced that Jack is suffering from madness... Belas is not real, it's a figment of Jack's mind, and what Jack imputes to Belas, in reality are Jack's actions... who is right? Is it possible that this is not a paranormal event, but only the oddity of an ill mind?

The story is very well written; it's a very good mix of paranormal and historical, letting the reader wondering till the end about the true nature of the tale. In the end Jack is only a man with a deep need of love, a need he brings with him since he was a child, a need that he tries to fulfill in everyway... Belas, Gabriel, are only tools for his trìhirst of love.

Belas could be real and if he is real, he is a man who has suffered for so long that his mind is cloudy with pain; if he isn't real, he is only the true nature of Jack, the passionate and outspoken man who Jack has never had the courage to be.

Gabriel is the man who bears the sin of his fathers. He is not a bad man, but he is too avid of fame; probably he, in a way, really loves Jack, but he is not the man who can save Jack, he is not enough strong.

At almost 300 pages, Revenant is an historical / paranormal / mystery romance... all genre are mixed together in a very good way.

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Faith and Vice are a bonded fighting unit of half-demon, half-human beings. Despite the name, Faith is not less dangerous or crazy than Vice; when they fight, the don't fight with an honor code, everything is allowed, and feisting on the dead is the normal ending for a good battle. The pair is no more good than the evils they fight, they could be consider the good part only since they work for The Guild, a secret organization devoted to destroy all the evil demons on earth. And to destroy demons what is better than using even more dangerous creatures? matched demons who relive in their bond.

Vice is the more crazy, born from a madman who enjoy the killings of innocent soul. Vice can't reason well without his mate beside, and only the soothing presence of Faith makes him an useful weapon for the justice, otherwise he will be one of the hunted. Faith instead is born from a lust demon, so he uses the lust to control and direct Vice and at the same time to satiate his inner demon. Only a crazy like Vice is enough for Faith, and only a strong demon like Faith is enough for Vice. Alone they would be dangerous, together they are deadly.

There is a lot of blood, sliced body parts and sex in not so hyginic condition... it's like one of those Z-level horror movie, where the blood is so red that can be only tomato juice and the setting so unbelievable that it's obvious that is the basement of some young and penniless director, but despite all, you enjoy the show and cheer for the main characters to be even more cruel and blood-thirsty.

I really like Stephanie Burke's books, but they are always too short. Maybe this one is not among my favorite, I prefer the more fairy tale and aseptic Space Opera saga, or the tender and involving Shadow Hunter, but it's obvious that she is very original, never happen that one of her books disappoints me.

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Caleb is the last of the Hawkins brothers to be still a demon. The Hawkins are not really siblings, they found each other and called themself brothers since all three of them were shapeshifter demons, even if of different breed. And in fact Caleb is the less "devilish" of all of them, and when he is in demon form he is not as much different, only his features change. Due to his nature Caleb needs to hunt living prey, usually wild animals, and his sexual urges are very strong. Usually he has no problem to find a willing woman to satisfy them, but one night a unexpected event prevent him to finalize his hunt; Jake, one of the dearest friend of his sister-in-law Risa, is in trouble: six years before he lost his beloved wife and he is still grieving; in this night all he wants i to reach his wife... Caleb can't let him alone, and he spends the night with him, looking after the sleeping man. This cemented a friendship between the two men and the morning after Caleb offers a job as foreman to Jake. Having the man around on the ranch serves only to Caleb to take more and more notice of him, not like a friend but as something more. The problem is that nor Caleb or Jake has never imagined possible to desire another man, and they are moving on a shifting territory. Plus Jake is still mourning his lost wife.

The story is very very long, almost 350 pages, and has a lot of sex scenes among with an interesting plot, with some unexpected turns. It's true that there is a lot of sex, but it's not the only reason of the story, the sex is well balanced in the story.

Caleb and Jake's relationship is very intense, and both men approach it at the same way: they are not gay, they are not realizing something of them that it was always there ready to be unveiled, they only happen to fall in love with another human being, and the fact that the other is a man is only a details. Moving in an unknowing territory, it's only natural that at first they are not at all comfortable with the idea, but I like their approach. I like also Caleb's way to deal with the memory of Jake's lost wife, even if maybe, he reacts in that way since he doesn't judge himself worthy of the full love of Jake: if Jake retains something of him in their relationship, Caleb is feeling a little less guilty for him, a demon with a dark past, to love a good man like Jake.

I also felt a bit sad for Gabriel (I don't want to say more to not give up the story); I'd be glad if Cameron Dane would take in consideration the idea of writing also his story.

