Dec 13, 2025
Quick drawing I did
(i totally didn’t overdo it at all…)
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Quick drawing I did
(i totally didn’t overdo it at all…)
"I didn't need someone prying into my head, taking me apart bit by bit so they could put me back together again the way they felt I was supposed to be."
From Comfort Food by Kitty Thomas
As we all hang out at home, weathering the wild and uncertain winds of the world outside, here are a few new things to read!
The Most Dangerous Dream by Kelsey Brickl is a romantic retelling of the original story in which Christine stays with Erik and the two of them apparently flee to Argentina together to start a new life. So... if you’re into any of that, this is exactly for you!
The Phantom: Erik’s Triumphant Return by Cathy Robinson is a sequel to the original story that claims to tell the “true” story of the history of the Phantom. The author’s note has a bit of the ol’ Secret Plot about it, but we’ll have to read and see!
The Treble with Men by Piper Sheldon is a romantic comedy featuring a Miss Dae who has become a professional cellist... only to attract the attention of a mysterious and demanding Maestro who can’t finish his masterpiece without her help. There may also be demon fighting involved? It’s unclear. This is the second in a series, but they’re only loosely related (the first one looks like it was based more on My Fair Lady/Pygmalion.)
Perfection by Kitty Thomas is billed as a “dark romance”, about a ballerina who, having killed her husband, is blackmailed by a mysterious person who lives in the old opera house into having secret meetings with him...
The Phantom of the Opera by Varga Tomi is a new graphic novel adaptation of Leroux’s book, something we haven’t seen in book form in quite a while! It was originally written in Hungarian but has a forthcoming English release in November.
Not bad for April of a year more fraught than usual! I’m interested to see if we continue to see a lot of new adaptations as people in quarantine release the fruits of their long time in isolation.
Perfection by Kitty Thomas
5 stars
I was enthralled from this story from the first until the end. My heart is still beating out of my chest from the lingering effect. The absolute stunning imagery, the effects, I could here the music, I could sense the fear, the tension, the sexual desire. This book was a masterpiece of a ballet in itself, and Cassia was front and centre, in the spotlight, from the beginning until the final curtain fell. I want to stand and give that rousing round of applause and toss roses at the authour, because it is well deserved!
Ruthless Devotion by Kitty Thomas
5 stars
It isn’t always the case, but in this one, a simple interaction from when they were small children, changed the trajectory of there characters lives! One of them is driving that force, while the other has no idea. As we delve into their history and get to know them, as all the layers are revealed, you begin to understand the lengths that have been taken. Aiden is a classic tortured anti-hero, Maddie a fallen pampered princess. Their connections run deep, deeper than they even realize, and their road is ripe with strife and pain. They get through it all, maybe not in any conventional way, but at a pace and manner that works for them. In the end, the synergy of them together is stronger than anything they way face <3
REVIEW & GIVEAWAY TOUR:
MATING SEASON by Kitty Thomas, Dark Romance Author at The Reading Cafe:
'detailed and well thought out.'
Mating Season by Kitty Thomas is a stand alone contemporary, adult, paranormal, romance story line focusing on bear shifter focusing on Rosa
Mating Season Kitty Thomas (A Captive Bear Shifter Romance) Publication date: July 17th 2024 Genres: Adult, Paranormal, Romance
Pop Quiz: You’re a woman alone in the forest… would you rather run into a man or a bear?
I’m lost out in the woods when I cross paths with a strange man. He offers to take me back to his campsite, feed me, get me warm, but every instinct in me screams NO!
He is an opportunistic predator, and I am his prey.
I run. He chases. And just before I’m traumatized for life, I hear a loud roar as a seven hundred pound Grizzly bear rips the man off me and mauls him to death.
So…. Team Bear?
If only it were so simple. This isn’t just any normal bear. He’s a bear shifter, and he’s convinced I’m his fated mate.
I appreciate the life saving and all, but I have goals and dreams, and I won’t allow fate to play matchmaker for me, no matter how otherwise appealing the shifter in question may be.
