As I mentioned a few months ago, I am reading the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton, which starts with Guilty Pleasures. Onto book 7: Burnt Offerings! I’m reading about 175 pages a week. Each week, I’ll be bringing you two posts: a review of the book and a related kinky post. This is my sexy story post!

#7 Burnt Offerings Part 1 (Ch 1-27)

I would like to explore some public sex in this little snippet. In this book (and if I recall correctly, it becomes more of a focus in later books), sex with an audience becomes prominent. But Anita is shy, for sure. Check out this character, who is also a little shy about having sex in front of others.

“No, no, no, no,” I keep murmuring, but he isn’t going to give me a choice. I know he won’t, but I want him to. I think. Maybe I don’t want him to. Maybe I like that he’s not giving me a choice.

Whether I like it or not, I’m still stuck with it. He’s got a collar locked around my neck with a leash attached, and he’s walking right out the front door. I don’t want to be walked down the street in a leash and collar, but at least he let me wear my thong and a sexy little sheer dress. I’m not naked. Oh, and heels. He let me wear heels. But damn, do my feet hurt. I wonder if he wants me to crawl. (Probably, he wants me to crawl.) But for now, I’m walking.

Even without heels on, I’m not sure I could resist his pull, but with heels on, I have no prayer. So I step out onto the sidewalk behind him. The screen door slams shut behind me, and the slam echoes in the dark night. I glance around, trying to see if anyone is peering out of their windows, but it’s the middle of the night, and there aren’t any faces peering out of the windows. At least, not that I can see. 

He walks me down the street, and my heart is pounding in my throat. I am terrified. He takes me down an alley, which makes me feel slightly more comfortable, and then into a cemetery. A cemetery! What are we doing here? At night? At least there won’t be any people. I hope.

He pushes me up against a headstone so that I’m leaned over with my ass a little bit in the air. He slips a blindfold over my eyes and whispers, “Don’t move.”

I don’t know where I would go anyway. The ground is too soft for me to run in my heels. I lean there, straining to hear what is going on around me, and I hear footsteps. It must be him. But then there are more footsteps, and more, echoing all around me. It’s two people, three people, I can’t tell how many now. And there I am, wearing just a blindfold, heels, a thong, and a sheer dress. Fucking hell. But my cunt is wet with desire. And when I say wet, I mean dripping wet. I want someone to touch me. I don’t want to admit it, but I love being on display.

After what feels like forever, I get my wish. Someone’s hands are on me, touching me softly on my hip. Another hand touches my arm. Another caresses my neck. I don’t know who’s touching me, but it feels amazing. I want more. I want the touches to be hard, not soft. I want to feel more than the soft warmth.

What do you think? Do you want to know what happens next? Maybe I’ll share some more next week, even though Anita would never actually want this to be her (or maybe won’t admit it?). There’s still a lot of series to go!

Hope you enjoy this foray into the world of Anita Blake! What else are you reading? Come back Sunday for my review of the second half of the book!

As I mentioned a few months ago, I am reading the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton, which starts with Guilty Pleasures. Onto book 7: Burnt Offerings! I’m reading about 175 pages a week. Each week, I’ll be bringing you two posts: a review of the book and a related kinky post. This is my review of the book post!

Description from Goodreads: “You can’t trust anyone who sleeps with the monsters.”

That’s what I’ve always said. That’s what I’ve always believed. But now I’m the one sharing a bed with the Master Vampire of the City. Me, Anita Blake. The woman the vampires call the Executioner. From part of the solution, I’ve become part of the problem. So it hits close to home when an arsonist begins to target vampire-owned businesses all over town — an arsonist who seems to want to destroy more than just property. It’s the monsters who are in danger now. And it’s up the the Executioner to save them from the inferno…

#7 Burnt Offerings Part 1 (Ch 1-27)

Non-spoilery Review:

It’s interesting, breaking this book in half, that the beginning and the middle have nothing to do with each other. The opening scene has barely been mentioned in the subsequent 175 pages. But I’m still interested in it, and there has been a lot of plot happening and character development that I’m definitely interested in seeing where it’s going!

Here is the link to my very rough notes about this part of the book, including notes on characters and plot. It’s mostly for me, but if you had read it in the past and just need a refresher, it would suffice, though it doesn’t read nicely!

Hope you enjoy this foray into the world of Anita Blake! What else are you reading? Come back later this week for some kinky musings!

As I mentioned more than a month ago, I am reading the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton, which starts with Guilty Pleasures. Onto book 6: The Killing Dance! I’m reading about 175 pages a week. Each week, I’ll be bringing you two posts: a review of the book and a related kinky post. This is a related sexy story!

