Take the Heat ... Anthology

Take the Heat (anthology)

Skye Warren, Giselle Renarde
Pam Godwinm, Sheri Savill
Shoshanna Evers, Candy Quinn
Tamsin Flowers, Elizabeth Coldwell 
Audrey Lusk, Cynthia Rayne, Trent Evans

Contemporary/Erotica (non-con/mm/menage)
Published in 2014

Read in Sept, 2014.

My rating:

                                                 [might be spoiler-ish]

“The Magnolia Hotel”, Skye Warren

H/h - Liam/Grace
Setting: Present time.

I’ve read Skye Warren’s novella “The Magnolia Hotel” and have to say quite disappointed. It’s barely 19 pages so there’s nothing much to talk about.

Grace, a budding artist, goes to free her good-for-nothing big brother from the local gang and ends up finding a part of her past that she thought she had long buried. The first man she had ever loved, secretly, had to be the one to whom her brother owns a huge sum! Grace is then faced with a new (and tempting) challenge from Liam. She knows it’s not right, yet she can’t deny the pull between them no matter what. Question is, will she give in or walk away?

Honestly, this just read like an excerpt. I did think the story was pretty good (or was getting to the good part) when it ends abruptly. I’d really love to see this expanded to something longer. 3 stars.

FYI: Since I haven’t read the other stories, the rating is based on “The Magnolia Hotel”. Obviously, this review will not be helpful for everyone. I’ll check out a few other authors gradually. Rating may change after that! Review will be updated in this space.

Beauty and the Beast by Shoshanna Evers

Beauty and the Beast: An Erotic Re-imagining (novella)

Shoshanna Evers
Fantasy/Fairytale/Erotica (light BDSM)
Published in 2014

H/h - The Beast (Prince Frederick)/Belle
Setting: Fantasyland.

Read in March, 2014.

My rating:

                                             [spoiler alert]

Beauty and the Beast was my first Shoshanna Evers book, an erotic re-telling of the fairytale. I was very interested to read this one because, even though, I had read couple of erotic re-tellings in the past, none were centered around BDSM. Unfortunately, I was rather disappointed in this one.

After his father the King’s death, Prince Frederick is cursed by his stepmother, a witch, and transforms into a beast. The price of his freedom is ‘love’; someone will have to fall in love with his hideous beastly form. Thinking all hope is not lost, Frederick runs to his ‘beloved’, Nadine, a village girl, with whom he’d just had a tryst before returning home. But alas, she doesn’t recognize him (his eyes were still Frederick’s very human, very beautiful green eyes) at all. Afterwards, Frederick becomes resigned to his fate and in this hellish living. Frederick/The Beast’s stepmother leaves him in his father’s castle, no one but the castle itself to look after him. He’s abandoned, alone, not knowing if he’ll ever become human again.

Book Blast and Giveaway: Beauty and the Beast by Shoshanna Evers

The book blast of Shoshanna Evers's Beauty and the Beast (an erotic re-imagining) is taking place today. Find all the necessary information about the book and the author, and an excerpt in this post. In the meantime, also check out the giveaway (enter via rafflecopter below).

 

Shoshanna Evers will be awarding a signed paperback of Beauty and the Beast (US ONLY)+a $10 Amazon or Nook GC to a randomly drawn commenter, and an electronic copy of the book to six randomly drawn commenters during the tour.

Beauty and the Beast 

(an erotic re-imagining)

Shoshanna Evers

From bestselling erotica author Shoshanna Evers comes an erotic re-imagining of the classic fairytale, Beauty and the Beast.

With her father’s freedom at stake, Belle agrees to be the fearsome Beast’s prisoner in his enchanted castle. Held as his willing captive, Belle must submit to the Beast’s most primal desires to survive.

The Beast can’t let his little Beauty go free, not while there’s still hope that she might be the one to end his decade-long curse…and with true love’s kiss, return him to the Prince he once was.

Their story is one that begins with imprisonment—he in his monstrous body, she in a dungeon—but without this predicament, Beauty would never have met the Beast.

So we shall begin with what occurred on that fateful night when everything changed: when a lover was betrayed, a man deformed, and a castle shrouded in an enchantment…

Buy Links:
Amazon | Amazon UK | B&N | iBooks | Smashwords 

Book Blast and Giveaway: The Pulse by Shoshanna Evers

Book Bast of The Pulse by Shoshanna Evers is happening today as is the pub date for the book. Take a look at the following post which contains the book and author info, an excerpt and a giveaway (enter via rafflecopter below!).

Shoshanna Evers will be awarding a $50 GC for either Amazon or B&N to a randomly drawn commenter during the tour. 

 

The Pulse

Shoshanna Evers

(The Pulse Trilogy #1)

 

Book One in the heart-pounding Pulse Trilogy—a gripping erotic romance set in post-apocalyptic New York City one year after an electromagnetic pulse destroys America’s power grid. "Intense, exciting, and sizzlingly sexy—a perfect post-apocalyptic romance!" (Heather Thurmeier, bestselling author of Escape to My Arms and Stuck on You)

Emily Rosen lives in a military camp at Grand Central Station, where women sell their bodies to soldiers for extra rations. When she discovers a dark secret—that America is rebuilding outside of New York City, and everything the city’s refugees have been told is a lie—she escapes, the soldiers hot on her heels…

But Christopher Mason, a convict who broke out of prison after the Pulse, finds Emily first. Although he’s survived this long on the streets by looking out only for himself, Emily is beautiful, alluring, and impossible to leave behind.

Now Emily must convince this intimidating, magnetic stranger to be her guide as they journey out of New York and into the unknown. She’ll barter with her body, but sex with Mason can never be currency—it’s pure passion, and everything she desires. Despite the crumbling world around them, can Emily and Mason discover true love blooming in the darkest of places?