Not Forgotten!

It has been a couple of crazy weeks. Sick and house problems have given me excuses but none of them are good enough. I should have still put something out even if I was tired, or scared, I should have, but that was then and this is now. Starting March 1st I will resume my original schedule and for the entire month there will not be a day off, from Monday to Friday, every day all the time. And the few who are still reading, please keep on. Your support is important and dear to me.

LOVE YOUR LOBSTERS

Nerdette

Argh timing!

Sorry about the delays, will resume to normal schedule on Monday. Until then, I LOVE YOUR LOBSTER

Nerdette!

6.) Their Private Arrangement by Saskia Walker

Saskia Walker’s novella “Their Private Arrangement” is a very small taste of the world and what readers are to expect in her novel, “The Harlot.” Set in the same period, 1715, and the same place, Scotland, the story follows the romantic intrigue of a forbidden homosexual couple and the woman who is attracted to them. Morag is a maidservant and wench in the local tavern and is forced with the other servers to keep secret the amorous congress of two men which is forbidden by the Catholic religion which is ever present in Scotland. Morag is attracted to Duggan Moore, a tradesman and most recently the lover of the noble aristocratic James Grant. To keep his lovers attention James invites Morag into their relationship and is surprised at his own desire for her as well. However the tryst cannot continue as an angry mob following an accused witch comes into town and disrupts everything. Can the ménage a trios stay discreet or will they burn for their forbidden and blasphemous affair?

As an avid reader of erotica, starting at a young age, I find Saskia Walker’s work rather intriguing. Instead of having the sweet virginal female character who is brought into a dark and kinky world by the devious male hero, her women have fully realized of their sexuality and are searching for the next love or lust affair with open eyes and wet genitalia. This, I feel is an improvement against the doe eyed patron saint. I have to confess that this is the first erotica that delved into male homosexuality paired with a heterosexual woman, so often it is the woman who bends her sexuality, finding herself inside of another woman. (No Pun intended) Where “Their Private Arrangement,” is well written and interesting, it is not great, it just leaves me intrigued and looking forward to reading, “The Harlot.”

Looking for more goodies? Not fully invested on my word alone here is her website:

http://saskiawalker.com/

Have you read any erotica lately?

Have you ever been intrigued? Leave Comment !

 

 

5.) My Hot Betime Stories by Laura B Cooper

Here is something embarrassing about this little gem. I was reading this book while getting my hair done at my salon. Yes it will always be called a salon to me! I am under the dryer with my iPad tightly in my hand when out of my peripheral vision I notice a little girl, five or six, leaning over to see what I was reading. I quickly exited out and started playing angry birds with my cheeks hot. The girl was none the wiser and kept watching me as I pretended to be interested in destroying  constructions with no help of physics, while thanking the heavens she didn’t ask me what “Fuck!” meant.

            Anyway “My Hot Bedtime Stories,” is a collections of Vignette stories centering on the swinger lifestyle that the protagonist and the author Laura B. Cooper. Cooper publicly states she is a swinger with her husband and share a relationship with him and others like her in her community. The naughty night time book details raunchy gang bangs and salivating sensual exploits in voyeurism. It’s about sex and coming out during the 2012 when Erotica hit the fans, this is a nice little collection to have if you dream about many lovers on the side.

            Hide it in your nightstands, boudoir table drawers, or like me on your iPad and away from nosey nibblers!

 

Question time? Have you ever read anything you were embarrassed about? Comments please

 

If this book strikes the inner kink in you here is her website!

            http://laurabcooper.blogspot.com/?zx=c203431955966e01

4.) Anything He Wants: The Meeting by Sara Fawkes

Short one today, mother is extremely sick and I'm playing nurse!

The book was good! Really! Though it is one of the other Eroticas that came out on the coat tails of "Fifty Shades," but as  the first part in the mini series, it surpasses E.L. James!

If you read it please comment and tell me what you liked and did not like!

Do you read Erotica?

Love you!

