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Wednesday, December 29, 2010

"Racy" fairytales

Not sure where I heard about this originally, but it's sounded fun - "racy" retellings of traditional fairytales, all set in the court of King Louis XIV, in Versailles.

Awakened by a Kiss by Lila DePasqua.
And her second set of stories, A Princess in His Bed.

In an authors note, she says that many of the most famous fairytales, like Puss in Boots, were written during this period by Charles Perrault, so she took his stories (3 in each book) and set them during the period when he wrote them. And made them super sexy too, as fitting the "lusty" time period. The users on Goodreads love them.

In looking for a link to the book, I found an extensive sample of Awakened at Google books, and I couldn't help reading it.  It's very readable, actually quite good, but it's porn, there's no way around that.  But it's girly porn, and the surrounding story is a lot better than "regular" porn, by far.  I had expected some sex scenes, but nothing as explicit as this ("Awakened by a Kiss" sounds more sweet than raunchy).  The stories are good enough, they doesn't really need the extra, er, details.  They're fun and sexy already, though make only the barest nod to the fairytales they're based on (like Sleeping Beauty).  I'm a little embarrassed at reading it and liking it, and I chickened out putting it on my goodreads list.  But for all that, I bought the Kindle edition of Awakened, because I wanted to read the rest of the story I had started online (as well as the other 2 in the book), and it's not available at the library (though her second book is).

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