A few weeks back I asked for volunteers to red a few Avon Red books and give us their thoughts. Darlene and her hubby, Mr. Wonderful, did a he said/she said review of two Red titles here. Tammy G. took up the challenge as well.

Here are Tammy’s fabulous thoughts on Dahlia Schweitzer’s Seduce Me and the anthology If This Bed Could Talk. Huge thanks to Tammy!

The blurb for Seduce Me says:

This intimate collection of short stories explore the myriad of roles and dynamics that create our relationships––messy and needy, loving and hating, wanting to conquer and be conquered. These stories describe planned and accidental encounters, attempts to find reality and attempts to create roles. What is real? What is not? Does it matter when we’re clawing at each other in the bedroom?

Told from multiple points of view and detailing with multiple scenarios, Schweitzer tells gripping tales of a woman and her boss (who is really in control?), of a woman and a surprise gift (do clothes really make the woman?), of a man and a woman who inject desire into their relationship by not having sex, of a man who pays for the pleasure of doing your dishes in nothing at all…and many more.

Tammy says:

This is not my normal reading material. However I was amazed at this author’s gift of the different tales in this book. It has desire, multiple scenarios, masturbating, sex with same gender and sex in a cab.

Seduce Me contains twelve wonderful erotic intimate stories. The author has captured both male and female’s point of view on sex.

“At Work” – You will hear from both the male and the female, how they feel, what they are thinking with everything they do.

This book is very HOT!

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Then we have the anthology If This Bed Could Talk. The B&N blurb doesn’t say much, only:

A trio of writers explores the allure of the deliciously wicked and brings us three tales of modern love and lust—stories guaranteed to turn up the heat!

Tammy is much more helpful. Here’s what she says about each novella:

Agent Provocateur by Liz Maverick

Vienna James was a weapons specialist, a gunrunner, a target shooter, she was captured. In Center City the Strike Policy is three crimes, three captures and it automatic execution unless you are bought on the auction block as a slave or something. That is where Vienna found herself right on the auction block it was down to the last second before Michael Kingston decided to buy her. Devlin & Michael just happen to be attending the auction when Vienna caught their eye she looked like Julia. Julia was Devlin’s fiancée whom Pierce Mackey stole and now is dead. Pierce, Devlin and Michael once were very close, but now are enemies. Michael & Devlin want to use Vienna as a weapon against Pierce. Michael is chosen to train Vienna however they happen to fall in love. Michael is now having problems knowing Pierce will be touching Vienna. Watch the sparks fly. Very Hot!

Unrequited by Kimberly Dean

Trista Christiansen has been single for eight months since her divorce. She was starting to regret her decision to go out on a date, her first one since the divorce, Cliff was a nice man, and she just didn’t want to get his hopes up. Cliff’s plan was to go to the Blue Muse (French food) but some how ended up clear across town at the Blue Moon (bar & grill). Trista was so not dressed for the Blue Moon, but they would not make it to the Blue Muse in time for their reservations, so decided to eat at the Blue Moon. After she was seated she felt a pair of eyes on her she looked around and made eye contact with her ex-brother-in-law, TY Christiansen. He looked betrayed. After all after the divorce they’d been close; he was always there for her. When Cliff took her home she found TY waiting. TY makes his intentions clear. Complete seduction. It gets really hot!

Victim of Deception by Lynn LaFleur

1910 – Aaron and Mary were in love, they had a baby girl about 5 months old, named Katie. They wanted to give Katie a brother or sister however Eva who worked at the general store wanted Aaron for herself. When she couldn’t have him, she shot Aaron and Mary then cursed them both. “You’ll be together, but will never be able to touch each other again. You’ll suffer from your lust for all eternity” Eva took Katie to raise as her own.

Present Day – Karessa Austin is Aaron and Mary’s Great, Great Granddaughter. Karessa’s Aunt Grace has died and left her an old Victorian house. She doesn’t think she needs it until she steps inside. Karessa can’t bring herself to sell it so she decides to renovate it and move in. She took to reading her Great-grandmother Katie’s diary. Katie was having doubts that her mother was her mother. Karessa had fallen in love with Maxwell Hennessey, whom she now doesn’t want anything to do with even though no one has ever been able to make her feel the way he did while making love. He tossed her love aside and chose to go after hidden treasures and became a multi-millionaire. Now there is another treasure hidden in Karessa’s home Max is after. He still loves her, she still loves him. But will she take him back or will he go after the treasure? Her Great, Great Grandmother thinks maybe if they get back together they can break the curse. Can Max give up the treasure for love this time, can they break the curse?

Thanks Tammy!!

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