3.) Detective John Saunders by Adrianna White

                I knew I would come across bad stories and bad writing eventually. I am not a picky reader and almost give books a first try before I decide if it is not for me. Genevieve, was book that had good writing, but the story did not capture me, and nor did I like any of the characters. Therefore I would technically call it a bad book. Yet “Detective John Saunders’: Erotic Noir” is a perfect example of bad writing and bad story.

                The plot takes place in the underbelly of L.A. when a young girl’s body is found in the parking lot, stabbed to death. Detective John Saunders, described by the author and some of his employees as a drunkard and womanizer. The story continues to tell the reader how much of a drunk John is but does not actually showing him consuming alcohol or why. We are just to assume that John has seen rough things and like most detectives in the early 1900s of America, drowned his sorrow and unease in liquor. John is also stated to be a hopeless womanizer as was the norm of all detectives, I am not sure if this is supposed to titillate the reader. Personally a cheating old man that is constantly drunk does not get my loins a flamed even if he has the very descriptive “body of a thirty year old man.” Yet I might not be the audience the book was trying to capture. As the reader follows John on the case the plot becomes predictable. There are only two suspects and the climactic twist at the end is contrived and paint by numbers of story telling. I am very disappointed. No. I’m livid that this short story somehow was published.

                I do not know the difference between the book and the eBook other than one is electrical. Therefore I hold eBooks standards as I would any other novel. When a story is to be published it goes through editors to make sure the grammatical mistakes are corrected as well as spelling. In White’s books there seems to be no middle man. The grammar is horrible, and this is coming from someone that overlooks and curses the English language almost every day as I am writing this blog. Grammar often alludes me but if it is so horrible that it effects the pacing of the story and I am drawn out of a sex scene  to turn to my husband and ask, “Is ‘cummed’ a word?” I cannot get fully invested in where the story is going.

                The other gripe I have is, “Erotic Noir.” One; Erotica does not have to have sex dripping from page to page, yet there has to be a sense of sensuality in the characters, and more than one sex scene in the entire book.  Detective John Saunders is not sexy at all! Two; Noir in French means “Dark,” literature and Hollywood used this term to describe mystery stories that were gritty and solved and involving characters that WERE NOT apart of the police force. Usually a private eye would be hired, or a young heroine would find herself the victim of false accusations and has to rely on herself to prove her innocence. Detective John Saunders is not discharged from the force or retired, he is still active which would make this a crime novel or short story, I’m not sure it’s only 25 pages long. Even if White was using “Noir” to describe the erotica, the terminology still does not hold. With only one sex scene and nothing unusual than the two characters are having sex, no ropes, no gags, no spanking or any other naughty fetishism it is hardly dark.

                The worse factor of this eBook is that I cannot sell it back.

                Ugh.

2.) Initial Kiss by Jillian Holmes

Kayla Jones needs some extra money for a down payment on a house and rather than be reduced to stripping she applies for an add to be a “Professional” girlfriend. James Madison is a work-a-holic wealthy business man with little time to properly woo a young woman for his family reunion. Madison is relying on Kayla or “Ms. Jones,” to be professional while Kayla is hoping Madison is not a creep. What they both do not expect is the passionate mutual attraction. Forced to be somewhat chase due to their contractual agreement Kayla and James must sequester their attraction in Jillian Holmes “Initial Kiss,” the first in the Kiss Trilogy.

With the popularity of E.L. James “Fifty Shades,” Trilogy, a naughty romance tale with tie me up, spank, and gag me situations and themes, other authors in the same genre of erotica have surfaced. However where most recycle the same plot with different names, Holmes’ story only has few elements of her predecessor in her own tale. James is a wealthy business man looking for a contractual partner rather than an actual relationship and that is where the similarities end. Kayla is not naïve nor is virginal as Anastasia, yet since “Initial Kiss,” the first novella in the series Kayla suffers with having little to no personality what so ever. It mainly has to  do with the lack of conflict in her situation as she has only made one big decision so far.