Bathtubs are a great feature in many stories, and this one is no exception. Here is a reimagined scene with a bathtub:

He lights a candle and turns the harsh overhead lights off. The flickering candle makes the room feel warm and cozy as she slips into the tub of hot water. It’s peaceful in the warm water. She sinks back into the water and listens for the sounds of him walking away, but they don’t come. Her eyes flutter back open, and she sees him standing there, watching her.

“Yes?” she asks, her voice steady.

“I just like watching you.”

She’s self-conscious then, worrying about what he’s thinking.

“You’re beautiful.”

“I don’t want you to touch me.”

“Don’t worry. I know. I won’t.”

But he doesn’t leave. He stands there, watching her still.

She tries to pretend like it doesn’t bother her. She lets her eyes close, though her ears are hyperaware of him.

And finally, gratefully, she hears his footsteps as he retreats from the bathroom and closes the door behind himself.

Their relationship is complicated. On one hand, she feels like she should feel comfortable being naked in front of him, but she isn’t. She isn’t comfortable being naked in front of anyone. But she is glad that he is so respectful. She feels lucky that she has him, even if she is still keeping him at arm’s length.

Hope you enjoy this foray into the world of Anita Blake! What else are you reading? Come back next week for the next novel!

As I mentioned more than a month ago, I am reading the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton, which starts with Guilty Pleasures. Onto book 6: The Killing Dance! I’m reading about 175 pages a week. Each week, I’ll be bringing you two posts: a review of the book and a related kinky post. This is my review of the book post!

Description from Amazon: In The Killing Dance, vampire hunter Anita Blake finds herself the victim when a $500,000 price is put on her head, and the two men in her life – a vampire and a werewolf – aren’t helping the situation.

The Killing Dance Part 2 (Ch 19-end)

Holy shit. So much happens in this book, especially this half. There are a lot of themes that will carry through into future books, so make sure you pay attention when reading this half, for sure! So many details!

I was happy that I didn’t feel like the end of the book moved too quickly like I did in the previous book. There was a lot of action, a lot of explanation, tying up loose ends, and then the (almost required) short and quick what-happens-next, but it felt well-paced.

Here is the link to my very rough notes about this part of the book, including notes on characters and plot. It’s mostly for me, but if you had read it in the past and just need a refresher, it would suffice, though it doesn’t read nicely!

Hope you enjoy this foray into the world of Anita Blake! What else are you reading? Come back later this week for some kinky musings!

As I mentioned more than a month ago, I am reading the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton, which starts with Guilty Pleasures. Onto book 6: The Killing Dance! I’m reading about 175 pages a week. Each week, I’ll be bringing you two posts: a review of the book and a related kinky post. This is my short sexy story!

Description from Amazon: In The Killing Dance, vampire hunter Anita Blake finds herself the victim when a $500,000 price is put on her head, and the two men in her life – a vampire and a werewolf – aren’t helping the situation.

The Killing Dance Part 1 (Ch 1-18)

In The Killing Dance, there is a scene about sleeping in bed with someone but not having sex. So here’s a short snippet from my current WIP. If you want to know more, stick around!

“Oh goodness,” I can’t help but think as I look at myself in the bathroom mirror. I am afraid that I’m not attractive enough, that I’m not wearing the right pajamas, that he’s going to reject me. I don’t know why he would reject me when we’ve come this far, but it’s what I fear anyway. And besides, why would I care if he rejected me? Wasn’t that what I wanted anyway? I hadn’t chosen this life. I had been chosen, and now I was stuck. So if he rejected me, wouldn’t that be a good thing?

Maybe. But then again, I’d probably be sent off into a worse situation if he rejected me. I need to breathe and hope that I’m enough. I just have to please him. 

I walk out of the bathroom, and he’s laying on the bed in a pair of shorts, his chest bare. There’s a smattering of chest hair there that I can’t help but find attractive. I want to know what it feels like to touch it. I’m pretty sure it’s dangerous to touch him without being invited. Better to wait and see what he does.

“Hello, beautiful girl,” he says, and he pats the bed next to him.

God I hate being treated like a child. I think. Maybe I don’t hate it. Maybe I want to curl up in his arms and pretend the world is all okay. But it’s not okay. I climb onto the bed on the opposite side from him, keeping my distance.

“It’s okay,” he soothes, “I’m not going to hurt you tonight.”

That last word makes me shiver. Fear? Anticipation? Disgust? (Okay, not the last one.)

He reaches out a hand to touch me and goosebumps erupt on my arm where his fingers brush against my skin. “Come to me, beautiful girl. I want to hold you.”

He switches off the bedside light, plunging the room into darkness, as I scoot over and let him wrap me up in his arms. He holds me there in the dark, and I think it’s probably been hours. He falls asleep almost immediately, the soft sounds of his breath soothing in the dark. Is this what it will always be like? No, it can’t be. But it’s nice. Spending the night in his arms, afraid, but warm and dry and safe? Maybe safe. I don’t know. But I’ll take it, and maybe even enjoy it. Just for tonight.

