Apples Should be Red by Penny Watson

Apples Should be Red

 Recipe for Thanksgiving Dinner:

Start with 62-year old politically incorrect, chain-smoking, hard-cussing curmudgeon.

Add 59-year old sexually-repressed know-it-all in pearls.

Throw in a beer can-turkey, a battle for horticultural supremacy, and nudist next-door neighbor.

Serve on paper plates, garnished with garden gnome.

Tastes like happily ever after.
You know I have been talking about this book all over twitter and I have YET to write a post about it !!
I find this
not super shocking
HOWEVER
I will make this short
why? because there is something amazing happening to this fabulous book but I will get to that part in a minute

WHAT can I tell you
this is an unusual romance book because the lead couple is over 50!
Why will you enjoy it ?

Meet Tom
he is a curmudgeon a lovable one
he likes to garden he is practical and smart and just darling (but that opinion of him would annoy him so SHHHH)

Meet Bev

She is a little tightly wound

Everything in its place everything is proper everything just so
right down to the type of apples
Oh Tom has so much fun with her

just go buy it and read it and TRUST ME !! and if you think Im wrong come talk to me about it because I love talking books even we disagree!

NOW for the news
THIS fabulous story made it to dabwaha
(thats a what??)
it is a contest similar to the March Madness brackets
you vote and vote till one book is left
That this little Indie book with no street team , and no promo efforts beyond readers that love it


dabwaha <<< go vote

I'm so proud of Penny !

Apples Should be Red by Penny Watson

The Last Good Knight by Tiffany Reisz

This is a series of five books or short stories or novellettes or novellas or whatever you want to call them. They take place in between the White years and The Red years and feature our favorite smart-ass, Nora I love Nora. She reminds me of movie heroines from the thirties and forties.

In this story, Nora meets Lance, a sexy male sub. Watch out, world! If you love knights in shining armor, you will LOVE LOVE LOVE Lance. I want a Lance. There aren't enough words to describe him. Every woman needs a Lance!

just because

For instance, check out his favorite position :

"Standing so I can protect you" He ran a hand through her long hair and shoved a fistful of it off the back of her neck. "From behind so I can shield you" She understood at once what he meant. If someone broke into the house while they were making love, Lance's body would stand between her and the intruder at the door. Even during sex he would keep her safe or die trying.

Isn't that the most beautiful thing??

Lance is a dive in front of a bullet kind of a guy. And he's a hottie dad!! Anyone who follows me on twitter knows I have this fascination with hot dads. To me, nothing is sexier than a man taking care of his children

Of course, this book is not just about a sexy male sub. It also has mystery and intrigue

Lance is not allowed to see his daughter, because his ex thinks he's a pervert for looking at kinky porn

NORA TO THE RESCUE

Some questions to ponder:

• How will she save him? After all, she's an erotica novelist and Domme
• Who is after the Dommes in Kingsley's employ?
• Why is King insisting that Lance keep his hands, and other parts, off Nora ?

Well, you'll just have to read to find out!

do you need to ask?

In summary, this series has

• mystery
• banter
• a sexy hottie dad
• a Knight in Shining Armor
• Nora

What more could you ask for?
I
It's a short series, so it's a nice, fast read  and loads of fun. Get it for the friend on your gift list who loves Tiffany or for the one who needs to meet her

As usual, I give her stuff five stars, because I cannot find anything that would make it better, except to send me my very own Lance,

The Last Good Knight by Tiffany Reisz

Sue's review of The Wicked West by Victoria Dahl writing as Holly Summers

 The Wicked West 

Victoria Dahl 

OH my goodness!
This short written by the fabulous Victoria Dahl is gonna get one of my rare 5 stars. I have to say this one really, really appealed to me.
We have the fabulous Sheriff, handsome loner, and a lovely new English lady in a western town. There are cattle rustlers and small town politics and--Oh gosh, lets see if I can make this coherent.

For those that do not like D/S sex or relationships DO NOT READ.
For those that do--come on in! This one is a good one!

I happen to find the whole psychology of the relationships fascinating how in a functional D/S relationship it is actually the sub who has the control over things. I think this short story novella explains that well.

She teases him.

She taunts him even by just lowering her eyes, and he does not understand why this woman is causing these feelings in him.

It is confusing because he feels wicked and perverted and wrong; he was raised to be a gentleman, to treat ladies as delicate breakable flowers.

Here is this little thing, obviously not used to hard work, an indoor girl, and she is challenging all of his desires.

I cannot tell you any more about this story because if I do I will give away far, far too much.

