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They come at dusk in a cloak of sensuality. They embody our darkest fears and our most erotic fantasies. Enter their immortal world--and surrender to their seduction. . . Once BittenOnce a lawman, now a vampire, Jake Brand still likes to play fair. So he fulfills his need for blood by giving his victims intense sexual pleasure. The scent of their lust intoxicates him, making the taste of the liquid heat pulsing through their bodies even more desirable. But then he meets Athena who threatens his self-control and makes him wonder if he has finally found the woman who can bring him to his knees in submission. . . Bitten After DarkAfter centuries of being a vampire, Thomas Ward has learned to satisfy his bloodlust without harming his victims. Instead he brings them to the peak of sexual ecstasy and then savors the taste of their hot passion as it explodes throughout their body. But now he's met a woman who tempts him like no other, who may be able to offer the one thing in the world he seeks--total surrender--if only he can trust her. . .
365 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2008
About the author
Lydia Parks
23 books11 followersSarah Baker grew up in New Orleans, the city of music, fun, and food. After a year of college, she dropped out and ran off to Alaska to enjoy a taste of the Wild West pipeline days. Three years later, Sarah returned to the Lower 48 and earned a Master's degree in engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
As a civil engineer for the federal government, she spends a lot of time in the woods, and was even sent to Siberia for a brief assignment. Sarah and her husband have lived all over the United States from Mississippi to Alaska, and currently reside in New Mexico. While moving around, she stumbled onto the joy of her life--writing.
Sarah writes romance as Sarah Storme, erotica as Lydia Parks, and mystery as S.H. Baker. Her writing credits include the Dassas Cormier Mystery Series, the Hearts of Marshall's Bayou Historical Romance series, Addicted, Devour Me, and more.
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November 12, 2008
I really don't know how to rate this book. If you are looking for a book that the characters really don't connect much on an emotional level, but have alot of sex...menage, group sex, blood play etc...this is a very good book.
Honestly, I never really cared about the characters. I thought the storyline in both stories were rushed. In my opinion, this book was not really a romance, but just erotica.
I was disappointed in this book. But, maybe it's just me.
Honestly, I never really cared about the characters. I thought the storyline in both stories were rushed. In my opinion, this book was not really a romance, but just erotica.
I was disappointed in this book. But, maybe it's just me.
September 28, 2010
2 stars and 1 star for two erotic stories with good vampires and bad humans.
Both stories are about vampires who drink limited amounts of blood from humans so that the humans stay alive. The vampires bring sexual pleasure to their victims while drinking their blood.
2 stars for BITE ME AGAIN.
STORY BRIEF:
Daniel Ward is a 400 year old vampire living in New Mexico. He frequents bars to have sex with women and drink their blood. He is helpful to humans. He teaches a guy how to be successful with women by treating them with respect, courtesy and patience. He takes food to kids living on the street. He meets Meg who intrigues him. He sees her a few times in the bars, tries to connect with her and follow her, but she evades him.
REVIEWER’S OPINION:
The relationship with Meg was interesting. I liked how he and Meg worked together in the end, fighting a bad guy. I was not happy with the story about Wolf and why he wanted revenge. It was too vague. I needed to know more. There were too many unanswered questions. There were a lot of sex scenes, but they were missing emotional development. I found myself skimming through them. This story had a more interesting plot than Once Bitten, but it was not good enough to recommend the book. Minor editing point: The main character is Daniel Ward, but the back cover of the book erroneously says his name is Thomas Ward.
DATA:
Story length: 162 pages. Swearing language: strong. Sexual language: strong/erotic with rear door activity. Number of sex scenes: 11. Length of sex scenes: 1.9 to 7.1 pages. Total number of sex scene pages: 43. Setting: current day Santa Fe, New Mexico. Copyright: 2008. Genre: erotic paranormal romance.
1 star for ONCE BITTEN.
STORY BRIEF:
Jake is a vampire. He has sex with many different women as he drinks their blood. He sees Athena and is immediately drawn to her scent. He realizes he wants her permanently as his mate. There is a group of humans successfully killing vampires. Jake and other vampires are trying to find them and stop them.
REVIEWER’S OPINION:
The relationship between Jake and Athena happens too quickly and easily. There was no developing of a relationship. I wasn’t thrilled to see Jake continuing to have sex with other women after he and Athena were together. In the conflict with the vampire hunters I was annoyed with two stupid decisions, one by Jake and another by Athena. Also, I was not happy with another scene where Jake meets with Daniel. The author left that scene without answering some questions as to how Jake’s meeting with Daniel was going to prevent Daniel from contacting Jake’s enemies. In general, too many plot points did not work for me. The sex scenes were long and explicit, including group sex. But for some reason, I found them boring. Maybe it was due to lack of emotion or passion. I’m not sure. There was one thing I liked that I hadn’t seen elsewhere. The humans wore battery-operated Kevlar-type vests to conceal the noise of their hearts beating. Vampires listened for heartbeats when hunting humans, so this was valuable to the humans.
