book slut

[saffronhare]

I have read five books in the first quarter of this year, which just about matches my total for all of 2005. Go me.

What I've figured out is that smut is very motivating -- the Merry Gentry books have accounted for four out of the five so far this year. Sure, I could aim for scholarship or lit'ratchure. But, for now, books that get me hot and bothered are just fine. :)

Thanks, chaosdruid for supporting this endeavor with your loan of books. I started by re-reading books one and two (like ya do), but was baffled reading Stroke of Midnight. Stuff just seemed missing, scenes I'd remembered quite vividly. Only they weren't there when I went back to book two again. This resulted in a great deal of teasing about my vivid fantasy life from agrnmn (who has now also read them, and liked them). Huh. Seems there's a book between those two, which I now own. Let me know if you need it?

Next on the list are a good re-read of the Kushiel's Dart series, and finding something loaned to me a few years ago that also had fabulous sex in it. ::whistles to self::

UPDATE: Right. Elizabeth Haydon -- Rhapsody, Prophecy, Destiny. A trilogy, natch.

Comments

[capriciouslass.livejournal.com]

No, giving them to you out of order was a brain fart on my part. I do have all 4, but since you only requested the first 3 I rather thought you had the 4th. Then I gave you the wrong ones. Erk. Sorry about that.

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

No sweat. I didn't own any of them, so it was a win no matter what. Now, I own one. :)

[akaashben.livejournal.com]

I LOVE the Merry Gentry books! They are some of my favorite books in the last few years.

I also love her (Laurell K. Hamilton's) Anita Blake series. The series starts out more sensual than sexual, but the heat definitely rises (among other things) as you keep going along. The first couple books in that series are (in order) Guilty Pleasures, Laughing Corpse, Circus of the Damned and Bloody Bones.

Yah, they all sound pretty gruesome (and they do have their moments) and, as you say, they aren't exactly literature, but they are certainly well written and entertaining.

Another series that has lots of good sex in it is Anne Rice's Sleeping Beauty trilogy: The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Beauty's Punishment and Beauty's Release (all written under her pseudonym A. N. Roquelaure). They are not for the feint of heart, as they do have a fairly graphic BDSM and D/s bent to them - so if you're not into that or don't care to explore it, they may not be for you. And while I'm not into that in real life, they were damn sexy and I enjoyed them thoroughly.

thank you!

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

I've heard good things about the Anita Blake stories, so I bet they'll be on the docket soon (especially since I know folks who have a lot of them!).

As for the Sleeping Beauty books? They're in my library, but aren't quite my cup o'tea. Way too much of the Anne Rice exposition. Oh, yeah. And the weeping. I can't stand quite so much weeping, even if the sex scenes are extraordinary. :)

Re: thank you!

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

You may as well start on the Anita Blake books - we have most of them, and orcjohn has the rest. Then, you too can be constantly informed on the state of Jean-Claude's nipples!

Seriously, they're really bad, and yet somehow compelling.

[sxypaganmom.livejournal.com]

I will so have to check out the Anne Rice series, that whole series sounds very interesting, bent and all thanks for the tip.