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PhD Robert J Rubel
price: 638
Nazca Plains Corp(2006-10-24)
Usually ships in 24 hours customer 's review (How to write a manual for your slave ... kinda.)  
(Dominance and Submission)    
(accelerate your journey into BDSM)    
(Less time on Differences, More Time on Realistic Questions)    
(What a surprise)     Now that you have a slave, what do you do with him or her? I'll tell you right now that this book will not answer that question for you. And for what the introduction claims the book is, it could be a far better guide to how to write "a master manual." The problem is that I've read no other book like it, and am uncertain of where else to point the hopeful reader who doesn't have a leather or kink community available as a local resource. if one keeps the introduction in mind and questions oneself as to what is really, really important in their day-to-day life as is, one can get an idea of how to assign tasks, train and remind a slave or submissive in how to serve specific interests.
Regarding the seemingly endless section about the dinner parties: if you don't have dinner parties, mentally substitute something that you find too time consuming to do yourself, but that you'd love to have someone else take care of for you. Preparing for and attending an Society of Creative Anachronism event? Tending to your artistic space? Buying produce? Tending to your feet? Really, anything truly nitpicky that you want done a certain way -- that section shows you how to give step-by-step detail in writing that a slave or submissive can refer to as they're doing the task.
Other tasks have detail given their importance TO THE AUTHOR. If there are things that the dominant / owner / daddy/ master (hereby known as the grand poobah, because I'm getting sick of typing all that) wants to do themselves, then they either get to specify that those actions are off limits unless specifically mentioned, or don't list them at all. Cleaning? What can be touched, and what should be left alone? How often? Spring cleaning? Seasonal changes, visits, decorations, etc? Who drives? How is the opening of doors dealt with? Dietary preferences and restrictions? If taken with the required grain of salt mentioned in the introduction, this book could help a lot of new people go from having their submissives post about looking for ideas for their grand poobah to having details instructions and a schedule already prepared after the contract is signed and the (training / temporary) collar is locked on.
I wish that Rubel had taken the time to outline his manual as he was presenting his information, as I've read reviews and even talked to people within my community who took offense at his tone because he wasn't being clear on providing a roadmap rather than specific expectations of behavior for all slaves. Indeed, a section regarding the potentially rude behaviors of guests at the above mentioned dinner parties would have been much more clear had it been explained why detailing such rude behavior was necessary to include in the manual; I can make some intelligent guesses, but it seems as though the manual involves a lot of in-references between the author and his slave that should have either been explained or edited out completely. Sidebars, more asides in italics and so on could have gone a long way to keeping otherwise normally intelligent and perceptive people from reading what they were used to reading -- lists of expected behaviors -- rather than what was being presented -- an outline of how to generate the behaviors the dominant reading the book would want for their particular life.
If this book ever ends up going out of print, I hope that the author redesigns it in a second edition rather than simply allow another printing of the same format. When presented in the right way, this could end up being a very valuable workbook for a number of budding ... well, poobahs. Learn everything you need to know about dominant and submissive relationships in one explicit volume. You'll even learn how to find your own slave.
A decade of M/s knowledge in one book
Both books Master/slave Relations: Handbook of Theory and Practice and Protocol Handbook for the Leather Slave: Theory and Practice by Robert J. Rubel, PhD Cover the same subject with a slightly different focus.
It amazes me that knowledge that took me years to learn is now available in 7 easy steps. The book can accelerate your journey into BDSM by a decade.
