Prophecy of the Female Warrior by K.A. Young

Prophecy of the Female Warrior
by K.A. Young
Pages: 160 pages
Date: May 23 2013
Publisher: Author
Series: Nephilim Warrior (First book)

Review
Rating: 3.8 out of 5 stars
Read: January 9 2014

A melodramtic soap opera from beginning to end. A three star effort through much of it, but it pulled close enough to four stars by the end to rate it such.

I suppose I would recommend it to those who like soap opera paranormal romances. As to whether or not I will continue reading the series, I do not, at the moment, know. A little too soap operay for me and I'm not really sure I want to learn more about this world.

Darkness Embraced by Winter Pennington

Darkness Embraced
by Winter Pennington
Pages: 248
Publish Date: May 17 2011
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books

Review:
Rating: 3.0 Stars out of 5.0
Read; December 31 2013 to January 8 2014

The idea of the Dracule (however that is spelled) was interesting.  Actually the most interesting part of the book. Silky, furry critters. Might be interesting to read more about them.

Overall,  the book just had way too much sex in it for me personally.  Interesting enough story/read or I wouldn't have finished or given up to 3 stars, but still. It's one of the reasons that other series I read by Pennington kept getting lower and lower ratings (5 stars, 4, 3). Each book I read by Pennington seems to have even more sex in it and/or obsession with.

At this rate, the next book or the one after will open during sex, will involve people walking around while humping each other (maybe just telepathically), will have fight scenes during sexual activity,  then the book will climax with a ...well, explosive climax.

Riding with the Cop by J.S. Scott

Riding with the Cop
by J.S. Scott
Pages: 32
Date: April 8 2012
Publisher: Author

Review
Rating: 0.5 stars out of 5.0
Read: January 5 2014

"Oh my! He liked me so much he raped me! I'm so happy and excited now!" (not an actual quote; actual quote was: "Jake liked her? He had wanted her badly enough to blackmail her? She should have been angry...but she really wasn't.")

Rape play, dominance and submission, pet-play, etc. is one thing.  Rape? Actual rape? Is rape.

Hot young woman.  Hot muscle-man.  Man with tons of strength and in a heightened position of power.  Woman in vulnerable position.  He rapes her.  I do not find that to be what I would normally think of as "erotic sex".  But a story of rape and betrayal. She respected him.  Looked up to him. Expected him to do what was right.  She was worried when he disappeared. She followed him to see if he needed help.  He grabbed her, blackmailed her, and raped her.

"Oh hell...who was she trying to fool? She just had the most mind-blowing sex of her life and she wanted this man." (actual quote after the rape).

This is a very disturbing story on many levels.  A man in power. A vulnerable woman.  She liked it.  So obviously rape is ok, right? Because she liked it this time? Fucking story sickens me.

Goldilocks and His Three Bears by A.M. Riley

Goldilocks and His Three Bears
by A.M. Riley
Pages: 95
Publish Date: July 5th 2011
Publisher: Loose Id

Review:
Rating: 2.0 out of 5.0 stars.
Read: December 8 2013


Goldilocks and His Three Bears was my first erotic m/m book. As expected, I did not find it erotically stimulating. There was some humor, and it was an interesting little dynamic. I've no real idea how to rate something like this. There was too much sex for me to rate it as I would rate a non-sexually graphic book. I can't rate the sex scenes for technical competence, pleasure to read, or anything like that. So, I'm left just marking the book "read".


Men on men action isn't really exciting for me. Why read? I was curious. I've read straight male-female erotic fiction. I've read lesbian erotic fiction. I've read bisexual erotic fiction. But I had never read male-male erotic fiction.


I would probably rate it, using GoodRead's little hints (ie, 2 = ok; 3 = like), two stars, but that doesn't really seam fair. As I would only rate it a 2 because I just found it ok. If I liked m/m fiction, I'd be able to fully rate the book.

Alice by Selena Kitt

Alice
by Selena Kitt
Pages: 57
Date: April 1 2011
Publisher: Author

Review
Rating: 4 stars out of 5
Read: December 2 2013

A toss up on whether to rate it 3 or 4 stars, answered by thinking harder about it.  I tend to skip sections where men are treated submissively, as it doesn't really interest me.  The submissive male part was interesting enough to keep me reading, so I bump it up to 4 stars.

I rate short stories somewhat differently than longer works.  I expect longer works to have depth, and etc. etc.  I read shorter works for a quick fun read, and actually can penalize if I get too bogged down.  bah, confused why I mention all that.

Ok, then. As you would expect from an Alice in Wonderland tale, this Alice was wacky strange ball of weird.  Nice elements of BDSM. Kinda expected some play on "bigger" "smaller" to occur from eating/drinking, based on some other adult retellings of Alice, but it actually works better to not see the same thing repeated in a new version of the tale.

The female submissive parts were 3 or 4 stars, toss in submissive male part and I'd probably have rated this worse since I tend to skip. Don't care about that.  Kept reading, wasn't bad, was even somewhat interesting, so that settles the rating on 4 stars.

Overall a wacky weird tale, but then Alice in Wonderland and derivatives almost always are.