First, I'll start with the treats.

If you like my Transformers fanfics, there's a new one up. What To Expect When You're Interfacing is the sequel to "Crash Course" and "Dear Mr. Prowl". Motormaster would like to forget about that unfortunate time they were turned human, but Dead End starts talking about the purpose - and consequences - of human ( Read more... )

Rosemary Rogers’ Sweet Savage Love is another pivotal potboiler of that time, far racier than The Flame and the Flower but almost as flawed. What makes a real difference between the books, though, is that the heroine of Sweet Savage Love begins as a pampered sixteen-year-old, but by the end of the novel she can handle a gun, fight with a knife and ( Read more... )

The best thing about The Flame and the Flower is that it manages to be offensive and hilarious. For instance, it’s impossible to take the third rape seriously when Heather’s thoughts (such as they are) run along the lines of,

Trapped! Caught! Like a bird in a snare and now, plump and roasted, she must wait on the platter while he whetted his ( Read more... )

I’d hesitate to use the word “classic”, but this is definitely one of the grand old novels of the romance genre.

In my salad days, I discovered books like this and Rosemary Rogers’ Sweet Savage Love - unapologetic, politically incorrect bodice-rippers and potboilers, overwrought in every sense of the word. After a while I took a tip from the ( Read more... )