End of April

I can't believe the month of April is over already! Where the hell did it go so damn fast? I just looked at my list of reading for the month and its pathetic! Not the books I read - those were good, but the AMOUNT of reading I did is pathetic compared to other months for me. I only completed 7 books - but they were GOOD ONES!

I read my first M/M novel "The Assignment" by Evangeline Anderson and simply loved it! I then read "A Hunger Like No Other" by Kresley Cole, thus beginning my love of that series (I've got the 2nd book waiting for me to get to in May). I also jumped into Lori Leigh's 'Breeds' book series by reading "Soul Deep" (PHENOMENAL) and "Tempting the Beast"- HOT, HOT, HOT series. I read one historical romance by Lisa Valdez called "Passion" and loved that one too! Then I read Cheryl Brooks "Rogue" (another series that I love- do you see a pattern here?) and one menage book (left over from March Menage Month) by Lora Leigh "Wicked Sacrifice".

So while the amount of books I read was lacking compared to previous months, I made up for it in quality. These books were great reads and ALL keepers on my book shelf!

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Some new hotties for your viewing pleasure... *grin*

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It's Hump Day!

Happy Hump Day everyone! First, I'd like to again thank author Kendra Leigh Castle for being my guest blogger yesterday. Then I'd like to thank everyone for stopping by and making Kendra feel welcome. You ladies are the best! Thank you!

If you haven't check out Kendra's final comments from this morning here's part of what she said (for all her comments see yesterdays post)...

"Okay, everyone, with the assistance of my lovely nine-year-old daughter (I snagged her to pick from the hat), we have a winner. And it is...*drumroll*sarabelle! Please write me at kendraleighcastle@yahoo.com with your address so I can get your prize to you! Thanks again, everyone who came over to chat yesterday. You all were so much fun! And thank you Ms. Moonlight, for the invite. This was great:-)"


Congrats to "sarabelle"!!!


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So is everyone currently reading "Lover Avenged" by JR Ward? I am holding off till this weekend so I have NO interruptions once I get my greedy hands on it. Plus, I know if I read it now and post my review no one will want to read it (my review) because it might contain spoilers, so I am going to wait till the rest of you read it first! LOL


But in honor of yet another BDBH book being released, I've got a new BDBH poll on the blog! So be sure to cast your votes!


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Today's Hump Day Hunks!

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Guest Blogger: Kendra Leigh Castle

Hey everyone! Today I am happy to turn my blog over to author Kendra Leigh Castle! I read her "Wild Highland Magic" book as an ARC a few months ago and loved it! My review for it is coming up in May.



I'll shut up now and let Kendra share her thoughts on werewolves!

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~Kendra Leigh Castle...



It’s All About the Werewolves

I guess I’ll just get this out of the way up front: I was totally Team Jacob.

Now, if you know what I’m talking about (and put down those rotten vegetables, Team Edward!), you’ve been through the saga of Edward Cullen and Bella Swan. Edward, as I think everyone on Earth now knows, is a hottie vampire madly in love with an unusual human teenage girl. And Jacob…well, he’s her werewolf best friend who kind of fruitlessly pines for her. We won’t talk about what ultimately happens with him. It’s weird. Not bad, just weird. But that doesn’t matter. In fact, the only reason I bring it up is because Jacob, wild and loving, protective and larger than life, is illustrative of why I write what I do.

Yeah. I love me some werewolves.

The third book in my paranormal romance trilogy about a pack of Highland Scottish werewolves, Wild Highland Magic, is about to come out, and I’ve had a great time writing about what I think is the less-appreciated of the two major creatures of the night. I’ll grant you, I love a good vampire story as much as anyone. I mean, what’s not to like?
They’re pale, beautiful, incredibly strong specters who ooze dark romance and sex appeal. But something about werewolves, the rough and earthy shapeshifters as much animal as man, drew me to choose them as my heroes (and now, heroine).

My first two heroes, Gideon and Gabriel MacInnes, are big, dark-haired Scotsmen with golden eyes and killer smiles. They have a strong sense of family/pack loyalty, and are sometimes more comfortable in their furrier skins than their human ones. They embrace what they are, and that ease with themselves is, to me, very sexy. Also, they’re not afraid to let their wilder side take over when the situation meritsJ This time around, though, I had a heroine who wasn’t as comfortable with her animal nature.

Catriona MacInnes has always felt like a freak of nature. With a mother who’s a witch and a father who’s a werewolf, she would have felt odd enough, but her father has always insisted that he was orphaned and knows nothing of his family, which only adds to her sense of otherness. However, when her father takes ill and starts acting strangely, he finally reveals the truth: he’s the brother of the leader of a large pack of Highland werewolves. And for whatever reason, he’s decided that it’s finally time to return to his home, and to take his girls with him to experience the annual pack gathering. It’s an eye-opening experience for Cat, not having anyone bat an eye at her in whichever form she chooses, and openly enjoying being werewolves. She’s untrained, but strong, and when Cat meets a mysterious stranger staying on the grounds, all of the heightened senses she’s spent her life trying to suppress kick in. Werewolves know what they want when they want it, and it was great fun bringing Cat into the MacInnes pack with a bang. She has a lot more in common with her cousins than she at first realizes (an enormous stubborn streak, among other things), and Cat’s earthy, sensual nature comes out in full force whenever she’s around Bastian an Morgaine, an otherworld sorcerer with some major problems of his own. Otherworld, you ask? Yes, my werewolves are also the guardians of the Stone of Destiny, a relic that acts as a door to the realm of Coracin, where their people originally came from. That place is full of blood-drinking demigoddesses, shapeshifting dragons, monstrous daemon, and lots of other interesting creatures…as well as dark magic that can haunt a man until his death, if he doesn’t learn how to defeat it.

