The Horde Wars

So... I read a new book. Actually, I read a trilogy of books. By Sherri L. King. A friend of mine had recommended these books for me as good fantasy. Imagine my surprise when about 30 pages into the first one, "Ravenous", a very detailed act of wild, savage making out pops up. Yeah... I was kind of surprised. Mostly of how she had written it. I was almost about to stop reading, dismissing it as a genre best described in my native tongue. 'Tantsnusk'. But there was something more that caught my interest, even before I could put my finger to what. I read the whole book, but about halfways through I realized my suspicion was true. This was not a fantasy novel. This was porn. Forget that mellow romance-porn-thingie that Harlequin publish, where cleaned up phrases like "his quivering member" appears. This was outright porn. Female-written of course, but porn nonetheless.
Yet I still found myself swallowing (haha ^^) page after page and before I knew it, I had read the entire first book. Not only that, I immediately proceeded to the next one, "Wanton Fire".

I will admit that I was equally fascinated by the development of the storyline as I was by the development of their sexlife. Despite what many people think of me, that is actually not like me. Sure, I do read erotica, I can stand for that fact. But more as a pastime than anything else. It never really... sticks. But this did, and it took me a while before I started wondering why this was so different. I came to the conclusion that yes, it's porn, but it's very well-written porn. I actually got more turned on by the words than the acts themselves. :P
Really, the way she uses the words so vividly was enchanting. I have never read so many different ways to describe sexual acts, so even though every ten or twenty pages they had sex for five to ten pages, it never got boring or repetitive, every time was like the first time. And I did find it amusing at several times during their... explorations. I leave it at that for your sake, precious. ^^

When I came to the end of "Razor's Edge" though, I was incredibly disappointed. It just... ended. Just like that. I can't begin to explain how deeply frustrated I became. I was all like... wait? What happened with R? And who was the man in black? And the Horde, what happened to the rest of the Horde? Noooooo! You can't do this to me!!

I really, really hate it when I read a book that in the end leaves a lot of loose ends. Some people like that, since they can use their own imagination, but for me it's more... it's not my story, thus I cannot know how it ends. I can't fill in the empty gaps, because it makes it less... real. I have a very complicated relationship to books and stories and such. Ask me some day and I might try to explain it. Anyway, back to my frustration.
I got a little obsessed by this massive disappointment and had to check out if there are more books in this serie. What do I learn instead? She is not an outright fantasy-author as I was lead to believe. She is in fact an erotic romance-author, who prefers fantastic settings. Almost the same, but with a distinct difference, I was told. ... yeah. Who cares?
But more importantly, I also learned that there are in fact two more books in the series, "Sacred Eden" and "Lord of the Deep". That was a relief. ^^

I liked these books. I really, really liked these books. :)
Or I might just be itching to know what happens in the next two books, but either way I obviously want to read more. Although, with me you never know if it is because the books are actually that good or if I simply have taken a liking to them for my own reasons. ^^
But again, I liked them and that's all I care about. ;D



And come to think of it... doesn't the intro to Rescue Rangers sound an awful lot like the intro to McGyver?