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Subliminal Sins
Sometimes the past comes back to haunt us, and the present goes up in flames. Years ago, the smooth and debonair, OMAR, was in love with BIANCA, a beautiful and sexy woman who was forbidden fruit. The two made plans to be together, but little did Omar know it would have to be over Bianca's husband's dead body. Immediately after her husband's murder, Bianca becomes the prime suspect, and the grandiose plans she had with Omar go into a tailspin. Will Bianca be exonerated of murder? Must Omar go on without the woman he truly loves? Sometimes there are dark secrets that are stronger than the ties that bind. But love can't ever, ever be counted out. For Mature Audiences Only!
261 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 17, 2016
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C.D. Blue
14 books18 followersC.D. Blue was born in Germany, and now lives in Alabama with her family. Sinuous Sins is her first novel.
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February 8, 2017
Good story
I enjoyed reading this story. It was refreshing and easy to read. I'd recommend this book to others. I'll be checking out the other books by CD Blue as well.
I enjoyed reading this story. It was refreshing and easy to read. I'd recommend this book to others. I'll be checking out the other books by CD Blue as well.
February 8, 2017
In a tantalizing foray between good and evil, we peer into the life of an abused woman and the inevitable magnetic pulls she has toward one man. Decidedly taking a stance to avoid love and its dramatic entanglements, Bianca Baudoin enters into a subliminal experience, colored with pain, ecstasy, and generational curses.
Emotionally introspective, the story chronicles the reconciliatory love between two married adults, sadly pulled apart when one their spouses is found dead. Mixed with mystery, intrigue, and vivid sex scenes, the smoothly, unfolding tale is driven by mounting attraction between Bianca and Omar. Blue creates magnificent tension, constructing the uncertainties in their feelings and patterning complications and misunderstanding followed by sensual reconciliation.
Though slightly sexually voyeuristic, Blue uses a “soft focus” to overlay this emotional love story with broad strokes of trust, betrayal, and forgiveness. Along with hurricanes and destructive tidal waves, sex and love yield one of mankind’s most commanding, prodigious, and radically transformative storms. The breadth of the human experience is clearly seen in this story – love, lust-ridden power struggles, sexual surrender, emotional solace, and persuasive temptations. Subliminal Sins encompasses it all!
Cleverly employing synesthesia, a literary device where words take the form of a medicinal salve, stimulating the release of responses using multiple senses, Blue leverages this technique in communicating her ideas to the reader. This is clearly evident in the love scenes, which shamefully I indulged in (after chastising myself for skipping them). Her ideas are vivid, adding layers of meaning to the text merely for our reading pleasure. Frankly, the love scenes were like poetry-in-motion! With a few words, the numinous potency of her skillful symbolic illustration of love and romance seized all of my senses.
While reading the story, I agonized over how the title fit. Addressing the question of where the sublime exists in this tale can be seen in Blue uses boldness and grandeur in her characters’ introspective dialogue, raises their passions to the highest degree possible, and gracefully expresses skillful application of feelings. Blue stretches and surpasses all rationality through ostentatious thoughts, drawing the reader out of their communal philosophies regarding the existence of soulmates and plunging them into a cerebral abyss where they must think and perceive in a mode beyond familiarity.
Blue crafts the sublime in language and thought, with irresistible prose enthralling the reader. The sublime, then, is masterfully crafted in a delicate force of language overcoming rationality, causing the reader to submit to unfathomable beliefs, feeling an overwhelming awe of the literary experience that just transported them into the subliminal.
The concept of the sublime pollinates and brings forth an experience normally accessible using mystical models. Moreover, the literary birthing experience is one of transcendence into love and the aesthetic appreciation of human nature.
The experience, afforded by this story, touches on the anthropological dimension. For, it is about what it means to be an emotionally tormented woman longing for sensual wholeness, while simultaneously experiencing the fear of the unknown. Far too often, women have defined themselves by their desire for, and ability to acquire, romantic transcendence. However, Blue creates a literary masterpiece, serving to encourage the reader’s romantic transcending reconsider any existentialist philosophies regarding soulmates and spiritual attraction.
While I used to subscribe to the fallacy of the existence of soulmates, I no longer embrace this ideology. Like some women, I no longer exhaust myself with unnecessary emotional labor in refusing to confront the sublime feelings of desire and the harmonious human interplay of reason and imagination.
Emotionally introspective, the story chronicles the reconciliatory love between two married adults, sadly pulled apart when one their spouses is found dead. Mixed with mystery, intrigue, and vivid sex scenes, the smoothly, unfolding tale is driven by mounting attraction between Bianca and Omar. Blue creates magnificent tension, constructing the uncertainties in their feelings and patterning complications and misunderstanding followed by sensual reconciliation.
