The Book Bitches

Thursday, September 21, 2006

The time has come... today!

After months of waiting and waiting and ohgawd waiting, FINALLY, the third season of Grey’s Anatomy is here!!! *happy dance* YAYAYAYAYAY! If you’re like me—who maniacally downloaded every freaking GA episode like there was no tomorrow—you’re probably counting every minute till the first episode airs tonight. (Seriously, it was either kill my poor McPC or burst a brain vessel from torturous anticipation. You see, at the time season two was ending in the U.S., the first season was only fucking starting here—the injustice!!!)

According to the plot summary, the doctors of Seattle Grace help Izzie cope with the loss of her fiancé, Denny, and her decision to quit the internship program. Meredith must decide what the future holds after her liaison with Derek. The Chief is confronted by his wife, Adele, after spending the night in his office, and George seeks relationship advice from a surprising source.

Now here’s what the show creator Shonda Rhymes has to say:

The first episode is going to take place pretty much where the end of Season Two left off. Because I don’t believe in jumping ahead three months and leaving people scratching their heads and muttering, “Dude... what happened while we were away?” I feel like SO much happened at the end of last season that I owe it to the characters to have them deal with the aftermath. And I owe it to you to let you watch the aftermath. Cause Denny died (...) and Burke got shot and Meredith lost her panties...

Those panties... dude, those panties play a big part in the first couple of episodes. Those panties are key. Cause Meredith never put them back on. She rushed out to deal with Izzie and left Derek who was asking “Meredith, what does this mean?” and she never had a chance to put those panties back on. So watch for the panties—and I don’t just mean the shot in the promos that has them on the bulletin board in the hospital.

The first episode (which is called “Time Has Come Today”) deals with, not just the aftermath, but also with the past. I encourage you to watch the original very first episode of Grey’s Anatomy from Season One because, if you pay attention to the dialogue and the details, you will be rewarded in this premiere episode with some (hopefully) very interesting tidbits. And I hate the word “tidbits” but it does describe what I mean perfectly. This first episode of Season Three is meant to reward hardcore fans—it’s also meant to bring us to a place where we can say goodbye to Denny as well as deal with the Mer/Der/Finn of it all.

Ohhh, I CANNOT WAIT! I’ve missed the GA gang, especially Derek and his oh so McCharming smiles and those McDreamy eyes. *sigh* I want to know what will happen with Izzie, especially after last season’s finale gave way to speculation about Katherine Heigl leaving the show (say it isn’t so!). I want to see more of McVet (Chris O’Donnell is cute cute cute!). I want McSteamy to come back and to stir more trouble (he is gorgeous, he can give me a physical any day LOL). I want the torturous love-hate triangle between Addison, Derek and Meredith to finally be resolved. I want a McDreamy-McHarlot-McVet-McSteamy foursome so hot it would surely leave permanent burn marks in our bodies *swoon* (not necessarily aired in ABC :P).

So what do you guys think will happen? Or what do you want to see in the new season? *g*

P.S. For a recap of the entire series, tune in an hour before the season premiere at 8 p.m. Eastern for “Complications of the Heart.” This hour-long special will feature a compilation of important moments from the second season, as well as a longer version of The Fray’s GA music video, “How to Save a Life.”

Labels: mctv

Sunday, October 15, 2006

The bigger person?

I just saw Grey’s Anatomy’s latest episode, “Who I Am.” WTF? I cannot believe Derek is stepping aside for Finn! Why? Because, unlike Derek, Finn won’t hurt Meredith? Oh please, WHAT A LOAD OF BULLOCKS!

We all know when you fall in love there’s always the possibility of getting hurt because, intended or not, your happiness is now tied in with another person’s actions/choices/happiness. Otherwise, that’s not bloody love at all! So why then should Derek give up, especially when he and Finn stand in equal grounds???

Maybe I’m just not built that way. Faced with this kind of situation, I don’t think I would be able to do the same. You see, when I love someone, I give my all. I’m sure some people might classify that as “reckless,” but that’s who I am: single-minded till the point of recklessness LOL. Of course I want—no, I DEMAND the same thing from my partner. He should either give me his everything or nothing at all. Yes, I’m a demanding bitch as well.

It’s tricky, this... lurve. You get hurt; sometimes, you even get buried alive. But you have to claw your way up to the ground or die trying. Why? Because dammit, it’s fucking worth it. And you have to fight for it. You have to. Like heaven-help-the-fucker-who’ll-stand-in-my-way sort of thing.

