- Mass Market Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Black Lace (9 Nov 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0352340754
- ISBN-13: 978-0352340757
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 10.8 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 933,452 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"'FEMALE FANTASY OFF THE LEASH.' NEW WOMAN"
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Black Lace - the leading erotic imprint for women
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hot, hot, hot!,
By Serpentbeauty (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dark Designs (Black Lace) (Mass Market Paperback)
I agree that this is the author's best book so far, and that is saying a lot, in my opinion, for such a talented writer. If you enjoy the thought of two beautiful men having hot passionate sex, this book is for you.
The heroine, Remy, is starting a gothic-style clothing business, and needs to design outfits for an entire wedding party, but that is the least of her problems! There are two men and one woman desperate to get her into bed, but what she really wants is to see the two men in bed together. Whether or not she succeeds, you'll have to read the book to find out *smile*. It does involve quite a few manga terms related to yaoi, but they are always explained or in an easily understandable context for those who do not have experience of this genre. For those who do, it is great to see them used in such a mainstream book. The plot is fast-paced, the characters believable and the sex (all of it!) delicious. What more could anyone ask for?!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Filthy and gorgeous,
By Mathilda (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dark Designs (Black Lace) (Mass Market Paperback)
I love Madelynne Ellis's Black Lace books, but this one is her best yet. You get not one, but two gorgeous heroes, Takeshi and Silk, and our heroine is a girl after my heart because what she wants it to see them *together*.
Needless to say there is lots of deviant action along the way, along with characters you really grow to love. I adored it. My one complaint was that there were no pictures. With all the mentions of Yaoi comics, someone should make this book into one!
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4.7 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews) 8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good, But . . .,
By Candice "Candy" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Dark Designs (Black Lace) (Mass Market Paperback)
When I think about all the disparate aspects of this novel, it seems like it was made for me. Male/male action, a Japanese guy (they're my weakness), bisexual m/m/f threesomes, a girl who gets off on that and likes yaoi, a Gothic aesthetic . . . and yet something's missing.
The book starts off tremendously well, with a hot scene that introduces Remy and Takeshi, and you just a get a feel that they're going to be the pair that you root for. And that's just the way it is- Takeshi is a brilliantly well-drawn character who you feel like you instantly know from the beginning, with his cute little idiosyncracies (his Real Doll, for example), and you like watching Remy try and fail to combat his lovely charm. And then in comes the character of Silk. I'm sorry, but as a reader, nothing about Silk captivated me except for the description of his physical beauty. He's vain and shallow and there's not much in the way of character development that endears me to him. His cross-over to stalwart straight boy to totally-fine-with-gay-sex happens much too fast and easily. Takeshi's seduction of him is absolutely hot, but nothing about the ending of this transition felt all that realistic. I just couldn't understand why Remy was so head-over-heels in love with Silk, and thus couldn't relate to a good deal of the book. The side characters were pretty nice and funny and cute, in particular Takeshi's friend and the three Gorgon sisters . . . but Takeshi takes the cake. A good novel if you like the girl-boy-boy love story, another one to add to the collection rounded out by Emma Holly's "Menage" and "Strange Attractions" and Mandy Dickinson's "Out Of Bounds", but Takeshi is the shining grace of the novel- the guy I wish I could bring to life. 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Entirely too enjoyable...,
By S. Hanson - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Dark Designs (Black Lace) (Mass Market Paperback)
Dirty sex? Check.
Hot guys? Check. Awesome female main character? Check. Oh lets not forget gothic, fashion, alternative clothing combined with wedding festivities in a castle. Check! Fantastic combination of all of these things, I loved this book for what it was...a fun erotic romp. Remy has two guys tugging at her (Takeshi and Silk) but she'd rather have them tugging at each other! (Can't say I blame her.) In the end the only thing I hungered for was a second book about their exploits together. Very nice! 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Goth boyz and Yaoi...what else is there?,
By Vixenne Victorienne "Kymberlyn Reed" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Dark Designs (Black Lace) (Mass Market Paperback)
Normally, Black Lace books tend to be very angst-heavy, almost trying for literary pretensions. That's not a bad thing, because erotica has a long and illustrious literary tradition, but sometimes one just wants to read something a lot less, well, full of tortured emotions.
That's why Dark Designs completely threw me off base. It read more like the yaoi manga novels its author Madelyne Ellis obviously knows and loves. She's obviously in love with Cloud and Sephiroth from the Final Fantasy series of games. I was thrilled when she tossed in Gackt and Hyde and Visual Kei, my big loves. It's when the novel becomes too angsty and the characters overly obssessed, that it loses that spark which made it different, and certainly not as much fun. On the other hand, we are talking about goths, and well, we tend to love high drama. The most interesting characters by far are Takeshi and Silk, though clothing designer heroine Remy is definitely otaku in her love of m/m yaoi and wanting to see these two hot men do the horizontal manbo. Admittedly, Takeshi, the part-time former errand boy of the yakuza and now e-bay hotshot, is the most well-crafted of the trio. He's brash, tough, sexy, but with a sweetness that makes him wonderfully likable. From stealing Remy's priceless imported yaoi in a comic shop to a hot romp in a public men's loo, Takeshi steals the show. Note to authors - we need more hot Asian men as heroes! You don't know what you're missing! Silk is his exact opposite--a drop-dead androgynous gothic libertine who finally gets his comeuppance being seduced by the more secure in his masculinity Takeshi, and watching his denial of the other man's attractiveness to wanting him and finally getting what he's wanted was so worth it. Did it seem a little fast? Partially, but much like the bike Takeshi rides, Silk finds himself hurtling towards a realization that by all indications has been within him, yet dormant. Like her previous menage novels, Ellis doesn't resort to feminizing either male character (something that way too many female writers of m/m fiction tend to do and which drives me crazy). Even better is that she doesan't make the Japanese Takeshi into a submissive uke (bottom boy). Yes, both men are pretty, but that's in looks alone. Dark Designs is a delicious melange featuring a gothic nighttime wedding in a castle, three strange sisters called 'The Gorgons', a bride on the edge, a groom with a taste for absinthe and melodrama, a mother with a rampant libido, and a frustrated biker lesbian photographer in love with the heroine. Add the pretty boy lust-fest and stir well. My only complaint - oil (or in this case cooking-oil spray) and latex DO NOT MIX!!! Authors, if you cannot have your characters find some water-based lube somewhere, then skip the sex entirely or have them not use a condom. |
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