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EXCERPT:
I start to move off the dance floor when someone comes up behind me. A male someone. My first instinct is to have an embarrassing freak out… but he smells… wow he really smells good. What is that?
It’s strong yet subtle at the same time. Warm, musky. But also mossy. But somehow in a good way. I’m not sure I’m describing it right. I’m not sure mere words could convey it.
And the solid warmth of him pressed up against my back feels… comforting somehow. His hands skim my sides to land on my hips as he urges me to move with him. His erection grinds shamelessly against my backside as his arm wraps around my waist, urging me to press harder against his length.
It’s a heady cocktail of that powerful scent, pure masculine strength, sensuous movements, and stark primal possession.
He hasn’t spoken a word to me, and given recent traumatic events, I should be panicked, but all I feel is calm—and other things I’m going to ignore. Dark animal things.
I’m hit with a bolt of such overwhelming lust that suddenly I want this man more than anything I’ve ever wanted. I want him to hike up my skirt and fuck me right here in the middle of the dance floor. I want him to put me on my hands and knees and drive into me from behind in front of all these people—sweaty, writhing hot bodies that could never compete with the inferno building between us. I feel hot and cold all at once and the arousal between my legs thumps heavy with the beat of the music. The pornographic images flitting through my mind only grow stronger the longer we dance.
If you could call this dancing.
One of his hands has moved up to grip the front of my throat, holding me in place against him as he brings us impossibly closer. His other hand starts to slide up my thigh, under my dress, between my legs, his fingers barely brushing against the heat and wetness of my panties.
And then my fear starts to edge out my lust. No! I can’t let this happen.
Forgive me if I don’t want to just jump back out there and let a man touch me after… the woods. It’s normal to feel a bit of disgust toward all men when one tries to hurt you like that. It almost feels shameful to let any man touch you ever again.
So why the fuck am I letting this stranger so close? Why am I rewarding any man for the bad behavior of his kind? Bad behavior I have personally suffered. I don’t know him. He could be a fucking serial killer.
I come back to my senses and pull away. He grabs me and pulls me back to him, and instead of more fear, I feel a kind of rage I’ve never felt before. I stomp down HARD on his foot with my heel. He lets out a yelp, and releases me.
“Rosalie, wait!”
I shouldn’t be able to hear him over the noise of the club, but I do. I turn around, and there’s Cooper. I shouldn’t be surprised. Didn’t some small part of me subconsciously just know? It’s why I didn’t look back at him—just let him be a stranger, because the stakes are far too high with him as he really is.
He’s wearing jeans and a black T-shirt that pulls tight over his muscles. His tattoos wind down his arms, ending just above his hands. Those warm brown eyes… that closely shaven beard… No. Absolutely not. His agenda might not look as bad on the surface as the guy from the woods, but it still involves his fucking boner… and controlling me. No. I’m not his mate. I’m not dealing with this alpha bro You belong to me, bullshit. I’m not going to just swoon into his arms because he’s pretty and saved me, as though a man doing the decent thing somehow now obligates me to give all my freedom away to him.
Men really are just living on an entirely different planet.
And he doesn’t get to just decide any of this.
I fight to get through the crowd on the dance floor, but his hand is around my wrist before I can get away.
“Let GO of me!”
A few people start to notice the conflict and back away, and I see a bouncer eyeing us. I’m pretty sure even as large as the bouncer is, that Cooper could take him.
He holds his hands up in surrender and takes a step back. “Just talk to me. I just need to talk to you.”
Author Bio:
KITTY THOMAS writes dark stories that play with power and have unconventional HEAs. She began publishing in early 2010 with her bestselling COMFORT FOOD and is considered one of the original authors of the dark romance subgenre.
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Mating Season by Kitty Thomas
5 stars
Okay, wow, that was really good! I have to admit, I was with Roslie, for most of the book. I was thoroughly confused why what was happening was happening. That was the thrill of the story, when it all becomes clear to her, it becomes clear to us, and, perfection. Cooper, our bear shifter, is one of the best good guys. Really, he is just a big ole squishy teddy bear, who, turns into an actual huge, can be vicious if he wants to be, bear. Love the premise and the story it inspired <3