TBR Wednesday: Shameless by Lora Leigh

Genre: Contemporary Romantica eBook

Copyright: March 2005

Series: Part 7 of the ongoing Bound Hearts Series

Pages: 147 (Adobe Reader)

Sensuality: NC-17

Grade: C

Reason for Reading: Just because.

Content warnings: Anal sex, Menage

Plot: What plot? Okay, foine. Ian Sinclair, the owner of The Club, an exclusive society of overgrown frat boys members who like to share their partners and one of its biggest proponents, finally gets his just desserts. Loads of previous characters from the series cameo. Probably best to start with at least Book 4 or Book 5 of the series.

Ramblings: Well, if you read Lora Leigh, you have seen Ian’s alpha male routine before. He pretty much beats his chest throughout the story grunting ‘Me, Tarzan. You, innocent Jane, who cannot handle my depraved style of Wild Jungle Love. Go back to civilization before I lose all self-control and my loincloth.’ Ian seemed a little more suave in previous episodes but I guess Leigh can only do one type of hero. The dragging-knuckles-on-the-floor kind.

Lora Leigh has 749,926 series going on currently, or maybe it’s just 12. I lost count. Her Breed Series is the only series of hers that I read for the stories and plot. All the others, I read just for the smut. I think the problem in regards to the Bound Hearts is that the formula for this series (Boy Meets Girl, Boy/Girl dance around each other, Boy/Girl do menage near the end) seem especially obvious and stale in novella form which is the length of the majority of these stories. I thought Book 8 Forbidden Pleasures was the best of the series because it was the only full-length novel so far and dealt within a marriage so that’s the book I recommend if you want to try this series. I also liked Book 5 Sacrifice better out of the 3.5 books I have read of this series.

A happy camper. Not.

I am not feeling too good. One of those stomach virus. Current reading is not helping.

I just read a book and its sequel which has one of those things that is guaranteed to depress me. Ever since I got mad when Wilfred chose the insipid Rowena over the gorgeous, brave Rebecca in Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe, I realized that Love Triangles are not for me. They almost never turn out the way I want them to which is vastly frustrating. Seventeen years later, I am still pissed that Margot picked that Duke of Slut over witty Robin in MJP’s The Controversial Countess (later revised as Petals in the Storm). Bloody *(^%$)*& ! I can feel my blood pressure rising just thinking about it. *Deep breaths*Deep breaths* (Yes, I know that witty Robin did get his own HEA later but he wanted Margot and he should have gotten Margot!!!!! They went through hell together.)

Surfing Report

This is a report of some interesting stuff I have found on the web.

1. First of all, Madeline Hunter has just posted a new excerpt from her upcoming novel Secrets of Surrender (third in the series and coming May 20th) and it’s a doozy. Click here for link. If I hadnt been already been sitting down when I read it, I would have had to afterwards.

It also seems that the cover for it has been revised since the last time I posted it on my blog. It’s now a hideous orange but supposedly the reader can see the title and author’s name better which was the reason for the change in the first place. I much prefer the yellow. You could see the words well enough and using a primary color like yellow is what you should always do from what I was taught in Art. Ever wondered why all the most famous superheroes like Wonder Woman, Superman, Spiderman are in red, blue, and gold (yellow)? Because primary colors catchs the eye better.