THE MAEVE CHRONICLES: THE PASSION OF MARY MAGDALEN
ELIZABETH CUNNINGHAM
Fiction
Monkfish Book Publishing Company
ISBN# 0-9766843-2-2
$24.95 Hardcover
Rating: 5 Enchantments
Maeve Rhuad was born to be a great hero. She was given life on Tir na mBan, the mystical Isle of Woman. The warrior women of Tir na mBan counted eight, and all eight were Maeve Rhhuad’s mother. Maeve suckled from all eight sets of breasts, and they taught her to control the weather, the art of weaponry, and battle. Most of all, they taught her what it is to be a woman, and to celebrate all that is a woman - never to be ashamed of anything that is woman. Finally, when she reached full womanhood and had her first woman’s blood, she was to be turned over to the Cailleach, where she would be retuned to the Great Mother Earth and born again from the Great Mother to better understand what her purpose is to be. When the Great Mother returned her to The Callieach, She did all She could to prepare Maeve for what would be her new life.
Maeve Rhuad was to be sent to the Holy Isles to study with the Druids to learn the history of her people. While there, she would meet the person she believed to be her destiny. While trying to force the winds of fortune, Maeve Rhuad was on a journey of self-discovery. You would think that, bestowing eight mothers to one child, the Gods would have known that even with as many oracles doing all they could to keep Maeve Rhuad safe from herself and others, a young woman that headstrong and stubborn needed more help than even the Gods themselves could give to stay out of trouble, and save herself and the one she had proclaimed as her destiny.
I found the way the author allowed her character to tell her own story quite interesting. Once I settled down to this book, I found it hard to put down, and quite liberating as a woman. She was able to make me cry not so much for her character but for the pain of women as a whole. I have definitely learned my lesson about judging a book by its cover. This book has more of a Celtic feel than a biblical one, and my only regret is that I waited as long as I did to finally pick it up. It ended up being a wonderful read.
Vee
ENCHANTING REVIEWS
July 2007
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Friday, October 17, 2008
SANDY’S ECSTACY by Shay Fulk
SANDY’S ECSTACY
SHAY FULK
Erotica
eXtasy Books
Sensuality Rating: 3 Flames
ISBN# 1-55410-769-5
118 pages
$4.99
eBook - Available now
Rating: 2.5 Enchantments
Sandy is a writer in her thirties with long blond hair who does well when it comes to attracting attention from the opposite sex. She also has something many writers wish they had. Her secret weapon in that vicious world of publishing is a muse of heavenly descent, which just so happens to be our other main character.
Tony, her muse, is very well built especially where it counts, with a great tan, wonderful blond hair, and blue eyes. He has a very unique way to inspire our young author.
As Sandy and Tony work together they find they have more in common than just work. As Sandy learns to deal with, and overcome some not so wonderful things that happened to her in the earlier years of her life, she also learns that her mother’s old-world views on sex were totally wrong.
Tony finds it hard to follow all the rules set out for muses of another dimension. It also becomes apparent who is his friend and who definitely is not, when it comes time to explain some of his actions.
As Sandy and Tony come together for many interesting and breath-shuddering meetings, you get a very good look into what is definitely an unabashed and sensually stimulating rendezvous with the man of Sandy’s dreams.
Ms. Fulk is good at painting a vivid scene. Her adult scenes are well written and easy to lose yourself in. However, I found the story very hard to follow. She had many dream scenes with different character names in each one. She also used a flash back. With so many changes in location and characters, I felt there was a lack of flow. It seemed as if she had many story ideas in her head and rushed to force them all in one book. I also found that in one chapter even the author had problems keeping the characters names straight. I felt that her story line would have been better preserved had she started in the past rather than using a flashback, and filled in with some non-sexually orientated material to guide you from one scene to another. I also believe she may have done better to write quite a few erotica short stories using a lot of her ideas for this book and binding them all in one book of short stories. That may have worked better because each of her dream scenes had a well defined beginning, middle, and end. I still think her over all vision is still very enticing and enjoyable, but should be perhaps a little better thought out and not so rushed.
Vee
ENCHANTING REVIEWS
July 2007
SHAY FULK
Erotica
eXtasy Books
Sensuality Rating: 3 Flames
ISBN# 1-55410-769-5
118 pages
$4.99
eBook - Available now
Rating: 2.5 Enchantments
Sandy is a writer in her thirties with long blond hair who does well when it comes to attracting attention from the opposite sex. She also has something many writers wish they had. Her secret weapon in that vicious world of publishing is a muse of heavenly descent, which just so happens to be our other main character.
Tony, her muse, is very well built especially where it counts, with a great tan, wonderful blond hair, and blue eyes. He has a very unique way to inspire our young author.
As Sandy and Tony work together they find they have more in common than just work. As Sandy learns to deal with, and overcome some not so wonderful things that happened to her in the earlier years of her life, she also learns that her mother’s old-world views on sex were totally wrong.
Tony finds it hard to follow all the rules set out for muses of another dimension. It also becomes apparent who is his friend and who definitely is not, when it comes time to explain some of his actions.
As Sandy and Tony come together for many interesting and breath-shuddering meetings, you get a very good look into what is definitely an unabashed and sensually stimulating rendezvous with the man of Sandy’s dreams.
Ms. Fulk is good at painting a vivid scene. Her adult scenes are well written and easy to lose yourself in. However, I found the story very hard to follow. She had many dream scenes with different character names in each one. She also used a flash back. With so many changes in location and characters, I felt there was a lack of flow. It seemed as if she had many story ideas in her head and rushed to force them all in one book. I also found that in one chapter even the author had problems keeping the characters names straight. I felt that her story line would have been better preserved had she started in the past rather than using a flashback, and filled in with some non-sexually orientated material to guide you from one scene to another. I also believe she may have done better to write quite a few erotica short stories using a lot of her ideas for this book and binding them all in one book of short stories. That may have worked better because each of her dream scenes had a well defined beginning, middle, and end. I still think her over all vision is still very enticing and enjoyable, but should be perhaps a little better thought out and not so rushed.
Vee
ENCHANTING REVIEWS
July 2007
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