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I have always liked the myth of succubi and incubi: if you have to die, what best way there is than due to too much sex? A succubus is a female demon who sucks your life during sex, and incubus is the male version. Usually they come by night in your dream, and the victim doesn't realize during the orgasm that he is dying. As I said, good way.

But Duncan is a strange incubus; he has a lover, a man he apparently loves, and he tried two time in the past to save his life. The third time he is not so lucky, and even if he brings the man to Pete, an ER doctor with an irreproachable record of no lost patients, this time he doesn't manage to save the man. Duncan is lost in his pain and he latches to Pete.

Pete is a sharp man; in his line of work he sees the most horrible things, and to do at best his work, he has long ago decided to not being involved at a personal level. So his day as careless gay man are far away in the past and he has no time for Duncan, even more since the man arises in him not only desire but also fear and a wish to run away as soon as possible. But the lure of an incubus is strong, and then this incubus in particular is a very handsome and big (in all the important thing...) man, and making sex with him puts Pete to sleep due to exhaustion, and sleeping is something that always avoided Pete in the past... Duncan is better than a sleeping pill and more pleasurable.

As you can notice, I took more in the funny side of the story, than in its apparently demoniac side. Even if there is a sad death at the beginning of the book, Duncan's previous partner, since we don't know him, and what we know about him is not so sparkling, I feel very little for him and don't regret too much his departure. More interesting are Pete's attempts to drive back Duncan, and Duncan easy and sexy prowl for a new lover.

There is also a little cameo sex scene with a female succubus, but don't worry, her involvement is very marginal, and almost irrelevant: and how could not be so, when Pete has finally Duncan naked in a bed, how could he give any attention to a woman? (am I a little acid in this last comment? :-) )

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Sataire and Volmere are two vampire so twisted that also among their fellow vampires they are considered crazy. So they decide to live in exile in a 18 million dollars mansion in the Hollywood Hills!

The very first day in their new home, while Volmere is giving to Sataire some heavy S/M sex, their very friendly and very gay new neighbors decide to pay a visit; when the two tall, dark and tattooed vampires open the door stark naked, Patrick, Henry and Clay couldn't believe to their lucky... and Sataire couldn't believe to his eyes since in front of him there is Clay Young the handsome star of his favorite soap opera!

All right so we have a vampire tattooed and pierced who can only reach the apex with a good dose of pain, then we have a soap opera star who has just broken with a demon lover, another vampire who can't be left alone with no one since he screws everyone with two legs... At the third book by Lee Avalone I begin to understand what she is doing: she is debunking all the myth on Vampires, Demons and co to create a crazy world where sex is the primal urge and love is the cherry atop. No one is safe from the craziness, and being an immortal being is not an assurance against it.

It was pretty funny to read a story of less than 50 pages where the two main vampire characters, Sataire and Volmere, hardly have a piece of clothes on, even when they are sword fighting with four zombie who happened to pass in their front garden... plus the little fact that Clay slept with a demon is hinted like the most normal event in a soap opera star's life.

Piece by piece, 50 pages long book by 50 pages long book, Lee Avalone is creating a very interesting universe.

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2) Sex Scene: Take One: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/396857.html
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Light My Fire by Lee Avalone is a sexy porn romance. Yes since there is a lot of sex in there, and so it's definitely a porn, but there is also enough feelings to make it a romance.

Craig is a cowboy demon hunters. In an hypothetical future where demons prowling the cities in search of human souls, Craig, a former rodeo cowboy, is now a very skilled demon hunter: how he became so, we know little, probably after a very closed encounter with a demon himself. Usually when he is called to a crime scene, the victim is always dead, deprived of their soul; this time instead Steven, a young male whore, is still alive and he seems to own a very strong power, something the demons wish to acquire.

Obviously Steven is immediately drawn by this handsome cowboy, but he has always suffered from an inferiority complex, something that pushed him along the sad path he is going along. But from the first moment there is an invisible bond between Steven and Craig, a bond that seems emphasized by sexual energy. And so Craig understands that, to reach the demons, he can use Steven. And using Steven means not only have him as a bait, but also as sexual partner; yes, since Craig sees no problems to follow the animal instincts so strong between them.

The story is pretty original, the demons are really well plotted, creatures almost from an horror novel rather than a romance. And also the erotic scenes are good, but maybe in a short novel like this, less than 55 pages, they steal the scene to all the other: the pace of the book is pretty fast, and it would be good, if not that it ends pretty abruptly, in a point when I would like to read more about the developing relationship between Steven and Craig. Steven is making a growing journey, and I would like to see how he becomes self conscious, how he acquires the strenght he needs.