Is it wrong to continue holding on to a relationship when you know there’s a big possibility of it blossoming into something that is worth your forever? How many chances would you give when, as Ally McBeal put it, “Whoever said that plenty of fish in the sea thing was lying. Sometimes there’s only one fish”?

I guess I’m fucking selfish. Well, why not? As long as there’s a chance for me to get the happiness I want, I will hold on to it and never let go like a nymphomaniac with her precious 10-inch dildo. I know there’s a point when you should stop, like when you’ve already exhausted every possible way to work things out and it still didn’t work. But when someone loves you too, and you know he is the only person you should be kissing for the rest of your life... and every time you’re with him, you want to laugh and you want to cry... because you feel so fucking lucky that you’ve found it and so scared that it’ll go away all at the same time... shouldn’t you fight for all your worth until your favorite pair of Jimmy Choo’s are all but ruined beyond belief? *sniff* Ask yourself, should/would you step aside for someone else when YOU are equally entitled to have that particularly elusive ecstasy and bliss?

Labels: bitchy mcrant, mctv

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

R.E.S.P.E.C.T. find out what it means to me

Disclaimer: This is my opinion based on someone’s comment on a BB I frequently visit, love and enjoy. This is not—and should be not taken—as a personal jibe towards the person that made the comment. These types of discussions are really not welcomed at FABB, which, I understand and respect so I decided to post my thoughts here. I value and like the person that made the comment; my views just differ from her on this subject. True?

Some of you might remember this post I wrote when I finished reading Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas a couple of years ago. Rereading my post, it seems I didn’t think the book was all that bad, and yet, for some reason, I believe I hated it LOL. Weird how memory does this to you.

Anyhoodles, all I can remember of the book is:

Hero has sex with a prostitute while pretending it’s the heroine.
Heroine dresses up as woman of ill repute to entice hero to have sex with her; ~~dim-witted~~. Hero “falls” for her scam, doesn’t recognize her *snort* and proceeds to “almost” take her flower. (Yes, I can see clearly now why I believe I hate this book; God what rubbish this plot is.)
Heroine, who is in love with a country-bumpkin, goes back home to him—after almost giving her flower to prostitute-shagging hero—and tries to seduce him. (I can’t remember why country-bumpkin refused to have sex with her. Some idiotic reason I’m sure.)
Hero carries heroine’s glasses inside his pockets for months. (I need to know if sane people actually go around doing stuff like that. I’d run and hide from any guy that kept, say, a dirty sock of mine in his pockets.)
Heroine bumps into prostitute-shagging hero at some party a week after trying to have sex with country-bumpkin and, lo and behold, realizes she’s in love with him! Be still my heart!

This is someone’s comment about the having-sex-with-a-prostitute-pretending-it’s-the-woman-you-love thing:

The hero, Derek Craven, sleep with the prostitute (Tabitha) pretending it’s the heroine, Sara. It was a very poigniant (sp?) moment because it shows how desperate Derek was for Sara, but he still had enough respect for her to not ruin her “lily-white life.”

I’m sorry, but: What. The. Fuck?

I’m a firm believer that humans aren’t born to be monogamous, but that monogamy is learned in civilized society (and hey, I’m all for civilized society LOL). I also believe that sex without love is just sex, very different from the merging of two minds, bodies and souls in love.

Now, what I don’t get is the respect and poignant part. Because he respected her he fucked other women? Color me damn confused but I’d rather no respect at all than that “poignant” kind of “respect.” I’d easier forgive someone for cheating on me because he wanted to or was attracted to someone else than tolerate that “I respect you, therefore I shag others” BS.

I must be missing something here but this Derek dude was nothing but a manhandling bully that fell for stupid disguises, had sex with prostitutes and kept other’s rubbish in his pockets. Really, people, hardly the description of a man women swoon over.

Labels: bitchy mcrant, for the love of rakes and rogues, romance baby

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Devil in winter

Short post to say I really enjoyed Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas.

I’ve read some of her stuff before and wasn’t all that impressed, to be honest, but this book was different. I absolutely loved the hero. He has some of the best dialogue I’ve encountered in a romance book. I like that he’s depraved, shameless and totally honest about marrying the heroine only for money. I thought it was refreshing that he wasn’t embarrassed about being in financial ruin.

I got this recommendation from the girls over at The Book Binge. They were having a discussion (of sorts) on who was a better hero: Derek or Sebastian? I thought I’d never heard of either but Holly made Sebastian St. Vincent sound so sexy I just had to read his story *g*, and seeing as I have most of Kleypas’ books in my TBR (misguided judgment on my part, I’ll tell you right now LOL) I went ahead and started.

