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Midnight Pleasures: Four Short Novels of Otherworldly Passion (Mass Market Paperback)

by Amanda Ashley (Author), Maggie Shayne (Author), Sherrilyn Kenyon (Author) "THEY were afraid of him, but then, as far back as he could remember, people had afraid of him ..." (more)

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Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Press; 1st edition edition (Oct 30 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312987625
ISBN-13: 978-0312987626
Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.4 x 3 cm
Shipping Weight: 159 g

Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)

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Handsome and sensual, surrounded by an aura of danger, mystery, and the forbidden, a lover steps from the shadows. But is he mortal? Or is he an ancient god, a sorcerer, or a mythical beast who can possess a woman's heart...and her very soul?Four of romance's most popular authors have created this spellbinding collection of stores filled with dark passion and desire. Under the cover of darkness, their heroes inhabit worlds haunted by ageless hungers and deadly forces stronger than any seen by day...and vanquished only by the power of love.Now travel into realms where dazzling wonders roam the night, where magic replaces reason, and where a kiss unleashes a raging fire in the blood. And here, if you dare, discover the seduction that begins at the bewitching hour when a man and woman partake in...Midnight Pleasures.

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Running away from an arranged marriage, Elise steals aboard a wagon in a traveling circus and finds herself in the bed of the Beast Master, Sterling Wulf, who is something other than he seems...and suddenly all Elise desires.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Thompson's Story Keeps It From Being a Time-Waster, Jul 11 2004

By	L. J Lewis "Miss Amii" (Collierville, TN United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

An anthology with two of my favorite authors- Maggie Shayne and Sherrilyn Kenyon! How did things go so wrong?
The anthology kicks off to a less than grand start with Amanda Ashley's Darkfest. I know not to expect much from this author, but I have to wonder why she is writing for an adult market. Her writing style and premises are so girly that it's a wonder the pages aren't written in pink ink with glitter and sugar coming out the pages. The tall dark and dangerous daddy figures who fixate on unextraordinary lolita girls because they are so pure and good quite being a romantic fantasy for me when I was 12. What's worse is that Ashley seems totally unaware of the nasty pedophile overtones that permeate 90% of her books. Darkfest just adds to that with some nasty beastiality undertones.
Okay, Darkfest is a sorcerer dude who lives up on a mountain. He can turn into a wolf. He befriends Channa-Leigh, a blind girl from the village, as a wolf. Channa Leigh is Pure, Pure, Pure. Can't remember if she's blonde. But she's gonna get married! So Darkfest makes her come live in his creepy castle because he loves her so. Channa can see when she touches his wolf form. Darkfest wants Channa to rub his tummy.
Darkfest is basically a lonely, losery geek who lives in his dad's basement and obsesses over the most popular babe in school. He was a male virigin until he lost his virginity to a female wolf. Color me grossed out. It's a shame that while Ashley's writing style continues to evolve and become smoother, her ploting and characterization is still stuck in the 3rd grade.
Next comes Sherrilyn Kenyon's first story about the Dream Hunters, a spin-off of the popular Dark Hunter series. What happened? I'll tell you what. Kenyon has created a complex mythology for the dream hunters, but she does little with it. Instead she tries to cram in all the sex she would put in a full length novel and chops out everything else out of the plot but the bare basics. Okay, so make the story an full-out sexual romp, but don't try to give Erin, the female lead, issues about how fat she is next to the hot-studdly V'aiden.
Next comes Maggie Shayne's comtemporary witch-yarn. The problem with this story is that Maggie is using it as a soap box for an axe she has to grind about the stereotyping of Wiccans. Anthology pieces tend to be too short as it is, so focus on plot and characters. Bring the heavy hitting issues up in full length novels. Anyway, the hero is producer of some cheesy TV show about magic wielding witches that will probably appear on the Sci-fi channel. The heroine is a white witch that wants the show to provide an accurate picture of Wiccans. Hero is flippant and dismissive, Heroine tries to set him straight, Hero stupidly fools around with dark powers, Hero and Heroine have sex, Heroine saves Hero from evil forces, Hero sees the true path.
Oh, Rhonda Thompson I could kiss you. I almost thought about skipping this one because Kenyon and Shayne bombed so badly. This a historical werewolf tale that is sort of like Susan Krinard's best work. It's a marvelous tale that is forcing me to keep this wreck of an anthology instead of tossing it out. It starts out a bit shakily with Elise hiddening in the circus to escape nasty relative and wandering into the bed of Sterling, the Beast Tamer. It just improves so much as it goes along. My emotions were in engaged. I understood were Sterling and Elise were coming from, and Thompson even found time to flesh out the secondary characters. It's a shame that this story didn't come by itself. Next to Thompson's story, the other three uninspired novellas look like garbage.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Kenyon's story makes this a keeper; others BLAH, Jun 3 2004

