Cameron Dane

Just when I was facing a terrible drought with high-quality erotica, this marvel comes along and banishes all my fears. Kasey and Quinn (as she took pleasure in calling him) never once failed in sending my sensory neurons in a tizzy. Kasey adorning the role of ‘female Dom’ whipping Quinn’s sanity into a sexual frenzy yet not fucking him as it was an undercover job at a bondage club, made me regulate my own subtle moves. I crossed my legs when Kasey prepares Canin for sex by indulging show more in hardcore foreplay; heaved anxious sighs during their sexual exhibitionism in the bondage area; twitched in my seat and when things got bit enthralling pushed my fingers in the warm Styrofoam cup spilling the coffee all over the counter. And with all the oblivious folks courteously directing me to a new seat wondering if I had a seizure; it drove me fucking nuts as my emotions were hitting the roof.
Oh sweet Lord! What took over me when I decided to read this book in a coffee shop? It was wild and extremely sexy and I did have my little own convulsion. show less

Before Reading: Say whaaaa?

The villain from A Fostered Love is the MC?

Oh, Ms. Dane...you just upped the game by writing one of my favorite themes.

I still want to tap dance on his nuts though. Just twice.

After Reading: I've been in a...mood lately.

I wanted to read about a certain type of hero. And I know I won't be finding it in my review pile so I went spelunking in the cavernous TBR mountains of SRAL's books. (It's DEEP) And cleaned up some of my Kindle space in the process. win-wn.

And show more this was not supposed to a long review but I have a feeling it will be. *sigh*

A Fostered Love is one of my favorite books. I reread at least twice a year. Jonah and Christian are my onions. And the villain from that book got his own romance novel. I'm still reeling.

Suicidal stalker David just has been released from prison and went back to his hometown of Coleman, Florida. Don't worry, Jonah has got something for him. In the form of Ben Evans, private investigator. Ben is hurting still from his break up, has a foster background of his own and hard life that adds to a mega chip on his shoulder. And though he tries to fight the attraction, David, his case, might the lucky man to break through the tough shell.

At first, I thought David would be up to his old tricks but the author had an excellent handle on him. She showcased the submissive facets of him to a T without going into kink. David isn't misunderstood. The greatest part about him is he knows his illness and he isn't magically cured. He continues to be a work in progress. So while working at a local animal shelter, he gets hate from various people in his hometown including his family and a stalker of own.

My, my how the tables have turned, huh David?

This novel is filled with sex, drama, angst, tears, purple prose, spit, cum and more fucking. And dub con. David is sill a butt virgin and learning to accept himself as a gay man. And mentally not ready for a relationship. Ben Evans doesn't care. He's the bigger villain, if anything. But most importantly...a level 7. *exhales*

A level 7.

I had a level 7 on my Kindle for over a year... *smh* I can only blame myself. I get so easily distracted. What is a level 7? The highest level on the SheReadsALot's Seven Levels of Cray in a Relationship (patent pending)

And not since Landry from Mary Calmes' "Mine" have I met another level seven. I've gotten close with a few and I'm not counting Steter (which is a fucking given when written correctly) or Sterek. And guess what? Not both men from Brokedown Hearts are 7's. David is maybe a 5 Oh no no no! That honor is bestowed to none other than Mr. Ben Evans.

He was a level 5 when he started all the smelling and non-shifter shifter shit: smelling his "mate" (I'll get to that soon).

Then he hit level 6 when he forced David when he knew David was not mentally stable to handle a sexual relationship. Ben knew the fucking score and did it anyway.

But the piece de resistance to enter him into level 7 upper top echelon? When he stated not once but multiple times, if David left him, he would kill him. I fucking believed it. And he even admitted it to David in tears while telling him, he's not allowed to leave. But their love is a level of cray that is golden, baby.

We're talking: I'll-fuck-you-TAKE-MY-DICK-it's-the-way-I-love-you-honey-you-just-have-to-learn-okay-you-serve-me-I'll-make-decisions-for-you-let-me-be-the-alpha-and-spit-on-your-bud-and-put-my-dry-dick-in-you. And they fuck for forever, the scenes are sooooooooo long. If anything, the book could've been shaved by 20-30% and it could have started with the sex scenes.

And while I'm rating this Four Stars, there are buckets of moments when I just:

1) Not my first nor last Cameron Dane, but I'll call it like I see it. All of the pretty, purple prose, the "honeyed salt" semen and skin, the "bud" anus, the "ass channel, rear passage, channel, chute, striated muscle", "webbing" and my new least favorite "tail end" which brings to mind tail pipe and all the videos of dudes fucking actual exhaust pipes on cars. (Don't Google search -trust.)

The too sweet words mixed with some solid parts made for some ridiculous sex scenes.



2) Sweden - Um...why even bother with that subplot? Just double eyerolls for all of that. Weak. Who the hell did Ben think he was aside from a non-shifter shifter? A superhero? Pokemon? Batman?



*squints* Why didn't he do that the first time around when he flew out there? Probably to make the plot stretch out. :/ Because then there wouldn't have been the 'OMG what the hell is going moment; that is 70% and beyond, hm?



