Rise of the Thing Down Below

In His Command

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In His Command

Don't Tell, #1

Rie Warren

6 August 2013

Dystopian | M/M

368 Pages

Eat My Shorts

*Book source ~ ARC.

My review is voluntary and honest.

Eat My Shorts

J.S. Wayne
Available only on Smaswords HERE

19 June 2018

Anthology | Erotica

    430 Pages       

Anything for a Dollar

*Book source ~ NetGalley

Anything for a Dollar

Todd Gregory

15 October 2013

Anthology | Erotica | M/M

264 Pages

Flesh Cartel ~ Consequences

*Book source ~ NetGalley

Title ~ Consequences

Series ~ Flesh Cartel, #4

Author ~ Rachel Haimowitz, Heidi Belleau

Publisher ~ Riptide

Published ~ 4 February 2013

Genre ~ BDSM | Dark

Pages ~ 75

My Rating ~ 2 bites

This is the continuation of Dougie and Mat’s story of how they were kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery. They have begun their training with Nikolai who must mold them into the perfect submissives before they are sent off to their new Master.

It’s not the story, it’s definitely me. I’m just not interested in Dougie and Mat’s dilemma anymore. I don’t know if it’s all the psychological stuff, all the internal debate, Nikolai or it’s just not moving fast enough for me, but I’m done with this series. It’s still well-written with great characters, but apparently my tastes have changed. Don’t let my ennui put you off reading this series.

Flesh Cartel ~ Choices

*Book source ~ NetGalley

Title ~ Choices

Series ~ The Flesh Cartel, #3

Author ~ Rachel Haimowitz Heidi Belleau

Publisher ~ Riptide Publishing

Published ~ 7 January 2013

Genre ~ BDSM | Dark

Pages ~ 76

Too Stupid to Live

*Book source ~ NetGalley

Title ~ Too Stupid to Live

Series ~ Romancelandia, #1

Author ~ Anne Tenino

Publisher ~ Riptide

Published ~ 14 January 2013

Genre ~ Romance | M/m

Pages ~ 315

Frat Boy and Toppy

*Book source ~ NetGalley

Title ~ Frat Boy and Toppy

Series ~ Theta Alpha Gamma, #1

Author ~ Anne Tenino

Publisher ~ Riptide

Published ~ 26 March 2012

Genre ~ Romance | M/M

Pages ~ 198

Wicked Wednesday

Wicked Wednesday

Erotica ~ Mature 18+

Monster Porn Monday

Mature 18+

*Book source ~ Free on Amazon

Title ~ Taken by the Minotaur

Series ~ Taken by the Minotaur, #1

Author ~ Isabel Dare

Publisher ~ Isabel Dare

Published ~ 21 February 2013

Genre ~ Erotica | Mythology | M/m

Pages ~ 22

Wicked Wednesday

Wicked Wednesday

Wicked Wednesday is a feature reviewing two or three erotica books, usually under 200 pages, but no page limit. 

*Mature Content ~ 18+

*Book source ~ A review copy was provided in exchange for an honest review.

Title ~ Base Over Apex

Series ~ Kinky Cupid, #2

Author ~ Kim Dare

Publisher ~ Kim Dare

Published ~ 7 February 2014

Genre ~ Erotica/BDSM

Pages ~ 62

My Rating ~ 5 bites

It’s Valentine’s Day and Jack Bowen is grumpy. Even though he’s hanging out at his favorite club, The Spread Eagle, he lost a bet to Bret, the sub belonging to his friend Marcus. He has to wear a stupid hat provided by Bret all night. Plus, it’s Valentine’s Day and he has no date. Until a young, hot, naked man walks through the club and kneels in front of Jack. Things are looking up after all.

I enjoyed this story much more than Once a Brat. Ricky Douglas is a sub, but not a brat at all like Bret is. I don’t like Bret much, but since he has the best interests of Ricky in mind I’ll give him a smidgeon of credit. I think this story is a great intro to M/M BDSM. It’s not heavy handed and it’s not excessively light. It’s also not fluff. Also, the twist? Loved it! For a short story it packs quite a bit of feeling into it and I found myself loving Jack and Ricky. I’d definitely read more stories about them. This is a self-contained story. It’s not necessary to read book 1 to understand book 2, but if you’re like me you’ll want to read them in order.