I’ll always have a place in my heart for the vampires…in fact, Bastian has to drink blood to maintain his power, though he’s not technically a vampire…but I’ve really enjoyed playing with the big, powerful, sexy, and yes, sometimes furry MacInneses these last couple of years. Putting a feminine spin on my take on the werewolf legend this time around was a great way to cap off the trilogy.

Thanks so much for having me here today! Hope you’ll check out Wild Highland Magic, as well as the other books in the MacInnes Werewolves trilogy (Call of the Highland Moon and Dark Highland Fire). I’ll be around to chat all day, so please pop in and say hi! I’ll also be giving away a copy of Wild Highland Magic to one lucky commenter chosen at random, and will announce the winner in the comments section tomorrow morning. So tell me, what’s your preference? Weres or vamps?

-Kendra

Kendra Leigh Castle is the author of the MacInnes Werewolves trilogy, as well as the upcoming series The Fallen, coming from Harlequin Nocturne. She lives in Maryland with her husband, three kids, and menagerie of pets, and loves to be visited online at http://www.kendraleighcastle.com/.
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Head's up on 'New Moon' movie!

I found some Youtube video's with the latest info for 'Twilight' fan's on the movie "New Moon" to be released November 2009. I love the Edward poster...much better than the Bella one (you see it in the video clip).

Here are the werewolves...

Here's the video's with the latest info on the movie...

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and one more...

Happy Monday!

Hi everyone! It feels so good to be reading again! And I really enjoyed Lisa Valdez's "Passion", good historical romance. I am currently reading an erotic historical by Silvia Violet, hopefully I will finish this book sometime today. That review might be up later today or tomorrow depending on how much time I have today.

Now time for...

Monday's HUNKS!!

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Tomorrow author Kendra Leigh Castle

will be my guest blogger, so please

stop by and see what she has to share with us!

"Passion" by Lisa Valdez

Phenomenal. If I had to pick one word for the romance story between the hero "Mark" and the heroine "Passion" in Lisa Valdez's "Passion" the word would be PHENOMENAL. And I am not talking about his 'hung like horse' penis either! The penis certainly grabbed my attention, but the characters were so wonderful that even if Mark's penis were minuscule (does that ever happen in a romance?) I would have loved this romance. The romance between these two characters is perfection. They were a perfect match for each other. I loved it!

Passion is a widow nearly at the end of her two year mourning period, but she never mourned her husband because it wasn't a love match and he didn't even attempt to have any sort of loving relationship with her. She was left completely unfulfilled, unloved and childless.

Mark is a well hung man who has never gotten all of his big throbbing ten inch sizzlestick inside a woman's love tunnel, but he's always on the look out for the one who can take it all and give them the mind blowing earth shattering sex he knows his ten inches could produce with the right lady.

Mark and Passion are strangers who cross each other's path in life and feel a spark between them. They don't even know each other's names when the spark engulfs them into flames the very first time they have sex - in a very public place unknown to the patrons around them. I loved this! So different from most historical romances.

Neither of these people were looking for love, just fulfillment. They both had a void in their lives and when they came together the void was filled and they were completed and whole. They didn't plan or look for any romantic feelings but it grew beautifully. The characters were easy to fall in love with and they had me in near tears when things looked like it wouldn't work out for them- it was just SO bittersweet! I truly adored these characters and loved this book.

The sex was erotic and his penis amazing (think battering ram pillaging a castle entrance- but she likes it!), but the characters themselves were what made me fall in love with this book. They were perfectly charming in their own ways and together they pulled me in to their lives and emotions. I actually cried for Mark near the end when he says something he never says because of the childhood he had. Gripping and romantic with a great plot and subplot (there is a second book with Mark's brother Matthew's story- can't wait to get that one!). Complete with two evil bitches you want to slap. This is a MUST read historical erotic romance.

An easy 5 stars out of 5! READ IT! :o)

Just stopping in for a quick hello!

Hi everyone and happy Saturday! Just popping in to say hello and share a few things. First, thanks to DesertRose for the "Let's Be Friends" blog award and to Heather for the "Zombie Chicken Award". Thanks for thinking of me and my blog ladies! I have been missing in action most of this week and haven't gotten to all the blogs I usually do, so please forgive me everyone. I hope to change all that this week when things get back to my normal routine (whatever 'normal' is!).

