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Showing posts with label Lustfully Ever After. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lustfully Ever After. Show all posts

Saturday, June 16, 2012

The Shameless Summer Giveaway Hop - Winner Announcement

I want to thank everyone who participated in the Shameless Summer Giveaway Blog Hop! Are you ready to do something random?

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Using Random.org, I've chosen the grand prize winner of the Lustfully Ever After and Going Down paperbacks. You can read my review of Lustfully Ever After here. It's a pretty great book. The winner is:

Elizabeth @BookAttict


Congratulations, Elizabeth! I'll be contacting you by e-mail. I'll also be e-mailing the following people, who won e-book copies of Ad-Dick-Tion Volume 2:

Maria Pronounced Mariah
Kassandra
Mary D.
Vanessa N.
Leev


Thanks for stopping by Pagan Spirits. I hope you enjoy your new reads. I'd really, really love it if you'd  leave a review of Ad-Dick-Tion Volume 2 on GoodReads or Amazon - nothing fancy, just your honest opinion.

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Review ~ Lustfully Ever After: Fairy Tale Erotic Romance


Stopping by from the Shameless Summer Giveaway Hop? Please visit Friday's post HERE for a chance to win free books!

Lustfully Ever After: Fairy Tale Erotic RomanceLustfully Ever After: Fairy Tale Erotic Romance by Kristina Wright
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

My introduction to fairy tales written specifically for adults was Barbara G. Walker's Feminist Fairy Tales, which I read while in college and still adore 10+ years later. From that foundation, when I discovered Mitzi Szereto's In Sleeping Beauty's Bed: Erotic Fairy Tales in September 2009 - my introduction to Cleis Press titles - I was very pleasantly surprised. Szereto is the mistress of combining the cleverness of the classic fairy tale with fun, naughty adult sensibilities. Since then, I've continually been impressed with the quality of erotic short stories in Cleis Press' anthologies.

An especially talented editor of these anthologies is Kristina Wright. See, for example, Steamlust: Steampunk Erotic Romance and Dream Lover: Paranormal Tales of Erotic Romance. Since I really enjoyed 2010's Fairy Tale Lust: Erotic Fantasies for Women, I was sure I would find something enjoyable about 'Lustfully Ever After.' I was not disappointed.

The simple fact is, there is no bad story in this anthology. I have some favorites. Anna Meadows never writes an erotic short story in which I DON'T wish I were the heroine(s), so naturally, I loved "Matches." Emerald's "The Beast Within" was a magnificent beauty-and-beast tale, one sure to be a favorite of those who enjoyed Fifty Shades of Grey. Charlotte Stein's "You" is sublime and speaks directly to the witch in me. Evan Mora's "Real Boy," a transgender take on Pinocchio, has wonderful heart and soul, hot sex and a great message. Wright's contribution, "A Sea Change," is exactly the way The Awakening should have ended - less sink, more swim. Less shame, more joy.

I could go on and on, but if I were forced to choose a favorite under pain of torture, I would have to say "Steadfast" by Andrea Dale. Maybe it's just because I've got a little bit of a military fetish thing going on right now (me and Mr. James Jones - we got a thing going on), but DAMN. WOW. When I write in all caps like that, that means it was a hella powerful story, emotionally, sexually and psychologically. I tip my hat to you, Ms. Andrea Dale.

I just can't think of anything I didn't like about this book, which is why I have to give it five stars.

Disclosure: I received an uncorrected proof of this book from the publisher, unsolicited, at no cost. I was under no obligation to write this review, which represents my own honest opinion.


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Previous Cleis Press titles (fiction), reviewed on Pagan Spirits book blog:

Fairy Tale Lust
Dream Lover
Women in Lust
Steamlust: Steampunk Erotic Romance

Carnal Machines: Steampunk Erotica

Non-fiction Cleis Press titles:
Seal It With a Kiss
The Ultimate Guide to Fellatio
The Ultimate Guide to Cunnilingus

Friday, June 8, 2012

Win Free Books: The Shameless Summer Giveaway Hop Is Here!

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Happy summer! Jen, Shelly and Allison at Red Hot Books have been kind enough to host this giveaway event.

The Prizes: One randomly-chosen grand prize winner will receive paperback copies of two Cleis Press titles: Going Down and Lustfully Ever After. The official blurbs:

Going Down
Oral Sex Stories


Read My Lips
Get ready to go down!

Rachel Kramer Bussel, editor of the award-winning collectionsTasting Him and Tasting Her, is back with more lip-smacking oral sex erotica with Going Down. "There's no rush of power quite like it in the world," writes Mary Borsellino in "Blush," and that intimate and sensual rush comes to life in each of these twenty-one tales. The primal sense of taking in the true essence of a lover is a powerful aphrodisiac in Lucy Felthouse's "Clean/Dirty." Two lovers dine on oysters and each other in Dusty Horn's "Shuck It." An accidental porn-viewing session leads to sizzling live action in Jeanette Grey's "Seriously." Going Down celebrates every kind of oral sex in deliciously explicit stories that will make your mouth water. Get ready to fully savor every page.

With contributed stories by Charlotte Stein, Jacqueline Applebee, Cynthia Hamilton, Sylvia Lowry, Logan Zachary, Shanna Germain, Annabeth Leong, Jeremy Edwards, Jeanette Grey, Dusty Horn, Roxy Rogers, Mary Borsellino, Lucy Felthouse, Tenille Brown, Neil Gavriel, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Chrissie Michaelis, A.M. Hartnett, Elizabeth Coldwater, and Graydancer.


Lustfully Ever After
Fairy Tale Erotic Romance


Live Out Your Ultimate Romantic Fantasy!
Even grown-ups need bedtime stories, and this delightful collection of fairy tales will lead you down a magical path into forbidden romance and erotic love.

In Michelle Augello-Page's naughty "Wolf Moon," Little Red Riding Hood herself is the big, bad wolf, while Kristina Lloyd reimagines "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" with a scorching hot threesome in "The Last Dance." Shanna Germain's "Mirror Mirror" reveals the Sapphic side of Snow White's stepmother and Lisabet Sarai's Rapunzel captivates us with her wanton ways in "Shorn." As editor Kristina Wright notes in her introduction, "the authors of Lustfully Ever After know your heart's most wicked and secret desires."

With contributed stories by Anya Richards, Jeanette Grey, Anna Meadows, Emerald, Michelle Augello-Page, Shanna Germain, Kristina Lloyd, A.D.R. Forte, Donna George Storey, Charlotte Stein, Sacchi Green, Michael M. Jones, Lisabet Sarai, Evan Mora, Lynn Townsend, Andrea Dale, and Kristina Wright.

I'm reading Lustfully Ever After right now, and it is fabulous - especially after I just saw Snow White and the Huntsman on Tuesday.

Five randomly-chosen winners will receive an e-book copy of my latest release from Breathless Press: Ad-Dick-Tion Volume 2, a mostly M/M (some M/M/F - my contribution is) anthology.

The official blurb: In this collection of sizzling hot male obsessions, feel the heat with M/M erotic stories by our wonderful Breathless Press authors.

To Enter: Leave a comment on this blog post before midnight Eastern time on June 15. If you have a Google account and I can easily find your e-mail address by clicking on your name, that's all you have to do. If I can't get to your e-mail address easily to notify you if you won, please leave your e-mail address with your comment.

I'll choose the winner using Random.org. Be sure to visit the other bloggers and enter their giveaways - you could win multiple times!