*Book source ~ A review copy was provided in exchange for an honest review.

Title ~ Virgin Territory

Series ~ Kinky Cupid, #3

Author ~ Kim Dare

Publisher ~ Kim Dare

Published ~ 13 May 2013

Genre ~ Erotica/BDSM

Pages ~ 74

My Rating ~ 4 bites and a nibble

Aaron Banks has had a grueling few weeks and he just wants to relieve some tension at the Spread Eagle. When a buddy points out a new sub on the scene and informs him that said sub is a virgin, Aaron isn’t all that interested. Until he gets a look at Danny Clarke, that is. He’s hooked and he wants Danny hooked to him before another Dom claims him. Lucky for Aaron, Danny seems to want the same thing. But when they leave the club Danny surprises Aaron with some important information. You know what they say about assumptions, right?

Hmmm…this one has a bit of a twist that was interesting. Danny is right sick of assumptions and it makes him a bit pissy. But it just seemed to me that he was going to cut off his nose to spite his face. Lucky for him Aaron was more flexible than I would have been. I would have walked out. Anyway, it turns out that Danny and Aaron fit together like two pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Another great intro to M/M BDSM by Kim Dare. This is a self-contained story. No need to read others in the series to know what’s going on, but you’ll want to seek them out when you’re done.

Showcase Saturday

Mature Content ~ 18+

*Book source ~ A review copy was provided in exchange for an honest review.

Title ~ Taking

Author ~ Mira Noire

Publisher ~ BookBaby

Published ~ 5 July 2012

Genre ~ Erotica | BDSM

Pages ~ 110

My Rating ~ 4 bites

Samantha Winterbourne loses her mother and her prospects for making ends meet are dismal when her rich grandfather reluctantly agrees to help her find a job back East. Samantha doesn’t want to move near the family and friends that snubbed her mother when she married ‘beneath her station’, but a girl needs to eat. Enter Tera Carlisle, old school chum of her mother’s, and her husband Evan. She offers Sam a personal assistant job and Sam chokes out an agreement. Soon she’s taking up her new duties, but before too many months pass she discovers something startling about her employers. Taking her metaphorical balls in hand, Sam sexually dominates Mrs. Carlisle while Mr. Carlisle is away and when she has Tera well in hand she goes after Evan. Tera is a guppy and Evan is a shark. Is Sam biting off more than she can chew?

Oh, my. This is one steamy read. The steamy yummy bits take awhile to get to, but they are worth it if you like M/f, F/f, domination and humiliation. Sam is gutsy and pretty much a take no prisoners kind of gal, but she’s a little too…much, I guess, for me. When she goes after Evan I was like, “Are you out of your fucking mind?!” Wow. She’s definitely ballsy. Or has a death wish. And she enjoys pain too much for my tastes. Anyway, this is a great read that will keep you wriggling in your seat.

*Book source ~ A review copy was provided in exchange for an honest review.

Title ~ Womb of the New World

Author ~ Mira Noire

Publisher ~ BookBaby

Published ~ 1 August 2013

Genre ~ Dystopian | Erotica

Pages ~ 54

My Rating ~ 4 bites and a nibble

It’s been centuries since the war between cyborgs and humans, a war that forced humans underground. Imogenne and her people survive fairly well, coming out for occasional night raids looking for supplemental food and avoiding the Wroks. On the verge of being married off to a man she doesn’t love, Imogenne is restless. She’s not like the other women. She has strange erotic dreams and her sexual appetite is large. She doesn’t understand what is so different about her until the night she is captured in a Wrok raid. Wroks, a mixture of biological and mechanical, have been stealing women in the hopes of finding some to mate with and have children. So far all of the women who mate with a Wrok go insane from the mating. Yoevin, leader of the Wroks, is growing desperate to save his people from extinction. He knows there are certain women out there who can mate with a Wrok and not go insane, but he’s losing hope of finding them. Until he captures Imogenne. She is different, but is she different enough to make his own?