Hope you enjoy this foray into the world of Anita Blake! What else are you reading? Come back Sunday for the second part of the book!

As I mentioned more than a month ago, I am reading the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton, which starts with Guilty Pleasures. Onto book 6: The Killing Dance! I’m reading about 175 pages a week. Each week, I’ll be bringing you two posts: a review of the book and a related kinky post. This is my review of the book post!

Description from Amazon: In The Killing Dance, vampire hunter Anita Blake finds herself the victim when a $500,000 price is put on her head, and the two men in her life – a vampire and a werewolf – aren’t helping the situation.

The Killing Dance Part 1 (Ch 1-18)

The Killing Dance is probably the most suspenseful Anita Blake book yet. In this first half, there’s a lot of tension (not sexual) that certainly keeps the reader on their toes! But the sexual tension is building, too, and I can’t wait to see what happens next!

Here is the link to my very rough notes about this part of the book, including notes on characters and plot. It’s mostly for me, but if you had read it in the past and just need a refresher, it would suffice, though it doesn’t read nicely!

Hope you enjoy this foray into the world of Anita Blake! What else are you reading? Come back later this week for some kinky musings!

As I mentioned more than a month ago, I am reading the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton, which starts with Guilty Pleasures. Onto book 5: Bloody Bones! I’m reading about 175 pages a week. Each week, I’ll be bringing you two posts: a review of the book and a related kinky post. This is my kinky musings post!

Description from Good Reads: Hired to exhume two-hundred-year-old graves in the wake of a land dispute, Anita Blake becomes involved in local murders involving three dead teenagers and a bloodless corpse that makes her suspect that an evil force is preying upon the town. 

Bloody Bones Part 1 (Ch 19-end)

Bathrooms can be a sexy place, especially when they have lavish bathtubs. In this book, there’s a scene in a lavish bathroom that doesn’t lead to sex. So I thought I would put us in that mindset for a few moments.

I lay in the bathtub, swirling the hot water with my finger, holding my breath so that nothing else disturbs the water. I enjoy watching the ripples spread across the still water. I’m still watching the ripples fade as I hear the door open. He enters with a rush of cool air from the hallway. My nipples harden at the sudden change in temperature.

Neither of us says a word as he sits down on the edge of the tub. One of his hands slides onto my shoulder, protruding from the water. A shiver runs down my spine. I have a vision in my mind of him stripping out of his clothes and climbing into the bathtub with me. I can almost feel his body pressed against mine in the hot water. But he’s not living out my fantasy. He’s just sitting next to me, gently stroking my bare skin.

I am getting increasingly frustrated. I want him to touch me. I want to touch him. He’s barely even doing anything, and it’s driving me wild.

Hope you enjoy this foray into the world of Anita Blake! What else are you reading? Come back next week for the next book: The Killing Dance!

As I mentioned more than a month ago, I am reading the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton, which starts with Guilty Pleasures. Onto book 5: Bloody Bones! I’m reading about 175 pages a week. Each week, I’ll be bringing you two posts: a review of the book and a related kinky post. This is my review of the book post!

Description from Good Reads: Hired to exhume two-hundred-year-old graves in the wake of a land dispute, Anita Blake becomes involved in local murders involving three dead teenagers and a bloodless corpse that makes her suspect that an evil force is preying upon the town. 

Bloody Bones Part 1 (Ch 19-end)

As always, I love every book in this series. In this one, as I got to the end, I wished that she had slowed down the last ~30 pages or so. It went so quickly, and so much happened. I wanted to know more about the relationships between the fae and the vampires and what was going on there. Still, a solid novel!

Here is the link to my very rough notes about this part of the book, including notes on characters and plot. It’s mostly for me, but if you had read it in the past and just need a refresher, it would suffice, though it doesn’t read nicely!

Hope you enjoy this foray into the world of Anita Blake! What else are you reading? Come back later this week for some kinky musings!

As I mentioned more than a month ago, I am reading the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton, which starts with Guilty Pleasures. Onto book 5: Bloody Bones! I’m reading about 175 pages a week. Each week, I’ll be bringing you two posts: a review of the book and a related kinky post. This is my review of the book post!

Description from Good Reads: Hired to exhume two-hundred-year-old graves in the wake of a land dispute, Anita Blake becomes involved in local murders involving three dead teenagers and a bloodless corpse that makes her suspect that an evil force is preying upon the town. 

Bloody Bones Part 1 (Ch 1-18)

There’s talk about where everyone is going to sleep. Anita doesn’t want to share a bed with Jean-Claude, even though he assures her that he won’t be able to wake up and do anything because it will be daylight. Let’s hear a little true story about a different time in my life.