I am so glad I didn’t find out the Derek they were referring to was that guy from, er, whatever that Kleypas book was. You know, the hero had a casino and she was a teacher? Well, whatever. All I know is he was a nasty piece of work who had sex with a prostitute; she was an idiot and someone burned a building down (maybe the prostitute?).

Still confused why they were even comparing these two characters, except maybe for the fact they were both written by LK? Who knows? I’m just happy I gave Devil in Winter a chance because it was verra good!

Labels: for the love of rakes and rogues

Thursday, March 22, 2007

TV Guide is bringing sexy back

Lost’s Evangeline Lilly (Kate) and Grey’s Anatomy’s Patrick Dempsey (Derek, aka McDreamy) are the “Sexiest Stars” on TV. That’s according to TV Guide, which hits newsstands Thursday featuring the No. 1’s on separate covers.

The rest of the gentlemen:

2. Sendhil Ramamurthy, Mohinder Suresh on Heroes
3. James Tupper, Jack Slattery on Men in Trees
4. Josh Holloway, Sawyer on Lost

5. Taylor Kitsch, Tim Riggins on Friday Night Lights (I’ve no idea who this is but, helloooo fresh meat! *g*)
6. Shemar Moore, Derek Morgan on Criminal Minds
7. Skeet Ulrich, Jake Green on Jericho (He was a fuckable lunatic in Scream but that was a long time ago...)

8. Eric Mabius, Daniel Meade on Ugly Betty
9. Justin Chambers, Alex Karev on Grey’s Anatomy
10. Dave Annable, Justin Walker on Brothers & Sisters

WHAT THE FUCK. David Caruso is a runner-up for “Sexiest Crimefighter”?!? Oh my good god. Horatio Caine is an annoying Grissom wannabe with a face that looks like it’s going to melt any minute and he should DIE DIE DIE! And could anyone, please, explain to me why McSteamy (Eric Dane) didn’t make the cut?!? What about Wentworth Miller of Prison Break? Jensen Ackles of Supernatural? Sam can be eaten by a demon for all I care but Dean is a cutie pie. Who cares if he actually has an incestuous relationship with his brother? LOL

So what do you think? Who are the sexalicious studmuffins that were overlooked? And what is TV’s sexiest show? Oh, please don’t say it’s CSI: Miami because I might as well ~~jump out~~ push Trollop out of the fucking window!

Labels: celebs crap, fuckalicious, mctv

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Kathleen McGowan part deux

Kathleen, because you have put so much of your life (20 years!) into your book The Expected One, have you ever needed to hold back a little and say “I’m giving too much” and guard yourself more, or did you put everything into this story?

Oh honey, hindsight is 20/20 on this one. If I could do it all over again, I would have held back a whole lot more. I’m an Aries, and way too honest for my own good. I should have protected myself far more than I did, and I certainly will in the future. That said, I am proud of how honest this book is, because I think it makes the characters and the storytelling that much more real and relatable. But I had no idea how high the personal toll would be.

While reading the book I can really see your personality coming out of the pages, which I think adds a lot to the story, but also makes me wonder: How much of your novel is history and how much is fiction? Is there a point in the book where the lines get blurred?

Bluuuuurrrrrr. No, seriously, the book is fiction but many of Maureen’s experiences are almost verbatim my own. So while she is not me (I’m less disciplined, unfortunately) some of her motivations and most of her adventures were inspired by my own life.

OMG, really? I was wondering about the “ring scene” in Egypt and, er, the gorgeous Mr. Saunière. *wink* So, did you really meet HIM? LOL :P You should send him my way. Sexy, rich and Scottish: what more could a girl ask for?!

I read somewhere that you started this book as a work on non-fiction. Why did you change your mind in the process?

In 1997, I wrote my first non-fiction book proposal and people in the publishing business laughed at me, and that is not an exaggeration. “No one is going to publish a book about Jesus being married to Mary Magdalene! Are you crazy?” Then they went on to tell me that you couldn’t write such a book unless you had a whole string of initials after your name, and/or a prestigious university behind you. Well, I am proud of being the anti-academic, I relish in the fact that most of my research wasn’t done in libraries, so that wasn’t going to happen unless I could trade my frequent flier miles in for a Phd...