I consider this an expansion in many ways of the Leather Protocols book by Rubel. Here he gives more explicit examples of his own protocols and asks the reader to really consider what they might include and should include in their own should they chose the very, very rare path of an owner-slave or master-slave relationship. Personally my own protocols (yes, I do live this life, too) are not nearly as formal but these are very much the same considerations I felt were necessary to address when I began and as I continue in this life. Take the questions seriously don't just copy Rubel's ideas. Also don't plan on just jumping quickly into these relationships -- success requires planning and continuous reflection. Wow! An A to Z discussion of what goes into developing and maintaining a Leather Master/slave relationship. This guy clearly knows what he's talking about. Rubel begins by defining his terms, moves through self examination, touches on ways of finding a slave, describes how to begin such a relationship, moves through collars and contracts and ends up with a slightly irreverent section called: "How's it Going?" All in all, this book provides a comprehensive and fresh look at this form of relationship. You should also check out his companion book, Protocols for the Leather Slave. Judging from the covers, they are probably meant to be companion works. This book is for Masters. This book is for established Masters who are curious about what someone could possibly write on the subject they know so well. This book is also for those relatively new to the BDSM Lifestyle who are finding themselves called to Mastery. Rerations < Master/slave Relations: Handbook of Theory and Practice (M/s Studies Books) >
< Protocols: Handbook for the female slave >
< The Master's Manual: A Handbook of Erotic Dominance >
< SM 101: A Realistic Introduction >
< Manual Creation: Defining the Structure of an M/s Household >
freaks
< Every Frat Boy Wants It >
< Code of Conduct >
< Daddy's Little Boy >
< The Tin Star >
< The Broken H >
< When You Don't See Me >
Todd Gregory
price: 330
Kensington
Usually ships in 24 hours customer 's review (This book was Amazing!)    
(CATHYS REVIEW)    
(Poorly Written, But Still HOT!)  
(Fun reading)    
(Wowzerz!)    This is probably one of the best books I have read. It does a very good job of illustrating what a gay guy goes thru when he is just realizing that he is gay. On top of that, it just has an amazing story line that kept me on the edge of my seat. I couldn't hardly put the book down til I finished it. If you like romance novels, this is a pretty good one. GREAT BOOK ABOUT BOYS GROWING UP AND LEARNING THIER TRUE SEXUAL NATURE. THINGS THAT GO ON IN FRAT HOUSES AND MEETING NEW FRIENDS. I LOVE READING ABOUT MALE AND MALE LOVE STORIES AND THIS DIFFENTLY HAD THAT. I, like many others I assume, judged this book by its cover. For the expectations set by that, I was not disappointed. This book delivers if you're looking for a steamy, sultry, fantasies-come-true story involving the sexcapades of a fraternity pledge and its members. It's so hot, in fact, that I stayed up until 5am in the morning just so I could finish the book in one sitting.
I was disappointed by the "new" author's lack of literary skill, particularly the inability to tie a whole story's worth of loose strings up by the end of the book. Also, there was gratuitous use of hard drugs in the story that had practically no reason for being there. If a "Boogie Nights" level of drug usage offends you, then steer clear of this book. It only subtracts from the story.
I wasn't especially impressed with the author's sentence structure or grammar, and in many places, I had to re-read a paragraph to get the meaning. Even then, the author's intentions sometimes still eluded me.
I don't mean to sound harsh, perhaps I'm just a bit critical. There is the possibility that some or most people would not be bothered by the shortcomings I have described, and perhaps not even notice them.