Though slightly sexually voyeuristic, Blue uses a “soft focus” to overlay this emotional love story with broad strokes of trust, betrayal, and forgiveness. Along with hurricanes and destructive tidal waves, sex and love yield one of mankind’s most commanding, prodigious, and radically transformative storms. The breadth of the human experience is clearly seen in this story – love, lust-ridden power struggles, sexual surrender, emotional solace, and persuasive temptations. Subliminal Sins encompasses it all!
Cleverly employing synesthesia, a literary device where words take the form of a medicinal salve, stimulating the release of responses using multiple senses, Blue leverages this technique in communicating her ideas to the reader. This is clearly evident in the love scenes, which shamefully I indulged in (after chastising myself for skipping them). Her ideas are vivid, adding layers of meaning to the text merely for our reading pleasure. Frankly, the love scenes were like poetry-in-motion! With a few words, the numinous potency of her skillful symbolic illustration of love and romance seized all of my senses.
While reading the story, I agonized over how the title fit. Addressing the question of where the sublime exists in this tale can be seen in Blue uses boldness and grandeur in her characters’ introspective dialogue, raises their passions to the highest degree possible, and gracefully expresses skillful application of feelings. Blue stretches and surpasses all rationality through ostentatious thoughts, drawing the reader out of their communal philosophies regarding the existence of soulmates and plunging them into a cerebral abyss where they must think and perceive in a mode beyond familiarity.
Blue crafts the sublime in language and thought, with irresistible prose enthralling the reader. The sublime, then, is masterfully crafted in a delicate force of language overcoming rationality, causing the reader to submit to unfathomable beliefs, feeling an overwhelming awe of the literary experience that just transported them into the subliminal.
The concept of the sublime pollinates and brings forth an experience normally accessible using mystical models. Moreover, the literary birthing experience is one of transcendence into love and the aesthetic appreciation of human nature.
The experience, afforded by this story, touches on the anthropological dimension. For, it is about what it means to be an emotionally tormented woman longing for sensual wholeness, while simultaneously experiencing the fear of the unknown. Far too often, women have defined themselves by their desire for, and ability to acquire, romantic transcendence. However, Blue creates a literary masterpiece, serving to encourage the reader’s romantic transcending reconsider any existentialist philosophies regarding soulmates and spiritual attraction.
While I used to subscribe to the fallacy of the existence of soulmates, I no longer embrace this ideology. Like some women, I no longer exhaust myself with unnecessary emotional labor in refusing to confront the sublime feelings of desire and the harmonious human interplay of reason and imagination.
July 14, 2017
I am so in love with this series, with Jay and Annette, Omar and Bianca, starting to like Damita and Zay, this Sin Series is fiyah!! C.D.Blue's flow is mad smooth! Her characters are believable and real. They love hard and fight for each other harder! The background is enough to keep you reminded of the story but the spotlight still remains on the couples, even when they are not with each other! Please get into this series! By far one of the best I had read in a while. On to book 3!
August 29, 2017
Subliminal Sins
Lawd knows Benita and Greg were beyond annoying. They couldn't seem to take a hint and knowing how far they'd go to make others miserable only pissed me off further. Bianca was so good at giving advice that I just wanted her to take heed to some of what she dished out. I understood her doubts and fears but it was time to live in the moment and experience some happiness. Omar was a good dude and was actually protective even when it seemed he should let go. Bianca's family curse and secrets were shocking. Glad there was more on Damita this go around. I was pissed that Benita was calling Annette so freely and she didn't put a stop to it considering everyone that linked them. Greg deserved so much more with his perverted ass. Man that epilogue let's me know a storm is brewing for sure and I can't wait to dive into part 3.
Lawd knows Benita and Greg were beyond annoying. They couldn't seem to take a hint and knowing how far they'd go to make others miserable only pissed me off further. Bianca was so good at giving advice that I just wanted her to take heed to some of what she dished out. I understood her doubts and fears but it was time to live in the moment and experience some happiness. Omar was a good dude and was actually protective even when it seemed he should let go. Bianca's family curse and secrets were shocking. Glad there was more on Damita this go around. I was pissed that Benita was calling Annette so freely and she didn't put a stop to it considering everyone that linked them. Greg deserved so much more with his perverted ass. Man that epilogue let's me know a storm is brewing for sure and I can't wait to dive into part 3.
March 6, 2021
Good read! It was refreshing!
February 17, 2023
Refreshing
I really enjoyed how the
roles were reversed. I enjoyed the twist and turns and misdirects. I enjoyed the characters.
I really enjoyed how the
roles were reversed. I enjoyed the twist and turns and misdirects. I enjoyed the characters.
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