So I set out to write it as fiction. First, it was a screenplay (somewhere about the year 2000 or so) but I was also told that no studio would ever touch the subject matter, and it was shelved. Finally, I went back to it as a novel. And of course, the great poetic irony of fiction is that it gives you so much more freedom to be honest than non-fiction ever can. Best decision of my career, that fiction thing.

In the book you say that it took years to accept the revelation that Mary was married to John the Baptist before she married Jesus? Do you have documents that back this information? What makes you believe in its veracity?

Let’s just say that I learned this information in a similar way as Tammy and Maureen learn it. There are no documents to back it up and they would have been long since destroyed if there were—as Derek says in the book “NO ONE wants this information!” Because no one benefits by it being true. It is hugely inconvenient for all sides.

Although I believe that the peculiar wedding at Cana in the NT is, in fact, an account of that marriage. There is also an interesting medieval document that has been interpreted to imply that Magdalene was married to John (it’s in Susan Haskin’s classic work, Mary Magdalen: Myth and Metaphor).

But for me, the ultimate proof can in how this theory plugged so many holes in the story and explained many things, most specifically the identity of John the Beloved disciple, whom Jesus loved so much. I believe that Jesus loved John the Beloved above the others—and that this John is most often portrayed as a youth (spoiler warning)—because he was Jesus’ foster son, the child he adopted when he married Mary Magdalene. The son of John the Baptist.

I write more about this in upcoming volumes. Stay tuned.

I’m really excited about this series! In the mean time, tell us a bit about The Expected One.

TEO tells two separate but parallel stories, one of a modern heroine and one of an ancient heroine. I wrote the modern story to unfold as a classic Joseph Campbell-esque hero’s journey. Like the protagonists of The Wizard of Oz and Star Wars and Alice in Wonderland, our hero(ine) is a normal person who finds herself thrust into a magical world populated by extraordinary characters and circumstances, and ultimately finds herself following a series of tests, ordeals and spiritual/emotional awakenings.

We are all the hero and we are all on that same journey to find ourselves and our place in the world, which is why that type of storytelling is universal.

In contrast, I tell the story of Mary Magdalene and her life with Jesus, which is anything but normal: it is epic and enormous from the outset, it forces us to look at everything we believe. It is the greatest story never told—a timeless love story of faith and commitment.

The other thing that I am excited about is that my research led me to uncover the inspiring and emotional stories of other figures in this great epic combination of lives that played out in the first century. My work has become focused on two primary things: Defending history’s marginalized and misunderstood women, and uncovering the lives of those who have been all but eradicated. For example, the Gospels mention “Pilate’s Wife” ever-so-briefly, but I discovered in my digging a heroic (if tormented) woman of monumental importance in the last days of Jesus’ life. The legend of Claudia Procula is a stunning addition to the power of Holy Week, and bringing it to the masses in western Christianity who have never heard of her (she is a saint in Eastern Orthodox beliefs) was a great honor and joy for me.

And it’s not just women. It was also important for me to show Judas and Peter in a different light than that in which they have been portrayed.

There will be three books in the Magdalene Line series; what will the other two books be about?

Currently, there are two more definitively, but I am pretty certain that there will be a fourth. Book Two, which I am writing now (thus the flight to Paris to verify a few facts) deals with the concept of The Book of Love, the idea that there was once a gospel written by Jesus himself—his own teachings in his own writing. How exciting is that concept? And if such a thing could have ever existed, why has no one ever heard of it? Or is that the point?

Again, the most important answer we can give when skeptics say annoying (and ignorant) things like “there is no proof” is this: Of course there’s no proof! A million people were wiped out in a crusade in 13th century France to ensure that there would never be proof. I wrote my book precisely because there was no proof. Or because there is, it just doesn’t fit the narrow, sterile, academic definition of proof that has caused us to eradicate women from history in the first place.

Can we expect a movie version of The Expected One soon? If so, could you pretty please demand that no male character wear a mullet? I’m still in therapy after Tom Hank’s “do” in The Da Vinci Code!

I’ll see to it that there is a “no bad 80’s hair for any of our characters” clause in my contract. I’m sure the world will be a better place for it.

To answer your first question... stay tuned. That’s all I can say at the moment.

I’ll hold you to that! LOL No denim skirts over leggings either, please!

Do you stop by The Book Bitches blog often, and if not, WHY aren’t you?

Well, now that I know what a cool, smart, fun and enlightening place it is, you can bet that I’ll stop by regularly and send my friends here as well. This place rocks!

