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Secrets Volume 13: The Best in Women's Erotic Romance (Red Sage - Secrets Volumes)

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I've read several editions of Secrets, but this is by far my favorite. Most notably, thanks to Amber Green's story, Hawkmoor. With humor, magic, and a heavy dose of sexuality, Ms. Green has crafted a story that will linger long after you've turned the last page. I can't wait to read more from this author!

Red Sage publishes some of the best erotic romance available. I have three Secrets collections on my shelf and especially love the paranormals, with Amber Green's work providing the most intense sensory and emotional reading experience among the lot. I've read romance for years, and it takes a lot to challenge me and keep me guessing anymore. Green manages to keep the romantic element balanced with the plot and erotic content in every one of her stories--she infuses her tales with an honesty and rawness I find most unique and exciting.

I read all stories in this anthology. All good. But the most memorable, ingenious and compelling was Amber Green's Hawkmoor. I want to read more stories of this unique world of shape-shifters.

This is my first time heating up my Kindle with Secrets Volume 13 (RED SAGE - SECRETS VOLUMES).

I'll admit that I was skeptical when I ventured into this genre, as it explores a broader range of scenarios than I normally encounter or seek out in my reading. I have to commend Amber Green with broadening my horizons using great writing and story-crafting skills!

I found the shifter universe she created to be fascinating and engaging - not to mention hotter than July. Beyond that, I love the down home touches that connected me to the MA character. I know a few memaws and my accent does come busting out the door from time to time, so it was authentic for me. I also adore strong female protagonists. I'll be checking out more of her work along those lines for sure.

A book is "good" for me when I can't put it down. This story ranks right up there. Enjoyed the heck out of it!

Sometimes the 'Secrets' books can be difficult to remember and kind of flow together. This one is very good.

I'm glad to see that Amazon posted brief descriptions of each of the stories so that you get an idea of what each short is about. They're what's found on the back of the book, so be warned that they're making all the stories sound good, but I didn't see a whole lot of good anything in most of them.

Hawkmoor by Amber Green was so completely unromantic that i couldn't even finish it. I know that sounds bad of me, but the story was so awful that I couldn't even force myself to finish it. I tell you, I tried many, many times. It seemed to lack any substance whatsoever (or maybe it was too much substance, too much going on), was completely confusing; I just couldn't follow it or get into it. Normally, I love a good supernatural romance, but this one lacked the "good".

In the heat of the night by Calista Fox was an okay story, but again, there wasn't really enough "good" in this story to keep me interested all the way through. Nick is determined to resist Molina in order to concentrate on his job, which is protecting her, but, typically, doesn't make any effort at that at all (the resisting part). Compared to all the spectacular stories that have been in past Secrets books, I wish someone could tell me why this one got picked.

Out of Controll by Rachelle Chase could have been a great story, but like the others mentioned so far, it fell flat. Basiclly, Erik Santos is a hottie that decides he'd like to have Astrid, Astrid kind of just says, "Why not? Okay." and they fall into a sweaty love affair. Sounds great, you say? Well, it could have been if they had bothered to develop into a couple that had real passion instead of continuing as two strangers just wanting to have sex.

Lessons in pleasure by Charlotte Featherstone was the only half-way decent story. And that was only because Damian, the hero, realizes that he has grievously wronged the love of his life, Lily. He sets out to prove his love and devotion to her by blackmailing her (strike one, it's just plain wrong) into a sexual relationship with him. She cooperates with him, coming to realize herself that she's not as over him as she thought she was. It turned out by the end to be a sweet story, and the only one worth taking the time to read. However, one decent story out of four does NOT a good book make.

I think Secrets volume 14 may be coming out in December of 2005. If so, hopefully the editors will have picked out a much better selection of stories. Normally these books make my heart go pitter-patter, but this one made me wince, yawn and, finally, roll over and snore.

As always the amazon group delivers as they promise and the book was great as well. I enjoy a good read and this keeps the attention really well.