If this truly is a new author, I would be proud to call it my first published work. I look forward to continued improvement and hotter stories, if that's even possible. Well written. It's not literature, but it's fun entertainment. Best in its class. Hmm, interesting portrayal of a gay man in a fraternity. I myself was in that sort of situation and I can assure you, nothing like that would ever happen in real life. But then again, this is all for the mind to enjoy! I thought there was some definite good writing in there, but sometimes I had to stop and just laugh at certain moments that were just too outrageous to accept as part of this story's universe. I'm still perplexed as to how Blair made it this long without being discovered for his blatant homosexuality. He is so over the top, so effeminate, it makes me go cross-eyed! Don't get me wrong, I love everyone under the rainbow flag, but come on! A dog could've sniffed out that queer! Other than that, I enjoyed in very much and am looking forward to more of Gregory's work. Jeff Morgan is about to get the education of a lifetime...At eighteen, Jeff Morgan is the quintessential all-American boy--blond, blue-eyed, and a star jock at his small Kansas high school. Enrolling at California State University-Polk, Jeff plans to become a writer. He also hopes that the macho nature of fraternity life will help him get over his lifelong attraction to other men. The reality couldn't be more different... Through Blair Blanchard, the drama major son of divorced movie stars, Jeff discovers the Beta Kappa fraternity, and enters a world where alcohol and drugs serve as an excuse for covert trysts between frat brothers...where the pledging process becomes a sensual, S&M-fueled bacchanal...where weekends in L.A. and Palm Springs are no-holds-barred adventures in sexual exploration...and where Spring Break is a boys-gone-wild porn movie come to life. Through every encounter, from intense couplings with older frat brothers to sizzling three-ways with hot new pledges, Jeff also deals with his increasingly complex feelings--for Blair, for a handsome new arrival, and for life within Beta Kappa itself. Sexy, steamy, and incredibly erotic,Every Frat Boy Wants Itproves that when it comes to learning all there is to know about mind-blowing pleasure, nothing beats hands-on experience... Rerations < Every Frat Boy Wants It >
< Code of Conduct >
< Daddy's Little Boy >
< The Tin Star >
< The Broken H >
freaks
< JUNJO ROMANTICA Volume 4: (Yaoi) (Junjo Romantica) >
< JUNJO ROMANTICA Volume 3: (Yaoi) (Junjo Romantica) >
< JUNJO ROMANTICA Volume 5: (Yaoi) (Junjo Romantica) >
< JUNJO ROMANTICA Volume 2: (Yaoi) (Junjo Romantica) >
< JUNJO ROMANTICA Volume 1: (Yaoi) (Junjo Romantica) >
< JUNJO ROMANTICA Volume 6: (Yaoi) (Junjo Romantica) >
Shungiku Nakamura
price: 999
Blu(2007-10-02)
Usually ships in 24 hours customer 's review (a little more confusing than the rest of the series)   
(You have to Buy this!)     this volume was pretty confusing... the flashbacks jump around from one thing to another, telling the story of the person who used to love usagi-san, mostly. it's still a nice solid entry to a great yaoi series, but it takes some concentration to keep everyone straight because they keep changing to reflect that this is a different point in time. I love this book! The artist's drawing are beautiful. The plot is funny and the sex scenes are not over dramatic. Perfect for anyone who loves yaoi. Rerations < JUNJO ROMANTICA Volume 4: (Yaoi) (Junjo Romantica) >
< JUNJO ROMANTICA Volume 3: (Yaoi) (Junjo Romantica) >
< JUNJO ROMANTICA Volume 5: (Yaoi) (Junjo Romantica) >
< JUNJO ROMANTICA Volume 2: (Yaoi) (Junjo Romantica) >
< JUNJO ROMANTICA Volume 1: (Yaoi) (Junjo Romantica) >
freaks
< Hard Times >
< The Lonely Hearts Club >
< The Candidate >
< Winds of Fortune >
< Fully Involved >
< In the Name of the Father >
Blayne Cooper
price: 478
Spinsters Ink Books
Usually ships in 24 hours customer 's review (Surprisingly good)   
(Thank you for a new setting)    
(Unforgettable Characters)    
(Wonderful read)    
(Gotta Love a Lesbian Prison Romance)    Cooper deftly avoids the cheesiness associated with "women in prison" stories with believable characters and a storyline that easily hooks the reader. It was a quick read with the satisfaction of justice and a happy ending, without schmaltz. I've come to have lower expectations of small press titles, because it often seems apparent why they would have been rejected as large press offerings, but that's not the case here. This was my first Blayne Cooper book, but it won't be my last. A very good read and the setting was a wonderful change of pace. A friend of mine works for the CDC and has done interviews with federal women prisoners and thought the "family" relationships and black market were point on. I liked the time spent on developing the characters and the twists and turns in the plot. One of the other reviewers mentioned that this novel was more "grittier" than the authors past novels, I liked that aspect and hope the author keeps it up in future books. I only have one caveat about the book; I was bothered slightly by two people with zero successful relationship experience making such giant leaps of maturity. All other aspects of the book were grounded in reality while the emotional quotient slipped by (duh, it is a romance novel). Just a few days back, or were they hours only, I was exchanging a few lines with a very talented British author about how hard is to leave some characters behind because readers as well as writers end being fond of them and wishing that their stories would continue for more than a while. This is what a book deserves when it's so well written as "Hard Times". There's no need to write about the plot as other Blayne Cooper's readers have done so. You know... a women's correctional known as Blue Ridge. A few prisoners that happen to live there more than they could dream of and a newcomer that makes their lives a bit different than used to be before she arrived to the facility.