All in all a good beginning for a new author in the M/M romance overview.

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This is a little strange but funny creepy tale. The Everyday Spectres are always very interesting stories, usually paranormal with a twist, for how much a twist can be in paranormal genre.

Nicholas Pardoner is a PI and a werewolf. Actually his werewolf side is not a bonus for his work, giving him a lot of problem with an ultrasensitive smell and a lot of pain when he changes. Plus he has uncontrollable angry attack when he is emotional unstable. One of his task as shifter PI is to kill all the vampires around. There is not a specific in this task, and so when he is off duty and see a new vampire, he plans his attack. But the vampire, Alex, is not our usual vampire. Actually he is a pretty good buddy and an unwilling Nicholas ends up living with him. Why? Even Nicholas doesn't know. Maybe is a pack question: Alex becomes pack for Nicholas.

It's hate and love between Nicholas and Alex. Same age and same interest make them two compatible roommate, but sex seems not to enter in the list of thing they have in common. Plus a demon is hunting Alex, and Nicholas and Alex find themselves running. During the journey they bond tightens, but love still remains outside of the term.

The Pardoner's Tale is not an usual paranormal novel. Alex is not the classical vampire by night type. Actually he has no problem with the sun light and can eat everything he wants. And Nicholas is not the classical werewolf who is more at comfort in wolf form than in human one, au contraire he avoids to shift if he can. And Alex and Nicholas's life is not glamour and easy, they live in shitty apartment, eating in cheap restaurant and dealing with bills and lack of stability.

The story is not very long, less than 85 pages, and I think it doesn't have a real end: I don't know what will happen to Nicholas and Alex, what will be their life, if they will have a life together. Actually I didn't even know if Nicholas and Alex in the end are a couple... or if Nicholas is even gay! But well, more than the end of the story, it's interesting all the setting and the characters and their background... I think they are good materials for something more, maybe a second book?

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Cade is a werewolf and a demon hunter. Thanks to his supernatural nature, he is immune to demon bites and so he is a very good demon slayer, but he is alone. He chose long ago the hunter life to avenge the death of all his family and even when an alpha proposed him to be part of a pack, he refused. Now years later he has a chance to not be alone: David, a very young guy, barely eighteen, asks him to be his apprentice.

Cade takes David in and makes him "pack", and for Cade this means treating David like a cub, embracing him at night when the kid has nightmares and giving him a blow job or two when he is agitated after an hunting... well for sure David likes the treating and he would be happy to reciprocate, but Cade seems to believe that if he allows to the kid to go even further in their sexual exploration, he will be scared by the idea to be "gay". All right this is maybe one of the thing I don't exactly understand: how can Cade believe that David is not gay? The kid likes to much what they do together and he also tried in the past to reciprocate when Cade was sleeping, and only cause Cade interrupted him, the kid didn't finish. And then he is too eager to do more to not being desperately in love and totally gay.

In the end the decision is taken to Cade, since David is badly wounded and only becoming a werewolf he could survive. If he manages to remain alive through the changing...

The story is not very long, less than 80 pages and it has a strange structure: the main story is a night on Cade and David's life, the night when David is wounded; throught the night both Cade and David remember how they met and what they shared in the past, to at the end of the night, arriving to the finally decision: turning or not turning David? And since it seems that bodily fluid exchange (of every nature) allows a better changing, the procedure can be pretty erotic... bordering in almost hard!

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Cover Art by April Martinez

Alexi is a half Irish half Japanese guy from Maui. When he was still a little boy he was frightened by the monster in his closet, but his mum told him to not fear cause it was not a monster, but a Oni, a mythological being of the Japanese ancient tale, and that he wanted only to protect his family.

Years later, Alexi is a young student in Seattle and he returns back home. After so many years, Kai, the oni in the closet, decides that it's time to show himself and he becomes Alexi's lover. After a moment of stunned shock, Alexi discovers that having a Oni lover is a pretty interesting thing, since this Oni in particular is a hunk guy with lucious black lonh hair and an hard body. And when Kai decides to follow Alexi to Seattle it's even better.

But even if an Oni is not an immortal being, he has still a longer life than a human, and Kai can't bear the idea to see Alexi aging and die. So they have to find a way to stay together for the rest of their life.

