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Silk and Magic

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This book is an anthology, with a story from three authors in one book. I loved the choices and appreciate how they complement each other in the collection. They were in the same tone, without being too similar. Each story was well written and enjoyable, and there really wasn't any of them that I found lacking or disappointing. I would recommend to a friend.

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This book was received as an ARC*
First let me begin by saying I’m not sure how I like the whole 3 in 1. Other than the stories were all “Romance” I was failing to see why they were put together in one book.
Eternal passions reminded me of another book called fallen by Alyson Noel. It’s not quite a steamy but along the same lines of the destine for one another magical concept. It would say maybe 2.5 stars

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This was an ok read for me. The stories were interesting but were nothing that blew me away. Maybe if they were longer? Toil and Trouble was probably my favorite.
Many thanks to BelleBooks Inc. and to NetGalley for providing me with a galley in exchange for my honest opinion.

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This was rather disappointing, to be honest. Of the three, Toil and Trouble was the most entertaining, but the other two were rather dull, and I felt that all three suffered from the perennial problem of romance novellas, namely that it's very hard to write a persuasive happy ever after for two characters who barely know each other.

Also, for a book described as erotica, it was remarkably unerotic, sometimes actively so (I do not WANT to think about crunchy peanut butter in sensitive places, ick).

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I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.” many thanks to netgalley.co.uk

Eternal Passions by Brandy Lee.
Love across the decades,
Susan dream's sexy dreams of a Scottish accent asking her to stay with him, and always Wakes up feeling lost and alone, Ryan also has dreams about a lady love, Susan goes on stage and has an instant connection with Ryan long story short they are lost soul mates and finally found each other

Let's get crazy by Caryn Carter.
Eric is facing his 30th birthday and he's never had sheet burning 🔥 sex and when Angel spots him playing jazz piano she wants him she has troubles of her own which makes her act in an abandoned way and they spend a weekend of wicked sex however feelings develop and can they find each other for a HEA

Toil and Trouble by Angelique Armae

This is a book of redemption couldn't get into it as much as the other 2 but well worth a read.

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This was an okay read. Were it just the first story it would have been a 5 star for me, but I just wasn’t able to get into the other two Steamy erotic romance placed in the time of Scotland’s war for independence led by Robert the Bruce. I could feel the author put a lot of time into researching the details of the locations and characters and the history buff in me was swooning while the romantic in me was living for the trysts between the two main characters. This was a really entertaining read., the other two stories I didn’t vibe with nearly as much and so for that reason it’s a 3 star.

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Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for providing
me the copy of Silk and Magic for an honest review.

All thoughts about this title are mine.

It was the first time I read a book by any of the authors and am glad I requested this one. All the authors have a distinct style which has the power to suck you in their stories. Steamy, erotic romances, all three stories were beautifully written, but “Eternal Passions” by Brandy Lee stood out for me. The eternal love story of Susan and Ryan was able to bring out all the mushy and warm emotions.

Grab this book if you want to escape the reality and enter a world of sensual erotic romance.

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This book was provided free of charge for the purposes of this review,the following is my review and is not in any way influenced by the fact it was provided free of charge,.

Silk and Magic Book 2,.

This is the second book in the series, silk and magic, which is a collection of stories by various authors, all erotic based with dashings of love and magic thrown in for your extra reading pleasure, to cover just one, Toil and Trouble, by M.A dubary, the lord of the manor, Lord Trevor McGovern, as by way of a curse been transformed into a cat,to escape the 'transformation' he must find True love or spend eternity in the shape of a cat,he runs into a witch,Tabitha Cole,and by way of her requests to higher powers, ends up with Mr McGovern in his cat form, who has to convince her that he is really a cat and can stop the evil force that is harrasing her.

A very good flowing collection of stories...recommended.

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I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review. Just loved this book and recommend it to everyone.

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This anthology book has 3 stories in it. All three stories were interesting and easy to read. However, only the second story, Let's Get Crazy, is the only one that I would categorize as erotic. The other two stories could have used a few more steamy scenes.

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I have never read any books of either of those authors, but thanks to this anthology I got a taste in every one of the authors writing, style and sexy guys.

All of the stories were amazing - however, I do have to say that Susan and Ryan stole my heart as of page 1.
However, the others were great as well - steamy, hot romance (oh my, Eric, wow), strong female leads and a cute kitty made the mix perfect.

