Mar. 28th, 2011

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In The Passionate Savage, Signet, 1980, Constance Gluyas (1920 March 28 - 1983 August, Arcadia, Los Angeles, CA) features Flaming Dawn, who broke her people's trust by giving herself to the white hunter, Lucien Marsh, and followed him into a white man's world where the price of her desire was unspeakable degradation. And Lady Samantha Pierce, who broke her marriage vows and her social code to possess Lucien Marsh, desperately seeking escape from her gilded cage of perverse passions and shocking corruption. Two magnificent women, so unalike on the surface, yet sisters-under-the-skin in their hunger and their daring. Two exquisite rival heroines in a sweeping epic that moves from the untamed American wilderness to the licentious aristocratic underworld of Victorian London to reach flaming new heights of adventure and romance...

Branded as a runaway, white slave, golden haired Caroline Fane, heroine of Rogue's Mistress, had come with her rogue lover Justin from the dangers surrounding them in England to the unknown perils in America. Now she saw this man who possessed her being and intoxicated her with every with every excitement of spirit and flesh being tempted by the naked lust of an exquisite half indian girl, who seductively led him down a path of insatiable desire...

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First Book - Vantage Hall (1971)

Last Book - Bridge to Yesterday (1983)

Vintage Covers )
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In The Passionate Savage, Signet, 1980, Constance Gluyas (1920 March 28 - 1983 August, Arcadia, Los Angeles, CA) features Flaming Dawn, who broke her people's trust by giving herself to the white hunter, Lucien Marsh, and followed him into a white man's world where the price of her desire was unspeakable degradation. And Lady Samantha Pierce, who broke her marriage vows and her social code to possess Lucien Marsh, desperately seeking escape from her gilded cage of perverse passions and shocking corruption. Two magnificent women, so unalike on the surface, yet sisters-under-the-skin in their hunger and their daring. Two exquisite rival heroines in a sweeping epic that moves from the untamed American wilderness to the licentious aristocratic underworld of Victorian London to reach flaming new heights of adventure and romance...

Branded as a runaway, white slave, golden haired Caroline Fane, heroine of Rogue's Mistress, had come with her rogue lover Justin from the dangers surrounding them in England to the unknown perils in America. Now she saw this man who possessed her being and intoxicated her with every with every excitement of spirit and flesh being tempted by the naked lust of an exquisite half indian girl, who seductively led him down a path of insatiable desire...

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First Book - Vantage Hall (1971)

Last Book - Bridge to Yesterday (1983)

Vintage Covers )
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Sean Michael is an author that I have already the chance to appreciate more than once and I clearly remember that I liked the first story in this series, but for a reason or the other (maybe since all books in this series are medium-long length) I didn’t read them as soon as they were out. And after picking up the second one, I have to say that was probably a mistake.

I’m true, another reason why I was not so ready to read them is that BDSM is not my cup of tea; but the story of intellectual Billy who “rescues” found artist Montana (Tanny) was more romantic than erotic, even if, don’t get me wrong, sex is an important share of the story.

Billy is a very nice character, even if he gave us few hints to understand his past (foster kid, self-made man), you can understand that he is the type of man that instead of closing his heart to the world in a way to protect it, he decides to wide open it and he is ready and willing to share the little love he received multiple to the nth. So when Tanny approaches him on a street, Billy looks beyond the scruffy exterior, beyond the junky drifter asking for a smoke, he sees a potential neither Tanny is able to see.

Billy takes Tanny in, he gives him shelter and food, but not right at that time sex; sure, Billy is open in his interest for Tanny, but he makes also clear that sex is not barter for what he is giving to Tanny. In a way Billy is repaying who was good with him being good with another, so Tanny has to not give anything back. When, and if, Tanny will be interested in a love relationship, than it will be only since he is really attracted to Billy.

I like the similitude the author chooses for the word “Found”: of course Billy found Tanny and helped him; but Tanny is also a found artist, he makes trinkets from the trash, objects that he is not able to recognize as artistic pieces (a point Billy will help him to understand). In this found art I see another similitude: like for the objects Tanny creates and that he is not able to see as art, Tanny is also not able to see himself with Billy’s eyes; Tanny doesn’t understand why Billy loves him, since Tanny doesn’t see in himself anything to love, and like for his art, he judges himself something of little value. Again Billy, like for his art, will help him to understand what great gift he is to Billy.

The BDSM side of the story enters late in the plot and even if Billy shares this interest with other friends (all the members of the Hammer’s nightclub), it’s something that Billy and Tanny share only between them; their relationship is not really of the Dom/sub type, at least not at this moment, Billy is more like a therapist, using their bond to help Tanny to focus on what their future can be.

http://www.torquerebooks.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=2038

Amazon: Found
Amazon Kindle: Found
Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Torquere Press (June 24, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1603707468
ISBN-13: 978-1603707466

Series: A Hammer Novel
1) Bent: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/350305.html
2) Found

Reading List:



http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading list&view=elisa.rolle


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Sean Michael is an author that I have already the chance to appreciate more than once and I clearly remember that I liked the first story in this series, but for a reason or the other (maybe since all books in this series are medium-long length) I didn’t read them as soon as they were out. And after picking up the second one, I have to say that was probably a mistake.

