Untouched by Samantha Hunter (Harl.Blaze 01 ’07)

Cady, I'm so happy you liked it, and that you're willing to keep reading Blaze. Like any line, you'll probably find hits and misses, but my hope is many more hits. :)

Thanks for the kind words,

Sam

But thanks -- I loved the book, and it's always nice to hear that others did too, but I'm especially pleased if it's paving the way for you to more Blaze reads. ;)

I love putting dogs in books... my own pups are such a huge part of my own life... 

Sam 

Glad to see you enjoyed this one Cady. Sam recommended this book to me last year, and i too loved it.

I've since read a couple other good Blazes and found the sex scenes not as explicit as i expected them to be.

I'm getting that Blaze out to you too. I've just had a wedding and anniversary that I was helping with so it's been busy. But I think things are finally slowing down a bit. I also want to get a little list for you since I'm mailing that one you might want some other books.

This one sounds really good and fun. I just read an ebook Blaze called ANYTHING FOR YOU about best friends. Oh, it was so good. I loved it. So now I have another of her books in my tbr.

Margie :)

I'm trying to figure which one you mean! LOL the guy or the girl?

FWIW, I don't think the language used has anything to do with whether lovers respect each other or not -- you have to trust someone completely to be open and intimate with them, to say what you want to say, or to let them know what trips your trigger, so whatever language fits characters and the moment is the right one. My characters can get pretty graphic, but they definitely respect, and eventually love, each other. But we all have our limits -- I love many Spice and erotic love stories, but there are some I've read that go too far for me, too.

Skipping love scenes is interesting. I've heard that before and have mixed responses, because on one hand, that makes it clear that love scenes are a small percentage of the book, and there's a whole story there as well -- then, on the other hand, what happens in love scenes to reveal character, and their motivations and how they fall for each other is so important, it's hard to imagine skipping them... I mean, I don't like violence, but if I read a mystery, I kind of have to read the murder, or I've left out an important part...

Sam 

to agree that the use of the female "c" word is a total turn-off for me, I don't like the sonority of it, don't know why, but I have to say I've never seen it in a Blaze and I've read a lot of them (or else I successfully selectively ignored it because I have no memory of having read it in a Blaze and I've read more than half the Blazes ever published (and more than another quarter of them are in my TBR))

Glad you're enjoying the Blazes

Hugs

Sadhbh 

that we're discussing this on a thread about Untouched, which I think is my "mildest" book sexually speaking -- it had to be, since the heroine is a virgin, you can't just leap into bed, etc.

Which has confused people because it's an "Extreme" and they expect extreme sex, but the plot/character here were the extreme elements, not so much the sex. Word of warning: I do usually have much more sex, and often more graphic, in my other books. ;)

Sam 

The absolute worst "c" word for me, is the female "c" ones.. I just can't stand that word used in any situation really, and doubt i ever will be able to.

As to the male "c" word...i can handle that one much better these days...but several years ago, it would've pulled me out of a story as well, and in fact did. It was a Temptation and i was loving the story and the characters, but when the relationship moved to the next step(more than half way thru the story), love scenes and the use of that word seemed to be used alot in that bedroom, it finally got to me so much, that i put the book aside and couldn't finish it...but...i did keep the book.

Whenever i'd notice the book in my discarded reads pile(about 8 books or so), i'd wish i'd at least finished it so i'd have closure.

Anyway, years later and i'd come along way with sex scenes in romance novels, i decided i really wanted to read that book again and see if it still bothered me so much. Weellll, it didn't bother me at all, and i could barely tell where the parts were that so discusted me the first time. And the added bonus, "I got to love the story all over again, but this time with closure. LOL

Anyway, that proves to me that while i still don't care for the male word(i don't use it)...i still can't stand the female one.

Kathy, I'm so glad people are trying Blazes. They are great books, really. I just love the line (obviously).

Sadhbh, hi! Love the word "sonority"   :)

Sam

You all know I read the Blaze books.  The language in Blaze books usually doesn't bother me.  Violence does but, in any book, but I like romance/suspense so I am bound to read some violent situations.  Some of the Blaze books have smokin hot scenes but I am okay with them as they are usually written in a manner that I can handle.  So far I haven't tried any of the Spice line but want to at some point.  Since I'm never caught up on my Blaze books I just haven't ventured into Spice.  Of course, it is also partly do to a very small book budget & so many authors that I love to read!!

Kathy & Cady I'm glad to see you are both trying Blaze, some of my favorite authors write the line which is why I stick with it.  Sam is on that list.

Later all, have a good weekend.