I apparently own 2 Cassie Edwards books

[meganbmoore]

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If anyone wants them, I'm open to bribes. Unless one of them is the one that smillaraaqwants to rip into. She has dibs if one is that book. Please to be noting that that my reading them detracts from time that could be spend on good books, manga, comics, anime, dramas, and FUN bad books. I'd say "do you really want me to suffer through them just so you can vicariously enjoy the badness?" but I know you would all revel in my torment. I require convincing to read, though. At least a bit. Or bribes. I'm always open to bribes.

ETA: I would have used check boxes or a text box, but I suspect they would be abused.

ETA 2: Why do I suspect The Dark Schreider Icon of Denial will get a lot of use in the near future?

ETA 3:  Due to the demands of lesbiassparrow and calixa, I will now provide the teaser excerpt on the first page of Savage Dream.

 Maria looked up at Shadow again, questioning him with her eyes.  Why, oh, why couldn't she fight him?  She should  show some sort of protest, yet she  could not.  A side of her that she had never known before would not allow her to deny him...

 Her pulse raced as his face drew closer, her eyes became wild, her knees weak.  She did not truly want to feel this need that ate away at her heart.  never in her life had she been rendered so helpless.

 A sensual tremor coursed through Maria at the first contact of his mouth on her lips.  A throaty moan frightened her when it rose from deep inside her.  The pleasure of his kiss was so profound and the touch of his hands, now bcupping her breasts through the soft buckskin blouse, was so beautifully sweet.  Never in his wildest dreams had she thought any man could steal away her ability to think.

But it was happening.

I should note that any typos are mine, as I'm typing this up from the books mysself.

Comments

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Awww...you missed the part in the second book about how he would teach her submission as his cherished squaw...

[kingcrankycat.livejournal.com]

Gracie must be worried about me, I keep bursting into random laughter.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Oh, I really, really hope there's a passage like that in SH; the sheer LOLarity of an Iroquois man thinking he ought to be able to boss women around will go a long way towards making up for the pain of her prose...

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

SH is about a crossdressing girl who grew up as a boy whose mother is accused of witchcraft and she is abducted by a chieftain who wants to punish her family for introducing his noble warriors to alcohol and ruining them.

The cover artist is of the school of thought that believes romance novel readers would rather see a nekkid woman on the cover than a nekkid man.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've seen that online already. The cover artist (or to be fair, whatever art/marketing/etc. director chose the artist and the models and such) also seems to be of the school of thought that says if you have a Caucasian cover model, all you need to do to make him look Indian is give him long, dark hair and slap on a lot of bronzer. Although that seems to be true of most of the Indian romances out there, really: if I *ever* see one where the cover model looks more like Rodney Grant or Adam Beach than Fabio-with-a-heavy-tan, I might just have to buy the stupid thing just on general principles.

The character names, OTOH, are all Edwards' fault, and the hero's is rather goofy -- although since the heroine's moniker also seems a little improbable for the time and place, there's at least an odd sort of fairness there. I will admit to a sort of morbid curiosity as to whether the rest of the Indian cast have equally Hollywood-translation-sounding names, and the rest of the Anglo characters have names that sound like they're straight from a soap opera, or if she just does that sort of thing to make the central couple more Speshul.

So far the one thing I can see that she *has* gotten right, well not counting the passages she didn't write herself, is having alcohol as a huge factor in social turmoil in that era; it was a serious destabilizing factor in Iroquois society of the late 1700s. I'm just really, really freakin' grateful that she at least set this thing a few years before a new religious movement started addressing those problems; if she were throwing in the Gai'wiio as background color to one of her Mighty Savage Wangfests, my already-astronomical level of outrage would just rocket right off the freakin' charts.