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Sunday, October 12, 2014

UNCIVILIZED -- a summary and opinion

I accidentally bought this book.

I meant to hit 'Sample' and my silly phone screen jumped and I hit 'one-click buy' instead...

I may have freaked out a little bit. As previously stated, I have a pretty strict budget and to buy something I wasn't sure I wanted... well, it made me have a bit of anxiety. Sure, I loved ALEX, but UNCIVILIZED was another beast (no pun intended) entirely. Hockey romance I can do. Some erotica I can manage (I mean, come one, ALEX certainly had it's moments, & I'm becoming a regular, everyday BDSM reader thanks to a certain Stacey Kennedy). But this book...

...it just seemed a bit...

Odd.

Publisher: Big Dog Books, LLC (9/6/2014)

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Synopsis:

Putting a woman on her knees before me is what really makes my cock hard. I fuck with dominant force and absolute control. I demand complete surrender from my conquests.

Savage man, loner, warrior... I am dangerous at my core. I have lived amidst the untamed wild of the rainforest, in a society that reveres me and where every woman falls before me in subjugation.

Now I've been discovered. Forced to return to a world that I have forgotten about and to a culture that is only vaguely familiar to my senses.

Dr. Moira Reed is an anthropologist who has been hired to help me transition back into modern society. It's her job to smooth away my rough edges... to teach me how to navigate properly through this new life of mine. She wants to tame me.

She'll never win.

I am wild, free and raw, and the only thing I want from the beautiful Moira Reed is to fuck her into submission.

She wants it, I am certain. I will give it to her soon.

Yes, very soon, I will become the teacher and she will become my student. And when I am finished showing her body pleasure like no other, she'll know what it feels like to be claimed by an uncivilized man.

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The read was...

Intriguing, to say the least.

The minds of authors never surprise me -- any event, any situation... An author will write about it. Sawyer Bennett proves no different with UNCIVILIZED. The very first scene that had me intrigued, curious, slightly taken aback, was when Moira is recalling Zach taking mate (for all intents and purposes, a mate is what the female was when Zach took her in an animalistic way).

“I apologize,” Father Gaul said beside me, and I turned to look at him. “You’re getting a look at one of their social norms that’s completely antithetical to the modern world’s. Here… in this culture, the man is the dominant and has a right to take one of the available women whenever and wherever he wants. The Caraica view sex as a reward for the way that the man provides for the village. They are completely open in their sexuality, and privacy isn’t required. In fact, it’s a source of a man’s pride to make a woman submit for all to see.”

It's completely an unfeeling act. It's about him reaching completion. Slow and steady wins the race. It's quiet. No noise from either participant. So when he sees Moira watching, he knows without a doubt that when, not if, he takes her, she will not be a quiet participant, and he's not entirely sure how he feels about that. He's not entirely sure how he feels about the prospect of bedding Moira, to be honest... He just knows that he needs to.

I really loved Zach's journey. He knows without a doubt that he wants to go home... and to him, home is the Amazon. The more he learns of civilization, though, the more he wonders.

I could probably write and write and write about this book, but I know without a doubt I'd end up giving a FULL synopsis, and that would leave no room for you to even want to read.

It was just a superbly good read (is 'superbly' a word? Does it work...? Eh, it works for me). I love the evolution, if you will, of Zach. I love that he remembers things from his childhood and I love that he begins to question things.

I love Moira's need to be his teacher, but as with any human, I appreciate that she folds.

...besides, without folding, sometimes you don't find the true bliss that life has to offer you.

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Dirty Saint: A Secret Baby Sports Romance by Vesper Vaughn
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book almost failed to get my attention. Why?

The hero.

He is the exact public person I despise. You know the type -- all biblical with publicized praying and verses all over his public persona. Great. Good for you. Bet you're not like that behind closed doors...

Which is exactly what Esther thinks of him.

Saint and Esther attend the same super religious college. Esther is on the fast track to becoming a nun, and no I do not kid, and Saint, given name Francis, can do just about whatever he wants, because he is the star athlete and the school knows he has connections. What in the world can these two have in common? The actions of their parents.

But where Saint does what his father says, usually, because his father is pushing him toward a pro-football careers, Esther follows her parents (father) because if she didn't... Her life would literally be a living hell.

I really enjoyed these two, once we started to get to know Saint a little bit better. My only drawback with the book would be the last half goes by in super-fast time. While it helped to keep the story moving, I would have liked to see more of that time drawn out so the feelings and emotions of our two characters felt more genuine and real -- rather than simply a two month courting that their lives demanded.

I'm giving the book the full 5 stars because it came out of left-field for me. It was a book that I didn't expect to like, but the author wove it in a way that I fell hard for our characters both as individuals and as a couple. I liked watching Esther grow and find her voice in life, just as I liked watching playboy, always for the chase Saint, settle down and find a person to be terribly protective over. I loved him most in the last two chapters.

*ARC received in exchange for an honest review

Everything by Erin Noelle
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Here's something you may know about me if you've followed my reviews -- I'm an epilogue reader. I will almost always read the epilogue first. Call me a spoilsport or no fun, or whatever but that's how I've been reading books for years. It's no wonder that when I write books, I tend to have the epilogue all figured out before I even start with "Once upon a time...".

That said... I read this epilogue and while I liked it, I just couldn't get past the ages of our characters. Couldn't do it. So I read the beginning. Still... If anything, the age of our characters was even more pronounced. I wasn't sure I was going to be able to read this. You see, I have an issue with "Happily ever after" and the hardly-twenty crowd, let alone an eighteen year old.

But that's my hang-up.

Another thing you may know about me? I will sometimes read a book in what I call a inside-out fashion. I jump all over the place until I find a snippet of story that absolutely grips me. And people -- there are a few of those parts in Everything. So because I found those gripping parts, I put my faith in Erin Noelle, and I started from page one -- and I gave Everett and Belle a chance.

And I'm so glad I did.

Everett and his twin sister have been making music forever -- literally. They're the children of a rockstar; music has always been their life. When their father's group decides to get back together (dad always said he'd go back when the twins were done with school), Mason tells the label -- if you take me, you're taking my kids: thus, giving Everett and Ashlynn the opportunity to take their music to a larger level than they have before.

Along the way, with a local gig, Everett meets Belle -- and so begins their story.

This is a story about growing up. This is a story about following your heart -- be it for a person or a career, or even both. It is about learning to trust the person you are giving your heart to, and about taking the ever-looming jump into unknown feelings. When you put your life, your wants, your desires in someone else's hands, the world opens up -- and it certainly does for Everett and Belle.

The part I most appreciated was that the author made Everett true to his age and situation. Belle was too, yes, but it was Everett and his new lifestyle that had me wanting to see true characterization for. He's a guy; he's a musician; he's new to love. He makes mistakes. And for those mistakes, I truly got on board with this story.

Everett and his Tinker Bell were incredibly cute. I liked that there's a decent time jump at the end, further allowing -- you guessed it -- growth of our characters. I'm excited to watch more of them when (if?) Ashlynn's story comes out.

*ARC received in exchange for an honest review

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UNCIVILIZED -- a summary and opinion

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