3) Ben Evans - from what the story stated he's 1/2 Swede, 1/4 Native American and 1/4 Cuban. 6'5" of prime alpha human male. At no point in time was any sort of shifter mentioned. This was all contemporary. What was up with all the shifter qualities to him? I was waiting for him to come out of the closet and admit that his big secret wasn't his love of aggressive sex but that he was a full fledged shifter whose species has yet to be determined. A non-shifter shifter.





All he needed what some fangs and a cock that KNOTTED, I swear.

Listen all jokes aside, this couple in real life is not okay. But this is fiction. I get why there are 1 stars all over the place for this novel, it's polarizing and that kind story.

But if Cameron Dane actually made me:

1) sympathize with David (I actually called him sweet, the nutbag)
2) root for his HEA

There was something there, underneath the abundance of sex.

Sweet Cheesus, do they fuck all the time! How did their fuck parts not try to secede from their bodies, I don't know. Maybe that is the true mystery?

And there was a mystery, I figured out the villain but I still had to see how it all ended. Hint: full of cum, tears and DRAMA.

And I ate that all up.



To myself...and to Ben Evans. I hope to never meet you in real life. Actually, I wouldn't be afraid because David a level five would be there to keep him in check...with his striated muscle dripping with saliva.



This book definitely helped ease my mood of possessive as fuck alphas. Tenfold. " show less

It was a bit that I hadn’t read a book by Cameron Dane and so I had almost forgotten one of their peculiarities: the extremely erotic undertone of the stories. As soon as I started to read this book, I was thinking, well, this is pretty hot stuff; the good thing is that the hot stuff was good and plenty, but was not a substitute for the plot itself: the story was there and it was developing along with the sex. When I was more or less at the middle of the book, I went back reading the show more review I did for the previous book in the series, the story of Aidan and Ethan, and I found out that the same eroticism was also in that story and that it left me the same feeling as well.

The plot is at the same time complex and simple: Devlin met the man of his dreams five years before in San Francisco and his name was Gradyn; after a weekend of sex and six months of long-distance relationship, Gradyn completely disappeared from Devlin’s life, leaving him pining after the perfect man he is not able to replace. Devlin is not living in Redemption, Maine, far away from San Francisco but the man he meets here, Garrick is different in body from Gradyn, but Devlin knows he is the same man. What Garrick/Gradyn is doing in Redemption Devlin doesn’t know, but for sure Devlin will not the man waltzing away from his life as easily as he did before.

The complex part of the story is that, at this point it almost runs in parallel ways, the Devlin and Gradyn of the past living their perfect weekend together (and most of the hot sex is there too) and the Devlin and Garrick of today trying to find a way to reconcile their differences to have a future together. As I did in the previous story, what I like in this story is that, even if one of the men, Devlin, had all the reason to hate the “prodigal lover”, he doesn’t refuse the second chance at love they have, even if he doesn’t make it easy to his lover to ask for forgiveness.

When I said that the story is also simple is because the reason why Gradyn had to go years ago to me was quite clear and it was not necessary to arrive to the apex when Garrick comes clear to Devlin; that sincerely is not an issue for me, since it was more important that the balance between sex/eroticism and plot was maintained, the characters developed nicely and the supporting characters were good (above all little Shawn).

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I picked this up from Liquid Silver after getting sucked in by the excerpt despite it being twice as much as a novella should cost, and I'm glad I did.

Kelsie Cole is a pink-haired, well-inked tattoo parlor owner who hasn't worn a single-digit clothing size since she was a pre-teen. She's off for a week vacationing at her twin brother's lakeside cabin in North Carolina and she's not too keen to see the car pulling into the driveway. She decides her brother's a dead man for telling his best show more friend and business partner that he could have the cabin this week. She's known buttoned-up, suit and tie wearing John McBride since they were nine years old, and he's gotten under her skin since day one.

John doesn't know why everything he says or does causes Kelsie to snap at him. She interprets his glances and questions as judgments on her weight, tattoos and piercings. He's fascinated with her, in reality, and just wants her to see him as a man so he can treat her like a woman. He's determined to use the week to change things between them.

The Sweetest Tattoo isn't very long at just shy of 30k words, but it packs a lot into the space. John and Kelsie have known each other for 20 years, which helps establish their connection. Dane uses dialogue and memories to share their bits of backstory to show how they became the people they are. It's an opposites attract story on its face, but then you also realize they have a lot of common experience, making them sort of two sides of the same coin. Both faced adversity when they were young, but they both chose different ways to deal with it.

It wasn't the best sex writing I've ever read, but it was certainly above average. While there was a lot of it, it was full of emotion and character development, so it never felt gratuitous. Major props for the hero volunteering to use a butt plug before he was to do the same to her so he'd be in the know. It was a surprisingly hot scene with a lot of feeling to it, but I was totally surprised to see that. Nice gamble, imo.

So I'd suggest this for anyone who likes a quick and naughty novella without any particularly kinky elements to it. show less