As for my reading...it's suffered terribly this past week! I don't when the last time was that I had such a dry spell in reading! But *drum roll please* I hope to turn that around tonight! I've set aside reading time and I am turning off the phone and TV to just sit back and get lost in a romance. I am putting "Twilight" aside for now - there are too many new books waiting for me to read, so my Rereading of "Twilight" will have to wait a bit. Every time I sit down and start to read "Twilight" my mind goes to the pile of new books waiting for me. It's just too distracting.

Oh! Guess what the UPS man delivered this week? The book Barbara reviewed about the very well endowed hero - "Passion" by Lisa Valdez! I think this is the book I will begin reading tonight. I simply can't keep a very well endowed hero waiting! *grin*

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! Maybe tomorrow I will get a review and some hunks posted on my blog! :o)

Just checking in to say 'hi!'

Hi everyone! I feel so 'out of the loop' for not being around much this week, but it's spring break for my kids and we've just been so busy! I haven't picked up a book in days, so I haven't got any reviews. And I haven't had time to research any new hunks *don't throw rotten tomatoes!*. But I do have some funny jokes I've gotten in email to share. Hope you all are doing great! Next week I will get back into the normal routine I hope!

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Subject: LEFT OR RIGHT GOLFING

A group of male lawyers lived and died for their Saturday morning round of golf. One transferred to another city. It wasn't the same without him. A new woman lawyer joined their law firm. She overheard the guys talking about their golf round.

She said, "You know, I used to play on my golf team in college and I was pretty good. Would you mind if I joined you next week?"

The three guys looked at each other. Not one of them wanted to say 'yes', but she had them on the spot. Finally, one man said it would be okay, but they would be starting early -- at 6:30 am. He figured the early tee-time would discourage her.

The woman said this may be a problem, and asked if she could be up to 15 minutes late. They rolled their eyes, but said okay.

She smiled and said, "Good, I'll be there at 6:30 or 6:45."

She showed up at 6:30 sharp, and beat all three of them with an eye-opening 2-under par round. She was fun and pleasant person, and the guys were impressed. Back at the clubhouse, they congratulated her and invited her back the next week.

She smiled, and said, "I'll be there at 6:30 or 6:45."

The next week she again showed up at 6:30 sharp. Only this time, she played left-handed. The three lawyers were incredulous as she still beat them with an even par round, despite playing with her off-hand. They were totally amazed, but wondered if she was trying to make them look bad by beating them left-handed.

They couldn't figure her out. She was again very pleasant and didn't seem to be purposely showing them up. They invited her back again, but each man harbored a burning desire to beat her game. The third week, the guys had their game faces on.

But this time, she was 15 minutes late, which made the guys irritable. This week the lady lawyer played right-handed, and narrowly beat all three of them.

The men mused that her late arrival was due to petty gamesmanship on her part. However, she was so gracious and so complimentary of their strong play, they couldn't hold a grudge. Back in the clubhouse, all three guys were shaking their heads. This woman was a riddle no one could figure out.

They had a couple of beers, and finally, one of the men asked her point blank, "How do you decide if you're going to golf right-handed or left-handed?"

The lady blushed, and grinned. "That's easy," she said. "When my Dad taught me to play golf, I learned I was ambidextrous. I like to switch back and forth. When I got married in college, I discovered my husband always sleeps in the nude. From then on, I developed a silly habit. Right before I left in the morning for golf practice, I would pull the covers off him to look at his penis. If his penis was pointing to the right, I golfed right-handed; if it was pointed to the left, I golfed left-handed."

The guys on the team thought this was hysterical. Astonished at this bizarre information, one of the guys shot back, "But what if it's pointing straight up in the air?"

She grinned, "Then, I'm fifteen minutes late gentlemen."

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THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!!


If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!! When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking Twenty-five miles to school every morning....Uphill... barefoot...BOTH ways, Yadda, yadda, yadda……

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it! But now that... I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.

You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia! And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it! I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalogue!!

There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter - with a pen!!!!!! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take, like, a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents!!!!!

Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! Nowhere was safe!

There were no MP3' s or Napsters! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and fuck it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished and the tape would come undone. Cause - that's how we rolled, dig?

We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it! And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen... forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!


You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel! NO REMOTES!!!..... There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards!

And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove! Imagine that! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled. You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes
back in 1980 or before!

Regards,
The Over 30 Crowd --->(which MsMoonlight is a part of!) :o)

We Live on an Amazing Planet!

Hi everyone! I didn't think I would have time to get to my blog today (actually I don't have much time at all this week- busy, busy, busy!), but because it was Earth Day and in the real world I am a conservationist I wanted to post something about it here.

I won't get political - this is not the place for that. But we all share one earth and when we pollute it, we all pay the price.

The only thing I'd like to say, is knowledge of what's happening is the key to helping stop the damage already done and preventing more.

OK, I will let the videos of our world speak for themselves.

What you may or may not know about our earth...

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We live on an amazing planet!

Happy Tuesday

Wow it's Tuesday! A pouring rainy spring day here. I can't believe I never even got to my blog yesterday I was so busy and today looks like another busy day. I haven't even seen my current book read in a few days I am sorry to say. I've gotten no reading done at all and haven't even seen a movie to talk about.

