Taken by Surprise

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Summary: sexy fun!
Review: This book is made up of three novellas by Susan Johnson, Thea Devine, and Katherine O' Neal. All three stories were different in sexual content, style etc.
I have to say while reading the first novella, To Russia, With Love by Susan Johnson, I was alternating between falling asleep and rolling my eyes. Especially when the "hero" Stavr first meets the heroine, Tatiana- If Stavr gets [excited again] thinking about Tatiana and how virginal she was, I swore to myself I was gonna hurl the book out the window. Speaking of virginal, the author NEVER fails to use the adjectives "virginal" or "innocent" in front of Tatiana's name- from the excessive way the words are used, I can correctly deduce three things- 1)Tatiana must be 8 yrs old 2)Stavr is a pedophile, and 3)Tatiana's baby must have came from stork (given she is soo virginal and innocent..PUKE) That was all that stood out to me in the novella..oh besides couple EXTREMELY BLAND sex scenes and ridiculously unbelievable and exaggerated ending...I don't need to tell you the rest of the plot because that in No way whatsoever lured me to wake up from my more interesting dream. As to Thea Devine's story "Her Lord and Master", WOW~ Mrs. Devine really turned up the thermosat in my house. The pages were practically smoking and my eyes watering from all that explicit boinking. Hey it's all just sexy pleasure reading this novella- the premise is interesting- a bored heartbreaker earl is playing the Who's wants to marry a millionaire/The Bachelor game, a much dirtier skankier (and interesting!)version in which the three finalists has to...err you read and found out the erotic details for yourself. But warning though-don't read this book for romance- I can't seem to find that element anywhere on the page. but hey, its sexy and streamy and it woke me up after the last story about...whats it about again?
I don't have too much to say about the 3rd story, Erotic Dejavu. Its a romance story expect complete with sultan who wants to put the heroine in her sordid harlem as well as elements of multiple past lives and how the two are destined to be together and finally make it end right blah blah didn't I read that somewhereS (notice the plural form of the word) before? The bedroom scenes are good but not sizzling, but on the other hand after the burning Devine story, that'll be hard to judge. The romance element is there but not completely emotional like I wanna cry my eyes out for the two lovers. So overall, its...a good anthology...but if your not big fans of any of the authors, maybe you should filch and xerox the stories from your friend's copy.