Crush # 1
Little Boy Lost (Book 1 of Enlightened)
Genre Young Adult (coming of age m/m)
Released March 4 2010
I found this hottie while blog hopping during work hours, this is a wonderful story about young teenagers coming of age and dealing with their sexuality. I must have this one!
Excerpt
Little Boy Lost is the story of Brian McAllister, the boy next door. Brian goes to school, does his homework, and helps his foster parents around the house. Brian also has a secret. He is in love with his best friend. In Crayford, Alabama being in love with another boy is the worst kind of sin. In this first book, Enlightened, Brian and Jamie discover just how deep their emotional bond runs, and at what cost. From fumbling through their first sexual experiences to shrouding every aspect of their relationship from everyone in their lives, Brian and Jamie battle for the one thing that is truly theirs – love. What will they do if their secret is discovered?
Set in a staunchly anti-homosexual religious community in Alabama, this story of sexual awakening centers on two friends since boyhood, Brian McAllister and Jamie Mayfield, and details their struggle as they gain a heightened awareness of their emerging sexuality. No matter what your sexual orientation, you will be drawn in by these genuine and relatable characters
Crush #2
Darkest Passion (LOTU #5)
Genre Paranormal Romance
Releases May 25th 2010
This dude can flex in front of me all day long preferably when I’m drinking a apple martini.
Excerpt
For weeks, Aeron, once an immortal warrior of the gods, has sensed a disturbing presence. A presence about to make herself known. Olivia is an angel–a demon-assassin–and rather than destroy him as ordered, she chooses to save him. The price, however, is high. Her wings are cruelly removed, and her immortality stripped. But for Aeron, who has always despised weakness, trusting–and loving–Olivia will mean ruin.
Crush #3
Blameless (Book 3 in Alexia Tarabotti Novel)
Genre: Fantasy/Horror/Historical
Releases September 01, 2010
Saucy minx in her sexy red dress – I can feel her flirting with me, twirling her umbrella. That’s right, I swing both ways for book covers.
Excerpt
Quitting her husband’s house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season.
Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. To top it all off, Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs, indicating, as only ladybugs can, the fact that all of London’s vampires are now very much interested in seeing Alexia quite thoroughly dead.
While Lord Maccon elects to get progressively more inebriated and Professor Lyall desperately tries to hold the Woolsey werewolf pack together, Alexia flees England for Italy in search of the mysterious Templars. Only they know enough about the preternatural to explain her increasingly inconvenient condition, but they may be worse than the vampires — and they’re armed with pesto.
Crush #4
Sin Undone (Demonica Series #5)
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Releases August 24th 2010
All that leather is enough to make me break out the whips and start ‘role playing’. I love a girl who scratches and grabs onto a guy’s booty.
Excerpt:
As the only female Seminus demon ever born, master assassin Sinead Donnelly is used to being treated like an outcast. She spent decades enslaved, and now vows she’ll die before she’ll relinquish her freedom again.
Half-werewolf, half-vampire Conall Dearghul is charged with bringing in Sin to face punishment for the plague. And she’s no stranger: He’s bound to her by blood, and the one sexual encounter they shared has left him hungering for her raw sensuality.
What are you crushing on these days?
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Oh gosh… I feel like if I told you what my crushes were I would sound like a whore…. I have that many… Yea.. so I get around… LOL!!!
I will ponder if I will let the cat out the bag…
Happy Friday Smoking!!!
Love the title! Sin Undone sounds good, spiders bite, butterfly tattoo, I can’t remember the rest.
Oh girl you are soooo a playah. You are. I’ve heard things. I can’t tell you my most recent crush. You’ll blab and then next thing you know there will retraining orders, court dates, doors slammed in my face. I just don’t need the aggravation right now. Maybe later?
@Cecile TGIF is all I can say.
@KayAnna Kirby I just made my Dad read Spider’s Bite he really liked it!
@fictionvixen Gasp. What kind of things?! I told you that I only stalked him a little bit, not a whole lot.
I know who your crush is rhythms with stick!
I have this mad, all out crush on they guy on the cover of The Darkest Pleasure by Gena Showalter…not to mention Reyes is one of my top BBF. I luvs him and all his pleasure-pain goodness. Uhm, excuse me, need a cold shower since I’ve worked myself up into a frenzy. Happy Friday!
I couldn’t even begin to list my cover-crushes. Seriously. You’d call me the skankiest slut on earth if you knew just how many covers I oogle or how many books I’ve bought just so I could look at them longer. ROFL
@Mar Reyes, I heart him. His book cover is yellow right? I want to hurt him, hurt him real bad. I sound like a call girl with that last sentence. TGIF.