I'd bore you all to death with talk of work and spring cleaning- so I'll spare you that and instead offer you some hunky eye-candy to enjoy. :o)

(Personally, I think hunk #2 is a bit creepy, but he's got a nice body- and I think he's happy to see someone *grin*- so I included him).

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Happy Sunday!

Wow Sunday already! Where'd my Saturday go?? I've got a ton to do today, but I am hoping to get some reading time in. While I am not missing the bitter cold temperatures of winter, I am missing the long hours of time spent huddled up reading in the house while it snowed outside giving me my needed excuse to do nothing but read! But life goes on and my reading time is suffering at the moment so no book reviews today. Just some jokes (some crude so be warned) and hunks! Enjoy...

Q. Why do men pay more for car insurance?


A. Women don't get blow jobs while they're driving

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Q. What would happen if the first Pilgrims had killed cats instead of turkeys on that first Thanksgiving?


A. We'd eat pussy every Thanksgiving.

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Q. What did the two lesbian frogs say to each other?


A. WE DO TASTE LIKE CHICKEN!

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Q. What do a Rubix cube and a penis have in common?


A. The longer you play with them, the harder they get.

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Q. What does an old woman have between her breasts that a young woman doesn't?


A. A navel.

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While making love, he says:


- Darling, let's do 68!- 68???


- What's that?


- You do it to me and I'll owe you one.

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Sunday's Hunks...

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Happy Saturday!

Ahh...it's Saturday and for once I got to sleep in! That's a luxury I don't often get but when I do I really appreciate it. I also love posting sexy Mr.Bubblebuns photo for the day. What a cute wet bubbly ass! *clears throat and tries to focus on writing a post*

Thanks for all the feedback yesterday. The prologue is only to give the reader a peek at the shapeshifting family. Once chapter one begins, it is set in first person and told from the heroine's POV. The heroine has a rather miserable life thus far, no father, alcoholic party it up mother who moves in with her newest boyfriend in a new town- the town where the shapeshifting brothers live. I don't know for sure what's going to happen- I am only a few chapters into the story - but in someway the shapeshifting brothers - namely Wolf- will be the hero and come to the rescue. :O)


I am still rereading "Twilight", but with the nice weather lately I am finding myself drawn outdoors to do other things, so I haven't finished it as soon as I had hoped to. Plus, when I do sit down to read, my TBR pile is calling to me with all the new books that have never been read. I know I had intended to read all the Twilight series before the end of April, but now I am thinking I will just do Twilight now then get back to my TBR pile of new stuff.

As a woman it's my prerogative to change my mind! *grin*

Oh and per request of my penis reviews, I have ordered "Passion" by Lisa Valdez. I've heard the hero has an extremely large wonderwand and a few of you have said you'd like to hear my review of said book - so I ordered it! Can't wait to get started on that one!

I also ordered two more M/M romance books, one a historical "Frost Fair" by Erastes. The other a paranormal "Male of the Species" by Kate Steele. For anyone who didn't see my first dive into M/M romance check out my review of "The Assignment"- a pleasant surprise for me being new to M/M romance. And the last book I ordered is one more erotic M/F romance "A Carnal Agreement" by Silvia Violet. Those reviews will be coming up in the next weeks along with at least two more "Breeds" books by Lora Leigh. That tops my TBR pile for now.

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Today's hunkage...

What does MsMoonlight write?

Happy Friday!


So far on this blog I've shared a bit about nearly everything but my writing. I am not published or even professional. I write for fun when an idea pops into my head, I write it down and I keep writing until I am out of ideas for the story line. Then it gets tucked away with numerous other bits of work in progress. Of all the things I've written, I have only once dabbled in paranormal writing. And I should mention that all my writing, is YA stuff. The target age about 17. So today I am sharing a prologue to my only paranormal effort to date.

The story is about a Hungarian-German family of shapeshifting males. The females don't give birth to individual children, but to multiples -'liters' as wolves do. This is the story of the Farkas (meaning 'wolf' in Hungarian) family - namely the male shapeshifting sons. Wolfgang "Wolf" is the hero of this story and the eldest of the sons - I'd love to finish this and give each brother their own story.


So far it's a work in progress- among many others. Writing on this blog or YA stuff is a HUGE outlet for me. Outside of my real life responsibilities, if I am not reading or blogging on here I am writing stories- usually several at once. If I don't write down an idea the moment it comes to me I often lose it, so I've learned to write whenever 'it' comes to me on whatever paper is available at the moment (the backs of all my magazines have assorted tidbits all over them!).


So what I'd like to ask anyone who reads this is to be critical of this. What stinks? What (if anything) works? What's missing? Where do you see the story going? Share your thoughts with me and don't worry about offending me, I've got thick skin and criticism is good thing. So don't hold back, I'm not looking for anyone to blow sunshine up my ass, but I'd love to hear what you like and what you don't like. Your honesty would be greatly appreciated.