But this is more than that, much more. If you happen to have watched "Bad Girls", the British tv series you might know what I'm talking about. Mainly the first four seasons. Relationships that imply power, love, hate, winners, losers, lovers, drug addicts, alcoholics, killers, victims, rapists, maniacs, loving mothers, lunatics,... well. You name them, you have them. But not all at once. Well told, with a plot in it, a good structure and with a great sense of characters' builder. Characters do talk too, you know? Well, at the beginning I said that there are always some of them that I want to stay longer. Lorna Malachi and Kellie Holloway make no exception to me. I love them already. Right now I have no idea whom I would take home because they are full of life, desire and even love.
To be honest, I don't really know the importance of having an editor. Apparently, it is vital in some cases for the book's sake. Blayne Cooper has had another great talented author as Katherine V. Forrest is as her editor this time. So, there it is. If you had any doubt in the beginning about "Hard Times" and "another prison story". Forget that, will you? Thanks. I love Blayne cooper writing very much.especially Madam president and The first lady.This book has a very unique topic.It's take place in a prison.It's very strong and beautiful.The character are awesome. I enjoyed watching Prisoners of Cell Block H when I was a pre-teen. Not knowing any other lesbians, the thought of going to prison to meet some or be in an all women environment seemed like a harmless daydream. While it wasn't a very well thought out fantasy at 11, it got me through some isolation and teenage angst. I have a developed a fondness for the prison genre. The gals on H were nowhere near as exciting or out as those in Hard Times. Breaking down the walls between the main characters was done well and over time. This romance wasn't an easy read at times due to some of the violence but it was well written and enjoyable, which is a given with Blayne Cooper. Years ago, Lorna Malachi, a frightened teenager, was plunged into a nightmare called Blue Ridge Women's Correctional Facility. Terrified and desperate to belong, she sold her soul one piece at a time. She survived to sit atop the ever-shifting trash heap of prison society.
Lorna has learned the hard way not to trust anyone, particularly penal system virgins like Kellie Holloway, her unrepentant new cellmate. But Kellie's pride and cluelessness guarantee that without help, she won't last long.
Together, Kellie and Lorna navigate through an oppressive, hidden world where the lines between right and wrong blur, sexual passion is forbidden but explosive, and love is the biggest risk of all. Rerations < Hard Times >
< The Lonely Hearts Club >
< The Candidate >
< Winds of Fortune >
< Fully Involved >
freaks
< In Deep Waters 2: Cruising the Strip (In Deep Waters) >
< Thirteen Hours >
< Word of Honor (Honor (Bold Strokes Books)) >
< The Lonely Hearts Club >
< The Rainbow Cedar >
< Naked Heart >
Radclyffe,Karin Kallmaker
price: 510
Bold Strokes Books
Usually ships in 24 hours customer 's review (The Hottest Lesbian Erotica Authors team up)    
(A genial, surprisingly romantic romp through a Vegas hotel hosting multiple conventions - 3.5 stars)    Both Radclyffe and Kallmaker have written so many books between them, they could fill a library. Anyone thinking they would have run out of stuff to write, think again. In their second erotic project together, these two magicians of erotica will have you breathing heavily, your heart racing, as you dash to a cold shower. Both bring back some of their (our) favourite characters to satisfy our appetite for more. The stories are hot, hot, hot. Dont miss this book, stories like this can be read over and over... Kallmaker and Radclyffe are a perfect match as far as erotic writing is concerned. After reading 100's of their stories, I am still unable to declare a winner. All this leads to an exciting time for us readers. Devlyn
Again, with this collection by these two authors you're looking at pure escapism at its finest as the focus moves through a variety of women, hooking up for all sorts of reasons, using a range of techniques. I thought that this book overall was gentler than the Cruise Ship setting, in the relationships and the sex. There were plenty of random-stranger hook-ups, but more often than not even these seemed destined to become something deeper on an emotional level. Nothing wrong with that; merely an observation.
