Princess Miri: An Erotic Coming of Age Monster Romance 18+

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Princess Miri is a bitch and the heir to the throne and she might have accidentally fallen in love with a monster.
It's common knowledge that everyone hates Miri, which is why it surprises her when her rival gives her a pet troll servant for her eighteenth birthday. Thump, as Miri names the husky monster, will do everything she asks. Or that's what she thinks.
When her demands lead to experimentation and sexual teasing, Miri realizes this isn't quite the case. One disobeyed order ends with a bang, literally, and her and Thump in an unclothed, carnal mess atop her now-broken bed.
A troll coupling with a human? Disgusting!
She should be furious! Irate! And maybe she is, but she's curious, too...
She never thought she could open up to anyone before, always believed she needed to act harsh and stern in order to ascend to the throne. Unfortunately for Miri, while she discreetly explores her taboo sexuality with Thump, someone's plotting to exploit her shameful secret and ruin the Princess's reputation...
Alluring, erotic, and playful. This provocative story of a Princess and her troll will delight you, entice you, and keep you excited long after you're done.
This book is intended for mature audiences

Review

****This book was part of a blog tour I received a copy for my honest review****
This book really is a delicious bit of fun.
Princess Miri as a self absorbed, narcissistic, spoiled brat of a princess. She cares for no one but herself. When she steals a friends boyfriend, she doesn't even realize what she has done and doesn't even think there would be any consequences. Said "friend" sends her a birthday present, a Troll, who Miri calls Thump. She takes him everywhere and eventually she is on a path to an erotic journey of another kind. But little does she know that her shameful little secret is about to become public knowledge.
Princess Miri's Erotic coming of age monster romance is really for readers with kinks of a different persuasion. With magical fairytale romance setting of royalty, servants and castles, trolls and centaurs, in an erotic book you can imagine where this is going. Thump and Miri's sexual exploration becomes the theme of the book and Miri's slow (very slow) realization that she may love her monster and not just lust after him. Miri's character is really hard to like but the book is so wacky and the things that come out of her mouth so outrageous and hilarious at times that it is hard to hate her.Thump is described as a hideous troll, yet he has more heart and feeling than Miri. I can't say I was really attached emotionally to the characters but they were definitely amusing and kept my attention.
I Iike my taboo monster romance books to be a bit light hearted and fun and this one definitely was. It helps to balance out the grotesque but somehow fascinating erotic scenes.
Which brings me to the erotic scenes. I never like to truly analyze what it is about monster porn books that pull me in, I guess I just like taboo romance because these sort of stories, usually include dubious consent and well just sex of a different sort. Princess Miri's story had all that I like in my "monster porn" and I will be looking forward to more from this author and more for Thump and Miri :)

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Tainted Love

My name is Isabel Cruz, and I’m nineteen years old, almost twenty. I go to Lincoln University where I’m majoring in English. I’m a straight-A student, and I know what I’m doing with my life, but things weren’t always that way. Or rather, I’ve always known what I wanted, and it just hasn’t always gone along with society’s views. In high school, I had an affair with my swim coach. I wanted him, and I took what I wanted. We were together until I graduated, but he had a wife and kids, and I left him behind to come here. I left everything behind to come here. At least that’s what I thought.”
Isabel was never like the other girls at her school in the sleepy town of Hillside, California. At sixteen she fell in love with Tom, a married swim coach at Royal Oaks High School; their exhilarating and sultry affair continuing in secret for several years. Finally, Isabel realized that her own future had to come first, but even after relocating to Washington, D.C. to study at Lincoln University, she finds herself still wracked by guilt over jeopardizing the happiness and security of Tom’s young family. Now almost in her twenties and desperate to start a new chapter in her life, free from past controversies, Isabel will once again find that her beauty and precociousness will captivate another older man, this time a professor at her university. Confronted by this burgeoning affair, Isabel realizes just how deeply she still loves Tom and, in spite of the disapproval of her hometown community, her feelings become too strong to deny.
When Isabel returns to Hillside, reunited with Tom, she feels herself falling for him all over again, only this time with the tantalizing promise that things could really work out for them, especially since she is no longer the naive teen she used to be. But all is not as it seems; Isabel begins to hear rumors about Tom’s involvement with other girls at Royal Oaks High. Quickly this salacious gossip leaks to the local media and the authorities begin to investigate the claims. Only then does the true gravity of Isabel’s misguided choices begin to profoundly affect those around her and threaten to derail her life completely.
Tainted Love is the thrilling follow up to Sweetest Taboo by Eva Marquez, and rejoins Isabel Cruz as she tries to put her complex and forbidden romance with Tom behind her. Written from the perspectives of both Isabel and Tom, the irrational and desperate love they share is brought to vivid life by Marquez. Inspired by the conviction of one of her former high school teachers for sexual misconduct with a minor, it addresses a poignant modern taboo, one that is becoming increasingly common in the US, with unnerving insight and precision. Tainted Love is a must read for young adults, their parents and all fans of romantic fiction.

