Bloodlust II: The Taming of Serge Dumont (Erotic Vampire) [CD-ROM]

Marilyn Lee (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 2002

Serge Dumont, vampire latent, has never met a woman who wasn't his for the taking—until he meets Derri Morgan. One look at the sexy, beautiful defense attorney and it's bloodlust at first sight for Serge. Undaunted, and confident of his attraction to the opposite sex, Serge sets out to capture his prize...

Editorial Reviews

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"A super erotic read – and highly recommended for its thought-provoking plot and exciting characters! Don’t miss it!" -- Celia from A Romance Review

"Ms. Lee pens an erotic tale of hunger and desire that will leave you breathless and wanting more." -- Michelle Gann, The Word on Romance

About the Author

Marilyn Lee lives, works, and writes on the East Coast. In addition to thoroughly enjoying writing erotic romances, she enjoys roller-skating, spending time with her large, extended family, and rooting for all her hometown sports teams. Her other interests include collecting Doc Savage pulp novels from the thirties and forties and collecting Marvel comics from the seventies and eighties (particularly Thor and The Avengers). Her favorite TV shows are forensic shows, westerns (Gunsmoke and Have Gun, Will Travel are particular favors), mysteries (love the old Charlie Chan mysteries. All time favorite mystery movie is probably Dead, Again), and nearly every vampire movie or television show ever made (Forever Knight and Count Yorga, Vampire are favorites). She thoroughly enjoys hearing from readers.

Product Details

• CD-ROM: 163 pages
• Publisher: Ellora's Cave (March 2002)
• ISBN-10: 1843601052
• ISBN-13: 978-1843601050
• Product Dimensions: 3.5 x 2.3 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,771,061 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Hot, beyond spicy sex but horrid heroine ruins it, November 7, 2002

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This review is from: Bloodlust II: The Taming of Serge Dumont (Erotic Vampire) (CD-ROM)

Marilyn Lee is excellent at bringing very hot erotic stories with good plots to life. The first part of this series, Bloodlust I, is one of my favorite eroticas of all time. Unfortunately, Bloodlust II did not live up to its predecessor. I was very much looking forward to Serge's story after Bloodlust I, which is the story of Mikhel, Serge's older brother, but the heroine, Derri absolutely ruined it. The hero (Serge) and the sex (which there is a lot of and in many interesting ways) are five stars all the way....Derri, on the other hand, is about a negative 3 stars.

Before anyone says thinks that my dislike/distate of Derri is because Derri is black and Serge is white, let me put that to rest...I could care less what color anyone in the story was but the fact that Derri herself was hung up on the race issue and refused to treat Serge as anything more than a quick romp in the hay and wouldn't believe his continued declarations of love JUST because he was white and she was determined to fall in love and marry only a black man even though she was attracted to white men and Serge and his brother Mikhel in particular became very annoying after about the 3rd or 4th repetition of this theme. Added to the fact that Derri came off as emotionally crippled and stunted AND whined about everything that didn't fit in her narrow view of the world irritated me beyond belief.

As a continuation of the Bloodlust storyline, you have to read this book. If you haven't read Bloodlust I (which is part of the Things That Go Bump in the Night anthology), get it and read it first. The whole anthology is great and a great introduction to all of the authors in it and Bloodlust I is basically a must read before you read this book or Bloodlust III.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars It could have been a really great story if...., January 3, 2003

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Sabrina R. - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bloodlust II: The Taming of Serge Dumont (Erotic Vampire) (CD-ROM)

I am with the reader from Concord on this one: (I'm just glad I'm not the only one [peeved] about the lead female character.) This could have been a great story if Derri hadn't been such an irritating, smart mouth, pain in the [behind]. I am a fan of ML but I don't know what she was thinking, when she decided to turn Derri into such a headache. I never felt like she really love Serge, even by the end of the story, the love was all one sided to me. She was more than ready and willing to go find her lost love {The one she really wanted to marry} and apologize, but she never thought for a second to go and find Serge and apologize for all the wrong she'd done to him. He was the one that had to go to her and basically beg her to take him back... Honestly I felt like Derri didn't deserve Serge. One would expect this type of behavior from a secondary character but not from a lead.

Derri was 1st introduced in The Talisman. The story of Cassy {best friend to Derri} and Chandler was a very good read. I gave it 4 stars. Cassy was a leading female character that was very likable.

While some of the story was actually very good {and the sex scenes made me wanna jump into my computer screen} I gave it 2 stars because the lead character left much to desired and being a black woman myself, I was not proud of her.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Hot Sex w/annoying female lead, January 12, 2003

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This review is from: Bloodlust II: The Taming of Serge Dumont (Erotic Vampire) (CD-ROM)

I enjoyed the world Marilyn Lee has created of hot lusty vampires. Serge Dumount is head over heels in love w/ Derri Morgan, whom happens to be such a pain in the ass.
I really hated the way she would berate Serge as I was reading this. I think Marilyn Lee wanted conflict between the two-the classic story of one falling for the other while the other falls in love....eventually. I think you could have conflict and tension w/o the heroine being so annoying.

I enjoyed her previous book, The Talisman, very much. Derri's friend Cassy is a very likeable character, who wasn't wimpy, but didn't have to be nasty in order to be strong and determined.

I still enjoyed this book, I would love to see her do a story on the sexy bi-racial vampire, Alex. It would be wonderful to read about him in bloodlust!