@Mama Kitty Nothing wrong with being a book cover hoe. You are among fellow book lovers.
I’m lovin’ your crushes girl!! However, the coming of age m/m YA – not for me. LOL!
HUGS, VFG
@VFG You know me I have to throw in a little m/m cover crush.
Nice cover crushes. I think my last one was Hook and Jill. Hook is actually a dashing, intelligent man with beautiful blue eyes. First Hook I’ve crushed on…
Love the Gena Showater cover. Nice crush.
@Melissa Oh Yeah! I remember that one you reviewed awhile ago, perked my bookie interest.
OooO I’m crushin’ on so much I feel like I’m cheating on hubby.
My big 3 are…
Lover Mine is a BIG crush of mine. Helllllo John Matthew. Of course, I also doing some pre crushin’ on Blay & Quen(sp).
Magic Bleeds. I’ve seen the cover and I’m in love with both Kate & Curren. 3 some anyone?
Darkest Passion (LOTU #5)-of course. WTH wouldn’t crush on that? All I want to do is take a big bite out of his “everything”.
@Tori you and I were meant to be friends. Seriously, I had pimped out the covers you mentioned last month. Sometimes, when no one is home I just stare at that post and it makes me want to read ‘em even more. Vicious cycle. I really really really want JM’s book and Blay and Qhuinn to hook up.
Blameless looks awesome!! And if you read that first m/m report back to me!
I am crushing on Silver Borne, Changeless and Lover Mine right now!
@Mandi aye aye El Capitan *salute* I think I’m going to read Little Lost Boy this weekend. It’s really ‘speaking’ to me. My only concern about Blameless is that she left sexy Lord in the blurb. I’m already tearing up.
Well you know I crush for any cover that involves tattoos and leather..I’m a simple woman
Man that Blameless blurb killed me..I haven’t read Changeless yet and I’m dying to find out what happens in Blameless..grr revealing cover blurb!
@Heather (Darkly Reading) Is Changeless out already? I read the blurb for Blamelss and nearly had heart failure. What does it mean that she ‘moves’ out?! I need to know what happened!
PS figuered you’d go for the leather and tat cover
I am crushing on so many books as the moment.. The new Katherine Kennedy book coming up soon..
Stephanie Tyler new series coming later this year and Andrew Grey addition to the Love Means.. series…
So I do understand your plight my dear…
Have a great weekend
E.H>
I got so many crushes these days….. but I am impatiently waiting on Donna Grant’s second release in the Dark Sword Series, and yes I have a crush on Gena Showalter’s LOTU as well, the new series of Monica Burns is crush worthy as well, so many ….. sigh….
Have a great weekend!
Changeless comes out on March 30th. I know when I read that she moves out in the blurb I was crushed – they should have health warnings on blurbs like that!
I’m in good company here being the ‘crush test dummy’ that I am, lol! Good thing that my hubby understands that crushes are not the same thing as the love I feel for him!
About cover crushes: the LOTU covers are definitely on my list too! And don’t forget the Lauren Dane covers for Inside Out and Insatiable! Yum! My list is endless
@Erotic Horizon I’m taking notes and writing down all your crushes.
@Marissa does ::puts hands over ears:: I’m not listening to you, I can’t have any more book crushes. (Quietly asks) Donna Grant…any good?
@Heather Sob. I know they can’t just hit us with that kind of blurb. My heart can’t take it.
@Janna How could I forget Lauren Dane has one coming out. Her covers are goregous. Hubs even took out Coming Undone and pointed “she’s hot – I like this one”. I think I got misty eyed.
Oww, poor baby! I think hubby just got back at you for drooling over all the male models
I’m crushing on so many books they are now called me The Crush Whore. I’m waiting for J.R. Wards new book of course. Lover Mine is calling my name big time. Of course anything in the Gena Showalter’s LOTU and Larissa Ione (I’m on the second of her books). Man, I’m drawing a blank this morning. Not enough coffee. By the way, I need another Scottish fix– any suggestions besides Kresley Cole?
@Moonsanity If you are in the historical romance mood can’t go wrong with Julie Garwood, not as sexy funny, but you’ll get your Scottish fix. Have you read Wicked Deeds on a Winter’s Night by Kresley Cole? Not sure if you’ve read all the IAD series.
Yep, I’ve read them all….every stinking one:) I have not read Julie Garwood though… so that’s a possibility. I may have to start a quest to find all that is Scottish in the paranormal book world.
@moonsanity good luck my friend. I will keep you posted if I come across any.