A dark and yummy dystopian erotica. What a combination, but it works! Imogenne is the result of a few centuries of evolution. She is just what the Wroks need to have children. But Yoevin is torn. He needs her to mate with all the available Wroks for the best chance to produce a child, but he wants her, needs her only for himself. Disregarding protocol he treats Imogenne differently from all the other women they have captured.

Imogenne isn’t a bad character, but I felt that Yoevin was more fully developed. I could really feel his struggle to do what was best for his people as a leader and what he selfishly wanted to do for himself. His appearance is frightening, but the pheromones and Imogenne’s own sexual appetite work to bring these two together. And the steamy scenes? Wowzers! This story isn’t going to be for everyone even if you like erotica. It’s dark, there’s captive sex, the guy is far from human looking and the sex is brutal at times. But there’s something else, too. The beginnings of love and hope for a new world.

*Book source ~ A review copy was provided in exchange for an honest review.

Title ~ A Girl in Paris

Author ~ Mira Noire

Publisher ~ BookBaby

Published ~ 20 January 2013

Genre ~ Erotica| F/F

Pages ~ 21

My Rating ~ 4 bites

A woman walking down the street with a couple of duffel bags decides to lighten her load. Something about a prostitute draws her eye and she makes the decision to give a bag to her. When she approaches the thin woman the prostitute shows her to a ratty apartment and demands payment up front. The anonymous woman pays and then explains she only wanted to give away her duffel bag full of clothes. The prostitute gets angry, but soon the two women are exploring each other in every which way they can.

This is a wonderfully written story, but it wasn’t really my type of thing. While f/f isn’t my usual read, I don’t mind reading stories with woman on woman and the steamy parts are definitely steamy. The part that’s not really my thing is the introspection that goes on. In other words, this story was too deep for me. I know, I’m shallow, but I love me anyway. *winks*

Wicked Wednesday

Mature ~ 18+

*Book source ~ Picked up for free on Amazon.

Title ~ Yes, Sir

Author ~ Ellis Carrington

Publisher ~ Ellis Carrington

Published ~ 6 July 2013

Genre ~ Erotica | M/M 

Pages ~ 34

My Rating ~ 5 bites

Grayson Harper is on a long overdue vacation in New Orleans with his two best friends, Jerry and Cornelia. When Cornelia is laid low with a migraine, Jerry drags Gray to a voodoo priestess for a love spell. Gray thinks it’s a waste of time, but Jerry persists until Gray gives in. However, after the visit to the so-called priestess he starts having the most vivid dreams where he submits to a yummy Dominant man. What.The.Hell?!

Oh. My. This is one delicious short story. Gray is used to being in charge. He works all the time building his business into the success it is today, but his love life sucks. When he needs to scratch the itch he hooks up with his ex, but he has no time for a relationship. The love spell introduces Gray to a Dominant man who comes to him in his dreams and each night’s dream is even better than the one before. The dreams are so real he has marks on his body when he wakes up. He wants, needs, must find the man who comes to him in his sleep and introduces him to a side he never knew he had. I love, love, love the ending. What? You think I’m going to tell you what happens? Ha!

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Title ~Real Vampires Don't Sparkle

Author ~ Amy Fecteau

Published ~ 9 June 2013

Genre ~ Paranormal

Pages ~ 386

My Rating ~ 2 bites and a nibble out of 5

Mysterious 28-yr-old Matheus Taylor is living his life they way he wants when he is abruptly murdered. Quin, a 1700-yr-old vampire uses Matheus to get an artifact then callously murders him in a filthy alley. Well, technically Quin turned Matheus into a vampire, but in order to do that he had to kill Matheus first. And Matheus never lets Quin forget that he was murdered and turned against his will. However, Matheus has a little problem. He’s attracted to Quin even though he swears he’s not gay. So, not only does he have to get used to a new way of living, he has to confront things about himself he’s buried deeper than the Mariana Trench. While he alternates burying his head in the sand and reaching self enlightenment the vampire world is under attack and his past comes back with a vengeance. Will he, Quin and their friends survive the war to come?

