Dead and Loving It
The first story is Santa Claus. Alec Kilcurt is the most powerful werewolf in Europe. There are some 300,000 werewolves in the pack. He's in Boston, and gets attracted to a particular human woman. He ends up taking her back to his room and they have a whole lot of (very graphic) sex. What is really cool is what the ending of the story turns out to be. This is an ultra-sexy, very neat story. The second story is Monster Love. Richard Will is a vampire and likes it. Janet Lupo is a werewolf. She is very angry at Alec for marrying a human. She runs into a vampire and promptly beats him up. The head of the pack wants to meet with Janet, wanting to set her up with a guy. Richard kidnaps her before she can get to her meeting. He rapes her, then says he wants her for his wife. Then she turns into a werewolf and escapes, and Richard realizes just how stupid he's been. (There's a fairly major ethical/moral problem with this story. It is written much like stories on various sexual fantasy sites; the woman is raped but ends up enjoying it and falls in love with the guy that raped her. Even if we're talking about a vampire and a werewolf, it's still rape, and these kind of fantasy stories do diminish the extreme seriousness of the subject of rape.) The third story is There's No Such Thing as a Werewolf. Drake is a blind doctor. After work he gets attacked the three teen-age thugs, but easily beats them, then meets another werewolf. Then he meets a young woman and can actually sort of see her, and he can't figure out why. Later he finds her about to jump off a short building. He's able to talk her into having breakfast with him. her name is Crescent. He invites her to stay with him, at least for a while, and she agrees. They have sex, and later he tells her he's a werewolf. They're our shopping when they run into Janet Lupo, and she throws Drake through a window. They all make up and have lunch, and it turns out Crescent is at least part fey and can actually fly. (Sort of.) The fourth story is A Fiend in Need. The story takes place right after Undead and Unreturnable. Antonia stops Bev from jumping off a two-story building. Antonio tells Bev she's a werewolf, technically, but doesn't change into one. Antonio also tells he she can sometimes see into the future, and that no one in her pack wants her as a mate. Antonia gets to Betsy's house and meets Garrett. Sinclair doesn't believe she's a werewolf, or that werewolves exist. Garrett ends up kissing Antonia. He talks about how he was killed and made into a Fiend. Antonia ends up moving in and she and George become steady lovers. This is a really wild book. A whole lot of very graphic sex, and a lot of interesting background information for the series of books. |
