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Men Reading Romance Books

Someone posted one of those hot pictures of a guy reading the other day on Facebook and it made me think that if more men read romance books their women would be happier so I turned to my friend who’s husband reads romances and asked her to talk to her husband and see if he could write something up for our blog. I think a lot of guys do not know anything about some of the romance books we read and would actually enjoy them if they picked them up. Brad gives us his thoughts below. /Cori

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Brad Bezoni’s Thoughts on Reading Romance Books:

Yes, I admit it, I am a man, and I read romance novels. Not the Jackie Collins type, but the ones that are more slanted to the paranormal – vampires, werewolves, mythological based, etc. Now keep in mind that my typical reading fare is in the Sci Fi and fantasy realm – Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Dune, Stephen King and the like. Hell, my favorite book growing up was In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. So romance novels – not really what I ever thought I would end up reading. Let me take you back to the beginning, and explain…

My wife began reading the Black Dagger Brotherhood books a couple of years ago, and as I didn’t have anything that I was reading at the time she suggested I take a stab at them (she thought I would enjoy the fighting scenes). And I have to admit, I was sucked into most of the books and the series instantly. The back stories of the characters, the depth of the environment, the attention to detail, the “liberties” that the authors took and ran with to make their worlds believable – it was all much more than I ever thought any romance author would have put into their books. And the violence, oh the sweet, glorious violence that these books held – references to Glocks, Sig Sauers, sais, katanas, martial arts forms, graphic descriptions of fight scenes, it was a dream come true (although I was a little concerned when I first heard “Baby, what’s a Sig Sauer?” from the bedroom)! Then, THEN, the “romance”; not any of the “they laid down on the bed and gently made love for hours on end” crap that just makes men want to vomit, but true, gritty, graphic scenes, so expertly written that you could see them play out in your mind (and yes, I have always had a very dirty mind). From the soft, gentle lovemaking scenes to the rough, hard, have to have it nowz scenes, all were written in a way that I could read and not think I needed to put a bullet through my brain because NO ONE ever thinks or acts that way. They are written with a real edge, a true person’s perspective, and did I mention graphic???

Do I enjoy reading them? You bet I do, but not just for the sex scenes, or the violence, or the mythos – no, I enjoy reading them for all of these reasons combined, and the way that each of them play and build off of each other. The southern belle being wooed by a suitor while on her plantation in the south – give me a break, I have better things to do, like a root canal. But a woman who wakes up chained to a vampiric hunter, and becomes a part of a centuries old war between Hunters and a sub race bent on feeding on the souls of the innocent, and who happens to have hot, steamy sex that would give the adult film industry a run for its money – yeah, that I can gladly give my time to. (This is a description of Night Pleasures by Sherrilyn Kenyon) And I won’t lie, I’ve taken some of the things that were in the books and used them in the bedroom, much to my, and definitely to my wife’s, benefit.

Now I know my tastes aren’t those of everyone – some people may not like stories of fights and fantasy, and some people may like the highly froo-froo stories. More power to them. I for one enjoy these stories/books, and plan to continue reading them into the future. And just for reference, I’ve been reading J. R. Ward, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Thea Harrison, Karen Marie Moning and Gena Showalter, as well as other novels in the Science Fiction and Fantasy genres interspersed along the way.

Brad’s Series Recommendations:

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✿DARK-HUNTER SERIES BY SHERRILYN KENYON✿
✦SERIES BUY LINKS: Amazon http://amzn.to/1yT4U0B | B&N http://bit.ly/1zi9Jj1 | Kobo http://bit.ly/1v81buL

1. FANTASY LOVER ~ $3.99 http://amzn.to/16ISJHM
2. DRAGONSWAN – Found inside the Other Worlds http://amzn.to/16ujtjq
3. NIGHT PLEASURES ~ $7.99 http://amzn.to/12BAjbk
4. NIGHT EMBRACE ~ $4.99 http://amzn.to/14vkpk7
5. PHANTOM LOVER ~ available in the Dark Bites compendium. http://amzn.to/1PUDwdM

