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The Crusader #Omnibus 3-4
Julanar the Lioness & My Lady Queen
Book by Cleve, John
380 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 1981
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About the author
Andrew J. Offutt
204 books72 followersAndrew Jefferson Offutt was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He wrote as Andrew J. Offutt, A.J. Offutt, and Andy Offut. His normal byline, andrew j. offutt, had his name in all lower-case letters. His son is the author Chris Offutt.
Offutt began publishing in 1954 with the story And Gone Tomorrow in If. Despite this early sale, he didn't consider his professional life to have begun until he sold the story Blacksword to Galaxy in 1959. His first novel was Evil Is Live Spelled Backwards in 1970.
Offutt published numerous novels and short stories, including many in the Thieves World series edited by Robert Lynn Asprin and Lynn Abbey, which featured his best known character, the thief Hanse, also known as Shadowspawn (and, later, Chance). His Iron Lords series likewise was popular. He also wrote two series of books based on characters by Robert E. Howard, one on Howard's best known character, Conan, and one on a lesser known character, Cormac mac Art.
As an editor Offutt produced a series of five anthologies entitled Swords Against Darkness, which included the first professional sale by Charles de Lint.
Offutt also wrote a large number of pornographic works under twelve different pseudonyms, not all of them identified. Those known include John Cleve, J.X. Williams, and Jeff Douglas. His main works in this area are the science fiction Spaceways series, most of whose volumes were written in collaboration, and the historical Crusader series.
Offutt began publishing in 1954 with the story And Gone Tomorrow in If. Despite this early sale, he didn't consider his professional life to have begun until he sold the story Blacksword to Galaxy in 1959. His first novel was Evil Is Live Spelled Backwards in 1970.
Offutt published numerous novels and short stories, including many in the Thieves World series edited by Robert Lynn Asprin and Lynn Abbey, which featured his best known character, the thief Hanse, also known as Shadowspawn (and, later, Chance). His Iron Lords series likewise was popular. He also wrote two series of books based on characters by Robert E. Howard, one on Howard's best known character, Conan, and one on a lesser known character, Cormac mac Art.
As an editor Offutt produced a series of five anthologies entitled Swords Against Darkness, which included the first professional sale by Charles de Lint.
Offutt also wrote a large number of pornographic works under twelve different pseudonyms, not all of them identified. Those known include John Cleve, J.X. Williams, and Jeff Douglas. His main works in this area are the science fiction Spaceways series, most of whose volumes were written in collaboration, and the historical Crusader series.
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February 18, 2015
This is a collection of books III and IV in the "Crusader" series by John Cleve. Cleve is, of course, a pseudonym that andrew j. offutt used for his "adult" novels, and by "adult" I mean porn. Several years ago I read the first two in this series, I. The Accursed Tower, and II. The Passionate Princess. While book 1 had plenty of sex in it, it also had quite a lot of adventure set during the Crusades. I liked it pretty well. Book 2 was much more sex oriented and with less adventure.
Although I was hoping for a return to a more adventure format, the books in question in this review, III and IV, continue with the massive amounts of sex and with the lack of adventure, although III, Julanar the Lioness was the better of the two in this regard.
Here's the thing. The sex in these books is extremely graphic, and too often intensely brutal. I didn't find it arousing at all and there were some scenes that made me quite uncomfortable because of the brutality. However, I have to admit that I found many of the more graphic but non-brutal passages to be absolutely hilarious. I frequently read some of the more egregious examples of pornographic prose to my wife, and we had quite a good time laughing at them. Given the nature of this site, I don't want to quote anything too graphic, but consider a few lines: 1. "He stuck her with it in one good swift lurch, and in an instant her excited and welcoming cleft had taken it all, all the way to his hairy scrotal pouch." 2. "He poled it to her, good." 3. "Inside, she had become a frenzied well of desire in which he submerged his virile meatstaff."
So, while I didn't think these books were well written or entertaining as novels, I did get a lot of laughs. Nuff said?
Although I was hoping for a return to a more adventure format, the books in question in this review, III and IV, continue with the massive amounts of sex and with the lack of adventure, although III, Julanar the Lioness was the better of the two in this regard.
Here's the thing. The sex in these books is extremely graphic, and too often intensely brutal. I didn't find it arousing at all and there were some scenes that made me quite uncomfortable because of the brutality. However, I have to admit that I found many of the more graphic but non-brutal passages to be absolutely hilarious. I frequently read some of the more egregious examples of pornographic prose to my wife, and we had quite a good time laughing at them. Given the nature of this site, I don't want to quote anything too graphic, but consider a few lines: 1. "He stuck her with it in one good swift lurch, and in an instant her excited and welcoming cleft had taken it all, all the way to his hairy scrotal pouch." 2. "He poled it to her, good." 3. "Inside, she had become a frenzied well of desire in which he submerged his virile meatstaff."
So, while I didn't think these books were well written or entertaining as novels, I did get a lot of laughs. Nuff said?
April 18, 2012
Oh...my.
Read this book WAY before I was old enough to have done so (thanks Deetes). Or actually I was old enough, but I still shouldn't have - not when I was just figuring out boys did more than play kickball. I was already into the fantasy/swords and sorcery genre but nothing like this. This is probably hands down still the most ridiculously steamy and smutty series I have ever read. So much so that off and on throughout the last 15 years or so I have actively tried to hunt it down after completely forgetting the author's name, and then paying too much for used copies.
It's written well enough, and there's more than enough swordplay and intrigue, but...that's not why this series is on my shelf. At all, lol. At ALL! Sooooo not a romance novel of any sort. It's for when you need things a lot dirtier.
Read this book WAY before I was old enough to have done so (thanks Deetes). Or actually I was old enough, but I still shouldn't have - not when I was just figuring out boys did more than play kickball. I was already into the fantasy/swords and sorcery genre but nothing like this. This is probably hands down still the most ridiculously steamy and smutty series I have ever read. So much so that off and on throughout the last 15 years or so I have actively tried to hunt it down after completely forgetting the author's name, and then paying too much for used copies.
It's written well enough, and there's more than enough swordplay and intrigue, but...that's not why this series is on my shelf. At all, lol. At ALL! Sooooo not a romance novel of any sort. It's for when you need things a lot dirtier.
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