The story is pretty funny, with a lovely character in the Japanese mother, who seems not at all worried that her son sees monsters and in the end choses one of them as his lover. Very interesting also the father, even if he is only a side character without actual speaking words, but his only presence is funny and enjoyable.

Alexi is young and naivee, he enjoys life at full and he is horny like all the guy at his age. Kai is a pretty dominant character, the classical alpha male who proves himself more through his body than his words, but since Alexi is actually very fond of this side of his behaviour, I think no harm is done.

My One and Oni is a relaxing and happy tale, with a bit of yaoi here and there if you like the genre. I wouldn't mind if it was a little longer.

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Ace is a soul collector: many years ago he made a vow in a desperate moment and he bargained his soul for something he thought important. But he was not condemned to eternal damnation, instead he was asked to become a soul collector, a man who claim the payment due from the men that like him, bargains their soul.

Ryder was young and in love. During a car accident he vowed to be willing to give everything, even his soul, for the life of his boyfriend. And his pray was listened to. But his "forever" love lasted only two years and then he married a woman and went away. Now Ryder is a young man with a wonderful life ahead of him, but he is asked to pay his debt, to fullfill a request with the hope to save his soul. Ace is the man who comes to claim the payment. And he does it seducing Ryder, turning him into a sex addicted for only a man, Ace.

Ryder has to learn all the seducing skills of Ace and then lure Steven, a wanna-to-be politician, idealist and naivee, an ingenue soul like very few in the world, someone fated to be a great man...

Payment Due is a carousel of sex. There are so many couple in it, and so many forever and betrayed lovers, you have problem to take counts. And everytime you think to understand how it will end, something happened that changes your perspective and turns the tables. I will bet you to anticipate how it will end...

As in many other novels I read by D.J. Manly, love and sex not always come together. Sex is something extremely needed, like a drugs. Probably if you make it with someone you also love it's the best you can achieve, but in any way sex is primordial and instinctual. D.J. Manly's men have no problem to openly ask and reach for what they want and need.

Payment Due is for sure an erotic novel, but it has also a very original plot and so reading it you achieve two target, to be enjoyable entertained and satisfied...

P.S. there is a minor character in the book named Elisa, like me. It's only the second time that I found my name, spelling exactly, in an English book...

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In a fantasy kingdom the second son of the king is also the Imperator of an army of two hundreds lovers. Rathian, the Imperator, is a young and handsome man, taught to be strong in battle but caring with his men. Only that for him it has to be only a special man, a Custos, that will be both his lover and his second in command. Rathian has yet to find this man.

When his army captures an enemy, Stakel, Rathian is stunned to find that he is badly attracted by this man. Stakel is a Consort, an elite of men sworn to serve and fight only their Queen. And the Queen uses them also as breeding animal. No matter to say that most of the Consorts are not keen to the Queen, and Stakel more than the other since he was kidnapped from his village when he was only a child and forced to become a Consort.

Stakel is a natural healer, he has the power to heal through the energy in his body. He is not a man who loves strategy and war. Probably if left to his village, he would be an healer. Now he finds out that his love for Rathian forces him to be also a warrior. Rathian instead is a natural leader, a man of strategy and has no problem to face the role fate has decided for him. He can be a good warrior, but also him needs the warm embrace of a lover.

Even if The Vanguard should be a book on war, I found it more a book on love. Rathian and Stakel as lovers steal the scene to Rathian and Stakel as Imperator and Second in Command. Plus there are also some funny moments (take in mind the God), even if they are balanced with lightly reference to tortures and similar (luckily not described in details). So in the end The Vanguard is a book about men in war which can appeal also to women who want to read about love.

The setting is a medieval one, and if not for the army of lovers and some paranormal events, this book could be a "pure" historical (apart the plenty use of water that unfortunately in medieval time is not so common... :-) )

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Cover Art by Anne Cain

I want to be honest: I bought this one cause I like the cover! Oh, I read before K.B. Forrest, and I like his writing style (her? really I don't know if he is a man or if she is a woman), but fantasy setting mixed with demons and black magic is not my stuff.

So before reading I put the book under a test: I confess, I read some pages in the middle, to know how to expect from the book, and to decide if I wanted to read it all, cause it's also pretty long. I liked it and so I decided it would be my evening read. But when I arrived at home I found another book in my mailbox, one I was waiting from a bit, and so I read it first (it was a short novel, so I had still the time to read both). The other book was pretty strong, and sincerely as second read maybe it would be better to choose something light, and instead I read this one. And it's not light at all!

