Lucy Felthouse's Blog, page 343

Dead in the Family – Charlaine Harris

Sookie's back in Dead in the Family. Still recovering from **spoiler alert** her abduction and torture at the hands of the fairies in the last book, Sookie desperately wants some peace and quiet. Naturally, she's not going to get it. Her fairy cousin Claude turns up at her house wanting a place to stay, then her late cousin Hadley's ex brings their young son, Hunter, to stay with Sookie for a couple of days. Hunter, as we discovered in a previous book, shares Sookie's gift of telepathy. His f...

Naughty Little Forest Nymph – Roxanne Rhoads

I was drawn to this story immediately because of its title. It just sounds fun and well…  naughty. Turns out my instincts were correct. Naughty Little Forest Nymph tells Sam's story. He's the owner of a tree-felling company and on turning up to work one day there are a bunch of protesters hanging around to stop them chopping down the trees. One of them has even chained herself to a tree, leaving Sam with more problems than just talking them around.

He manages to get rid of most of Cassie's...

Totty Tuesday – Stuart Townsend

6th July 2010 – Apologies for the lack of totty on here recently. I've been busy writing away, as well as having my "vamp-fest." Which leads me nicely onto this week's Totty Tuesday – Stuart Townsend. Currently, I've only ever seen him in Queen of the Damned, in which he plays an incredibly sexy Lestat. I plan to remedy this.

But for now, Queen of the Damned is a very, very good film in my humble opinion, better than Interview with the Vampire and seriously underrated. I can't speak for the...

Dead and Gone – Charlaine Harris

Dead and Gone is book number nine in The Southern Vampire Mysteries. It tells the story of what happens when the two-natured, that is, weres and shifters, decide to "come out." On the whole, it worked OK for the vampires, so this element of the supernatural community have decided that they're next. Sookie Stackhouse, of course, knows all about what's going on, given her brother is a were, her boss is a shifter and she a friend of the local were pack.

Everything starts off reasonably well, but ...

A Pinch of Snuff – Alcamia

A Pinch of Snuff is erotica with a difference. Set in Victorian England, Martha Peabody is a mischievous Miss who loves to play saucy games. So when she spots a beautiful skirt with plenty of bustle, she simply has to have it. The garment soon catches the eye of Mr Snuff, a man who always carries a snuff box. He's aroused by the skirt, and what's inside it. It's obvious he's dying to get his hands  on Martha and soon they're playing kinky parlour games both with and without the skirt.

I have t...

Vampire Diaries: The Return: Shadow Souls – L. J. Smith

Kind of book four, but really book six (the first two books came as 2-in-1′s), Shadow Souls continues where the last book left off. **spoiler warning**

Stefan is imprisoned in the Dark Dimension due to the evil kitsune he and Damon got tangled up with. Elena and Damon must team up once more, along with friends Bonnie, Meredith and Matt, to get into the Dimension and find a way to free Stefan, before it's too late.

Elena is still sporting some crazy super-powers and she's slowly learning, with D...

Vampire Diaries: The Return: Nightfall – L. J. Smith

Vampire Diaries: The Return: Nightfall is the third book (though the first two both contain two 'parts') in the series. It begins as Elena has come back from the dead – again. She's no longer a vampire, but she's also no longer human. Trouble is, nobody seems quite sure what she is. She's temporarily forgotten everything and Stefan has to look after her as though she were a child. Somehow, Stefan knows that she will soon regain her memory and become more like the old Elena.

Stefan's right...

Vampire Diaries: The Fury and The Reunion – L. J. Smith

Naturally, once I started reading the Vampire Diaries books, I knew I wouldn't be able to stop until I'd read them all. This is book two, which confusingly contains two stories, which are The Fury and The Reunion. Please be aware this review will be full of spoilers… don't say I didn't warn you.

The Fury: Having died at the end of the last book, Elena is undergoing the change. She had exchanged enough blood with Stefan – willingly – and even more with Damon – against her will, to enable her...

A Change of Scene – Bimbo Ross

A Change of Scene is a short story by Bimbo Ross. It tells the story of Delia and David, a couple who have been together for a long while and have lost their sexual spark. Delia is seriously fed up with their relationship and starts to think she might want out. However, David comes home one evening to say that he's been offered a job in Sydney – which would obviously be a huge change for both of them, but may give their life the shake-up it needs.

Delia goes along with it, and once there...

Waiting in Vain – Charlotte Stein

Having read (and loved) Charlotte Stein's single-author anthology The Things That Make Me Give In, I already knew I was in for a good read when I started Waiting in Vain.

This tale revolves around Nancy, a bookish kind of girl who always gets invited to her brother's wife's family for Christmas, rather than spending it alone. She's never had the heart to refuse, and it's always been pleasant enough. This year, however, is different. Nancy's sister-in-law's brother, Mick Hennessey, is at his s...