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Author: Maryjanice Davidson
Publisher: Brava
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

15 reviews
Sales Rank: 165306

Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.2 x 0.8

ISBN: 0758208928
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780758208927
ASIN: 0758208928

Publication Date: September 1, 2008
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
"Bridefight" - One minutes Lois Commoner is popping pain pills for her bum knee; the next, she's in a strange land with a magically delicious naked man named Prince Damon. Questions? Maybe one or two."Mating Season" - Lt. Anne Sanger jointed the W.A.C.s to see the world and meet someone, she meant Europe and nice Boise farm boy - not a feral, well-built, rakish man in a bathtub claiming he has wished her to be his mate."Groomfight" - Rica Callanbra is used to odd things happening, but sweet, godlike hunky men falling from the sky? She'll take him! Talk about heaven on earth.

Customer Reviews: Read 10 more reviews...

1 out of 5 stars

This is the first and the last book by MJD I will read... April 30, 2008
Thank goodness I did not pay good money to read this book. I have been curious about MJD - I've heard great things about the Undead series, so when I was given the opportunity to read this book, I jumped at it. This book of short stories feels as if it were written by an immature child. Very simplistic text and sentence structures. I really felt like this was a first effort of a new writer and that an editor seriously should have taken this book in hand and not let it be published. I really saw nothing bad about these boys. The sex scenes were Meh at best and I didn't believe that any of the couples were really in love. I did not care one iota about the world that was supposedly being created in the stories and I found nothing endearing about the characters. Trust me - do not waste your time or your money on this book.

5 out of 5 stars

Excellent, Sparkling Fun Dialog, Good Plot & Characters June 4, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

"They're just the sexy boys next door. If next door is a Weird, Weird Place."

MJD had me laughing from the title of story #1, Bridefight. Hilarious, great character & story development for short stories, with sparkling & funny dialog. Loved it!!

1 out of 5 stars

A Really BAD Book February 27, 2006
5 out of 10 found this review helpful

I really enjoy MJD's Vampire series, which is why I purchsed this book. DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY. This is very poorly written, probably in a few days. The main character of the first story is obnoxious and unlikable. The sex scenes don't seem as if a woman wrote them at all. The plot lines are thin. All in all the worst book I have read in many years. If I could give this zero stars I would.

4 out of 5 stars

MJD produces another winner! December 18, 2005
5 out of 5 found this review helpful

Overall, I have not liked the Brava Bad Boys series. However, I like everything I have read by MJD and this book only strengthened that idea. The 3 stories are interconnected and revolve around the mating of the 3 princes from the SandLands. The SandLands is an alternate world where the people transform into animals; the 3 princes, by the way, transform into pumas. MJD's females are always quirky and sassy and this anthology is no different. From learning the language of the dark travelers, to confronting racism, to addressing the role of women, MJD's characters kept me laughing. Highly recommended!

2 out of 5 stars

Really Disappointing Bad Boys... October 8, 2005
14 out of 15 found this review helpful

I loved Bridefight when I read the novella in e-book format at Ellora's Cave. The aforementioned novella was the first part of a series that was never carried out called Canis Royal. In fact, I loved it so much that I wrote a review about the novella and expressed my pleasure in having read such a fun little story. So, imagine my delight when I heard that MaryJanice Davidson re-released Bridefight and added two more novellas of the SandLands for an anthology... and imagine my disappointment when I read Really Unusual Bad Boys. Mating Season leaves off where Bridefight left off, only this time this is Damon's brother Maltese's story. He wished for an earthly woman and got Lt Anne Sanger, a straightlaced WWII soldier. She has no idea how she'd landed in SandLands. Her circumstances are quite different from Lois's. She wants nothing more than to return to her home, however, will she want to after she spends time with the gorgeous werecat? And in Groomfight, third brother Shakar lands on earth and meets a beautiful dark-skinned woman. After spending time with her and indulging in some erotic moments, which includes skinny-dipping, he decides to stay on earth, but things could change after Rica discovers she's with child.

The problem I had with the last two novellas is that they seem rushed, thin and sloppily executed. When I read Bridefight, I felt that Davidson discovered a unique and erotic world with sharp humor and great one-liners to boot. However, the novellas are so short and end so abruptly that I am not any the wiser about the SandLands and its inhabitants. For example, in Mating Season, Anne was quite adamant about returning to earth, and then out of nowhere changes her mind. I was confused with her sudden change of heart. It was just too abrupt. I like that Davidson used the whole time-travel angle with the female characters, but she could have and should have done so much more with these stories. The characters lack depth and all I got from this anthology is a few good romantic scenes between the characters. And the titles "Mating Season" and "Groomfight" had nothing to do with the actual stories. That is another indication that Davidson wrote these stories without giving them much thought. Reading this book was like reading a pamphlet -- thin, light, brief. Bridefight is great and that is why I give Really Unusual Bad Boys two stars instead of one star. Davidson should have taken more time developing this erotic fantasy anthology in a more palpable way. I am a big fan of her work and love the Undead, Wyndham Werewolf and Alaskan books respectively, but I've grown wary of trying her novellas because they have left me unfulfilled. These shall be the last novellas I read from Ms. Davidson. They served their purpose in providing some (very) light entertainment during my train commute to work, but I expected more and I cannot help but feel disappointed and cheated. And ripped off! I paid fourteen dollars for this. Ugh.

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