Tackle It Tuesday {23}: Ceremony of Seduction by Cassie Ryan

Tackle It Tuesday is a meme I started here, that's a play off of a similar meme of the same name hosted by Janice and Susan at 5 Minutes for Mom.

Here at the Book Obsessed version of this meme, the idea is to "tackle" books that have been sitting on your shelves collecting dust waiting to be read. Or to "tackle" those we've started, but yet to finish because life has gotten in the way. Also to help encourage blogger interaction, which is always a plus.

Anyone can participate!! Just link your posts in the comments section!

Ceremony of Seduction

Cassie Ryan
Shelved since April 2009

WHEN DREAMS OF DESIRE.
Twenty-three-year-old Alyssa Moss has lived her whole life in the shadow of her beautiful family. Voluptuous where they are lean, brunette where they are blonde, Alyssa is convinced she is an ugly duckling who will never become a swan. The only thing that sustains her is a recurring dream in which a seductive stranger named Stone worships and pleasures every inch of her. But maddeningly, Stone always disappears just as Alyssa is on the edge of dizzying ecstasy-with a puzzling promise that one day he will find her. That day has come..

BECOME REALITY.
For years, Stone has searched for the kidnapped first princess of his people-an other-worldly clan whose life-force is sexual energy. Alyssa is that princess, stolen by a rival faction and banished to live on Earth. But now Stone has found her and will return her to her rightful home, one in which she will own the curvaceous body she was born with-and the passionate desire that throbs within it as she learns an endless variety of delicious pleasures and discovers the infinite power she feels when all her cravings are satisfied.

Review: Playing the Field by Chloe Lang & Sophie Oak

Playing the Field
Chloe Lang & Sophie Oak
Publisher: Siren Publishing
Publication Date: January 18, 2011
Kindle {p.108}
Genre: Erotica, Menage
Characters: Tess Proffit, Curt, Kevin, Marcus, Mike, Randy
Challenge: 100+, Ebook

When Tess Proffit was asked to run a series of team building exercises for a promising group of professional football players, she never imagined how sexy, sweet or obnoxious they would turn out to be. Keeping things professional will be tough, as each man ignites her desires in different ways.

Curt, Mike, Kevin, Marcus and Randy don’t want to spend their off season on a secluded ranch working on team building, though they don’t mind spending time with the lovely Tess. When a bet between the men goes awry and Tess is hurt, they’ll have to become a team to win her back.

Tess must get five sexy football players to work together and behave as a team. She finds herself attracted to not one but all five of them and them her.

Playing the Field is more than your typical ménage in that it features five men to one woman. With so many participants, things could get a little hectic. Both authors tended to handle that aspect rather well.

While the sex is rampant, there may have been too many men to get to know any of them beyond the sex. I just didn’t feel I had adequate time to learn anything about them or invest any interest in them.

In My Mailbox {53}

In My Mailbox (IMM) is a weekly meme hosted by Kristi @ The Story Siren. Every week I'll post what books I've received either by mailbox/library/store.

I'll try to post an entry of IMM every Sunday that I receive books by mail of that week.

Books via Publisher

The Darkest Heart by Thea Devine

Review: Unbridled and Unbroken by Elle Saint James

Unbridled and Unbroken
Elle Saint James
Series: The Double Rider Men's Club #2
Publisher: Siren Publishing
Publication Date: January 7, 2011
Kindle {p.174}
Source: Publisher
Genre: Erotica, Menage, Western
Characters: Veronica, Adam, Johnny
Challenge: 100+, Ebook

A forgotten lotto ticket and a strong dose of lust send Veronica after Johnny and into his hotel room. She's introduced to his good friend Adam and their ménage lifestyle, which further intrigues her. But Veronica has a dark secret she dares not share with Johnny or Adam. It forces her to live a lie and worse, threatens their newfound love.

Johnny and Adam consider themselves lucky to have found a woman intrigued by their ménage lifestyle. Even though they weren't looking for a partner, they've found the perfect girl for them. But Veronica is hiding something that has her running out the morning after the Double Rider Men's Club annual event. An old friend associated with their men's club is hell-bent on putting Veronica in jail.

Will Johnny and Adam be able to protect her from Zachary, or will they lose her forever?

Veronica meets Johnny while working at a local convenience store and is immediately attracted. Johnny too finds Veronica attractive, but is unsure how she’ll react to his lifestyle. Johnny has to share his women with his best friend and business partner, Adam.

Veronica decides to take a chance and goes to Johnny’s hotel room for some no-strings sex, but unbeknownst to her, Adam is in the adjoining room. When they broach the subject of a ménage to Veronica, she is a bit unsure because she doesn’t want there to be any jealously between the men. Totally understandable, and would probably be my main concern as well.

When these three do get together, they really steam up the pages. With Elle Saint James, you not only get fantastic sex, which is a given with her, but you also get a good storyline. With the back-story and mystery going on with Veronica, it’s sure to keep you entertained when she and her sexy men aren’t setting the bed on fire.

Unbridled and Unbroken is another good addition to the Double Rider Men’s Club series.

Eyes on Fire ~ What's Your Song? {12}

Weekly meme hosted by Amber

Eyes on Fire by Blue Foundation

ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh
ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh
ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh
ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh
I’ll seek you out,
Flay you alive
One more word and you won’t survive
And I’m not scared of your stolen power
I see right through you any hour

I won’t soothe your pain
I won’t ease your strain
You’ll be waiting in vain
I got nothing for you to gain

I’m taking it slow
Feeding my flame
Shuffling the cards of your game
And just in time
In the right place
Suddenly I will play my ace

I won’t soothe your pain (ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh)
I won’t ease your strain
(ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh)
You’ll be waiting in vain
(ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh)
I got nothing for you to gain

Eyes on fire
Your spine is ablaze
Felling any foe with my gaze

And just in time
In the right place
Steadily emerging with grace

ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh,felling any foe with my gaze
ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh, steadily emerging with grace
ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh, felling any foe with my gaze
ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh, Steadily emerging with grace

Waiting on Wednesday {50}: Dark Predator

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill @ Breaking the Spine. It is showcases upcoming releases of books that I'm looking forward to. It is somewhat similar to one of my previous posts, Anxiously Awaiting. {Button courtesy of Bewitched Bookworms}


Dark Predator
Christine Feehan

September 25, 2011

As brutal as the undead he hunted, Zacarias De La Cruz was a master executioner. Over the long, dark centuries, he plunged into so many battles they blurred into an endless lifetime of evil that hardened the soul of this merciless, ruthless and implacable dark predator.

Now his stark and savage journey is over. After a thousand years in a grey world, he has accomplished everything he set out to do. His brothers are safeguarded. Each has found a woman who completes them. And they are at peace. For his brothers, Zacarias has walked the edge of madness, but with centuries as a killing machine now left to the past and without a hunt to define him, Zacarias wonders, for the first time in his life, who he really is.

The answer awaits him back home in Peru, in the betrayal of a woman who is readying her trap, in the vengeance of an old enemy, in the inevitable consequences of a bloody family legacy, and in the deliverance of a lifemate he never could have imagined.