I’m true, another reason why I was not so ready to read them is that BDSM is not my cup of tea; but the story of intellectual Billy who “rescues” found artist Montana (Tanny) was more romantic than erotic, even if, don’t get me wrong, sex is an important share of the story.

Billy is a very nice character, even if he gave us few hints to understand his past (foster kid, self-made man), you can understand that he is the type of man that instead of closing his heart to the world in a way to protect it, he decides to wide open it and he is ready and willing to share the little love he received multiple to the nth. So when Tanny approaches him on a street, Billy looks beyond the scruffy exterior, beyond the junky drifter asking for a smoke, he sees a potential neither Tanny is able to see.

Billy takes Tanny in, he gives him shelter and food, but not right at that time sex; sure, Billy is open in his interest for Tanny, but he makes also clear that sex is not barter for what he is giving to Tanny. In a way Billy is repaying who was good with him being good with another, so Tanny has to not give anything back. When, and if, Tanny will be interested in a love relationship, than it will be only since he is really attracted to Billy.

I like the similitude the author chooses for the word “Found”: of course Billy found Tanny and helped him; but Tanny is also a found artist, he makes trinkets from the trash, objects that he is not able to recognize as artistic pieces (a point Billy will help him to understand). In this found art I see another similitude: like for the objects Tanny creates and that he is not able to see as art, Tanny is also not able to see himself with Billy’s eyes; Tanny doesn’t understand why Billy loves him, since Tanny doesn’t see in himself anything to love, and like for his art, he judges himself something of little value. Again Billy, like for his art, will help him to understand what great gift he is to Billy.

The BDSM side of the story enters late in the plot and even if Billy shares this interest with other friends (all the members of the Hammer’s nightclub), it’s something that Billy and Tanny share only between them; their relationship is not really of the Dom/sub type, at least not at this moment, Billy is more like a therapist, using their bond to help Tanny to focus on what their future can be.

http://www.torquerebooks.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=2038

Amazon: Found
Amazon Kindle: Found
Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Torquere Press (June 24, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1603707468
ISBN-13: 978-1603707466

Series: A Hammer Novel
1) Bent: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/350305.html
2) Found

Reading List:



http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading list&view=elisa.rolle


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A short paranormal/historical novella set in an undefined country, probably England or Scotland or Ireland; actually aside for an epilogue there are only two men in all the story and they have both similar experience in their past: shunned by their parents and families since they prefer the company of men. The only difference is that Rhys, older and stronger, has his own land where he can roam at night and living in a peaceful, but isolated way during the day; James instead, barely eighteen years old, has no mean of substance on him, and when Rhys finds him in his land, the boy is almost freezed to death.

Rhys’s first instinct would be to kill the stranger, but then loneliness makes him take another decision; he brings the kid at home with him, like someone would do with a stray pet. He feeds and shelters him, but when James doesn’t want to share his own story, so Rhys doesn’t reveal his true nature. Day after day they establish a good cohabitation, but there a sexual tension underneath, something neither James or Rhys speaks aloud but that is clear will lead them towards a decision point. In a clear similitude, the sexual tension will cross path with the true nature of Rhys which needs to be freed, and that will be the moment for both James and Rhys to take that decision.

The sex that will come next will be a little awkward, no one of them is experienced and most they go on by instinct, but it will be good; so good that there will be only one logical decision to take, one that will allow James and Rhys to be together forever, so that loneliness will be no more an issue for both of them.

http://www.king-cart.com/cgi-bin/cart.cgi?store=linda018&product_name=In+The+Pale+Moonlight&return_page=&user-id=&password=&exchange=&exact_match=exact

Amazon Kindle: In the Pale Moonlight
Publisher: Liquid Silver Books (October 4, 2010)

Reading List:



http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading list&view=elisa.rolle


Cover Art by Christine M. Griffin
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A short paranormal/historical novella set in an undefined country, probably England or Scotland or Ireland; actually aside for an epilogue there are only two men in all the story and they have both similar experience in their past: shunned by their parents and families since they prefer the company of men. The only difference is that Rhys, older and stronger, has his own land where he can roam at night and living in a peaceful, but isolated way during the day; James instead, barely eighteen years old, has no mean of substance on him, and when Rhys finds him in his land, the boy is almost freezed to death.

Rhys’s first instinct would be to kill the stranger, but then loneliness makes him take another decision; he brings the kid at home with him, like someone would do with a stray pet. He feeds and shelters him, but when James doesn’t want to share his own story, so Rhys doesn’t reveal his true nature. Day after day they establish a good cohabitation, but there a sexual tension underneath, something neither James or Rhys speaks aloud but that is clear will lead them towards a decision point. In a clear similitude, the sexual tension will cross path with the true nature of Rhys which needs to be freed, and that will be the moment for both James and Rhys to take that decision.

The sex that will come next will be a little awkward, no one of them is experienced and most they go on by instinct, but it will be good; so good that there will be only one logical decision to take, one that will allow James and Rhys to be together forever, so that loneliness will be no more an issue for both of them.

http://www.king-cart.com/cgi-bin/cart.cgi?store=linda018&product_name=In+The+Pale+Moonlight&return_page=&user-id=&password=&exchange=&exact_match=exact

Amazon Kindle: In the Pale Moonlight
Publisher: Liquid Silver Books (October 4, 2010)

Reading List:



http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading list&view=elisa.rolle


Cover Art by Christine M. Griffin

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