6. A DARK-HUNTER CHRISTMAS ~ available in the Dark Bites compendium. http://amzn.to/1PUDwdM
7. DANCE WITH THE DEVIL ~ $3.99 http://amzn.to/1fc574U
8. KISS OF THE NIGHT ~ $4.99 http://amzn.to/12BCED0
9. NIGHT PLAY ~ $3.99 http://amzn.to/15a2H80
10. WINTERBORN ~ available in the Dark Bites compendium. http://amzn.to/1PUDwdM
11. SEIZE THE NIGHT ~ $5.99 http://amzn.to/1dG0fHb
12. SINS OF THE NIGHT ~ $4.99 http://amzn.to/1dfrJ7U
13. UNLEASH THE NIGHT ~ $7.99 http://amzn.to/159TLso
14. DARK SIDE OF THE MOON ~ $3.99 http://amzn.to/17W2u4B
15. A HARD DAY’S NIGHT SEARCHER ~ available in the Dark Bites compendium. http://amzn.to/1PUDwdM
16. UNTIL DEATH DO WE PART ~ available in the Dark Bites compendium. http://amzn.to/1PUDwdM
17. THE DREAM HUNTER ~ $7.99 http://amzn.to/1c6QVug
18. FEAR THE DARKNESS ~ available in the Dark Bites compendium. http://amzn.to/1PUDwdM
19. DEVIL MAY CRY ~ $3.99 http://amzn.to/16IW0XJ
20. UPON THE MIDNIGHT CLEAR ~ $7.99 http://amzn.to/1dfsCxx
21. DREAM CHASER ~ $4.99 http://amzn.to/14vlYhR
22. ACHERON ~ $7.99 http://amzn.to/12BCeN5
23. WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD ~ available in the Dark Bites compendium. http://amzn.to/1PUDwdM
24. SHADOW OF THE MOON ~ available in the Dark Bites compendium. http://amzn.to/1PUDwdM
25. ONE SILENT NIGHT ~ $3.99 http://amzn.to/19T3ADG
26. DREAM WARRIOR ~ $7.99 http://amzn.to/1c6S4C0
27. BAD MOON RISING ~ $7.99 http://amzn.to/1dG1Qg8
28. NO MERCY ~ $7.99 http://amzn.to/17VZHs9
29. RETRIBUTION ~ $7.99 http://amzn.to/14vgQtZ
30. THE GUARDIAN ~ $7.99 http://amzn.to/1dFZ1M5
31. TIME UNTIME ~ $4.99 http://amzn.to/141dgUU
32. STYXX by Sherrilyn Kenyon ~ $8.99 http://amzn.to/1d3CtWU
33. DARK BITES ~ $8.99 http://amzn.to/1PUDwdM
34. SON OF NO ONE ~ $5.99 http://amzn.to/1GQKYUq
35. DRAGONBANE ~ http://amzn.to/1H8NVNF

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THERE IS ALSO AN EBOOK BOX SET
✦The Dark-Hunters (The Collection Thus Far) by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Kindle: http://amzn.to/1GQL9zj
GooglePlay: http://bit.ly/1k9WZVQ
B&N: http://bit.ly/1hU6FlE