IF YOU TRUST ME, HERE IS MY OPINION:

I will read this a second time--probably tonight.
THIS IS HOT STUFF
The tension is fantastic.
The attraction between them just UMPH.
As I said on twitter, this story did not break ANY of my cliche hates.
I give this one a 5 stars. Be shocked--it wont happen often.
This was a great read. I recommend it to EVERYONE that likes a steamy quicky !

Sue's review of The Wicked West by Victoria Dahl writing as Holly Summers

Review: Between Seasons by Aida Brassington

Aida Brassington 

There are things Patrick Boyle will never forget: the sound of his own neck breaking at the moment of his death in the fall of 1970, the sweet taste of his mother's chocolate cake, and the awful day his parents abandoned him in his childhood house-turned prison.

Nineteen-year-old Patrick wonders for decades if God has forgotten all about him or if he's being punished for some terrible crime or sin over a lovely forty years trapped in an empty home. But when Sara Oswald, a strange woman with a mysterious past, buys his house, old feeling reawaken, and a new optimism convinces him that she's the answer to his prayers.

Things are never simple, though, especially when she begins channeling the memories of his life and death in her writing.

From time to time I get lucky and someone DMs me on Twitter asking me to read something for them. Sometimes it is a fic and other times it is an original work.


Well the other day one of my Twitter followers asked me to read a book she has been working on that she is going to independently publish. she said be honest be blunt review it on your blog even if you dont like it. I love the courage and confidence this takes.


Be warned this is a short book. Too long to be a short story. Too short to be a novel. Which is why she chose to publish independently rather than query this one out but it is just too cute to miss.


I do not mean to make it seem like a nothing of a story by saying it is cute. This is a supernatural romance, a ghost story, and if you are anything like me you will just fall in love with the male lead Patrick because he is so sweet without being super sappy and cheesy. I like that he is a realistic guy.


There are bits in this book that for real made me laugh out loud. My family kept asking me what was so funny but I could not stop reading to explain it to them. Other parts in the book made me scratch my head wondering how the hell it fit in because, at the time, it made no sense. Eventually things get explained and I felt better about the confusion I had.


This is a book you will want to read in one sitting because some of the stuff that happens you will want to keep track of and I personally find it easier to do if I can sit down and read uninterrupted. That did not happen with me and rarely does because, well, I got a ton of kids.


Now let me tell you a bit about the story. Watch out there will be spoilers here! If you do not wish to be spoiled skip this section to the bottom for a SPECIAL OFFER! You are not going to want to miss it. TRUST ME.

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Patrick was just an average kid in 1970. 19 years old. Graduated from High School. Works at his Dads garage as a mechanic. His number came up in the draft and he was due to go in for his physical to go serve in Vietnam War.


One morning he woke up to the smell of his mother cooking pancakes. He ran, tripped down the steps and broke his neck. Yes, he dies. Not a hero but as a victim of an accident.


Here is where stuff is sad. His parents go through a great deal of grief and they decide they cannot stay in the house. Too many memories of their only child and it hurts.

Since the house is paid for his parent choose not sell it. Patrick is a ghost, a kid trying to deal with his feelings of being left behind. He is alone stuck in the house he grew up in. He cannot go outside he cannot escape. He can only touch things that were once his. Everything else feels like quicksand. So he cannot sit down on furniture or touch anything that was not in his room. Before his parents pack up the house he squirrels away a few of his things so he has something to do with his afterlife. His parents empty out the house and that is the last he sees of them.

Time passes - he has no real idea how much - when one day a young woman who has bought the house comes in. He finds out that the year is now 2010.
During the course of several strange events he falls for this young troubled woman.


How? I'm not telling. You need to read it to find out.
This book is part taking a leap of faith part ghost story part and questioning your belief system.
I thought it was a neat look at the supernatural. You never really know if Sara really sees Patrick or is she really crazy. Is her being there all a dream he is having (yes in this story ghosts can dream and he has some very lovely dreams)


I really enjoyed this story and it left me wanting MORE

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OK now if you think I have intrigued you enough I have an offer for you.


I want you to leave me a comment. I want you to say "SUE, I wanna read this!" and tell me why, even if you just say "I want a free book". Go for it.
One week from the day this post goes up I will then pick a comment at random (it will be fair because I am gonna have someone not involved chose a number) and that person will win a copy of this story for their own to download as a gift from the author.


NOW if you are an author and would like me or one of the other folks here at SYTYCW read your book let us know you can contact us on Twitter @SYTYCW or via e-mail SYTYCW@live.de


Between Seasons is available in Paperback, for the Nook and the Kindle (click Amazon button below) It is also available at Smashwords

Review: Between Seasons by Aida Brassington