DATA:
Story length: 191 pages. Swearing language: moderate. Sexual language: strong/erotic with rear door activity. Number of sex scenes: 16. Length of sex scenes: 0.3 to 8 pages. Total number of sex scene pages: 51. Setting: current day New Mexico. Copyright: 2008. Genre: erotic paranormal romance.
Both stories are about vampires who drink limited amounts of blood from humans so that the humans stay alive. The vampires bring sexual pleasure to their victims while drinking their blood.
2 stars for BITE ME AGAIN.
STORY BRIEF:
Daniel Ward is a 400 year old vampire living in New Mexico. He frequents bars to have sex with women and drink their blood. He is helpful to humans. He teaches a guy how to be successful with women by treating them with respect, courtesy and patience. He takes food to kids living on the street. He meets Meg who intrigues him. He sees her a few times in the bars, tries to connect with her and follow her, but she evades him.
REVIEWER’S OPINION:
The relationship with Meg was interesting. I liked how he and Meg worked together in the end, fighting a bad guy. I was not happy with the story about Wolf and why he wanted revenge. It was too vague. I needed to know more. There were too many unanswered questions. There were a lot of sex scenes, but they were missing emotional development. I found myself skimming through them. This story had a more interesting plot than Once Bitten, but it was not good enough to recommend the book. Minor editing point: The main character is Daniel Ward, but the back cover of the book erroneously says his name is Thomas Ward.
DATA:
Story length: 162 pages. Swearing language: strong. Sexual language: strong/erotic with rear door activity. Number of sex scenes: 11. Length of sex scenes: 1.9 to 7.1 pages. Total number of sex scene pages: 43. Setting: current day Santa Fe, New Mexico. Copyright: 2008. Genre: erotic paranormal romance.
1 star for ONCE BITTEN.
STORY BRIEF:
Jake is a vampire. He has sex with many different women as he drinks their blood. He sees Athena and is immediately drawn to her scent. He realizes he wants her permanently as his mate. There is a group of humans successfully killing vampires. Jake and other vampires are trying to find them and stop them.
REVIEWER’S OPINION:
The relationship between Jake and Athena happens too quickly and easily. There was no developing of a relationship. I wasn’t thrilled to see Jake continuing to have sex with other women after he and Athena were together. In the conflict with the vampire hunters I was annoyed with two stupid decisions, one by Jake and another by Athena. Also, I was not happy with another scene where Jake meets with Daniel. The author left that scene without answering some questions as to how Jake’s meeting with Daniel was going to prevent Daniel from contacting Jake’s enemies. In general, too many plot points did not work for me. The sex scenes were long and explicit, including group sex. But for some reason, I found them boring. Maybe it was due to lack of emotion or passion. I’m not sure. There was one thing I liked that I hadn’t seen elsewhere. The humans wore battery-operated Kevlar-type vests to conceal the noise of their hearts beating. Vampires listened for heartbeats when hunting humans, so this was valuable to the humans.
DATA:
Story length: 191 pages. Swearing language: moderate. Sexual language: strong/erotic with rear door activity. Number of sex scenes: 16. Length of sex scenes: 0.3 to 8 pages. Total number of sex scene pages: 51. Setting: current day New Mexico. Copyright: 2008. Genre: erotic paranormal romance.
November 12, 2008
Meh. "Addicted" by Lydia Parks is an erotic twofer from Aphrodisia. There's really not much new or unusual about Parks' vampires and thus my lower rating.
"Once Bitten" is 190 pages of hot sex. He's an old vampire, she's a young thing whose blind love for a wacko puts her in the vampire's path. When he takes her bait, her boyfriend almost kills him. Vamp recovers and comes after her. They fall in love while she's his captive and...well, you know the story.
"Bite Me Again" is the second story. This time she's a cop who's suspicious of his presence near some bad guys. He's innocent (of this anyway) and powerfully attracted to her. He helps her investigation into white slavery and runs into an old enemy. You can probably take it from here.
"Addicted" is definitely hot. But I found myself getting a little bored with the constant sex (bet you never thought to read THAT in one of my reviews) and didn't actually feel drawn to any of the characters. I also kept getting that deja vu feeling that I'd read this one before. I hadn't, but I didn't find anything that made Lydia Parks' vampires different or memorable from the other myriad vampires romping their way through books today.
