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Feast
Sometimes you want comfort food.
Sometimes you want to sink your teeth into a bone-in rare rib-eye with no utensils.
Sometimes those things are the same thing.
This is for you.
From start to finish.
I present to you a choice of first courses, hoping you’re a glutton.
Dahlia needs a lover desperately. She needs a partner to trust, and one who will pull her from merely existing.
So I found her one.
Shula needs to be safe, she needs to be loved, and she needs to be protected. She needs a Hero when she’s tired of being strong.
So I found her one.
Features Dahlia and Want Not. Both first novels in different series.
Longer synopses.
Dahlia
(warning: instalove)
Crisp white shirt.
Fluorescent glare from his watch as he adjusts his tie.
He looks smart. He might be. Whoever he is.
But it’s the guy behind him on his knees plugging in a vintage IBM who is the smart one.
Like, really smart. If he wasn’t, they wouldn’t call him so much to fix what they can’t.
Did I mention he’s a genius?
He drives a sensible car. He’s nice to his sister. He can look after himself.
But even with poor impulse control and severe ADHD, he worships me.
Want Not
My name is Shula. Today is my wedding day. Today is the day I die.
What would you do if you were betrothed to a monster? Could you be tied to a man whose most terrible secrets are buried with the dead?
What if you were given a way out? Would you take it? Even if it meant you would never truly be free?
Want Not pulls you into a patriarchal society of secessionist Texas. It’s far too real to be merely dystopian or futuristic. It is hopeless from the first sentence, but even though the outcome is bleak, we want to be a witness to Shula Kelley’s last day.
We find that it is not her last day, but a first of many. We follow her and the desperate lust she feels for her husband Jared, despite archaic gender roles.
It's a epic beginning to a romance that neither saw coming, and would give up everything to keep.
Sometimes you want to sink your teeth into a bone-in rare rib-eye with no utensils.
Sometimes those things are the same thing.
This is for you.
From start to finish.
I present to you a choice of first courses, hoping you’re a glutton.
Dahlia needs a lover desperately. She needs a partner to trust, and one who will pull her from merely existing.
So I found her one.
Shula needs to be safe, she needs to be loved, and she needs to be protected. She needs a Hero when she’s tired of being strong.
So I found her one.
Features Dahlia and Want Not. Both first novels in different series.
Longer synopses.
Dahlia
(warning: instalove)
Crisp white shirt.
Fluorescent glare from his watch as he adjusts his tie.
He looks smart. He might be. Whoever he is.
But it’s the guy behind him on his knees plugging in a vintage IBM who is the smart one.
Like, really smart. If he wasn’t, they wouldn’t call him so much to fix what they can’t.
Did I mention he’s a genius?
He drives a sensible car. He’s nice to his sister. He can look after himself.
But even with poor impulse control and severe ADHD, he worships me.
Want Not
My name is Shula. Today is my wedding day. Today is the day I die.
What would you do if you were betrothed to a monster? Could you be tied to a man whose most terrible secrets are buried with the dead?
What if you were given a way out? Would you take it? Even if it meant you would never truly be free?
Want Not pulls you into a patriarchal society of secessionist Texas. It’s far too real to be merely dystopian or futuristic. It is hopeless from the first sentence, but even though the outcome is bleak, we want to be a witness to Shula Kelley’s last day.
We find that it is not her last day, but a first of many. We follow her and the desperate lust she feels for her husband Jared, despite archaic gender roles.
It's a epic beginning to a romance that neither saw coming, and would give up everything to keep.
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Published December 31, 2014
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Arden Aoide
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Arden Aoide lives in San Antonio, Texas, with her husband, two daughters, and three cats. Turn ons include men who cry during sex, long walks on the beach, and talking about herself in the third person. Turn offs include mean people and trying to figure out how to write an interesting author bio.
She doesn't write about the typical men you normally read about in erotic romance novels. She likes her men brainy and just this side of manic.
She's an introvert, she loves coffee, Internet, British television, and pot stickers. And pie. She loves pie.
Arden Aoide lives in San Antonio, Texas, with her husband, two daughters, and three cats. Turn ons include men who cry during sex, long walks on the beach, and talking about herself in the third person. Turn offs include mean people and trying to figure out how to write an interesting author bio.
She doesn't write about the typical men you normally read about in erotic romance novels. She likes her men brainy and just this side of manic.
She's an introvert, she loves coffee, Internet, British television, and pot stickers. And pie. She loves pie.
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May 17, 2017
I Look Forward to Reading More.
There are two vastly different stories in FEAST.
Dahlia is a contemporary romance, with light BDSM, set between a recent divorcee who longs to explore her submissive side, and a just 30something Dom looking for a sub willing to accept his learning curve. I didn't expect to be impressed, but I was. Their relationship moves so fast it almost gave me whiplash, but it is a pace that worked for me with the story, feeding the tweener in me that says MORE! MORE! NOW! NOW! It is expertly written, and engages the reader emotionally almost immediately. I highly recommend Dahlia for a weekend read when you can tuck yourself in and laugh at the trouble these two crazy kids get into together.
Want Not is set in a dystopian future, post the succession of Texas from the US, and describes a society that calls to mind A Handmaid's Tale in many ways. The plot here is original, and not a copy, but that same sense of dread and horror that Atwood's story caused in my heart is recreated here again. It is a memorable story, dark and twisted in many ways. It is a well told story. It is a haunting story. I will be thinking of it for some years to come.
This author intrigues me because she is more than one trick pony. These books couldn't be more different, yet, they are both well written and enjoyable in their own unique ways. I look forward to reading more of Aoide's work.
There are two vastly different stories in FEAST.
Dahlia is a contemporary romance, with light BDSM, set between a recent divorcee who longs to explore her submissive side, and a just 30something Dom looking for a sub willing to accept his learning curve. I didn't expect to be impressed, but I was. Their relationship moves so fast it almost gave me whiplash, but it is a pace that worked for me with the story, feeding the tweener in me that says MORE! MORE! NOW! NOW! It is expertly written, and engages the reader emotionally almost immediately. I highly recommend Dahlia for a weekend read when you can tuck yourself in and laugh at the trouble these two crazy kids get into together.
Want Not is set in a dystopian future, post the succession of Texas from the US, and describes a society that calls to mind A Handmaid's Tale in many ways. The plot here is original, and not a copy, but that same sense of dread and horror that Atwood's story caused in my heart is recreated here again. It is a memorable story, dark and twisted in many ways. It is a well told story. It is a haunting story. I will be thinking of it for some years to come.
This author intrigues me because she is more than one trick pony. These books couldn't be more different, yet, they are both well written and enjoyable in their own unique ways. I look forward to reading more of Aoide's work.
September 12, 2017
There's two very different types of stories told in this book,
but both are equally as good. Although "Want Not" is by far
something very, very different than anything I've read. I'm
really interested & intrigued into finding out what else
happens with the characters in both books..
I'm looking forward to reading more from this author.
but both are equally as good. Although "Want Not" is by far
something very, very different than anything I've read. I'm
really interested & intrigued into finding out what else
happens with the characters in both books..
I'm looking forward to reading more from this author.
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