Aryazate is the abandoned child of a sorcerer in the Persia of 500 b.c.: his father has killed his mother and then he has abandoned him. He was lucky to be take in and raised by a wealthy and kindly woman, Nizami. Only there was a little problem: Nizami has disguided him as her little child, died of fever... but her child was a girl and so she has raised Aryazate like a girl. Obviously now there is another little problem: at eighteen years old Aryazate has long passed the age when usually girls married, but HE can't marry. Another problem is that, when Aryazate is angry, he unleashes some uncontrolled powers, that can make him accused of sorcery: and with the witch hunt that roars in the kingdom, it's better not to raise unwilling attention.

Kavada is a poor blacksmith that Aeyazate helps. He is enthralled by his beautiful lady, even if he sees that she is not a ordinary woman: she is too beautiful and kind, and she has powers he has witnessed with his eyes. And even if he is only a poor commoner, he wants her as a man wants his woman... but when Aryazate will unveal her secret, will Kavada still want her... him?

Aryazate is decipted like the classical cute uke, but he is not at all a submissive: he is a very dominant character, even if his strenght is not from his body but from his magic. And also from his behaviour, cause Aryazate is also a spoilt son: his mother has never forbidden nothing to him and when he sees something he wants, he takes it without asking. And this time he wants Kavada, and he "takes" him.

Kavada is a simple man. A man with the soul and the body of a warrior, but without the behaviour of a commander. He is glady to surrender without fight to Aryazate, and he never questions his lady. He worships her like a goddess and noone, or nothing, will change his mind.

The Sorcerer's Secret is a pretty complex novel, full of enemies who lurk in the shadows, and with some very unsettling twists. For someone who likes the fantasy genre, this is for sure an interesting read. And strange to say, I find that it has also a young adut feeling in it, like the classical adventure novels of the past.

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Since three years Samael, the Angel of Death, has found a new mortal lover, Daniel, and Raphael, the Archangel of Air, empath and former lover of Samael, can feel it and it's slowly destroying him.

He has since a long time (ten thousand of years) regretted his decision to not follow Lucifer and Samael on earth and instead to remain in Heaven with his brothers Michael, Gabriel and Uriel. But now the sorrow is too strong and he tries to forget all in the drunkness. He lives on earth and this is not allow for Angels and maybe he will be banished from Heaven.

Lucifer, the Son of the Morining, has his own reason to hate Raphael. Him, like Nathaniel, the Lord of Creation and his former lover, has had no courage to follow their beloved on earth. But now, if Raphael will move on earth, and will live in the same dimension with Samael, everyone is at risk: two opposite forces one against the other could lead to destruction. So he makes a pact with Raphael: one night with him and he will allow to Raphael to live on earth and maybe Samael, feeling the ultimate betrayal of his former lover, will forget forever of him.

This is a very short story and you will finish it with the desire to read more. I have the strong feeling that Fallen Angels 1 was a complete story, and this one is only a connection to a subsequent one. I only hope that Dark Eden Press will release soon the next enstallment.

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1) On Death’s Wings: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/155556.html
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Padraig and Caradoc were lovers in the ancient Britain. Padraig as priest and Caradoc as the river god Padraig worshipped. But christianity demands that all the men worshipped only a god and if priests refuse to do so, pain and suffer will bring to their village. So Padraig denied his god and lover with words, but his heart remained true. But Caradoc was banned cause the betrayal and suffers centuies of exile.

Now on the Samahin night of a post-apocalitc world, Caradoc is back to take his vengeance on the reincarnated soul of Padraig. Patrick is a twenty five years old survivor, who feels a strong connection with this man he approaches on Samhain night. But now he will be strong enough to not betray Caradoc again?

A brief novel with some interesting points. The setting is pratically no existent: it could be a post apocalitic world like our ages, like the past. All you read is about Caradoc and Patrick. The sex is very explicit and graphic, very detailed and almost all the book. Is not bad: if you want to read some very sexy scenes, you have your book. But I can feel something more under it, and will be glad to read a novel longer and with a more complete plot by this author.

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You can't absolutely lose this anthology. Three tales about hustlers, but not your common hustlers...

Wayne in Spain by William Maltese is the story of the journey of Wayne on the discovery of sex. Born in a wealthy and noble half american half spanish family, Wayne first discovers sex all alone in his bedroom. He has no one to talk with in the isolated castle in the Spanish country. And he is instructed to the joy of masturbation from a unknow and unnamed spanish straight guy. When Wayne goes to college he is approached by a rich but ugly fifty years old professor who assures him he will not forget his mastery in bed if he will give him a chance to prove it. Wyane is young and unskilled and finds in Alec, the professor, a Master in every sense.