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✦THE BLACK DAGGER BROTHERHOOD SERIES ~ READING ORDER✦
SERIES LINKS: Amazon http://amzn.to/1DpBPl0 | B&N http://bit.ly/1EEu0YF | Kobo http://bit.ly/1EEpGZy
✦Dark Lover ➢ Kindle http://amzn.to/17wcZJV
✦Lover Eternal ➢ Kindle http://amzn.to/179BzU8
✦Lover Awakened ➢ Kindle http://amzn.to/18Eqmsy
✦Lover Revealed ➢ Kindle http://amzn.to/13g9tWr
✦Lover Unbound ➢ Kindle http://amzn.to/18tPt2h
✦Lover Enshrined ➢ Kindle http://amzn.to/17woxN4
✦ The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider’s Guide ➢ Kindle http://amzn.to/17FIm70
✦ Father Mine: Zsadist and Bella’s Story: A Black Dagger Brotherhood Novella (eBook – the printed version of this story is also found in “The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider’s Guide” http://amzn.to/17wqaKE
✦Lover Avenged ➢ Kindle http://amzn.to/1I5iTcw
✦Lover Mine ➢ Kindle http://amzn.to/1dRq35K
✦Lover Unleashed ➢ Kindle http://amzn.to/1dR9pDy
✦Lover Reborn ➢ Kindle http://amzn.to/18EjoDX
✦Lover At Last ➢ Kindle http://amzn.to/16GUthu
✦The King ➢ Kindle http://amzn.to/12CBV4A
✦The Shadows ➢ Kindle http://amzn.to/1BAHVJT

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✦THE ELDER RACES BY THEA HARRISON ~ READING ORDER✦
Series Buy Links: Amazon http://amzn.to/1Ees2uY | B&N http://bit.ly/19eckG2 | Kobo http://bit.ly/1Bziaeq
✦#1: DRAGON BOUND http://amzn.to/17OAJsX
✦#2: STORM’S HEART http://amzn.to/1fGeSNo
✦#3: SERPENT’S KISS http://amzn.to/1fGeE8Y
q✦ TRUE COLORS (Novella) http://amzn.to/17OA9vi
✦#4: ORACLE’S MOON http://amzn.to/17OAuhw
✦ NATURAL EVIL (Novella) http://amzn.to/1bCUsjm
✦ DEVIL’S GATE (Novella) http://amzn.to/H0mewH
✦ HUNTER’S SEASON (Novella) http://amzn.to/1fGdMRF
✦#5: LORD’S FALL http://amzn.to/1hZVCXV
✦ THE WICKED (Novella) http://amzn.to/17id5XD
✦#6: KINKED ($5.99) http://amzn.to/1bCTGmw
✦ DRAGOS TAKES A HOLIDAY http://amzn.to/IcMCmT
✦ PIA SAVES THE DAY http://georiot.co/ckE
✦ PEANUT GOES TO SCHOOL (Short Story) http://amzn.to/1xTjQQU
✦#7: NIGHT’S HONOR http://amzn.to/1HJIoNr
✦#8: Midnight’s Kiss (May 5, 2015) http://amzn.to/1Mubm4M

REVIEWS
Review: Kinked (A Novel of the Elder Races) by Thea Harrison http://wp.me/p3d0RZ-NU
Review: Night’s Honor (Elder Races) by Thea Harrison http://wp.me/p3d0RZ-1Au

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✦The Fever Series & The Highlander Series by Karen Marie Moning http://wp.me/p3d0RZ-Om

✦The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle by Karen Marie Moning
Kindle http://amzn.to/1BcjTbC
B&N http://bit.ly/155GCsz
Kobo http://bit.ly/1G9DSuD
iBooks http://apple.co/1dxQz5Z

✦THE HIGHLANDER SERIES by KAREN MARIE MONING – READING ORDER✦
1. Beyond the Highland Mist http://amzn.to/1KQX7sN
2. To Tame a Highland Warrior http://amzn.to/1IR7xog
3. The Highlander’s Touch http://amzn.to/14JB4mA
4. Kiss of the Highlander http://amzn.to/1BcpnTN
5. The Dark Highlander http://amzn.to/1AoZQkS
6. The Immortal Highlander http://amzn.to/1KQXgwh
7. Spell of the Highlander http://amzn.to/1u9LEzB

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✦The Fever Series by Karen Marie Moning
Kindle http://amzn.to/1JcjjLy
B&N http://tinyurl.com/nm93d9n
Kobo http://tinyurl.com/pkgv2cs
iBooks http://apple.co/1biTD4h

