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Today, March 8th, happens to be the one day when the promo price deals for my two new releases overlap. Today you can snag both The Gazillionaire and the Virgin and Raw Silk for only 99 cents! The deal for Raw Silk ends today. The G&V price drop just started yesterday.
Since
these are both full length novels, they’re both bargains at less
than a buck. So which one should you choose?
That
depends on what you’re looking for and what you like. In this blog
post, I’ll try to help you make a decision! Tell me what you enjoy
most in a book, and I’ll give you my recommendation.
I
like a book that transports me to another world, where the author
chooses a distinctive setting and makes it come alive
Raw
Silk is definitely the book for
you. It’s set in exotic Thailand, around the turn of the
millennium. In fact, that country is almost another character.
Gorgeous Thai landscapes and sensual Thai culture tempt my heroine
Kate into sexual explorations she’d never consider in her home town
of Boston. As Kathleen Bradean says in her review,
“The
Bangkok
setting
is
fascinating
and
adds
to
the
overall
feeling
of
opulent
sensuality.
Lisabet
Sarai
deftly
shows
the
country
without
ever
letting
the
descriptions
take
over
the
story.
“
I
like a book that focuses on the developing love between the main
characters.
Both books provide HEAs
where the heroine enters a committed relationship with the hero.
However, G&V is a more traditional romance, chronicling
all the steps (and missteps) in Rachel’s and Theo’s journey
towards love. As Lola White wrote on Goodreads , “I was completely
drawn into this relationship, and the relationship IS the story. The
connection Rachel and Theo build between them is vividly portrayed,
beautiful and well-written, poignant in some ways and hot enough to
melt the pages in others.”
I
like a book with a complex, well-designed plot.
Raw
Silk has a far more detailed
plot than G&V,
with many more minor characters. In G&V,
the main plot arc relates to the protagonists’ learning to trust
one another. Compared to Raw Silk,
most of the action is private and internal.
I
like a book where the characters have wild sexual adventures.
You should read Raw
Silk. I promise you’ll need a cold shower after each chapter!
Not that G&V is tame, mind you—it includes pretty much
every variation on MF sex—but Raw Silk has MM and FF scenes,
MMFF and MMMF ménage, voyeurism, public sex, sex involving toys and
inanimate objects...well, I think you get the picture. It’s rated
triple-X.
I
like BDSM romance.
Both novels explore the
development of BDSM-flavored relationships, but their tones are very
different. The kink in Raw Silk is more extreme, and perhaps
less realistic. Gregory has many years experience as a Dom. He pushes
Kate hard, subjecting her to trials of obedience that might make some
readers uncomfortable—though she gives her eager consent to it all.
As is typical of many BDSM romances, Kate’s a novice when it comes
to power exchange, but she discovers in herself a “natural”
desire to submit.
In G&V, Theo
is a natural Dom with lots of imagination but little practical
experience. And since Rachel is used to being boss outside the
bedroom, she sometimes ends up topping from below.
It really depends on
what pushes your buttons. The kink in Raw Silk is probably
closer to what you’re used to if you’ve read other BDSM erotic
romance. G&V turns a lot of the BDSM romance clichés on
their heads. On the other hand, to quote Kayla Lord’s review
of G&V: "Do I recommend this one? Oh hell yeah.
Realistic D/s with hot as hell kinky sex? Yes, please!"
I
like alpha heroes.
Get yourself a copy of
Raw Silk. Though I’d never read any romance when I wrote
this novel, Gregory is the classic alpha—tall, muscular, powerful,
domineering, an expert in the sexual arts, mysterious and a bit
closed, emotionally. Theo from G&V, on the other hand, is
an anti-alpha. He’s nerdy, insecure, socially awkward—and a
virgin! I’ll tell you a secret, though. These days I’m more drawn
to someone like Theo than someone like Gregory.
I like feisty
heroines.
Both books feature
smart, independent, sexually confident young women, so there’s not
a lot of basis for choice with regard to this criterion. In fact,
they both have curly red hair! (A fantasy favorite of mine.) Both are
submissive. Neither is in any way a doormat.
I look for
well-written, well-edited prose.
I can promise you that
you won’t have to wade through typos and grammatical errors in
either story. To be honest, I think G&V is the better
written of the two books. This isn’t surprising, considering that
Raw Silk was my first novel—although I revised it quite
thoroughly for this release, as well as penning a whole new chapter.
G&V, on the other hand, represents the pinnacle of my fifteen
years experience writing erotic romance. I have enough confidence now
to do things I wouldn’t have dared do (from a literary perspective)
when I first started writing.
Which should you
choose?
Well, of course, you
could buy both! Less than two dollars for five
hundred pages of erotic romance goodness... how could you go wrong?
To help you out, I’ve
included buy links below. And if you do decide to buy one over the
other, I’d love for you to leave a comment, telling me why!
Buy
Links – Raw Silk
Amazon
US
Amazon
UK
Barnes
& Noble
Totally
Bound
All
Romance
Buy
Links – The Gazillionaire and the Virgin
Amazon
US
Amazon
UK
Barnes
& Noble
All
Romance
Kobo
Smashwords
iTunes
Google
Books
Excessica
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