Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Bad Boys Online

I just finished reading Bad Boys Online by Erin McCarthy.

Yes, it's from the Romance section, but it was very funny and quite erotic, which is not the easiest combination to achieve. It's really a collection of three novelettes: Hard Drive, Press Any Key, User Friendly. Each story quickly spins into wild sex, and each story ends up with declarations of mutual love. It's that last part, the declarations of mutual love - including a marriage proposal or two - that distinguishes Romance Erotica.

I really enjoyed some of the writing:

"...her inhibitions melting like marshmallows over a campfire."

"Jealous was good. As long as it was the mild, healthy kind, not the intense, bunny-boiling kind of jealous."

"Two years worth of hormones flooded up and out as if the Hoover Dam had been attacked by a sledge hammer."

The horizontal dance
Begins this sort of romance.
But then, sure enough, it proceeds
To discussing emotional needs.

Of course, the story can't quit
Till the couples finally commit,
Since, in the end, it's all about how
Lovers get to a vow.

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