[Prologue to MsMoonlight's YA paranoramal effort]


“Bacon!” A sleepy male voice under a pillow called out from the bottom of a worn pine bunk bed.
“Um…yeah that’s bacon!” A lean male teen agreed tossing back his covers to vault out of the top bunk nimbly to his feet.
A muscular arm from the bottom bunk shot out to grab the lean males’ pajama bottoms and yank him off balance.
“You’re not getting there before me and eating it all!” A gruff male voice from under the pillow said.
“Hey! Wolf, knock it off!” The disgruntled male said from the floor as his brother Wolf climbed over him to follow the scent of bacon cooking.
“Can’t you two shut up and let the rest of us sleep?” An annoyed male voice said from an identical bunk bed across the room.
“You stay there Adolf, don’t bother getting up.”
“If you don’t want me up, I have to get up if only to irritate you.” Adolf said with a grin sitting up and sniffing the air. “Think you and Wolf were gonna keep me from my bacon? Not a chance Ulric.”
Ulric tossed a pillow at Adolf’s rumbled head and ran from the room.
“Get up Randy, Ma’s cooking bacon and Wolf and Ulric are already downstairs eating. There’ll be nothing left if Conan, Bleddyn and Conall are up too. Smells like Ma made all our favorites for our birthday.” Adolf said rubbing his bare chest as he too followed the scent of bacon cooking.
The seven Farkas brothers sat around the large thick wood trestle table in spindle back chairs filling their plates with bacon, fried potatoes with onions, sausages, scrambled eggs, toast and drinking icy cold milk. The news was playing from a small television sitting on a microwave cart in one corner of the large eat-in kitchen. The boys’ father, Gerwulf Farkas, sat reading the morning paper drinking coffee as he listened to the local news while he rubbed his beard. Their adoring plump mother, Isodle “Issie” Farkas, stood at the stove cooking more bacon and sausages knowing her young men were near bottomless pits. Issie was an incredible woman in many ways. She had carried and given birth to septuplets without any help from the medical world to conceive or to deliver them. All her boys were born at home and perfectly healthy seventeen years ago today. She never had any more children after that, but with seven boys she didn’t feel she was missing out. Wolfgang had been born first, followed by Adolf, then Randolf, Ulric, Conan, Bleddyn and finally Conall arrived twenty minutes after Wolfgang had been born completing her Hungarian-German family.
For some people giving birth to so many children at once without medical intervention in conception or delivery might seem odd, but not to the Farkas family. Her sister in-law Erna had given birth to five boys; Beowulf, Lowell, Rudolf, Varg and Ludolf, the same way and the same year Issie had her boys. All the Farkas boys were the best of friends and were continually in each others company. And Issie and Erna were sure they were the handsomest boys in town, with their golden silver eyes, perfect white teeth and thick shaggy hair in differing shades of browns. Besides their rare eye color, the boys had one other predominate feature. Each Farkas male had a slim stream of silver hair at their left temple. They were born with it, each and every one of them. You couldn’t see it on Father Gerwulf Farkas or on the boys’ Uncle Valko; Erna’s husband, because they were going gray all over their heads now, but in their youth they looked as the Farkas teens did now. Dark hair with a shock of silver at the temple, all of them.
“What’d you boys do last night? Wolf, go put more wood on the fire, its bitter cold this morning.” Father Farkas asked with his thick Hungarian accent, from behind his paper while his large sons continued to shovel heaps of food in their mouths.
The boys paused to give each other a quick glance. Wolf did as his father asked quickly tossing a few logs on the fire in the living room and one more log to the black cast iron stove in the kitchen. It was a cold March in New England, but spring wasn’t too far off.
“Not much.” Ulric said with a shrug, then stuffed two whole sausages in his mouth and looked back down in his plate.
“What’s not much?” Father Farkas insisted.
“Oh you know…went for a walk.” Bleddyn said buttering toast.
“Where and what time did you get in?”
“Gee Da…what’s with all the questions?” Conall asked wearing a milk mustache.
“Answer your father.” A quiet command from their mother came, as she placed a heaping platter of food on the trestle table. Several arms reached into the platter and nearly emptied it.
“We were around Allyn Brook Park and got home around…um…two I think.” Wolf said.
“Two A.M.?! Goodness boys…that’s too late for boys to be out.” Ma Farkas said taking her seat opposite her husband and filling her breakfast plate.
“Oh Ma…we’re not little kids. We’re seventeen today.” Conall said with a wide grin meant to charm his mother.
“Just the same, that seems mighty late for you boys. What in the world do you find to do till such a time?” Ma Farkas asked nibbling her toast.
The boys all looked at each other, some with a grin others rolling their eyes, none of them wanting to answer that question.
“Well?” She asked looking into the faces of her boys.
“Just hanging out Ma.”
“With your cousins?” She asked.
“Sure, who else?” Conall asked with a shrug of his broad shoulders.
“Any girls?” She asked.
Again the boys looked at each other, this time a few necks were red. None wanted to talk to their mother about females.
“Not till two.” Randolf said not looking up from his plate.
“Till when then?” Ma Farkas asked.
“Gee Ma, I don’t know. It’s not like we timed it or anything.” Randolf said squirming in his seat.
“Timed what boys?”
Someone kicked Randolf under the table and he yelped glaring at his brothers across from him not sure who delivered the well aimed kick.
“Nothin’…we didn’t time nothin’.” Conall said quickly shoveling a heaping spoonful of scramble eggs into his mouth.
“Anything, you didn’t time ‘anything’.” Their mother corrected.
“Shh… what’s that?” Father Farkas said turning to the television and putting down his paper.
“A pack of Gray Wolves were sighted last night in Owlsbury. Gray Wolves were thought to be extinct in Connecticut but this video footage shows a rather large pack of twelve wolves running in the woods around Allyn Brook Park last night. A witness, John Flitch, caught sight of the wolves while he was out walking his dog around 11 P.M. last night. Mr. Flitch had his cell phone on him and was able to capture the following video footage.”
“Damn.” Whispered one of the brothers.
The news reporter stopped talking and the video began. Twelve Gray wolves running, howling, nipping at each other and clearly having a wonderful time frolicking in the snowy woods around Allyn Brook Park in Owlsbury, played out on the Farkas television. The room was suddenly silent. Father Farkas snapped off the television and slammed his fist down on the table causing all his sons to jump.
“Nothing!” He roared. The boys had gone completely still and looked ill.
“You weren’t doing nothing?!” He shouted and pounded the trestle table till it trembled and threatened to collapse.
“Anything, honey; it’s ‘anything’ not ‘nothing’.” Ma Farkas corrected her enraged husband while she sipped her tea, seemingly unfazed by her husband’s anger.
“What do you have to say for yourselves?” He thundered at his sons looking at each one of them in turn.
“Gee Da…we’re sorry. We didn’t know anyone was around.” Adolf said lifting his eyes to his father.
“It’s my fault Da, I’m sorry. I should have…” Wolf said sitting up and looking his father in the eyes.
“It wasn’t Wolf’s fault Da, it wasn’t his idea.” Adolf said coming to his brother’s aid and cutting him off.
“Whose idea was it then and why did Wolf agree to it?” Father Farkas asked looking at each of his sons expectantly.
“Da I’m sorry. We won’t do that again.” Wolf said cutting off his brother Adolf from telling whose idea it was.
“It was me Da, not Wolf.” Ulric said taking responsibility for his part. Father Farkas grunted as if he’d suspected it might have been Ulric.
“You should all know better! Got no sense at all! None! If you had a brain between the seven of you…no make that the twelve of you, you’d be dangerous! Get going…all of you. Out of here before I do something I’ll regret later. And don’t think your Uncle Gerwulf won’t know about this.” Father Farkas roared sitting back down with a heavy sigh of disappointment.
The boys quietly got up from the table looking forlornly at the rest of the food they hadn’t yet consumed and headed upstairs to shower and get dressed.
“I’m sorry Wolf.” Ulric said once they were in their room.
“Shut up, it’s done.” Wolf said with a shrug grabbing some clean clothes and heading for one of the two showers the Farkas home offered to a family of nine.
“Yeah, but it’s my fault. You told me we shouldn’t and I didn’t listen.”
“You never listen.” Adolf said smacking Ulric in the back of the head.
“Let it go.” Wolf said walking out of the room. “What’s done is done.”


