Review: Desire After Dark by Jo Carlisle

Desire After Dark

by Jo Carlisle

(Lords of Pleasure # 2)

Whips and chains and ..... cock leashes?  Let Jo Carlisle take you on a sensual ride that is not for the easily offended.  This book had me gasping and in shock while sometimes having to read things twice because.... no they didn't!

First of all the timeline of this book is a bit in the middle of Temptation at Twilight when Luc disappears.  Vampire + valkyrie usually works for me, especially because I love valkyrie personalities.  Fun, hard asses used to getting their way.  Kassandra is a valkyrie warrior and is assigned with guiding Luc's soul to the afterlife.  Except she gets there right before he dies and realizes that he's her mate.  Against all rules, she saves Luc and brings him to her palace in Valhalla.

Luc is a very alpha vampire, and very sexual.  He's immediately attracted to Kassandra and even though she treats him a bit as a slave at first, he actually finds that he likes it.  Of course, he is more of a pampered slave being given his choice of a harem to feed on.  I knew I was going to like Luc from the first moment I read about him in the first book, and I did like him.  I even enjoyed the fact that he is an alpha male in every sense of the way but he is perfectly ok with his desires to submit to Kassandra in the bedroom.

Kassandra, even though I really liked her, must have issues.  Some of the things she has obviously done with others in the past sound a bit extreme and even her ideas of a good time for Luc, well... lets just say she's lucky that he got off on all that because it could've been scary for most other people.

The relationship between Kassandra and Luc developed fast physically because they are both very sexual but their love and connection built up slowly throughout the book until you could believe they didn't want to be apart.

Nevertheless, amongst the non-stop debauchery, this book does manage to tell a good story.  What a difference that was from book one!  The love between Kassandra and Luc is always there, you can see it in both of them even when they are playing with others.  Oh yeah, that hasn't changed.  The one thing you can expect from this series is sex.  A lot of it.  With a lot of people, different people, threesome and moresomes, and they are not shy about the man love.  Even with the demon Legion, who I thought at first I should be scared of but grew to love by the end of the book.  I hope we get to read his book with his one true love.

*ARC provided by publisher

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Review: Temptation at Twilight by Jo Carlisle

Temptation at Twilight

by Jo Carlisle

(Lords of Pleasure # 1)

Wow!  I knew going in that this book was an erotic paranormal, I just didn't know to what extent.  I've read JD Tyler's work and love her, so of course I rushed to pick this up as soon as I saw this was her pen name.  Well, I can tell you a few things.  This book is very well written but it feels like it was written by a completely different person. =)  TEMPTATION AT TWILIGHT is highly sensual and enchanting, not so much romantic.

Why do I say that?  Mainly because I didn't think Soren and Harley had much of a connection past the fact that she just wanted to have kinky sex all the time.  The reason why I didn't give the book a higher rating has nothing to do with the premise of the story, which I found really interesting.  And it has nothing to do with how awesome the writing is or how hot the scenes are.  It's just that I thought the hero was a bit of a gullable idiot and the heroinem, well, see description above.

Basically the Lords of Pleasure are three brothers, vampires, that run what you could call a pleasure resort.  They don't sell themselves but they are welcome to participate in others scenes if they so feel the need and are invited.  They are all about sex.  Soren thinks he lost his mate and throughout the years has tried everything to bring her back.  Now he makes a pact with a voodoo priestess who promises she can bring her back from the dead and the price she wants Soren to pay is high.  But he does it anyway, without thinking.

At times it felt as if Leila, the priestess, was almost undefeatable.  She was larger than life and I guess you could consider her a great "bad guy".  I don't know if I can say I loved the resolution at the end but at least it worked when I thought that I was going to find it unbelievable.

Be warned that as you can see from my review, sex is a big part of this book.  Straight sex, m/m sex, menages, if you're there you can participate, no discrimination.  So if that's not your thing, then you might not enjoy this as much.

I do see a lot of potential with the next book as I enjoyed Luc's character a lot more than Soren from the little bit we saw of him.  I also hope to see more of Aldric in the next book (hopefully) because we really didn't "meet" him in this book.

Fave Quote:
"His shirt read, I'M SO GOOD IN BED, I SCREAM MY OWN NAME."

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