The little touches that wove the stories together really succeeded in creating a cohesive whole and, once again, the frequent use of characters familiar from other books and stories lent the proceedings a bit of extra depth and romance. But I think the organizational spreadsheet was perhaps less necessary here than with the previous book. Fewer "tools" were used, or perhaps it just feels like there was less variety.
All of these are minor comments, however. The book was still delightful to devour, and so full of good-natured optimism about women, loving women, and optimism about connecting with others that this reader couldn't help but finish with a smile on her face. Games of chance, games of passion, games of love--roll the dice for a week in Las Vegas with games mistresses Radclyffe and Karin Kallmaker. Whether a public table or a back room invitational, the players want to score and everybody can't wait to go all in.
A pit boss who thinks she's seen it all thinks again. A shy novelist considers research in a hospitality suite. The fountains of Las Vegas inspire more than one couple to try something new. Double or nothing? Inside bet? How about a little insurance when the dealer has the upper hand?
Choose your game, ante up and enjoy the floor show. All bets are off when these two writers deal the cards, and every hand is a winner. Rerations < In Deep Waters 2: Cruising the Strip (In Deep Waters) >
< Thirteen Hours >
< Word of Honor (Honor (Bold Strokes Books)) >
< The Lonely Hearts Club >
< The Rainbow Cedar >
freaks
< Standish >
< Ransom >
< Brethren: Raised By Wolves, Volume One >
< The Tin Star >
< The Master of Seacliff >
< Matelots: Raised By Wolves, Volume Two >
Erastes
price: 544
P.D. Publishing, Inc.
Usually ships in 24 hours customer 's review (Breathless)    
(Lush Romance)    
(1820s Gay Male Romance)  
(Superb Storytelling)    
(Engaging and Different)    This book.
Is one of the best books I have ever read. I started it and didn't put it down till I had read the last page.
What a story. What a love. I am blown away.
This book left me breathless.
Erastes is an exquisite writer. I am beyond impressed. Beautiful, lush and romantic. I couldn't put the book down. I knew I was in trouble around 2:30 a.m. I was still reading. It was everything a romance novel should be. Romantic, well written, characters you love and care about, Exotic and lush locations. I wish this book would around when I was 16. Buy it and enjoy! Standish is not "stand-out-ish," but it's a pretty good story, though often black and dark beyond redemption. The characters, especially Rafe, Ambrose and Fleury, are well-drawn, unique and interesting. The settings are diverse (England, Paris, Venice and a horrible British prison), and probably are accurate and mostly believable. Erastes' take on history seems passable. Isn't it interesting that our basic view of these overwhelmingly important eras in history are almost always exclusively brought to us from the perspective of the rich and privileged? Really, it's only during the prison scenes in this sotry where we gain a truer picture of real life in the 1820 in Europe.
This is a gay story with lots of gay male sex, gay male talk, gay male musings, and gay male dilemmas. For the most part, the author gets the sexual episodes nearly right, if a bit overdone. This soft male porn isn't always a realistic rendition of what sex really looks/sounds/smells/feels like. But the love, the intimacy, the closeness and the need for physical attention and affection are indeed well-portrayed. The sex really does spice up the story.
The story itself is less believable, frankly, than the sex, but it is an engaging tale. Too bad so may people are so badly damaged and so badly damage each other throughout. Sometimes, in reading stories like this, I yearn for the normal people who actually populate my life. They are every bit as interesting as these fictional ones and never quite so tragic. This story follows one disastrous episode after another in the lives of these sometimes pitiful but interesting characters.