The title drew me in because I am so not a fan of that crap that is Twilight. After reading the blurb I figured this would be a good vampire story to, um, sink my teeth into. And to a point, it is. I love the humor and snarkiness in this story. Whenever Matheus isn’t whining like a little girly baby he is pretty damn funny. Quin is sexy and a saint to put up with him. Honestly I both hated and loved Matheus. I can’t decide if he was more annoying or more entertaining. He may have the distinction of being the only character I’ve ever read that is 50/50 with me. When he’s being a snarky smartass I love him. His observations and the way he interacts with his world is so entertaining that when he’s being unreasonably stubborn, digging in his heels only to be contrary and whining, whining, whining it kills me that I just can’t stand him.

The writing is very good and the plot flows fairly smoothly with only a few bumps in the road, but what really did it in for me is the abrupt ending. It was like how I feel when I ride a roller coaster. I’m going up, up, up, clankityclankityclank, I’m cresting the hill and then…whoosh! Right over the top and dropping straight down. Only with this book, that was it. The drop and then nothing. The end. Where’s the end?! I was massively confused. And mad. It was only after I looked around on the internet to see what was up that I realized the book in my hands was only a portion of the story. It’s apparently only Volume One and I didn’t see that at the bottom of the blurb. It doesn’t say so in the title. I loathe abrupt endings. If I had known the whole story wasn’t out there yet I would have waited. Now, I can go to the website and read a new chapter every Sunday (there are now 41 additional chapters from where my book stopped), but I don’t have time for that and I have no idea when it will be done. So, I’ll wait until the book is truly done, complete, fini before I go back to it. 

I also need to mention the editing in this one needs some work. A few mistakes I can ignore, but constant mistakes need to be mentioned. The biggest problems were missing or duplicated words. If a fine tooth comb was used then a finer toothed one is needed.

Title ~ Fractured Earth

Series ~ The Actuator, #1

Author ~ James Wymore, Aiden James

Published ~ 13 August 2013

Genre ~ Sci-Fi

Pages ~ 278

My Rating ~ 4 bites out of 5

Red McLauren is a Key Hunter and when he’s told to escort a group of Machine Monks out to survey some rocks when The Actuator is getting ready to fire up an event he’s uneasy. Something feels off and when the event happens and everything goes haywire he ends up being a leader even if he doesn’t feel like one. Someone has sabotaged the dampeners and the entire world has changed and not for the better. Eighteen confirmed Machine Monks created pockets of alternate realities and four more unconfirmed means the world is in chaos and people are dying by the millions, possibly by the billions. Those from the base are the only ones who know what happened and they need to put the world back before humanity is wiped out. A task easier stated than done.

I can’t recall having read a book that has a machine that can alter reality in the physical sense. I mean, completely change the world into whatever reality parameters the person has selected. The Machine Monks are addicted to the Actuator and get a high from when it substitutes reality for their own. Each Monk has a favorite genre, be it horror, steampunk, historical romance, paranormal, fantasy, sci-fi, etc, so when they feed 20 or so fantasies into the Actuator and the dampeners (which restrict the change to a small testing area) fail those fantasies become realities all over the world. It’s chaos and death. The thought of having to find the keys in each reality in order to change it back exhausted me and I wasn’t even one of the people doing the rescuing. :D

Well-written and fast moving the story made me feel as if I was really there. The characters are great even the ones I wanted to bash over the head, but I have to say that I love Red best. There’s something about a reluctant hero, one who never really thought it would come down to him that I really like and Red is very likeable. The multiple POVs really help with the vast scope of the story and make the experience just that more rich. The thought of the world being carved into different sections of fantasies made real just boggles my mind. It got me thinking…if I was a Machine Monk, what would my slice of the world be like? Uh, oh…I have a feeling it would be a very naughty world indeed. *fans self* All-in-all a solid sci-fi adventure.