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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.
Features Dahlia and Want Not.
Dahlia
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
From the womb, you are owned.
Want Not pulls you into the patriarchal society of secessionist Texas. It's hopeless from the first sentence.
It's Shula Kelley's wedding day, and there's only one way she will allow it to end.
There's only one thing she can control.
But first acts of rebellion leave the future uncertain.
Once her veil is lifted, her path detours, for better or worse, but one she can live with for now.
But how can she truly love when she only knows obedience?
How will she stay safe when the enemy is much more sinister than an oppressive government?
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.
Features Dahlia and Want Not.
Dahlia
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
From the womb, you are owned.
Want Not pulls you into the patriarchal society of secessionist Texas. It's hopeless from the first sentence.
It's Shula Kelley's wedding day, and there's only one way she will allow it to end.
There's only one thing she can control.
But first acts of rebellion leave the future uncertain.
Once her veil is lifted, her path detours, for better or worse, but one she can live with for now.
But how can she truly love when she only knows obedience?
How will she stay safe when the enemy is much more sinister than an oppressive government?
686 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 13, 2017
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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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