The authors do have their own style, which I liked so it does not feel "the same" after some while and the stories were a good length for the purpose.

If you want to escape the real world and want to meet guys that are going to blow your mind - then grab this anthology as this will spice up your realty.

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Diese Anthologie war meine erste von der Autorengruppe, und bisher hab ich auch noch kein Buch der jeweiligen Autorin gelesen. Aber ich wurde nicht enttäuscht. Die Geschichten waren in genau der richtigen Länge, heiß und sexy.

Die Männer in allen drei Geschichten sind einfach nur *yum*, aber die Frauen brauchen sich auch nicht verstecken: allesamt stark auf ihre eigene Art und Weise. Und dann gibt es da auch noch so ein kleines Kätzchen, dass sich in des Lesers Herz schleicht.

Mir haben Susan und Ryan von allen Dreien am besten gefallen, aber auch die anderen zwei hab ich gern gelesen und begleitet.

Für alle, die gern mal die Realität verlassen wollen, und sich auf ein heißes, aufregendes Abenteuer einlassen wollen.

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Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me a copy of this title. Silk and Magic is an erotic anthology which includes three sweet tales. Unlike some erotic books, these stories include plenty of love and romance to accompany the more intimate moments. Each book includes some time travel and magic and I really enjoyed all of the stories. If you like hot romance, give this one a try!

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Despite the cover art on the Goodreads entry, this is actually a really intriguing romance collection of short stories that I received via Netgalley. The first and the last have magical storylines, and the middle story is about a musician finding love. They are all very different and would be perfect for someone that wanted a sampling of different genres of romance without committing to a whole book or series. They are all well-written and I am curious to read the previous book in this "series".

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I voluntarily read this ARC for an honest review
All thoughts and opinions are mine

A great anthology

I found this a great read - As a series of stories I kind of dipped in an out when it suited
If you are looking for something with a variety of stories but the ability to dip into - this could be for you

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Enjoyable anthology, but I wouldn’t say I was blown away by any of the stories or that they will stick in my memory for long. They were a nice read for distraction.

Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for a free copy for an honest opinion

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Silk and Magic Book Two
3 Stars
This is an anthology that consist of three very interesting stories for three different authors. All other stories were fun to read, had very intriguing concepts, and were under 100 pages. I don’t think any of these stories are perfect and a few of them could have use more pages but in general I enjoyed my self when reading it.
Eternal Passions by Brandy Lee
2 Stars
The concept of this story was very intriguing, true lovers form many many years ago find each other in our modern day (well 2004’s modern day). If this was a full book I would probably immediately put it on my TBR list, This concept could have totally been explored more in a full 300-400 page book and maybe should have been. Because despite this concept being interesting, I don’t think it was very well executed in the less than 100 page story especially for and erotic story.
I would think that a less than 100 page erotic story would focus basically only on the sex of both present and past. Instead it focused mostly all on the past and a strange amount of that time on their traveling and the current war. There just wasn’t a lot of sex for any story but especially for an erotic story. If I picked this story up not in a anthology but by its self I would have been very disappointed if I was looking for a erotic sort story.

Let’s Get Crazy by Caryn Carter
4 Stars
Now this is what I have come to expect from a short erotic story! Almost every single second is spent focused on sex and not much else. There is a plot that is perfectly satisfactory for the purpose of the story and actually quite relatable for what I can imagine is many people. The ending was quick and straight to the point (my favorite kind in a story like this). There isn’t much else to say about this story it was exactly what is should have been and what you would expect.

Toil and Trouble by Angelique Armae
2.5 Stars
The first thing I have to say about this story is that it is not an erotic short story. There are only maybe two sex scenes and at least in my opinion that is simply not enough.
Besides that, this was an interesting concept and story except for its one flaw, it was only like 70 pages. If this had been explored in the length of a book not a short story it could have been amazing. But without the extra length it was just an extremely awkward story that was the most rushed thing I have ever read (and that’s really saying something).

All the stories had concepts that genuinely interested me and cute couples that I wouldn’t mind reading more of. Overall, this anthology was interesting and a nice way to spend a few hours. I don’t think I would exactly recommend it to anyone but if someone was interested in reading it I definitely wouldn’t tell them not to. I am excited to look it to these authors other works and see if anything interest me.

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