Customer Reviews

Lady Jaided's Virile Vampires

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This book contains the following six short stories.

4.5 stars for BLOOD LAW by Dominique Adair.
Excellent story. I chuckled at a couple of good lines. Good writing. The events moved along well. Ilsa is queen of the Shanart people on the planet Verison. They have been threatened by the Mengalors. Zane is the twin brother of Loren. Zane chose to become a vampire, Loren is not a vampire. Zane recently bought Loren's space ship. Ilsa enters the ship, drugs Zane, handcuffs him to a bed, overrides the ship's control system so the ship will only respond to her commands or blow up. When Zane awakes, she has sex with him. She believes he is Loren and he doesn't correct her assumption. She wants to get pregnant with Loren's child and force him to marry her to create a strategic bond between their people and hopefully get his protection for her people against the Mengalors.

Data:
Story length: 51 pages. Sexual language: erotic. Number of sex scenes: 3. Length of sex scenes: 3, 3.4 and 5 pages. Setting: unknown time on a space ship and on the planet Verison. Copyright: 2003. Genre: erotic paranormal science fiction romance.

Other Books:
For a list of my reviews of other Dominique Adair books, see my 3 ½ star review of Beauty Emerges posted 4-20-10.

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4 stars for BEATING LEVEL NINE by Sahara Kelly.
Fun, erotic vampire story. I liked the characters and events. Stefan and Caroline don't know each other. They play an online game called Nihilism On Line. Stefan's character can never get into the level nine cave to fight the Gryphon Giganticus monster. Caroline's character gets into the cave but dies while attacking the monster. They accidentally meet in real life and discover that they've seen each others' characters on line.

Data:
Story length: 42 pages. Sexual language: erotic. Number of sex scenes: 2. Length of sex scenes: 4 and 9 pages. Setting: current day. Copyright: 2004. Genre: erotic paranormal romance.

Other Books:
To date, I've read the following Sahara Kelly books.
4 stars. Beating Level Nine (in anthology Lady Jaided's Virile Vampires). Copyrt 2004. My 4 star review for the anthology was posted 9/11/08.
2 stars. Sizzle (in anthology Hurts So Good). Copyrt 2003. My 4 star review for the anthology was posted 5/17/08.
1 star. Harpist Bizarre (in anthology Irish Enchantment). Copyrt 2004. My 3 star review for the anthology was posted 12/15/08.

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3.5 stars for SURRENDER THE NIGHT by Blair Valentine.
This was an enjoyable story. There were some unexpected events. Toward the end, a couple of events had me surprised and a few of the lines had me chuckling. Lily is raised in the vampire community. On her 21st birthday, she will lose her virginity and become a full-fledged vampire as part of a celebrated vampire tradition. The vampire leader Adrian will be the one to choose a male vampire to take her virginity. Adrian has loved Lily from afar for 5 years. He chooses himself for her. Adrian takes her virginity and immediately asks her to mate with him (the equivalent of marriage). She is reluctant because she had been looking forward to a time of sexual freedom and fun being single. There was a good scene in a bar and another surprise I don't want to give away.

Data:
Story length: 38 pages. Sexual language: erotic. Number of sex scenes: 9. Length of sex scenes: average 1.5, shortest 0.3, longest 2.5 pages. Setting: current day London, England. Copyright: 2005. Genre: erotic paranormal romance.

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3 stars for MY FAIR PIXIE by Samantha Winston.
I loved the first half but I wasn't as interested in the last half. In the first half, Sebastian, a vampire, fed on a man who had taken Viagra and was drunk. The effect was to make Sebastian very drunk. A friend gave him tickets to be in the audience for a dating game show. The show's producer mistakenly thinks he is one of the three contestants and puts him in a soundproof booth. The girl asking questions is Jessica, a pixie. Sebastian doesn't want to be picked, so he tries to be outrageous, but she loves his answer about spanking her, and she picks him. They go on the winning trip to Las Vegas. There were some funny lines during this part of the story. They get married and then Sebastian takes her to meet his vampire mother, who hates pixies. In the second half, Jessica goes to school to learn academics and etiquette. The vampire mother requires that she be able to pass as a vampire at the next summer's Fairy Court event. Pixies are described as the lowest class in the paranormal world. Their main talent is having fun. They drink beer, throw trash on the ground, and live in trailers. Jessica must learn to act differently to please the mother.

Data:
Story length: 68 pages. Sexual language: erotic with rear door activity. Number of sex scenes: 9. Length of sex scenes: 2 short scenes (1 page or less) and 7 long scenes (average 1.8, shortest 1.2, longest 3 pages). Setting: current day U.S. Copyright: 2005. Genre: erotic paranormal romance.

Other Books:
To date, I've read one other story by Samantha Winston. I gave 4 stars to "Darla's Valentine" Copyright 2003, which appears in the anthology "Fever-Hot Dreams." My 4 star review for the anthology was posted on 5/17/08.

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3 stars for BLOOD LITE by Dakota Cassidy.
Pretty good. The ending was ok. The best part was the first part where the reader doesn't know what will happen between Leah and Erik. Leah is a little on the snarky side with her comments. Leah is a vampire, 5'4" 185 pounds. She wants to lose weight and finds Erik, a human personal trainer, in the phone book. He comes to her home and begins having her do exercises. Both Leah and Erik are physically drawn to each other from the beginning. Leah assumes he is gay. Erik likes fuller women.

Data:
Story length: 42 pages. Sexual language: erotic. Number of sex scenes: 3. Length of sex scenes: 2, 3 and 4 pages. Setting: current day. Copyright: 2004. Genre: erotic paranormal romance.

Other Books:
To date, I've read one other book by Dakota Cassidy. My 2 star review of "The Accidental Human" copyright 2009 was posted 3/7/09.

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2 stars for RYALITY BITES by Dawn Madigan.
This was ok, but not as entertaining as the other stories. I wasn't drawn into it enough. I had no major problems with it other than it wasn't interesting enough. Ryal, a female vampire, is over 3,000 years old. She had possession of a magic ruby called the Apple of Eris, which was the property of Eris, the goddess of discord. Bad vampire Rubeus wanted the ruby and killed Ryal's lover Ailig 500 years ago. Ryal hid the ruby and has been running from Rubeus ever since. Hayden is a current day vampire slayer. He is drawn to Ryal and has sex with her instead of slaying her. She believes Hayden is the reincarnation of Ailig. There are some flashbacks to the Ryal and Ailig story from 500 years earlier.

Data:
Story length: 54 pages. Sexual language: erotic. Number of sex scenes: 5. Length of sex scenes: average 3.1, shortest 1.5, longest 4.5 pages. Setting: current day Philadelphia and 500 years earlier in Scotland. Copyright: 2006. Genre: erotic paranormal romance.

6 different Vampire love stories. Each one is well written with strong characters. If you love Vampires & Romantica, you will love this book!