That Voodo by Ally Blue tells us about Doug, a lonely rich amercian who lives in the Jamaican beach. He sometimes searches companionship with the young hustlers, and one day he finds Antoine, an half american half jamaican boy. But Antoine is not what he seems and with him Doug will find his ultimate travel to pleasure.

Dark Side of the Moon by Laura Baumbach is the story of Harley, a sick vampire running away from the Eliminators, vampires hunt vampire marked for stermination. He travels toward north, searching the longest night and he finds Matt, a strong man who satiates his hunger and wants to make him his mate. Harley is a spitfire, weak on body but strong on wit; he wants to live and this desire drews Matt, and Matt's sense of protectiveness.

In William Maltese and Laura Baumbach's tales I can clearly identify their hands. Maltese's joy of life, express through a joyful and very physical sex, and Baumbach's sense of caring, phisically represented in a strong alpha male. Ally Blue instead surprise me... her usual angsty tales here drift to a tale with a underlying sadness. All the three tales are well plotted and beautiful: an absolutely keeper anthology!

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Paul is a dream walker, he is able to enter other people's dreams and help them. He can change the real world through the dream. And so he helps Kian, an incubus helds captive by a wizard. But after he disappears and Kian is eager to find him again.

When Kian manages to find Paul, he is puzzled: unlikely every other human who is sexually aroused standing near him, Paul seems to be not affetcted. But when Kian touches Paul, all the sexually energy he has always denied, spring free. Paul helps and cares of people during dreams, but in real life he takes the others far away from him. He fears attachments and considers himself not worthy of love.

Kian is a thousend years old incubus but he has never really loved noone. He is warm and friendly and easy to be hurt, cause he lifts no barrier between him and Paul. Both Kian then Paul are "virgin" in matter of loving and grew together in this new feeling. Even if Kian is an incubus and usually this means a lot of sex, in Paul's Dream sex is not the main argument, the fear of loving someone else and the journey to accept this fact is far more important than sex.

The first long story I read by Rowan McBride and a very good one. Her fantasy is, as always, fresh and enthralling, the plot is complex and she manages to make me cry at one point (you have to read the story to know what point).

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Matt and Haku are two grad students majoring in Paranormal events. And they are also lovers. But Matt is an happy-to-go type, nice and horny every time, and with only one scope in his life at the moment, fuck Haku everytime he can.

Haku is in love with Matt. For him is not only a juvenile passion, it can be the love of his life. And then the two are drop in the mid of a demon plan, and the Demon, Maaya, take a fancy on Haku. And Haku is not against the idea, but he loves Matt, doesn't he?

A very unusual tale from Barbara Sheridan and Anne Cain, very different from the ChildsPrey series and maybe a little to near to the Dragon's Disciple series, but setting in the modern time. Even if is different, I still like the plot and it's also pretty original.

Haku is the real main character, Matt is in second position behind his lover. But even if we don't know a lot about Matt, I still like his way of life, and his friendly and nice behaviour, and also his fixation for sex!

A paranormal tale which manages to be also funny and very young style.

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Cover Art by Anne Cain

Samael is a fallen angel, the angel of death. He is not a forgivin person, someone who feels pity or is used to do good thing. But one night he sees a pimp beaten to death a young boy and decides he doesn't want that someone else take him the right on live or death on human. And so he kills the pimp and take the hustler home.

Daniel is a lost soul. He is so lost that when someone hold him an hand he takes it without esitation. Live or death is not so important for him now. But between pleasure and pain, Samael is gentle with him and he now wants to be with him forever, or at least for all of his mortal life.

The story is very short and I'm happy that, maybe, this is only a brief prequel to a more complex story. I have no really the chance to know well Daniel, and have only some hints on Samael: he is not like a knight in shining armour, he is a man a great hunger and easy to explode. Daniel is a simple boy with a awful life, but he has not the wounded soul of someone who has no reason to live more.

I will look forward to read more.

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Sabriel, Bri, is an incubus. He lives draining sexual power from the patrons of his night club. But one night he is lured in the house of Haydn and Karl two brothers and lovers who teach him to submit willingly to their domination games.

Haydn and Karl are not normal people with kinky habit. They are sent on the heart to teach humans but they are enthralled by the humans themself, and now they has decided to teach a very special lesson to Bri.

A very very hard core travel in the BDSM world, a brief tale which will intruigue you a lot.

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