Why, thank you. :) You’re not so bad yourself. :P

If you were never allowed to shave, wax, etc, either your legs or arm pits, which one would you give up?

Death before dishonor.

What’s your favorite thing to spread Nutella on?

I know that this risky admission may get me banned from all EU countries, but I don’t like Nutella!!

*Gasp* YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING! OMG. Go on, someone take Mrs. McGowan’s pulse—she cannot be alive! Never heard of such a thing! Seriously, not liking Nutella???

Anyway, one question you would like to ask your fans and The Book Bitches readers.

If Mary Magdalene’s story has changed you or influenced you, tell me how, and then tell me what would make you really want to read the next book? What questions do you feel have not been answered?

Really, this was soooo much fun. Sorry I was so long winded, but what do you expect? I’m a writer!

Labels: author interview

Thursday, August 3, 2006

Ch-ch-ch-cheating

Oh, the wonders of the romance genre... Sometimes they make me laugh till the point of tears; most of the time they have me pulling my beautiful hair out by the handfuls.

Last night I finished reading my first Lisa Kleypas novel, Dreaming of You. The book in itself wasn’t remarkable (I’ve read better and I’ve definitely read worse) but something that happened halfway into the story really caught my attention, and to a point, spoilt the rest of the story for me: HE CHEATED**!

Cheating commonly refers to forms of infidelity, particularly adultery. With regard to human relationships, couples may expect sexual monogamy of each other. However, many people consider cheating to be any violation of the mutually agreed-upon rules or boundaries of a relationship, which may or may not include sexual monogamy.

Apparently, Derek was so devastated after making Sara leave he decided to shag a wench who physically resembled her. Then the proverbial whore with the heart of gold goes on to tell Sara ALL about it! And yeah, you guessed it, our dimwitted heroine was so touched by the heart-warming*** tale, she then realizes how much she loves our pervert of a hero and runs back to him!!!

I wonder, how can you trust a man after that? Is it true what the old adage says, “once a cheater, always a cheater”? And even if it’s not, how much are we really willing to forgive and forget?

I have been cheated on and I’m not as forgiving and pure of heart *gag* as Sara is. There is no way in hell I’m staying with a cheater. I don’t care if it was his first time, if he got “confused” and found himself cock-deep inside a geisha, if he tripped and his wily landed in a hoochie mama’s mouth—I DO NOT CARE what his excuse is. If you cheat, I’m gone!

And yet I hear of so many women that forgive men for cheating all the time. “I’m staying because of the kids,” “I’m not leaving him to another woman after so many years,” “He’s really sorry, he’s promised not to do it again.” Please, someone explain this to me like I’m a 5-year-old because I honestly don’t get it!

I searched for some statistics on cheating (wanted to trash all the adulterous male bastards out there *g*) and was SHOCKED by the numbers I got, especially the female ones! *gasp* Ladies, you are almost as bad as the men!

There are very clear limitations to what infidelity statistics can tell us; we do not know how honest the respondents are, whether they claim to not have affairs out of shame, or boast of affairs they didn’t have.

22% of men and 14% of women admitted to having sexual relations outside their marriage sometime in their past.
Recent studies reveal that 45-55% of married women and 50-60% of married men engage in extramarital sex at some time or another during their relationship. (This means that 28-38% of men and 31-41% of women lie about adultery; compare these to the first stats! What did you expect of a cheater anyway? LOL)
Researchers think the vast majority of the millions of people who visit chat rooms, have multiple “special friends.” (Ladies, beware of women like Harlot who lurk chat rooms to engage men in clandestine sexual depravities!)
A lesser known fact is that those who divorce rarely marry the person with whom they are having the affair. Very few men who have affairs divorce their wife and marry their lovers. (Then why are women asking these men to divorce their wives? I’d rather him with the wife than leaving me for some other skank.)
8-10% of Internet users become hooked on cybersex. (We need to get Harlot some help. *sniff* I had no idea this thing with her was a medical problem.)
57% of people have used the Internet to flirt; 31% of people have had an online conversation that has led to real-time sex (Now this blew me away! I had no idea so many people out there had sticky keyboards!)
Look at the numbers from Playboy magazine:

2 out of 3 women and 3 out of 4 men admit they have sexual thoughts about co-workers.
86% of men and 81% of women admit they routinely flirt with the opposite sex. (I’m in this group. *wink*)
75% of men and 65% of women admit to having sex with people they work with. (Oh god, and here I was coming into work and not “coming” LOL. Might have to work on that. :P)

The fact is that human beings are NOT monogamous by nature. That means they cheat. (100% sure this statement was written by a cheater!)
Experts say that a gut instinct is the most powerful indicator of a cheating lover. Adultery statistics state that 85% of woman who feel their lover is cheating are correct. 50% of men who feel their lover is cheating are right.