I know that you aren’t supposed to take a bus across the state to meet a stranger from the internet without telling anyone where you’re going, but…here I am. I don’t know what possessed me to do it. I guess it was the whole event. A movie premiere! My friend from the internet (please realize that in 2005, this was a BIG deal) got tickets to see a movie I’ve been dying to see. He works at a game store, and the store rented out the whole screen at the theater so we could all go. So off I went! 

The evening was magical. There was no spark with my friend. I had thought there might be, but it was just friendship. But when it came time to finally go to bed after the movie and dinner at the diner, I was very nervous. There were four of us and one bed. So we all piled in—one after the other. I don’t know how we did it. (Ah, the days of college!) But we managed. Nothing happened that night (or any other night after). And all these years later, we still keep in touch.

Hope you enjoy this foray into the world of Anita Blake! What else are you reading? Come back next week for Part 2!

As I mentioned more than a month ago, I am reading the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton, which starts with Guilty Pleasures. Onto book 5: Bloody Bones! I’m reading about 175 pages a week. Each week, I’ll be bringing you two posts: a review of the book and a related kinky post. This is my review of the book post!

Description from Good Reads: Hired to exhume two-hundred-year-old graves in the wake of a land dispute, Anita Blake becomes involved in local murders involving three dead teenagers and a bloodless corpse that makes her suspect that an evil force is preying upon the town. 

Bloody Bones Part 1 (Ch 1-18)

So much happens in the first half of this book! I guess that’s true for all of these novels. They move so fast! But it’s very good. As usual, I’m riveted and want to get to the end (even on a re-read). Great book so far!

Here is the link to my very rough notes about the first half of the book, including notes on characters and plot. It’s mostly for me, but if you had read it in the past and just need a refresher, it would suffice, though it doesn’t read nicely!

Hope you enjoy this foray into the world of Anita Blake! What else are you reading? Come back later this week for some kinky musings!

As I mentioned more than a month ago, I am reading the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton, which starts with Guilty Pleasures. Onto book 4: The Lunatic Cafe! I’m reading about 175 pages a week. Each week, I’ll be bringing you two posts: a review of the book and a related kinky post. This is my kinky story!

Description from Amazon: Vampire hunter and zombie animator Anita Blake is an expert at sniffing out the bad from the good. But in The Lunatic Cafe-now in trade paperback for the first time-she’s about to learn that nothing is ever as it seems, especially in matters of the not-so-human heart.

Dating a werewolf with self-esteem issues is stressing Anita out. Especially when something-or someone-starts taking out the city’s shapeshifters.

The Lunatic Cafe – Part 2 (Ch 22-end)

It happens a lot throughout the stories, but werewolves (at least in the Anita Blake world) are turned on by blood and fear. I can definitely relate to that. Fear is a huge turn-on for me. And obviously, blood-play is a kink, just not one of my kinks. Do you have a kink that is more on the taboo side of things? Enjoy this little story about fear being a turn-on.

Work starts at 5:30am. It’s too early, but I have to be there to open the gym by 6:00am. And you better believe that if I opened at 6:02, someone would complain to my boss. So I am always early, and I am always unlocking the doors on time. I don’t mind the early mornings, but you know what I do mind? Walking the streets of Boston before the sun rises.

It shouldn’t matter, but it does. I shouldn’t be scared, but I am. And it’s different at this hour of the morning. If I go out late at night, there are always people around. Students sneaking into bars before they turn 21, or maybe just after they’ve reached that milestone. People in their late 20s going out on blind dates. People in their 30s sick of work and needing a drink at the end of the day. I don’t know all of their reasons, but I do know that they are out and about, that they make noise, and they provide witnesses for the woman walking alone on the dark streets. I don’t want to bank on it protecting me, but it definitely does make me feel more comfortable.

But at 5:15, before the sun rises, there aren’t any college students wandering the streets. No one is going home after a long day at work. When I get on the train in five minutes, it will be me and a few other sleepy people heading off to work for the day. There might even be a few night-shift people heading home. But no one is peppy, loud, chatty. That part is nice. And with a train operator, I feel reasonably comfortable that no one is going to grab me and take me off to rape me. 

But before I get to the train, I have to walk five minutes down the road. I cross the street, go down a set of dark stairs, down an alley, and out to the end of the block where the train station sits. On this particular morning, as I cross the street right near the top of the stairs, there’s a car. It’s just sitting there with its headlights on, illuminating the street. There are no interior lights on. I can’t see anything inside.

There are a hundred good reasons they could be pulled over. Maybe they dropped something, or maybe they had to send a text message. I am wary and watchful as I near the car. Just as I am level with the passenger side door, it swings open.

My heart pounds hard in my chest. I don’t look. I don’t think. I just run. Down the stairs, through the alley, never looking behind me, never slowing down. Praying that a train will pull up to the station at just the right moment.

Hope you enjoy this foray into the world of Anita Blake! What else are you reading? Come back next week for the next book: Bloody Bones!