Review: Romantic Erotica...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 4, 2012
A female wolf-shifter (werewolf) and a male bear-shifter (werebear) fight the attraction they both feel for one another because each worries that the other isn't interested.This book is basically Romantic Erotica. What I consider Erotica, is a book where there is a constant stream of sexual encounters, with a loose plotline to justify each event. Romantic Erotica is the same thing except that the descriptions favor romantic wordplay as opposed to the more purely physically descriptive kind.For example: If one was to describe sticking one's tongue in another's ear, then in normal erotica one would describe the way one would physically do it. Then, describe the feeling of how wet it was and how the sensation traveled to one character's... wherever. All this would, of course, be in extreme detail. In Romantic Erotica one would skip some of the more descriptive elements that one might consider vulgar, and substitute it with a more poetic line. It would describe how one of the character's ears tasted like some sweet fruit in a summer's day... or something like that. All the while, maintaining the same structure as the usual Erotica.There is no overarching action/adventure plot in this book. You never felt like the characters were going though a journey beyond the romantic plotline that was established in the beginning. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, particularly since the point of this book is about the love making.There are however many references to previous action packed events that happened in the older books of this series. But, as someone who didn't read the previous entries of this series, it felt like I walked in at the end of a movie and was now watching the happy ending. Don't get me wrong though, it is a stand alone book. You don't have to read the last book to enjoy this one. It's just seems like all the settings and the circumstances that the characters were created for, happend prior to the beginning of this book. And now, we are looking at the fun-time end of those events.The author does try to create a problem for the characters to solve three-quarters of the way through the story, just to break the constant love fest. It struck me like it was a bit tacked on though. It ended up feeling like the author needed that moment, in order to satisfy the 6 c's of storytelling: Character, Circumstances, Conflict, CRISIS, Climax and Conclusion.Again, I have to stress the fact that this isn't really about that.This particular entry in the series, as far as I can tell, is about the love making of two main characters. If it must be about anything, it's about their issues of self doubt, as well as the emotions they go through, on their journey to bliss. Then, subsequently, the sexy fun they have as they resolve each emotional hurdle.But mostly, it's about the sexy fun...3 stars... It's good reading if you're looking for shifter erotica with a more romantic flavor in the descriptions.