Our favorite authors draw us in and sweep us away with the stroke of their pen, okay, the stroke of a key, but they take us away, if only for a few hours from the daily grind by taking us to places we may never get a chance to go, introducing us to people we'll never meet and let us experience so many things that we can only dream of.
So, I figured why not find out what the authors themselves read. What sweeps them away?
Here are some recommendations from a good mix of genres including <gasp> some vanilla reads. All are 5-stars!
*****
Reasonable
Doubts by Cara Bristol
This is one of my favorite in Cara's Rod & Cane
series. While the book certainly can be read as a stand-alone, I do love
that we get to see one of our favorite secondary characters from earlier
stories in the series get her very own HEA. Some of the things I
particularly loved about this story that puts it on my 'must read' list is that
Liz, the heroine, is in her forties. She's dating again after a 22-year
marriage to a man she loved and lost suddenly to a heart attack. She had
been the submissive in her marriage to a much older man and as she starts to
date a man six years younger, they have to work through the delicate balance of
D/s within their budding relationship. Cara did a fabulous job of
introducing Grant, our hero, to the world of spanking and DD. The
relationship dynamics felt honest and real to me and I highly recommend this
book/series.
~Livia Grant
Learning
to be Little Again by Meredith O’Reilly
Wow! What a ride! This was an emotional heart
wrenching fun book that I highly recommend to anyone who likes AP. This seems
like a very beginner AP book and it isn't super extreme. I loved it. I read it
in about five hours straight because I was so hooked. I had to keep turning the
pages and seeing what happened next. I thought I knew what was going to happen
then BAM! I was glued to the book and couldn't put it down until the very last
page. This was a beautiful story about real love. The author did an amazing job
on this story. The story line is real you know? It isn't some fantasy story.
This could actually happen and I loved every page. The sex is sizzling and the
AP is perfectly done. I totally cried like a baby at the end. This book is a
reminder that its still okay to be a kid sometimes. Highly recommend this book!
~ Kristin Elyon
Finding
Submission by Megan
Michaels
Ms. Michaels did an amazing job of showing a young
girl just like the rest of us... and turning her into something so beautiful
that you have to see it to believe it. Avery loves trouble but doesn't like the
punishments that come after... and Preston has no choice but to really enforce
the rules. Avery is entrusted in his care and he molds her into something no
one saw coming. A beautiful soft spoken submissive who loves to be his good girl.
There are a lot of punishments given and a lot of
tears but also so much love and affection. Preston always looks after his good
girl and the after care is perfect. This isn't quite a BDSM story it's an
erotic journey taken by one young girl and the help of an unlikely source.
Highly recommended.
~Kristin Elyon
Claimed
(Brides of the Kindred Book 1) By: Evangeline Anderson
Buy on Amazon Hurry! Currently, free on Amazon.
An evil force is about to take over the world, but
then big, strong Kindred men step in to stop the evil. In return for the safety
of Earth, the Kindred men wish to be able to "woo" a female bride if
she is chosen for them...Sign me up!
Liv was a nurse when one-day two men took her to the
Kindred HQ because she had been chosen by Baird, a Kindred man to be his wife.
So, Baird has 30 days to woo Liv in to letting him claim her and becoming his bride.
Liv is not at all happy. She doesn't want to leave Earth or her twin sister
Sophia to live with Baird. However, the law states that Liv must go with Baird
for the 30 days. Not happy at all about that, Liv does everything in her power
to fight Baird.
I loved this story. The idea of having a Kindred
warrior woo me for 30 days is just so enticing. Ms. Anderson creates such a
fascinating new world. She made up inventions that I so wish were real. Her
writing was so descriptive, that I could imagine everything even though it
didn't exist.
I also really liked how Liv and Baird's relationship
grew in the story. Despite Liv originally hating Baird's guts, Baird patiently
takes the time to show Liv that he isn't the beast that she makes him out to
be. As the story progresses, Liv gets to see that she wasn't right about Baird
and at the last second, ends up saving his life from the evil Scourge.
This book was so hot and I can't wait to read the rest
of Ms. Anderson's books in the series!
~Meredith O’Reilly
(FYI… I loved
it too! I’ve read the entire series but
Baird was my absolute fav, Maybe it was the mating fist, or that scene in the
dark, unmated males area. Phew! HOT)
A
Difficult Patient by Loki Renard
Let me start by saying that I wish that I could give
this book 10 stars! It really was that good. Ms. Renard wrote about two
characters that you just couldn't not like. All impatient, Alyssa wants to
always get her way and never slow down. One day, she ends up getting a cut on
her thigh that ends her up in a hospital. When she refuses to allow even the
basis of tasks to be done to her, Dr. Wright is called. Dr. Wright seems to be
the only person who can handle Alyssa and slow her down enough so she doesn't
hurt herself or bully the people around her.
Along with having two great main characters, Ms.
Renard's medical play scenes are the hottest ones that I have ever read. I
really hope that Ms. Renard writes another medical play romance because she has
a talent with writing them. That is why I give A Difficult Patient, 5 stars!
~Meredith O’Reilly
The
Audition- by Tara Crescent.
What I enjoyed most about this book is the inner
strength and intelligence of the Hero. The story was believable and flowed at
an even pace.
~Melody Parks
Daddy
Morebucks by Normandie Alleman
Buy on Amazon Hurry! Only 99 cents for a limited time.
I picked this one up on sale this month and what a bargain. It was a fun, sexy read that was a wonderful
twist on the rags to riches story of a girl from the wrong side of the tracks who
finds her Prince Charming to take her away from all the hardship. A very romantic love story and the sex and spankings
were HOT. I’m glad she learned her
lesson to be careful about that third wheel; it may actually be a flat tire and
cause a roll over. I did not see that
coming! Sorry for being cryptic, but no
spoilers here.
~Maddie Taylor
Lanie’s
Lessons by Maddie Taylor.
This book was just freaking HOT. I love all the sexy times and spanking times
in Maddie’s books, but this one was…..well, she outdid herself this time. There were two episodes that blew me out of
the water—I private messaged her and let her know. When you read this book, you’ll remember
this phrase: “I’ll never walk into my
garage again without thinking of Lanie’s spanking!”
~Megan Michaels
*****
A note from the hostess:
Authors, if you read a 5-star book, don’t be shy,
shout it to the world, or at least the WWW world. Also, shoot me an IM on Facebook or email @ maddietaylorromance@gmail.com
and I’ll include it in my monthly post.
If you have several, send them all and I will hold the extra over until
the following month.
I’m seeing a growing response to this monthly blog spot,
which I barely got in under the January wire and some wonderful, glowing
recommendations this month. Several of
which I am going straight to the Big A to 1-click on.
Just wondering, do you think it tacky of me
to include one of my own? It really was
unsolicited (thank you Megan for your kind words). I vacillated on whether to include it, but
since we’re informal here I said, what the heck and did.
Thanks to all who responded. See
you in February with more HOT recommendations of What the Authors are Reading.
Maddie
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