I may have a crush on Lexi Ryan. Okay, there is no ‘may’ here, I have a girl crush on Lexi Ryan. I lurved the Here and Now Series and I have been waiting with bated breath for her to come out with newbie novels for me to gush and babble happily about to people who do not read books about and care even less about my interests. But I don’t wait on her books merely to bore my enemies and family, I truly can’t wait to devour the joy of her efforts. This is a woman who wisely and believably creates the fiction that makes your inner critic want to argue about the details but it’s way too busy fanning itself from it’s bookgasm to fuss! I cannot wait for Something Reckless! Do me up, Lexi Ryan, I am your book reviewing slave!
What is it about sports dudes that makes sports dude heroes so yummy? Let’s be fair, you, like me–I’m going based upon stereotypes, my own prejudice, and life experience–probably grew up in the library. In high school I knew sports dudes, even dated one or two but I was a nerd and a weirdo. Girls who read books and dudes who run around smacking other dudes on the butt and shower circle in different environs. Scratch that; we live in different worlds. We girls who read books live in fantasy worlds that will one day lead us to read about sports dudes. Boys who hit their heads repeatedly and run fast live in the real world where they get mad play. In high school we generally resent them for being dicks and idiots and they think we are prudish cows.
“RAWR!”, big teddy bears of Stone Clan! I love y’all and I know the needs of Stone Clan, you yearn for vivacious suds and voluptuous bods!
Every now and again one comes across a book that is romantic yet does not fall under the definition one has today of being a ‘romance’. And I say ‘romance’ there while wiggling my eyebrows, pursing my lips and shaking my shoulders like I was having a rather saucy seizure. I read some of the reviews for this novel and some were rather harsh and disparaging, unfairly so, but I think that the reason for the crankiness is because people see the Ellora’s Cave branding and they expect a specific kind of read. Elaine Violette’s story is really a very good romantic fiction, but not a typical historical romance as per the Ellora’s Cave cant and crowd, leaving a ton of sand in the crotch of naysayers and angsty hard-to-find-their-orgasm Erotica addicts; this is a good read. 
