Bite by Sean Michael
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I think I could recognize a Sean Michael's book even without the front cover. It's the particular style, the writing is a flash of image and situation, a never ending flow, with a lot of dialogue and bit here and there of setting to complete the picture.In Bite, Anton is a very rich and handsome werewolf who discovers a powerful attraction for his in-house cook, Greg. Greg is an easy-to-go man, who likes the simple things of life, like cooking and making sex, and who has not many demands if not a man to love him back and possible in a strongly manner. And Anton his a very alpha male and also a strong one, who happens to be also very possessive and from the first time he decides that Greg has to be him like mate. No matter if Greg is willing or not. Luckily Gregg is very willing. But someone else is not so happy they have found something good together.
Anton is like Sean Michael's writing, an overwhelming flooding that can be stopped. He is all you have in mind for a classical alpha male: strong, action no words type of man. Instead Greg is not the classical cute omega bottom. He is open and friendly but he is also independent and clever. He "decides" to be overwhelmed by Anton; I think that, if he would want, he could overpowers Anton in cleverness. And I imagine him like a gypsy, who chooses where to stay and when to go.
Overall Bite is a pretty long book which you read in few time, cause it goes down smoothly and easy.
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Date: 2007-12-19 06:56 pm (UTC)I just learned what mean alpha male and beta one. Now you say omega bottom. What does it mean?
I hope you'll make a lexicon of jargon some day.
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Date: 2007-12-19 07:18 pm (UTC)An alpha must know and sympathize with every rank in his command.
Betas are the enforcers.
Gammas are the protectors.
Deltas are the young.
Epsilons are the elderly.
And the last ones in the pack, Omegas are those who revere and reaffirm only true alphas, thus ensuring a strong pack structure.
Usually an Omega bottom, is a cute guy, smart and clever, who lean to his alpha for be protected.
Elisa
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Date: 2007-12-19 07:29 pm (UTC)>official definition
Mmmmm....(Being moved again)
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Date: 2007-12-19 08:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-20 09:45 am (UTC)Do those types appear in same story or separately in stories? It seems like new world to me.
J.Lanyon is really good. I have to forbid you to read his books. I'm afraid if he's hacking my PC(of course not! I'm joking). So, if you find same expressions/words in his books or at my journal, it's quite coincidence, or, we just have same mind :)
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Date: 2007-12-20 09:56 am (UTC)Of course there are rules, a lot of rules. It's also a big argument if writers have to follow them. Sincerely I'm for free thinking, so it's not a problem if someone not follow them.
> Do those types appear in same story or separately in stories?
Actually I have found the definition of hierarchy in werewolves pack in a book (I think Obedience Training by Mya), but the defintion of Alpha (the chief), Beta (the enforcers) and Omega (the weak of the pack, but also the balance for the pack) is widely use in a lot of werewolves books (for example J.L. Langley).
> J.Lanyon is really good. I have to forbid you to read his books.
To late. I have just read two of his books and have in waiting reading least the three books in the Adrien Mysteries Series and Snowball in Heaven.
Why you want to forbib him to me? :-))) I have priority on him, mind you, I have found him first!
Glad to have reccomend you someone you like. First Bobby, now Josh, in the future William? you have to tell me what do you think of him.
Elisa
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Date: 2007-12-20 12:43 pm (UTC)That's why I can't get into werewolves things. Personally I don't accept boss=top and weak=bottom. Anyway, it's fictional world.
>To late. I have just read two of his books
So you won't be surprised at whatever I'll write ;)
>I have found him first!
Oh, I have never expected such a situation! We may compete for a man!(Lucky Josh!)
I'm reading now Maltese's book. It's funny and witty. Needless to say I found different kind of sensibility from Lanyon. Really, his writing is polished, so that I can guess him mature man. But I can't still believe his age!
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Date: 2007-12-20 12:47 pm (UTC)I have joked with William about his age... really he has never say me how much old is he, I can only guess by his biography... I think it a soft spot for him :-)
Elisa
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Date: 2007-12-21 11:51 am (UTC)So do I...
I know that it's quite off-topic(here we have to discuss S.Michael's books!), but I'd like to ask something.
I found a book at "Book Lover's Calendar". It's a story of Jewish girl who married against her will at 12, fled from it and fell in love with a poor nomad. She became a priestess and later matriarch. Forbidden love and action, conflict(between trives?) etc. Book's title is "Sarah".
The story has everything be required in romance novels. But what is difference between those literature and romance stories? In romance stories writers must follow the rules, and as a result stories tend to be stereotypical. Is that the reason critics don't regard romance novels as literature? Nor did I major Literature, so I don't know about standard.
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Date: 2007-12-21 12:22 pm (UTC)> In romance stories writers must follow the rules, and as a result stories tend to be stereotypical.
this is not strictly true. If you want to be published by the Big Company in their series (like Harlequin or Mill&Boons) they have "rules", but you can also write something without rules and be published by someone else (I think the paranormal genre is born like that).
> Is that the reason critics don't regard romance novels as literature?
Ahh. This is an old matter. Why thriller are literature and romance are popular fiction?
Read what has written Elizabeth Lowell, a very good romance writer:
"What do I say when my friends make fun of romance books?
Ask your friends why are they sniggering about a book that involves a man, a woman, and love. Would they rather read about murder, mayhem, and revenge? Disappointment, dismay, and depression? If so, fine.
But their choice of reading material isn't inherently superior to yours. Just different.
And if the word "formula" comes up:
Do point out that mysteries/thrillers are formulas--the mystery is always solved and the good guys win. Same for science fiction. Almost all popular fiction is descended from the heroic tradition of good vs. evil, gods vs. mortals, etc. In this fiction, people rise above their limitations and grab the brass ring against the odds.
Literary fiction? By definition (formula?) literary fiction CAN'T have a tidy, upbeat resolution. Does that make it superior because it is more "real"?
No. It just makes literary fiction part of the modernist rather than the heroic tradition. Since the modernist philosophy has only been around for a century or so, and the heroic has been around for thousands...you do the math.
Have fun discussing reading with your friends."
If you think well, Shakespeare is mostly romance (without the HEA, happily ever after), Alessandro Manzoni with "Promessi Sposi" is a big romance, Lew Tolstoy (War and Peace, Anna Karenina) is romance, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, George Sand, they are all romance, and I can go on with hundreds of name.
Elisa
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Date: 2007-12-21 01:59 pm (UTC)>literary fiction CAN'T have a tidy, upbeat resolution. Does that make it superior because it is more "real"?
Indeed.
>the modernist philosophy has only been around for a century or so
Using this words I think you're genuine North Italian. Since my true major was Medieval Philosophy(T.Aquinas etc), I can expect suchlike phrase only from Italians(and few Greeks).
>Lew Tolstoy (War and Peace, Anna Karenina) is romance
Is that why I abandoned them?
I think you are specialist of romance novels by now. I see you'll make a page for their history with chart chronological table :D
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Date: 2007-12-21 03:00 pm (UTC)ehm, I would be happy to could say these are my words, but from " to " they are words by Elizabeth Lowell (and I think she is a very North American woman... does it count?)
Elisa
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