Make no mistake. This is not literature. It is a soft porn romantic tale, a snapshot into the lives of some seriously flawed homosexual men trying to live "normally" in a hateful, repressive time in Europe.
My one complaint is this: For the life of me, I could not, and cannot figure out the ending. As a voracious reader of all kinds of novels, I detest the cute "style" employed here by Erastes of demanding that you conclude for yourself what happened at the end -- not a satisfying conclusion at all!! I thought I deserved better after wading through the whole book.
If you don't want to read graphic, detailed, several-pages-long episodes of erotic sexual encounters between men (some midly brutal, I might add), then don't read this story. If that's all you want, don't read it either. But if you want a mix of an 1820's man-to-man romance with gay sex and a good view of the life of the privileged class at the time, then by all means read it. One of the characters in Standish does nothing--doesn't move, doesn't speak, doesn't think. And yet this character controls emotions and actions and passions just by existing. It is a house called Standish. Like the Rochester mansion in "Jane Eyre" or the cliffs in "Wuthering Heights" Standish is a place so important to the story that it almost takes on life.
Standish is the vanished patrimony of Ambrose Standish, impoverished grandson of the man who lost the place to Gordian Goshawk in a gambling game and lost his life in a duel soon after. Ambrose is studious, intelligent, and bitter at a fate which has him toiling as a tutor to support himself and his two spinster sisters. The house, Standish, is his obsession, his dream, his torment.
When Rafe Goshawk, who inherited Standish from his father, returns from many years abroad to take up residence there his life is set on a collision course with Ambrose. The Goshawk family's reputation is that of "venal, predatory raptors" and Rafe himself is a cold-eyed man, as bitter as Ambrose but for a different reason. He was born in Paris, raised as an aristocrat, and was a young boy when the Terror sent his mother to the guillotine, destroyed his world, and sent him and his father fleeing to England.
Ambrose hates the Goshawks without ever having seen one of the infamous breed who ruined his family. And then through circumstances or fate, he finds himself hired as tutor for Rafe's son; for the first time he sees the house he has obsessed about, up close. It is everything he dreamed it would be. It's a given that Rafe and Ambrose will end up in each other's arms but if you expect roses and violins and a predictable ending...surprise!
I won't go further with the story because it has so many twists and turns and I don't want to write a spoiler. The writing--descriptions, dialogue, everything about it--feels real and authentic. Erastes is an author who must research and research and research. And yet the research never overwhelms the story. It never intrudes. The author handles violence and sex with equal ease and knows the fine line at which to stop.
It's superb, well-crafted storytelling at its best.
...Ruth Sims, author of The Phoenix I really enjoyed this take for its unusual subject matter. A gay Regency romance! I say more, more, more! Both the leads were extremely well-drawn and three-dimensional, and the prison scenes were fascinating. Very well-written in the style of the period, too--no anachronisms like you so often see. A minor quibble with the confusing POV shifts didn't detract from the enjoyment of this unusual romance. The research Erastes did shines through. A great house. A family dispossessed. A sensitive young man. A powerful landowner. An epic love that springs up between two men. Set in the post-Napoleonic years of the 1820's, Standish is a tale of two men - one man discovering his sexuality and the other struggling to overcome his traumatic past. Ambrose Standish, a studious and fragile young man, has dreams of regaining the great house his grandfather lost in a card game. When Rafe Goshawk returns from the continent to claim the estate, their meeting sets them on a path of desire and betrayal which threatens to tear both of their worlds apart. Painting a picture of homosexuality in Georgian England, Standish is a love story of how the decisions of two men affect their journey through Europe and through life. Rerations < Standish >
< Ransom >
< Brethren: Raised By Wolves, Volume One >
< The Tin Star >
< The Master of Seacliff >
freaks
< Masterclass : Girl On Girl (Masterclass) >
< Women Loving Women: Appreciating and Exploring the Beauty of Erotic Female Encounters >
< Looker >
< Babydoll >
< Touch: Naked girls home alone >
< Roy Stuart: Volume 1 (Roy Stuart (Hardcover)) >
Kate Copstick
price: 950
Erotic Print Society
Usually ships in 24 hours BIG AND PACKED FULL of more photography,art and literary extracts than previous guides in the series. First dates, threesomes, techniques, knowing (and getting) what you want and much, much more. For female and male readers who have a desire to explore the boundaries of their sexual identities, Girl on Girl could be a crucial addition to their library. Rerations < Masterclass : Girl On Girl (Masterclass) >
< Women Loving Women: Appreciating and Exploring the Beauty of Erotic Female Encounters >
< Looker >
< Babydoll >
< Touch: Naked girls home alone >
freaks
< Honor Under Siege >
< Winds of Fortune >
< Word of Honor (Honor (Bold Strokes Books)) >
< Honor Reclaimed >
< When Dreams Tremble >
< The Lonely Hearts Club >
Radclyffe
price: 510
Bold Strokes Books
Usually ships in 24 hours customer 's review (honor under siege)   
(Does Blair want cheese and crackers to go with her WHIIIINE????) 