"Once Bitten" is 190 pages of hot sex. He's an old vampire, she's a young thing whose blind love for a wacko puts her in the vampire's path. When he takes her bait, her boyfriend almost kills him. Vamp recovers and comes after her. They fall in love while she's his captive and...well, you know the story.
"Bite Me Again" is the second story. This time she's a cop who's suspicious of his presence near some bad guys. He's innocent (of this anyway) and powerfully attracted to her. He helps her investigation into white slavery and runs into an old enemy. You can probably take it from here.
"Addicted" is definitely hot. But I found myself getting a little bored with the constant sex (bet you never thought to read THAT in one of my reviews) and didn't actually feel drawn to any of the characters. I also kept getting that deja vu feeling that I'd read this one before. I hadn't, but I didn't find anything that made Lydia Parks' vampires different or memorable from the other myriad vampires romping their way through books today.
November 13, 2008
This book is erotica, so if that's not your thing, stop reading.
If you love contemporary vampire romance and want to take a stab at reading erotica, this book could be your gateway drug of choice. If you're lukewarm about either, you might not like it. There was nothing wrong with the 2 novellas in this book, and the sex scenes were varied (some group scenes), but I found myself bored almost immediately. I'm glad I hung on through the first novella because the second was much better in terms of character chemistry. These vampires do occasionally kill their meals, but usually only bad guys.
The first story focuses on cowboy sheriff vampire Jake finding vampire hunter Athena and becoming obsessed with her. He also takes apart the vampire hunter ring, but not without vampire casualities.
The second story is about pickpocket vampire Daniel becoming obsessed with mystery woman Meg, who turns out to be a PI. Eventually they confront an enemy from Daniel's past.
If you love contemporary vampire romance and want to take a stab at reading erotica, this book could be your gateway drug of choice. If you're lukewarm about either, you might not like it. There was nothing wrong with the 2 novellas in this book, and the sex scenes were varied (some group scenes), but I found myself bored almost immediately. I'm glad I hung on through the first novella because the second was much better in terms of character chemistry. These vampires do occasionally kill their meals, but usually only bad guys.
The first story focuses on cowboy sheriff vampire Jake finding vampire hunter Athena and becoming obsessed with her. He also takes apart the vampire hunter ring, but not without vampire casualities.
The second story is about pickpocket vampire Daniel becoming obsessed with mystery woman Meg, who turns out to be a PI. Eventually they confront an enemy from Daniel's past.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 24, 2009
I finally finished this book. I read the first story in it to kill time before I could start my October challenge books and I finished while waiting to start my November challenge books. Meh, the first story was all sex with a light eye-rolling storyline. The second story oddly light on sex with an totally eye-rolling story line. Not very interesting. I have one more book by Lydia Parks, I'll see if it's any better. Maybe this just isn't by cup of tea.
August 16, 2010
Hot!
Certainly not the best adult fiction I've read but certainly not the worst either.
Add in the elusive, mysterious blood-drinker and BAM! we have ourselves a page-turner.
The book has two stories; I can't really decide which is better or worse. The plot was not as thin as I expected for something so clearly focused on sex (of which there is plenty) and I have to admit I've read my copy more than once - so there you go!
Certainly not the best adult fiction I've read but certainly not the worst either.
Add in the elusive, mysterious blood-drinker and BAM! we have ourselves a page-turner.
The book has two stories; I can't really decide which is better or worse. The plot was not as thin as I expected for something so clearly focused on sex (of which there is plenty) and I have to admit I've read my copy more than once - so there you go!
November 2, 2009
As for Addicted--it got 2 stars. I gave it 2 stars, because I knew I was getting into a smutty read... If you are looking for a book with meaningless sex with everyone and no real plot, then this is the book for you. Unfortunately, it was not the book for me.
January 14, 2011
If you like hot adult books, this is what you are looking for. This book is not kidding when it says 'Explicity Sexual Activity'! The first story is interesting and a little different compared to the second. This gives you wonders on what will happen next!
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July 15, 2012this ones for the vampire fans although I'm not w big fan of vampire stories besides twilight this book surprised me it has 2 separate stories both very mesmerising in the way the ahum vampires have sex with mortals and other vamps very interesting thumbs up
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November 20, 2008Addicted by Lydia Parks (2008)
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January 20, 2009Very erotic short stories without much plot. Lots of M/F/M and F/M/F interactions with multiple partners and not much in the way of romance.
Want to Read
March 15, 2010sounds like a good book!
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