✦THE FEVER SERIES BY KAREN MARIE MONING – READING ORDER✦
✦1. DARKFEVER http://amzn.to/1BcpEGh
✦2. BLOODFEVER http://amzn.to/1Ap0HSH
✦3. FAEFEVER http://amzn.to/1AZoFqq
✦4. DREAMFEVER http://amzn.to/1G9MH7E
✦5. SHADOWFEVER http://amzn.to/1KQXJyu
✦6. ICED http://amzn.to/1IR8eOC
✦7. BURNED (January 20, 2015) http://amzn.to/1xaHzH0
✦8. FEVERBORN (October 13, 2015)
✦9. FEVERSONG (2016)

The Fever Series & The Highlander Series by Karen Marie Moning

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THE FEVER SERIES BY KAREN MARIE MONING

This is one of my favorite series and I recommend grabbing the box set if you haven’t read the series because you’re going to want to read them back to back. You’ll fall in love with Barrons! Now for those that love hot paranormal series you’ll love this one, but I’d also recommend it for people who normally wouldn’t pick up a paranormal. I got my mother to read this series and she isn’t much of a romance or paranormal lover yet she was completely captivated by this story because it’s just such a unique plot that completely transports the reader into another world. It captures and holds your attention throughout the entire series. Love it! /Cori

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✦The Fever Series Box Set by Karen Marie Moning
Kindle http://amzn.to/1H8A8th
B&N http://tinyurl.com/nm93d9n
Kobo http://tinyurl.com/pkgv2cs
iBooks http://apple.co/1biTD4h

✦THE FEVER SERIES BY KAREN MARIE MONING – READING ORDER✦
✦1. DARKFEVER http://amzn.to/1BcpEGh
✦2. BLOODFEVER http://amzn.to/1Ap0HSH
✦3. FAEFEVER http://amzn.to/1AZoFqq
✦4. DREAMFEVER http://amzn.to/1G9MH7E
✦5. SHADOWFEVER http://amzn.to/1KQXJyu
✦6. ICED http://amzn.to/1IR8eOC
✦7. BURNED (January 20, 2015) http://amzn.to/1xaHzH0
✦8. FEVERBORN (October 13, 2015)
✦9. FEVERSONG (2016)

 

✦BOOK DESCRIPTIONS

In the blockbuster Fever series, Karen Marie Moning creates a darkly erotic and paranormal world, torn apart by the struggle between humans and Fae. Now in a convenient eBook bundle, here are the five thrillingly sexy novels featuring heroine MacKayla Lane: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, and Shadowfever.

✦DARKFEVER
When her sister is murdered, MacKayla Lane journeys to Ireland in search of answers. There, she makes a startling discovery: She’s a sidhe-seer, which gives her the rare power to glimpse beyond the realm of Man, and into the dangerous realm of the Fae. As the boundary between the worlds begins to crumble, Mac becomes a target. But her mission is clear: Find the Sinsar Dubh, an ancient book that contains the key to controlling mortals and Fae alike, before the enemy seizes it.

✦BLOODFEVER
In her fight to stay alive, Mac must hunt the Sinsar Dubh—a book of the blackest magic imaginable. Pursued by assassins and surrounded by mysterious figures she knows she cannot trust, Mac finds herself torn between two powerful men: V’lane, the ancient, immortal Fae Prince, and Jericho Barrons, a man as seductive as he is dangerous.

✦FAEFEVER
When Mac receives a page torn from her sister’s journal, she is stunned by its desperate contents. Now that Mac knows her sister’s killer is close, she’s on the hunt for revenge. Forced into a precarious alliance with V’lane, the lethal Fae prince, and Jericho Barrons, a man of deadly secrets, Mac is soon locked in a battle for her body, mind, and soul.