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Anthologies are usually hit or miss but I at least like one story to be a good one. "Phantom Lover" by Sherrilyn Kenyon was the only thing that saved this for me. I was absolutely enthralled with this tale of dream monsters and saviors. I loved V'Aidan who was Erin's champion against the horrible creatures that stalk her when she sleeps ... but he kept saying she didn't know him.... I immediately re-read this novella after the first go round.

Amanda Ashley is an author I normally like. The storyline for "Darkfest" was ok but there was no real passion or emotion. Just sort of pleasant and boring.

Shane's "Under Her Spell" just didn't capture my attention at all. Could not bring myself to read beyond a few pages and it offered no appeal to me.

"A Wulf's Curse" - well Beast Tamer aka Sterling (I liked the name better than the story!) was an interesting character but the "curse" was a bit silly. Elise was rather a good heroine but this short storyline did not allow a further examination of either characters or curse. Not very good.

There you have it. Better to borrow this one though it will make my keeper shelf just for the Kenyon entry.

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5.0 out of 5 stars 5 Stars for Sherrilyn Kenyon Offering- ORIGINAL, April 24 2004

By	K. J. Blake "Super Reader" (Phoenix,AZ United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

WOW! The novella written by Sherrilyn Kenyon was a standout in my mind- it opens with action and twists and turns and fantasy adventure right out of a video game or dark fantasy movie- then wham! We find out the heroine is dreaming....her dark and disquieting nightmares lead her on a journey into a fantasy realm of Greek Gods and mythology and tormented immortals that really captured my imagination. Her hero is a dark soul who wins fair maiden's heart by trickery and is punished for it....
I loved this!
The rest of the book was ok- the dark sorcerer in Amanda Ashley's novella was a fairy tale with a wolf in wolf's clothing.

The witchy tale by Maggie Shayne was kind of a snooze- really predictable - the sex and the how to guide on doing real witchcraft were the key elements - nothing special.

The Wulf's Curse by Rhonda Thompson read like a werewolf take on a Regency Romance with a little more passion than one usually finds there.

Buy this book if you are a fan of paranormal fiction- keep it for the cool story by Sherrilyn Kenyon! I want to read more of her nightmare gods who disturb our sleep an try to steal our creativity- I thought it was corporate America that sucked the souls out of us - now I know who to really blame!

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3.0 out of 5 stars Easy read but somewhat predictable!
I like this writer for the most part but this was not one of her best efforts. Sorry, I found this story an easy read but somewhat predictable.

Published on Feb 10 2004 by Judith Robards

2.0 out of 5 stars Not at all what I expected!!!
This book was entertaining enough where I kept reading, but not enough where I would reccommend it to anyone else!!! Read more

Published on Jan 22 2004 by C. Mercer

1.0 out of 5 stars Save your money!
Read something else, not this book. What a sorry group of stories! The first is so simplistic that any adult who reads fiction would be bored within mere pages. Read more

Published on Dec 22 2003 by Miss Daisy

3.0 out of 5 stars I Bought This Book For One Author Only
I must admit that I bought this book basically due to the fact that Sherrilyn Kenyon was a contributing author. Read more

Published on Nov 28 2003 by Kristi Ahlers