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Romance deals with relationships, and erotic romance is no different—only hotter, sexier and more graphically appealing to romance readers who want to explore all aspects of a developing relationship.

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I've posted my review of Dark Needs at Night's Edge by Kresley Cole. This is a wonderful addition to the Immortals After Dark series and I can't recommend it highly enough. The book itself could stand alone, but why should it? It's part of a series and I suggest you get them all and read them in order to get the most impact out of them.

I'll admit, I haven't read the story that started it all from Playing Easy to Get, but I just found out it was part of the series and I can assure you I have it on my to-be-bought-immediately list. I have five books I bought two weeks ago that I have to read first, and some ebooks on my pda to read, and frankly, I don't know if I'll be able to wait that long… :-)

Life is good. I hadn't realized how badly I've missed reading!

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My Amazon package arrived yesterday with the first three books of Kresley Cole's “The Immortals After Dark Series” for my reading pleasure. I've just finished A Hunger Like No Other and I have to say I recommend this one wholeheartedly.

Passion—not merely sex—fills the pages from beginning to end, mixed up with action, adventure, and plenty of the paranormal. For all fans of the erotic paranormal romance, this is one great read!
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I've posted a new review on the website. Entangled is a paranormal erotic romance by Kathleen Dante coming from Berkley Heat in September 2006.

Ah, another day, another read.

I finished Jared's Wolf this morning, and although I liked the story, I'm not sure why (from Secrets, Volume 8 (paperback)—it's a story of a female werewolf trying to discover why Jared Rocke, a human, is so intent on finding her family and killing her pack leader).

The truth is, I didn't care for most of the characters, each with their very own ego problems, as unlike real people as they can get. Too much of the action is glossed over and written in such a way that I couldn't buy into most of it. However, the sex was well-written and hot enough to satisfy.

I wouldn't read the story again, but I wouldn't tell someone not to read it the first time.

I think, ultimately, it comes down to me feeling like the characters were all too much alike—everyone was a wisecracker and no one took anything seriously. Although I love books that can make me laugh, I don't like stories without a grain of seriousness in them. This story had none, despite the talk of revenge and murder, blood and gore. I want to care about the people in the story, and in this one, I couldn't.

More: Secrets from Red Sage at The Erotic Reader site.

I've had this book on my bookshelves for a couple of years now and I've finally gotten around to reading it—or some of it. :-) There are four stories in the book, and I've read two: “My Champion, My Love” by Alice Gaines and “Kiss or Kill” by Liz Maverick.

My preliminary thoughts are that Kiss or Kill was the better of the two stories. I liked the rawness of the emotions and the futuristic setting.

In My Champion, My Love, I was disappointed by the sex. The premise of the story (a historical tale of a woman who has been committed because of her appetite for sex) was quite interesting, and I thought I would like it a lot more than I actually did. I picked it to read first based purely on the description. I guess this is why reading descriptions is never as good as reading excerpts!

Another comment about the sex in My Champion, My Love—it involved food. As I've mentioned in my view of erotic romance, I don't have a thing for mixing food and sex. When whipped cream in one's pubic hair becomes sexy to me, I'll know I've finally flipped over the edge of my sanity. :-)

In Kiss or Kill, on the other hand, the sex was raw and passionate, and much more to my liking. This story is about a woman who wants to graduate from a military academy, but first she has to prove she is “hard” enough to make it through. How to do this? Decide if Meat (a man with robotic enhancements) should be reclassified or terminated.

Although I wasn't fond of Meat's name at first, I thought the author did a spectacular job of making me care for him. By the end of the story, I couldn't think of Meat with any other name. He's who he is and I'm perfectly happy with him as is, name and all. ;-)

More: Secrets from Red Sage at The Erotic Reader site.