✦DREAMFEVER
When the walls between Man and Fae come crashing down, Mac is caught in a lethal trap. Captured by the Fae Lord Master, she is left with no memory of who or what she is: the only sidhe-seer alive who can track the Sinsar Dubh. Clawing her way back from oblivion is only the first step Mac must take down a perilous path, from the battle-filled streets of Dublin into the realm of the Fae, where nothing is as it seems.

✦SHADOWFEVER
In an epic battle between humans and Fae, the Sinsar Dubh turns on Mac, and begins to mow a deadly path through those she loves. Who can she trust? But more important, who is Mac? Does an ancient prophecy reveal her destiny? Mac’s journey will force her to face the truth, and to make a choice that will either save the world . . . or destroy it.

 

✦FAVORITE QUOTES✦

“One day you do meet a man who kisses you and you can’t breathe around it and you realize you don’t need air. Oxygen is trivial. Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset. To touch the one you love. To try again.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

“He pulls me around and kisses me. “You’re Mac,” he says. “And I’m Jericho. And nothing else matters. Never will. You exist in a place that is beyond all rules for me. Do you understand that?”
I do.
Jericho Barrons just told me he loves me.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

“The moment I laid eyes on you, I knew you were trouble.”
“Ditto.”
“I wanted to drag you between the shelves, fuck you senseless, and send you home.”
“If you’d done that, I never would have left.”
“You’re still here anyway.”
“You don’t have to sound so sour about it.”
“You’re upsetting my entire existence.”
“Fine, I’ll leave.”
“Try and I’ll chain you up.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

“Just one time… When you know who I am. Let me be your man.”
― Jericho Barrons

“Unpredictable as a hungry lion, he might be feared by everyone else, but he never ripped out my throat, only licked me, and, if his tongue was a little rough sometimes, it was worth it to walk beside the king of the jungle.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

“Jericho Barrons was my poison now.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Dreamfever

“I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there’s a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style,park your own car out front. My imagination has always topped anything a movie could come up with. Case in point, those darned Harry Potter movies. That was so not what that part-Veela-chick, Fleur Delacour, looked like.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever

“There are two kinds of people in the world Ms. Lane: those who survive no matter the cost and those who are walking victims.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever

“She understood now why her friend Elizabeth, with her near-genius, analytical mind gave wide berth to murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and horror stories, and read only romance novels. Because, by God, when a woman picked up one of those steamy books, she had a firm guarantee that there would be a Happily-Ever-After. That though the world outside those covers could bring such sorrow and disappointment and loneliness, between those covers, the world was a splendid place to be.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever

“You want to believe in black and white, good and evil, heroes that are truly heroic, villains that are just plain bad, but I’ve learned in the past year that things are rarely so simple. The good guys can do some truly awful things, and the bad guys can sometimes surprise the heck out of you.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever

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THE HIGHLANDER SERIES BY KAREN MARIE MONING

Karen Marie Moning’s Highlander Series goes with the Fever Series. Some of the Highlander Series characters are in the Fever series so I would recommend reading The Highlander books first. Each book can be read as a standalone, but I recommend reading them in order. Each book in this series is a love story about a different couple and has a HEA ending. The Fever Series is one continuous story with no ending yet. 

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✦The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle by Karen Marie Moning
Kindle http://amzn.to/1BcjTbC
B&N http://bit.ly/155GCsz
Kobo http://bit.ly/1G9DSuD
iBooks http://apple.co/1dxQz5Z

✦THE HIGHLANDER SERIES by KAREN MARIE MONING – READING ORDER✦
1. Beyond the Highland Mist http://amzn.to/1KQX7sN
2. To Tame a Highland Warrior http://amzn.to/1IR7xog
3. The Highlander’s Touch http://amzn.to/14JB4mA
4. Kiss of the Highlander http://amzn.to/1BcpnTN
5. The Dark Highlander http://amzn.to/1AoZQkS
6. The Immortal Highlander http://amzn.to/1KQXgwh
7. Spell of the Highlander http://amzn.to/1u9LEzB

 

 TEASERS FROM KAREN MARIE MONING’S PAGE

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