Monday 18 May 2015

Release Blitz: Taste Me by Various Authors



Full Disclosure: I received an ARC of Taste Me from Flirty Subs PR Services and Karla Doyle. As always, all opinions here are my own. 

Book Blurb
122,000-WORDS OF DARK ROMANCE AND DANGEROUS ENCOUNTERS!
TASTE ME is a collection of twenty-seven sexy scenes from the hottest releases of 2015, both newly released and coming soon. This all-star lineup of bestselling authors includes... 

Tijan, Alessandra Torre, Lauren Blakely, Skye Warren, CD Reiss, Anna Zaires & Dima Zales, Red Phoenix, Cherise Sinclair, Kendall Ryan, Chelle Bliss, TK Leigh, Toni Aleo, Sam Crescent, Jenika Snow, Julia Sykes, Nina Levine, Cari Quinn & Taryn Elliott, Ainsley Booth, Katy Regnery, Shari Slade & Amber Lin, Shoshanna Evers, Pam Godwin, Carolyn Crane, Molly Joseph, Ella Sheridan, Karla Doyle, and Brooke Cumberland 

Download TASTE ME now for a sneak peek of Hold Me, the highly anticipated third book in the dark romance Twist Me series from Anna Zaires. Push your boundaries with a twisty scene from Tight by Alessandre Torre, one of the blockbuster books of the year. Sink your teeth into an alpha rocker bad boy in the not-yet-released Second Chance with a Rock Star from Shari Slade and Amber Lin.

Note: This compilation is intended as a FREE preview of this year’s hot releases to help readers find their next scorching read.

Book Review
I first heard about Taste Me about a month ago and I completely fell in love with the idea. Sexy excerpts from some of the world’s top romance and erotica authors all in one book…and not just little snippets but full excerpts that you can really sink your teeth into, how amazing is that? And it’s free!!
So, here’s why I think Taste Me is revolutionary and all kinds of amazing: 

I’m a full time student and a research assistant. I’m busy. I love to read and I LOVE romance books, but I don’t always have time to search for new authors and to hunt down excerpts to see if I’ll like their writing style. Especially since many authors post the same excerpt everywhere or they post quite small snippets that don’t really give you a genuine example of their writing. Taste Me saves me all that time of hunting down new authors AND gives me an entire naughty scene, sometimes even a few chapters, of each authors work. I think Taste Me is also a really excellent resource for new-to-romance readers. They can browse through a ton of different authors and genres to find styles that might work for them. 

Secondly, one of the things I see fairly consistently in negative romance/erotica book reviews is a complaint that the sex scenes are inappropriate, uncomfortable and unrealistic. So even if they like the rest of the book, they’re turned off because of something that appears in a sex scene, which ruins the whole book for them. What is so fantastic about Taste Me is that it gives you the opportunity to really see what each book is going to be like. You’ll see the writing style, the sex scenes (and there are a broad range of genres represented here, so you’ll get some BDSM, some sweet romance, some sexy erotica) and you’ll get a decent look at the characters and some hints about the plot, so you’ll know whether you want to spend your time reading the book or not, which saves a whole lot of potential disappointment. 

And in addition to all that, Taste Me has introduced me to some authors I’ve never heard of or have never had the chance to read. And that’s brilliant! 

So, let’s tackle the negatives first (and believe me, there aren’t many, in fact there’s only one). I’m really disappointed that Cherise Sinclair’s contribution was for Master of Freedom. It was released just over a month ago and I read it on release day, so reading the excerpt wasn’t exciting and fresh and I actually felt a little bit cheated. Cherise has a book coming out in a couple of months, which is hotly anticipated, so I was really disappointed that an excerpt from Servicing the Target wasn’t included in the book. Having said that, Master of Freedom is an absolutely terrific book and if you haven’t read it, or any of Cherise’s work, I think you’ll really enjoy the excerpt. 

My favourite excerpt was Stealing Home by Karla Doyle. It’s erotic, it’s intriguing, it’s sassy and a little snarky and it’s unbelievably hot. It’s also surprisingly sweet for being so damn erotic. It gave enough details about the characters to make me completely intrigued to know more about them and it ended on a note that left me dying to find out where the story goes from there. I love Karla’s work and I’m really excited to see what she does with Stealing Home. 

I was really excited to read the rest of the excerpts as I hadn’t read anything by any of other authors before. There were a couple that just didn’t work for me for a variety of reasons. There were a couple that I really enjoyed and I’ll definitely be picking up those books when they’re released. 

Overall, Taste Me is brilliant. I loved having a chance to read excerpts from a bunch of different authors and genres, and I loved that they were all naughty! I have a bunch of new authors I’m going to read more of and a couple to recommend to friends (because even though they didn’t work for me, I know they’ll work for others). It’s free, it’s delightful and it’ll give you the opportunity to check out some of the most wonderful authors in Romance and Erotica writing today. I can’t recommend it enough! 

Taste Me is available today and you can pick it up from Amazon.


2 comments:

  1. All I can say is WOW and a huge THANK YOU! I'm so incredibly honoured that you enjoyed the scene from Stealing Home so much! I can't wait for you to read the entire book. :)

    Thank you also for sharing Taste Me's release on your lovely blog today!

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    1. Karla, I absolutely loved the scene from Stealing Home and I'm so excited to be able to share it with everyone! I can't wait to get my hands on the rest of Paige and Alex's story. I loved being able to take part in the release week blitz for Taste Me and I hope everyone enjoyed Taste Me and Stealing Home's scene as much as I did!

      ~Stacey

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