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.
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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.