~end~

So that's the prologue to a YA I've been playing around with. What these shapeshifting wolves will get into later on (should I actually finish this) I don't know yet. I've got some ideas, but its all subject to change. :o)

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Today's Man Candy...(I couldn't forget them!)

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Have a great weekend everyone!

Hunky Hero Tag!

I've been tagged by the hunky hero from Royal Reviews! My mission: find my favorite hunky hero and share my thoughts on him. Hmmm... This one was extremely hard for me! I read SO many books and love so many of the heroes it was a bit overwhelming, so I had to narrow down the field. I decided to pick my favorite hero out of the books I've read so far this year, thinking it would make things easier.

I was still overwhelmed when I looked at my "Keepers" book shelf and my eyes scanned all those phenomenal books with their hunky heroes. How could I pick just ONE? My mind raced over memories of hot male bodies, throbbing members, penises with barbs, penises that oozed orgasm magic, hot alpha males who need to mate, dominant males looking to make their females submit to all their sexual desires, the hunks with scars needing love to heal them, the men who think to tame their lady only to find they've been tamed instead! The list goes on and on!


I picked the hero who had a little bit of everything going on - he wasn't human, he had wounds and needed healing, he was well endowed and over sexed but never found love. He's an alpha male with an inner beast that only his lady love could tame. He's a super hot sexy male who spends his life defending those he cares about, fighting for the good of his kind and even though he's scared to love, he takes the chance and opens himself up to love and be loved back for who and what he is, scars, wounds, faults and inner beast. His lady love demands he hold nothing back from her and he doesn't. *sigh* He wears nothing but skin tight leather pants (commando style) and shitkicker boots. He's got a body that won't quit, a dragon tattoo and hair you have to run your fingers through. This alpha male hero just makes me drool.

Who is this hero who steams up my glasses, makes me weak kneed and sigh at his every sexy move?