(Good Continuation BUT...)   
(Getting tired of the whiney brat)   
(Please,NO MORE!!!!!!) Another great book in a great series--Honor series. Fully fleshed characters--some surprises and of course....hot scenes... First, Radclyffe is my favorite author....so far. But another book like this, and I will have to pay more attention to Karen Kallmaker. I have loved every one of the Honor series books thus far, but this one falls flat on its face. I would give it 0 stars, but the scenes with Valerie and Diane were HOT (as another reviewer mentioned). Those two were the only reason I kept reading.
Radclyffe needs to keep a cheat sheet or something next to her for important or even semi important time lines. Blair and Diane were together when they were 14, 15, or 16??? Take your pick. Ok, Ok that's nitpicking, but it's annoying to me.
My major problem with this book...Blair whining constantly throughout. Another reviewer also mentioned it, but it is worth repeating (in the hopes that Radclyffe reads these).
MINOR SPOILER ALERT: Blair is out on the beach all upset because Cameron is out there with people trying to kill her while Blair is safe and sound with armed guards. She then has the nerve to whine to Diane about how difficult it is for her. Knowing that Valerie is being hunted by several different people. Valerie is out on her own. Alone. No Renee and/or Felicia with her to protect her. Later, Blair is watching all the activity on the beach and only sees one stretcher and panics, wondering where Cam is. Cam wasn't given a shot to lower her body temp. Cam wasn't in the boat that Mac clearly stated was targeted by a missile.....oh don't get me started on that whole scene. It was idiotic. Too late, I got started on it. Blair wants to know whose boat was blown to smithereens when Mac just said who the target was 40 seconds before it exploded. AAARRRGGGGGHHHHHHH.
Honestly, I have completely written off Blair and Cam. They are not the characters I fell in love with. Blair whines constantly about how worried she is for Cam, and Cameron has a death wish. She claims Blair is her number one priority, and yet, she's always the first one to jump into danger. I wonder how Blair will look in a straight jacket when Cam is killed someday? Maybe Diane and Valerie will go visit her in the looney bin?
I realize Cam is the "hero" of the book and needs to be all that and more. However, being heroic and being stupid are two different things, and Cam has, sadly, gotten more and more idiotic with each new book. Did she get Valerie out of the water any faster by jumping in after her? No.
I will get the next book, but I will skip all the scenes that do not include Diane and Valerie. Cam and Blair....they were great in the beginning, but it's anybody's guess what happened to them. Hopefully I'll be able to order the book at my local library, so I don't have to waste the money on it. I absolutly love this Series and Highly recommend all the books. And although it was great reading about my favorite characters, and their on-going battle in the story line, I was expecting a little more. Not saying it was bad, but I wanted more from this book. And I DO want another one. All in all this is a MUST READ series, but this wasn't the best book of them all. Well, as usual Radclyffe's book has got romance and action well balanced, and I can't wait for more.
However, I find myself getting tired of Blair Powell's whining abou |