Review: Keep 'em coming Cari! Can't wait to see what that brilliant mind of yours comes up with next!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 19, 2014
Cari Silverwood, oh woman, I love the way your mind works. After reading Squirm last month I fully admit I am indeed a tentacle pervert.You know all those romance novel cliches? Well Cari takes all of those and mixes them up with wit and humor and flips them on their head. I don't think anyone else can write a billionaire demon rock star monster. Yes, no commas, he is all of the aforementioned. Oh and he has radioactive spunk, I sh*t you not.If you want something light and fun that will make you laugh your ass off this is the book for you. Keep in mind it is an erotic parody. So there is some kinky f*ckery going on, but it's definitely worth the read.Keep 'em coming Cari! Can't wait to see what that brilliant mind of yours comes up with next!~ Erin, 4 Dino DicksThere are a lot of tropes in romance. So many, in fact, that I've often considered the merits creating a drinking game based around them. Someone says "You're mine", take a shot. Someone declares "It's so big, is it going to fit?" Take a shot. Get it? What appealed to me about Strum was that it was the literary version of my drinking game. A parody that takes all my favourite things (let's be honest, they're tropes because they're popular and fun) and takes the piss out of them... That equals fun, at least in my book.When we left Virginia Chaste at the end of Squirm, she'd become a *giggles* full-blown tentacle pervert, falling for the billionaire biker, Karl, and ending her quest for the elusive ten inch, purple headed schlong. At least, that's what we thought.... When she wakes up unconscious after a stag party disaster, her fiancé Karl is missing and she doesn't remember him or his mating tentacle. In order to bring him back, she must team up with Zagan Grimm - rockstar, billionaire, sex demon - to hunt out the Necrosexi-texmexicon. It's a hunt of epic proportions. Virginia just needs to avoid having horny demon sex with Zagan. As if that's possible...I was so looking forward to this book and after the first few pages, I was already picking out my favourite silly quotes. Strum was quite different from Squirm - which is still one of the funniest books I've ever read. That's ok though, I still enjoyed it. It was, perhaps, not as laugh-out-loud funny but it definitely gave me some decent chuckles and some amazing visuals. I was thrilled to see the return of Dangerous Bob and his f*ckitty-grr language and loved spotting the breaks in the fourth wall that Cari Silverwood threw in. All in all, I'd say that Strum was a successful follow-up to a hilarious book. Now, how do I explain to the husband that I got drunk reading a book?Strum is the sequel to Squirm. No cliffhanger.~ Beth, 4 stars