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26Aug

Review: Playing Jax by Jan Graham

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Playing Jax by Jan Graham

http://www.amazon.com/Playing-Wylde-Publishing-Classic-ebook/dp/B008BKSEZ4/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1345959703&sr=1-1&keywords=Playing+Jax

ASIN B008BKSEZ4

Story Rating: 5 out of 5 paddles

Sting Factor (kink): 4 out of 5

Blurb:

Steve Jax buried his heart, along with his soul mate, two years ago. He had his turn in the game of love, and it didn’t work out, end of story. His new neighbor might stir certain passions within him, but his dark, kinky desiresaren’t the sort of thing a sweet, naïve ex-nun should be exposed to. All he has to do is convince the determined little minx of that. Rhiannon McCabe has never been in love. She’s hidden under a religious veil since she was eighteen. Now everything’s changed. She’s left the church, created a new life, and finally met the only man to ever arouse her sexual nature. Steve might think he doesn’t have the capacity to love her, but she’s determined to convince him otherwise. If love really is a game, then Steve Jax is a prize worth playing for.

Review:

This was a great read. This story was part of a series but could be enjoyed without reading the other novel. It was a bit slow to start but once it did it took off. This story takes place in Australia so the terms are a bit off but does not take way for the story in the least. All of the characters were strong and interesting in their own way. Jan Graham does a great job of mixing an interesting story line, strong characters, and BDSM kink. One of things that I found a bit odd though in the story was how fast Rhia sheds her religious background and delves into the BDSM lifestyle.

Reviewed by Melissa

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19May

Author Interview- Jan Graham!

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1. When you first started writing, did you have any idea you’d be writing BDSM/kinky books? Do you write in any other genre?

I don’t exclusively write BDSM books. I write erotic romance that sometimes has BDSM/kinky elements in them. For me books and storylines should reflect real life, so the reader can identify with the characters and story. BDSM is something that people are involved in real life, so therefore some characters in the books live that lifestyle, but not all. The Wylde-Shore series revolves around characters that enjoy BDSM, but the storyline is more romantic suspense. The Sydney Cougar series are novellas that don’t include BDSM, at this point. There are still a few stories to be written in that series, so I’m sure someone’s bound to get their kink on at some stage.

2. Do you use a pen name? If yes (or no), why?

I don’t use a pen name, I write under the name I was given at birth. I decided not to use a pen for a few reasons. Mainly I’m proud of what I do and the books I write, therefore I am happy to use my own name. The other thing with using a pen name is, I’d probably forget who I was and not answer if someone called me by my pen name. How embarrassing would that be?

3. Are you actively involved in BDSM? If so how do you identify yourself? Dom(me)/sub? Top/bottom? Switch?

I’ve been involved in the BDSM lifestyle for about 10 yrs, maybe more. I identify as a sub. I have been an interim Mistress for a friend once, after he and his Domme broke up. It’s just not my thing. During canings I kept asking him if I was hurting him…lol. I was so pleased when he found his new Mistress.

Review: Finding Angel by Jan Graham

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Finding Angel
Jan Graham
Siren Publishing [link to buy]
ASIN B006QXC9X6

Rating: 4 out of 5 paddles

Blurb:

Angel Wylde is a woman with a complicated existence, a damaging past, and a desire to be normal. Unfortunately, what’s normal to Angel is unconventional to the rest of us. A crime boss will kill to get an incriminating ledger from her. Detective Steve Jax also wants the ledger from Angel, but the infuriating woman has disappeared.

Christian and Daniel Shore, Steve’s two best friends, don’t know about the ledger. They just want Angel. A chance meeting has them taking her home and deciding she is the only woman for them—yes, both of them. Obviously, Angel isn’t the only one with unconventional desires. So who does Angel trust? Two kinky Doms she just met, a cop she doesn’t know anything about, or a nasty crime boss? Trusting all of them may save her life, and falling in love with two Dominant brothers is the icing on the cake.

Review:

Finding Angel is an erotic, romantic, suspense novel. I found it to be engrossing, funny, heart wrenching, heart warming, and full of emotion. At times, it did seem to drag and it is a long novel at about 400 pages, but I couldn’t stop reading it.

Angel has had her share of abusive relationships and it’s surprising that she still can and wants to be a submissive. As we follow Angel through her unique relationships with an abuser, a drug lord, a detective and finally two dominants, we learn a lot about love, life and her path to happiness. Angel has a life most of us can’t relate to but it is told so well, I felt like I was there with her through it all. She is a wonderful character fun of strength, fears, love and more. I laughed and cried with her several times.

Guest blogger: Kinky People Leading Normal Lives by Jan Graham

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I like to think that living a BDSM lifestyle is a well rounded experience, I believe reading a BDSM novel should be the same. When I sit my spankable ass in a chair or tie myself to the bed, eBook reader in hand, I want to know that I’ll be satisfied when I’m finish. Unfortunately sometimes I’m not, but then I guess that’s just life. When I read I like to choose books I can relate too. They need to have a good storyline to hold my interest, maybe some unexpected twists and turns. If the novel includes elements of the BDSM lifestyle then I want them to ring true, to resonate within me as believable. I want the story to be a reflection of how my friends and I live our Kinky lives.

I’ve been a sub for nearly fifteen years now. My natural state is to submit, to serve and to let a dominant male take the lead. That doesn’t mean I’m a doormat, it doesn’t mean I don’t have opinions and, when I’m in a D/s relationship, it doesn’t mean that I blindly do everything I’m told. The word brat possibly springs to mind for some of you, but that’s a different blog. What being involved in the Kink community and living a BSDM lifestyle means for me is, having a relationship with someone opposite in nature (a Dom), and participating in all the sexual and submissive trappings that go hand in and with that. It means working as an author, running a household, and living in the vanilla world as a productive member of that community. I have friends that are into BDSM and friends that aren’t. I’m open about the lifestyle I lead, and understand that some friends find me a little different. That’s okay with me, we’re all different. I believe I lead a fulfilling and well rounded life, and because of that, I want the characters in the books I read to be the same. Kinky people leading normal lives.