“Initial Kiss,” only give you a taste of what erotic delights are to come and is worth getting the next chapter.

1.) Genevieve by Eric Jerome Dickey

Can a person give love unconditionally, especially knowing a dark secret about you and your past? Could you ever look at that person in the same light after revealing a hauntingly abusing background? Can you forgive as though the action has never happened? These are questions author Eric Jerome Dickey asks in his 11th novel, "Genevieve."


Dickey is a self made author, having graduated from The Universuuty of Memphis with a Computer System Technology degree and moving to L.A. to pursue an acting and comedian career. He found his love of writing while constructing scripts for comedy. What was supposed to be a short story turned into a three hundred page novel. He took many workshops in creative writing and had even had a couple of short stories published before embarking on finishing his novel.The drive to be make something of oneself is evident not only in Dickey's life but in his novel as he paints the picture of our somewhat absent character, Genevieve.

An undergraduate at Spelman, to UCLA and then a Ph.D in Finances at Pepperdine University, Genevieve has come a long way from her roots in Odenville, Alabama. Her husband who remains nameless through out the book narrates his admiration and intimidation of his wife even though he is an Aids Reseach Doctor. He is our guide into his marriage, and his inner turmoil with "too much" love for his wife and feeling that it is unreturned as she refuses to reveal her past. In keeping this from her husband his resentment for her grows as well as put distance between them. Th rift in their marriage is tested when Genevieve is summoned back to Odenville for a funeral, forcing her to relive her past and unearth demons she had so desperately been trying to bury. For her husband, he is introduced for the first time to her relatives including the freespirited younger sister Kenya who encompasses the attributes Genevieve had left behind years ago.

Where the novel is trying to convey the sense of mystery and intrigue mixed with an illicited love affair, the end result seems to be a mess. The nameless husband, our protagonist tries to justify his actions as a result of an unloving family structure, his wife suncess, and their stagnent sexlife. Genevieve almost has no character what so ever other than a neurotic. While Kenya seems to embody more of a hoodrat than than the taudry mistress that lures him away from his wife.

Personally not one of my favorite....

A Howdy Doo for 2013

                I have been in love with books since I was in the sixth grade. The very first book I had chosen for leisure was, “Goddess of the Night,” by Lynne Ewing.

                Goddess of the Moon was unlike any other book I had read so far. Greek mythology and descendants of Gods woven into the modern times and placed on the shoulders of teenage girls who were bequeath mystical powers. The only popular books around my age time was either between “Goosebumps” or  some selections of poems by Shel Silverstone.

                Thirteen years later, married and moving into my new house, my spouse watched as boxes upon boxes labeled “Books” were brought inside. He stared in dismay as I filled our living room library with my collection with not much room for his own books. I stood tall as five feet could as I gazed proudly like a peacock at my masterwork. Addison stood beside me as well, slack jawed and bewildered.

                “So how many are there…?”

                “How many what?”

                “Books, honey, how many books do you have?”

                “Oh… um…” I paused to calculate off the top of my head. “I think about 560 at least…not including the manga and the comics.”

                “560 at least?!”

                “Not including the manga and the comics.” I added softly.

                “And you’ve read all of them?”

                “No,” I laughed at the notion, “I think I stopped reading about the time I got into college. You know, school and work, and then you proposed and then I got married…” Addison held up his hands to stop my ramblings.

                “So you are telling me that you have been buying books and not reading them?”

                “Yep!”

                “Isn’t that a little strange?”

                “Um…no?” He smirked and I sighed in defeat of his logic. “Yes, it is a little.”

                So my husband and I decided with the New Year to try something new. I would not buy anymore new books until I read all my unread novels, biographies and what nots in our library. I thought it would help with my journaling to also review them as well and choose whether or not to keep the book in my collection. Quality over Quantity. I will post Monday-Friday, reading a book a day with the exception of Sunday.

                Here’s crossing my fingers for good luck!

 

LOVE YOUR LOBSTERS,

                Truffles