My Favourite Hero: JR Ward's "Rhage" in "Lover Eternal". *sigh* Rhage is a vampire with a voracious need for sex, he's got super strength and an animalistic sense of smell and instincts. He's got an inner beast - literally a dragon - that when triggered comes out and is a lethal killing machine. Rhage uses sex and fighting as a way to let off steam and control his inner beast. His need for sex (several times a day every day with whomever is willing and available) makes him a sort of male whore- something he is not proud of and actually is self conscious about. But without it as an outlet, no one around him is safe if the beast should take over. *I volunteer to help tame his beast - the dragon and the one in his leather pants!* :o)

Favourite Quote/Excerpt: One of my favorite parts of the story is when Rhage (after a night of hell because his inner beast dragon took control) scents Mary, the heroine of the story. Rhage is feeling like crap, and hasn't gotten his full eye sight back (an after effect whenever the dragon takes over). He needs soothing to heal and when he scents Mary, he draws close to her and asks her to please talk to him because it heals him and brings him relief from his suffering. Here's the quote:

"Keep talking," he said in her ear. God, she smelled good. Clean. Fresh. Like lemon.

When she pushed against him, he leaned his full weight into her. Her breath came out in a rush.

"Please," he murmured.

Her chest moved against his as if she were inhaling. "I...er, I have nothing to say. Except get off me."

He smiled, careful to keep his mouth closed. There was no sense showing off his fangs, especially if she didn't know what he was.

"So say what."

"What?"

"Nothing. Say nothing. Over and over and over again. Do it."

She bristled, the scent of fear replaced by a sharp spice, like fresh, pungent mint from a garden. She was annoyed now.

"Say it, " he commanded, needing to feel more of what she did to him.

"Fine. Nothing. Nothing." Abruptly she laughed, and the sound shot right through to his spine, burning him. "Nothing, nothing. No-thing. No-thing. Noooooooothing. There, is that good enough for you? Will you let me go now?"

"No."

She fought against him again, creating a delicious friction between their bodies. And he knew the moment when her anxiety and irritation turned to something hot. He smelled her arousal, a lovely sweetening in the air, and his body answered her call.

He got hard as a diamond.

"Talk to me Mary." He moved his hips in a slow circle against her, rubbing his erection on her belly, increasing his ache and her heat."


Page 62-63 of JR Ward's "Lover Eternal"

If you haven't read this series: BUY IT NOW.



Who would play Rhage in a movie: This one I answered on my blog months ago when I did my personal picks for who would play each of the vampires in JR Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood series. To see that post click HERE. It would be Hayden Christensen (he played the young Darth Vadar in the Star Wars movies).

Thanks for tagging me! I love a reason to talk about Rhage and JR Ward's "Black Dagger Brotherhood" series!

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I see some of you have already gotten tagged, but I don't think I've seen these bloggers tagged yet:

I tag...

JenB - Ginger Kid's Den of Iniquity

Cheryl Brooks Erotic Blogspot

Naida - The Bookworm

My 200th Post!

This is my 200th post! I can't believe it. When I started this last December I had no idea if I'd make it to 10 posts! I didn't really know what I was doing, I just knew that blogging looked like fun and I wanted to share my love of books and movies etc., with others out there. What I really wasn't expecting was the reward of cyber friendships from all these ladies whom share my love for books (and smokin' hot hunks *grin*). Thanks ladies! It's really been terrific.

Another unexpected was I had no idea I'd be surfing the net for nekkid hunks on an almost daily basis! LOL And to answer the question that I get SO often from you all "Where do you find these hunks?"- ON GAY MEN BLOGS! *grin* It's true ladies, the gay men have all the smokin' hotties. Of course, you also get an eye full of other things entering these blogs *blush* but I quickly overcame that shock. :o)

And there's one more thing I've discovered...urban slang. I had no idea people called a penis a "yummy-doodle" until I began blogging. I nearly fell off my seat when I learned what "docking" meant in urban slang. And today, in honor of my 200th post, I thought I would share some more new to me urban slang and of course more hot hunks. Enjoy!

Urban Slang from Urban Dictionary:

teabagging: To have a man insert his scrotum into another person's mouth in the fashion of a teabag into a mug with an up/down (in/out) motion.

butt pirate: person who pillages another mans anus

wolf balls: incredibly hairy balls

OK, that's it for the new verbiage today!

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Today's Hunkage...

Same hunk...now he's wearing a rope.

This hunk...mmmm...yummy.

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And I have a big THANK YOU to author Amanda McIntyre who sent me a full-color autographed glossy cover flat of the upcoming "Winter's Desire" book!! Thank you!

Happy Hump Day!

I love Hump Days... it's just so nice to start the day surfing the Net for delicious man-candy. Now if I could only find a way to do this and get paid for it, life would be near perfect in my world!

My thoughts on character names...
I am not going to name names of books I've read in my life - but generally speaking I have a hard time with a book if the hero and/or heroine has a funky name. I can adore the story, but for some reason if the name bothers me (like if I don't know HOW the heck its supposed to be pronounced) the book bothers me.

Does that happen to any of you? Some books seem like they are competing to have the most unusual outrageous -no ones ever heard of- names around. When this happens, even if the book sounds good, I put it back on the shelf. I expect some unusual names in a sci-fi futuristic book, or even some paranormal stuff. But if I pick up a contemporary or heaven forbid a historical romance (I love historicals best when they reflect the names of the time they are set in) and it's got some name that is just too 'out there' for me, I toss the book. With books that I don't know the pronunciation I might just make up my own 'nickname' for the character-if its a favorite author of mine or if friends rave about the book. But if I don't know the author or haven't heard about the book, I move on to something else all because of the names (some people I know pick and reject books based on the covers- for me its character names).