Review

****This book was part of a blog tour, I was given a copy for my honest review****
This book did not go as I expected to. Following on from the blurb I thought that Isabel would be sucked into the relationship again, falling back into an old pattern. The blurb leads you to believe that Tom goes behind Izzy's back with some other students. If you had read the previous book you would know that him doing this would completely undermine what they had as a relationship.
The tone of this book starts things off totally differently. For one we start off with a preface from Tom's point of view

The prefaces of these books really set the tone "Have you ever really been in love? I am not talking about infatuation, co dependency, or being with someone for such a long time that you feel used to him or her, so used to them that you wouldn't know how to live without that person. I am talking about the type of love that you know, that you feel in every fiber of your being, a feeling of comfort of being at home in the arms of that person, knowing that even ify ou never saw him or her again, "Have you ever really been in love? I am not talking about infatuation, co- dependency, or being with someone for such a long time that you feel used to him or her, so used to them that you wouldn't know how to live without that person. I am talking about the type of love that you know, that you feel in every fiber of your being, a feeling of comfort of being at home in the arms of that person, knowing that even if you never saw him or her again, you would continue to love them unconditionally with all your heart for the rest of your life?" You start to see Tom very differently from the seedy, student nabbing teacher in the first book, to a very sad man, living a disappointing life who falls in love with a beautiful girl.We get more information into his relationship with his wife. I started to feel sorry for Tom, who's character was starting to seem more of a pushover than a pursuer. Izzy's character in this book disgusted me on many levels, she just loved to make excuses for her own irresponsible behaviour. Their relationship barely had a chance to begin because of her. Now I have to ask myself,why would I want this relationship to go any further? I simply don't know, but in this book I was mad at Izzy and her mistreatment of a man that she professes to love, yet has no qualms walking all over and leaving behind to face a storm on his own. At the end of this book I was ready to kill Izzy, to me she has no redeemable qualities whatsoever. However there is more to this story, another whole book!!! I am intrigued as to where this story will go. Does this couple  have a chance at happiness? Or has the circumstances of their relationships origins tainted everything ? I honestly cannot say I enjoyed this installment of this story at all. It was irritating, aggravating, lies, cheating, miscommunication and characters sticking their noses into it, making everything worse.It ended I feel a horrible melancholy, something I don't like feeling when ending a book.  Knowing I have to wait for the next installment just aggravates me more. But I finished it and it did provoke emotions from me, so I had to have been engaged in the story and drawn in enough to feel for the characters. For that I will give it a 2.5 star rating, I just don't know if I would have put myself through this emotional wringer if I had known the outcome. Post by:

The Sweetest Taboo

  

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Isabel Cruz was fifteen years old when she met Tom Stevens. She was 15 when they started dating, and 16 when she lost her virginity to him. By the time she turned 18 and went to college, everything had fallen apart.
This hadn’t been an ordinary love, though. Not a love between two dear friends, or even high school sweethearts. This had been the most taboo sort of love there was: a relationship between a student and her teacher. Isabel started her high school career as a normal student, but set her sights on Tom Stevens as soon as she met him, and pursued him with an intense – and sometimes reckless – fascination. When he finally approached her after swim practice and told her that he shared her feelings, it was the start of a forbidden and dangerous relationship.
Join Isabel as she makes her way through this dark love story, hiding from teachers, lying to her parents, and defying the authorities to make a life with the man she loves. Watch as she discovers the wonders of love and romance, and the terrible betrayal of jealous friends. And cry with her when she learns the hard truth about life and the people in her world.
Sweetest Taboo is inspired by the true and tragic stories of students who fall in love with their teachers, and live with the hard truths of forbidden romances. In a world full of after-school specials on sexual predators, this touching book seeks a different path, casting both student and teacher in a gentle light, and showing that true love may lie at the base of even the most illicit romance.

Review

****This book was part of a blog tour, I received a copy for my honest review****

I am really not sure what to say about this book. I started out nervous,I finished it anxious and nervous and all in between I yo yo-ed between uncomfortable, shocked, angry.
This is a very thought provoking story and I am sure there will be many of you out there who will not be able to see it in the light it was supposed to be portrayed. I am not sure myself if I do.
So let's review the simple things. The writing is very good,the words just flowed and I didn't have any difficulty hearing the voice of Isabel in my mind.
I loved that it felt like it was based in the nineties, Marquez did a really good job of setting the scene.
The music titles for each chapter was a real plus for me. I grew up and went to school in the nineties and I recognized all the songs and it really got me in that nineties frame of mind.
Okay, now let's do the hard stuff.
At the beginning of the book there is a preface from Claire Stevens that tells us that this is based on a true story, in fact it is based on her mother.
She explained that her mother wanted to show the world that these sorts of relationships although frowned upon aren't always what they seem. Sometimes love is at the core of relationship.
Now I am a person who does see the gray areas, I am not all black and white.So I started this book thinking I was going to be open minded and not judge. However the further I got into this book the more I just couldn't let go of certain things. Tom Stevens (see the name link there, the plot thickens) is more than double her age,Isabel is fifteen and he is in his late thirties and he is MARRIED! He also has two children. He gets jealous of Isabel spending time with other boys but he goes home to his wife and children. He says he doesn't love his wife, but he won't leave her. Does this sound right to you? Also Isabel is very immature, to me, she flounces about telling everyone of her affair. Arrggghhh.
I understand that this is a taboo topic, the relationship between a teacher and a student. So I understand that it is bound to be full of things to provoke you, make you think, make you angry. The reality of this particular topic to me is that Isabel is still a child. I know at fifteen I thought was grown up and worldly wise, but I was not.
I thought through reading this book I would see things in a different light, but I didn't. I still feel that this is line that should not be crossed until the minor is of an age to make the decisions with some worldly experiences behind them. I also think that cheating is never acceptable.
So , I bet you are wondering what the four star rating is for since I have just bagged the story. Well the fact is I still like this book and just because the authors views are not mine doesn't mean I think she wrote a bad story. It wasn't, it was very good. Engaging, I read it cover to cover in one sitting.
I am going to very soon dive into the next in this series... so as you can see, I haven't been put off.
My advice to you would be to read this book, but go in knowing that it will definitely not be all sunshine and roses and that it will provoke you into some sort of emotional response. Be prepared, but try and enjoy, it is not an easy read, but it is a good one.

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