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Luck of the Irish

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Jennifer Dunne et al., Luck of the Irish (Ellora's Cave, 2005)

Three explicit novellas with a quick framing story to introduce the three. (One assumes the frame was, in fact, the prompt.) Jennifer Dunne and Kate Douglas turn in pretty durned good tales, but the real jewel here is Chris Tanglen's story "The Public Eye", in which one of the chaps we met in the initial frame is delivered a lovely young thing who'll have as much sex with him as he wants, as long as it's in public. (You can see why I've been trying to avoid plot synopses in this review; I'm not even sure that will get past the Amazon censors.) While all three stories here have a very good mix of sex and humor, Tanglen's gets that mix just right. (Okay, the other two plots, as vanilla as I cam make them: in Dunne's, a super-successful businessman is saved from a tree spirit by a witch, and the two then get flung into that kind of romantic distress where each is hopelessly crazy about the other but neither is willing to admit it; Douglas' is a wonderfully amusing bit about werewolves, torture chambers, a sexy sprite, and twin witches-in-training. There's a lot more to each, but explaining it would involve a multitude of dirty words Amazon would not like.)

I admit it, I was impressed from front to back with this one. A great deal of adult-oriented fun, if you like that sort of thing (and if you like it unvarnished). Definitely recommended. ****

IT HAS BEEN A WHILE SINCE I READ THIS BOOK AND I WOULD READ IT AGAIN...HOT!