So am I being too hard on the author? Too shallow? I read once that Margaret Mitchell had originally named her heroine "Patsy" in Gone With The Wind. She even fought for some time to keep that name, but it was eventually changed to "Scarlett" and I can't imagine Rhett with a "Patsy" no matter how hard I try. I don't think "Scarlett" is an 'out there' name like some I've seen in books, but I wonder if the pressure for these outlandish names comes from publishers or the authors?

What's wrong with good old names that have stood the test of time? I think one of the things I find appealling about Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" series (yes, I'm reading it again) is she has great character names: Edward, Isabella, Jacob, Charlie, Billy, Alice and some names that have been around but not often heard like Carlisle, Jasper, and Emmett. These are great relatable names and I like that. It's appealing to me and can often make the characters more real to me then when I am stumbling over some outrageous name each time it comes up in a book.
So I say 'Well done' to all the authors and publishers out there who can make a good old name work! Thanks, you've made my reading more enjoyable with the names you use.

Now I'll shut up and give you want you came here for on Hump Day *grin*-

Today's Hump Day Hunks...

"Tempting the Beast" by Lora Leigh

OK, I've finished book #1 in Lora Leigh's "Feline Breeds" series and liked it (though not as much as book #1 in her Coyote Breeds series). Still this was a good erotic paranormal read with some unbelievably hot scenes.

Back blurb: "Book 1 in the Feline Breeds series.
Callan Lyons is a genetic experiment. One of six fighting for freedom and the survival of their Pride. Merinus Tyler is the reporter who will tempt him, draw him, until the fury of the "mating frenzy" locks them into a battle of sexual heat there is no escape from.
Deception, blood, and the evil Genetics Council are hot on their trail. Callan will use his strength to try and save them both...and do all in his power to keep his woman in the process."

The erotic paranormal romance is between Merinus Tyler a pushy, nosy and very determined journalist and Callan Lyon, the "breed" whose human DNA was mixed with DNA from a lion. Merinus is looking for a story and Callan is it. She knows what he is and she's determined to get his story and bring him out of hiding and introduce the world to what he is and what was done to him. Callan has other plans. He fears coming out will cost him his freedom and what little security he's got. Since breaking out of the lab that created and tortured him, he's been watching out for other breeds and protecting them from being found out and captured. The last thing he wants is a nosy journalist stirring up trouble.

But Merinus is determined and turned on when she spies Callan masturbating in woods. What neither of them know, is that they are fated to be mates and there is nothing they can do to stop the hormones from raging and driving them to mate. Merinus is all for the sex, but she quickly changes her mind when her body takes over and she's got no control over what's happening to her. As much as she desires Callan and what he does to her, she is unsure of what she's gotten herself into. When she tries to leave to get back to her family and sanity, Callan's inner beast emerges and he hunts her down then has more mad passionate sex with her. Each time he must assert his dominance and "mark" her as his own.

These two are both taken by surprise at whats happening to them. Callan knew what he was capable of, but really had no idea how overwhelming the whole thing would be. For example, his barbed penis. In all his previous sexual encounters that has never...er... protruded into any of the females he's had sex with. That was saved only for his mate. So when they have sex for the first time (Merinus is a virgin by the way), Callan's barb hardens and extends into her then locks them together as they orgasm. Callan's world is rocked as he's never had an orgasm like that before! And Merinus is new to sex, so she really isn't sure what is going on but she knows she felt something...different than shes read about!

Once Callan's "Pride" finds out he's mated with Merinus things change. And the scientist/doctor with Callan begins testing Merinus to see if he can help them find a cure for this frenzied mating instinct that neither of them can control. The only thing they know is the because of Callan's barbed penis- condoms are out of the question for birth control! He tells her his barb would burst right through it- now there's something a girl wants to hear! And once Merinus begins to ovulate (Callan can scent it on her), there is nothing they can do to prevent pregnancy. Mating during ovulation is the most powerful mind blowing time for both of them. *have a fan reading reading this one!*

This erotic paranormal romance story was good and I liked it. I give in 3.5 stars out of 5.

Rank This Amazon!

What the hell is their problem? I am sure most (if not all of you) have already heard about Amazon.com's new 'ranking' policy. For more check out Dear Author. Are they in the business of selling products people want or what? Amazon can kiss my wide ass. I am scratching the Kindle2 off my list of things to purchase this year and going with Sony.

In my own little way *grin* I've decide to protest with photos for blogs. If you'd like to protest with a photo on your blog- pick one and put it on your blog.

Now on to more interesting things...

The Penis Poll has closed!

Here are the results to : Your Favorite Penis Synonym Poll

Mighty Manhood - 10% of the votes

Yummy doodle - 13% of the votes

He-man sizzlestick- 17% of the votes

And the winner....................SWORD OF LOVE - 58% of the votes!

Thanks to everyone who voted!