Review: Wallbanger (or, For God's Sake, This is twific too???)

Wallbanger by Alice Clayton
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Someone HAS to start telling me when I'm reading fanfic.  Especially Twilight fanfic.

A friend recommended this to me (waves), I checked out the sample from Amazon, it looked like fun, so I read it.  And then found out it was P2P fanfic.  I've said it before with other books, and I'll say it again - I feel like Eric Cartman:



So, without talking about the fanfiction angle, let me just say this about the book:

It was funny.  Laugh out loud funny in parts, trying-too-hard to be funny in others.
It had great bicker/banter.  She called him "Wallbanger", he called her "Cockblocker".
It had great tension.  For the first 1/2 of the book.  Then it just dragged on too long, IMHO.
It had some great sex in it.  'Nuff said about that.
It seemed like a pretty true portrayal of late 20-somethings.  Or, at least how I remember late 20-somethings being.  On an episode of Friends.

Overall I'd have to say I liked it.  It was a fun read, even if it dragged on a little long, with a of other things that that brought my rating down.  A Guest Reviewer at Dear Author reviewed this book the other day.  She says things way better than I can, so here's the link to it (and if you read the comments there's an interesting discussion starting about fanfiction):

http://dearauthor.com/book-reviews/ov...



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I can't stop buying shoes

I feel like Gollum. "Yesssssssss, my pretties, my precious....."


Ordering 3 pair at one time is perfectly acceptable, NAY, dare I say REQUIRED behaviour when our winter has lasted now for 7 months with no signs of going away.

If I order open-toed shoes and sandals spring MUST come, right?

A tattooed, pierced, goateed hunk of hotness...

Leave Me Breathless by Cherrie Lynn
My rating: 5 of 5 stars


My secret thing (or not so secret, depending who you talk to) is that I've always loved bad boys.  On tv, in movies, in books, in my head...my only stipulation has always been that they're never as bad as they LOOK like they are.

Lately the best place to find men like this is in contemporary romance/erotica.  You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a tattooed, pierced, goateed hunk of hotness with a gravelly voice and an ability to screw you absolutely senseless.

So without further ado, let's meet Seth, or "Ghost", as his friends call him.  He's a tattoo artist, musician in a death metal band, covered in ink and carrying a whole bunch of baggage.  The requisite gravelly voice and supernatural sexxing ability is there (in SPADES, I might add) and with a restored '69 GTO and very interesting piercing I would like to have Ghost all to myself.

Macy, his love interest, is almost the perfect foil for him.  Yin to his yang, so to speak.  I don't think they would ever be able to go to a concert together, but hey, my husband doesn't like Depeche Mode and I still married him.

The writing is good, the sex is steamy and the H/h are realistic - not much more a girl can ask for when looking for an entertaining way to spend a Saturday afternoon!

I usually read historical romances where an HEA is the standard.  It takes a bit of getting used to when switching to something closer to erotica  - the endings are more of a "Happy For Now".  This is the first book I've read by this author and based on this one I'm going to go snag her backlist.  This title is the third of a series, it seems.  Another bonus - a series entry that reads like a stand alone!

Thanks to my friend Catherine for a truly great recommendation -- we really should read these kinds of books more often!  ;D


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