Now, everything you wanted to know about cheating, by Vicious Trollop. :P

**Well, maybe not cheated cheated (according to the definition above), as they were on a sort of “break,” or I suppose never even had a real relationship. But he did sleep with another woman—a prostitute no less!
***You know what? I do the same thing all the time! Whenever I hear of my man shagging other women blind, I just can’t contain the happiness it brings me and I love him all the more for his cheating ways! GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK, MS. KLEYPAS. HOW IS CHEATING, WHILE PORKING A PROSTITUTE, ROMANTIC?

Labels: for the love of rakes and rogues, romance baby, sex and the bitches

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Torture, what is it good for?

Tart’s keeper list made me think of all the romance novels I cannot live without; you know, in case, God forbid, there’s a fire and I have to choose which ones I should save first. I was sorting them out when I realized that many of my all-time faves have something in common: a “tortured” dark hero.

This actually came as a surprise to me because I really enjoy “fun” heroes who make me laugh. Not to mention, I would hate it were I the one in the heroine’s shoes; I’d probably yell at the poor guy to just get over it and fucking move on. If he dare refuse, there is no way in hell I’d be sticking around that useless loser. Anyone who stays with this kind of fuckwit is a masochist and a brainless twat.

Once in a while, we encounter a hero who is tortured and then some. He usually lets his pride take over, leading him to misunderstand everything—and will then procede to verbally and, sometimes, physically abuse the heroine.

This is the same guilt-ridden moron who whines the ENTIRE book blaming everyone, from his abusive gay father (who masqueraded as the cop in a “Village People” revival band), to his dead whore of a wife (who would be easier recognized by her pussy than her face were a picture of her to appear in the news). This man, when confronted, usually says, “Fuck off! It’s not my fault I’m this way!” (Oh, please, spare us the pity-party, you idiot!) He’s also the one who won’t admit to being in love (if he actually is) because *poor baby,* he’s too darned damaged and therefore will only give in when the heroine is already dying (or should be!) in the last chapter. Dumbass.

The good news is that though, yes, there are these imbecilic half-wits who authors force on us as the ever popular “alpha males” (when the truth is they’re just weak assholes who should be shot), there are also those rare ones who are deeply tortured, yet still have the ability to love intensely.

I’m talking about the kind of tortured hero I love; the one who, despite his sufferings, doesn’t go on and on and on about it and lets it consume him to the point it’s all he is. He’s a real man who owns up to his sins. He accepts the consequences of his actions, admits his faults and, yes, even feels remorse. And though he might be the toughest bad-ass around, will never harm the heroine because he knows she is the essense of his pathetic existence and hurting her is harming the only good thing in his life. He will fight for her, kill for her, even die for her, ohhh, just to have her love and a chance to that ever elusive happily ever after. And we think romance novels are easy! LOL

Here are some tortured heroes you might want to look into:

Historicals

Alec Castlemaine - Bewitching by Jill Barnett
Allegreto Navona - Shadowheart by Laura Kinsale
Anatole St. Leger - The Bride Finder by Susan Carroll
Bentley Rutledge - The Devil You Know by Liz Carlyle
Calder Hart - “Deadly” series by Brenda Joyce
Christian Langland - Flowers From the Storm by Laura Kinsale
Darius Santiago - Princess by Gaelen Foley
Derek Craven - Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas
Jack Seward - All Through the Night by Connie Brockway
Robert Knight - The Duke by Gaelen Foley
Sebastian Ballister - Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase
Sebastian, Earl of Langlinais - My Beloved by Karen Ranney
Simon of Navarre - Lord of Danger by Anne Stuart

Contemporaries

Alex Markov - Kiss an Angel by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Gary Rouillard - After the Night by Linda Howard
Zachary Benedict - Perfect by Judith McNaught
Zarek of Moesia - Dance with the Devil by Sherrilyn Kenyon

How about you, do you like books with tortured heroes? Who are the heroes who make up your list?

P.S. In honor of all these lovely men I just mentioned (and Aggie’s request too LOL), I’ll be posting some eye-candy tomorrow (yep, that guy up there has friends). Think “brooding,” ladies. *wink* Till then!

Labels: for the love of rakes and rogues, fuckalicious, romance baby