Showing posts with label Jill Elaine Hughes. Show all posts
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Thursday, October 24, 2013

Vampire in the Tropics by Jill Elaine Hughes!!!!


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A paranormal erotic novella.

Our heroine, known only as “Beloved,” has had it with vampires. Or so she thinks. After hightailing it out of frozen Poughkeepsie, New York for Mexico in an effort to escape both winter and the loser vampire ex-boyfriends she’s sick and tired of fending off, she finds something she never thought she’d encounter under the blazing tropical sun—a vampire god.

Enter Julio, an immortal Aztec god that blends elements of the Western vampire with the chupacabra. It’s lust at first sight when Beloved lays eyes on him in human form on a white-sanded Mexican beach, and despite all attempts to resist, she finds that at last she has found her destiny as his mate. Wild otherworldly sex ensues that takes them to a parallel universe where the power of the ancient Aztecs blends with modern bloodlust to create a new level of passion, and where Beloved finds a new role as the Chupacabra Queen.



Excerpt

I spent most of my teen and college years running with the vampire crowd, so I know whereof I speak. It was fun at first.  The vampires were all beautiful, and wore the best clothes, and threw the best parties, and got all the good drugs, and sometimes even flew in celebrity entertainers for the all-night shindigs they threw in the woods surrounding Poughkeepsie (that’s how I met Justin Bieber and Kim Kardashian).  All the most popular kids at school were vampires.  They didn’t even try to hide who or what they were, either.  Once upon a time they had to keep their Undead natures a secret, but ever since Twilight came out, being a vampire was cool. And if you weren’t a vampire yourself, being able to say you hung out with vampires was the next best thing when it came to teenage social status.

And I milked my vampire friends for everything they were worth.  Or close to it—I didn’t let them take me over the line into Undeadness myself, of course.  Sure, I’d nick my wrist every now and then and collect some blood in a cup for them that they’d pass around at parties while the mortal kids drank beer and hooch, and sometimes I let them nibble on my neck a little, but that was the extent of it.   And that was good enough for the vampires for many years.

Six years, to be exact.  But starting last year, they wanted more from me than just a little blood and the occasional casual sex session. One of the added bonuses of having sex with vampires is there’s no chance of catching an STD or getting pregnant.
Unless, of course, you let them kiss you.

The sex was great for a long time.  Nothing fancy, no frills, but it got the job done. The vampires’ cocks were cold, but huge and hard, and they knew exactly what to do with them. They knew their way around a clit, too, and never failed to make me come, never once. And no matter how hot and heavy things got, I always stuck hard and fast to the no-kissing rule.  The vampires never seemed to mind that, though. 

Until recently.

Something changed with the vampires about a year ago. They wanted me to become one with them.  As in, their vampire blood-lover. As in, the mother of an Undead-mortal hybrid.

As in, they wanted me to start kissing them when we fucked.  Tooth to tooth, fang to fang, tongue to scorching tongue.

I refused.

That’s when the trouble started.








Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Zombie, Incorporated by Jill Elaine Hughes

Synopsis


Twilight. With zombies.

Eighteen-year-old Katie Allred is socially awkward and unpopular at school. The only child of parents who had her right out of high school, Katie is herself about to leave the nest, even though she hardly feels ready.

Katie’s new after-school job at the Zimble Box Corporation draws her into the complex social strata of high school cliques and backstabbing friends in ways she never imagined. Katie soon discovers there’s something very strange about the “in” crowd at school---and about her employer, too. Shortly after starting her new job, the Contagion breaks out, plunging her town and the entire nation into chaos as zombie shadow forces come out into the open, ravaging the streets. Katie goes into hiding and her parents disappear, along with almost everyone else she knows.

But Katie soon discovers she has special powers that help her survive. She’s a Beacon, someone with the innate ability to help zombies produce children. It’s a power her employer — and what little remains of the U.S. government — both want to exploit for their own ends. Not only that, it runs in her family---which has a secret past Katie never knew about until now.

Enter Agent Morehouse of the FBI Special Zombie Control Unit. A reformed zombie working undercover, he suppresses his urge to eat human flesh in order to serve and save humanity. But Agent Morehouse can’t help but be attracted to a Beacon like Katie, and she to him. Even as they fight zombies the world over, they must fight their intense attraction to each other, hoping to keep Katie from suffering Agent Morehouse’s terrible zombie fate.

Darra's Review:


I do have a soft spot for Zombie stories. And I did like this book. Katie is in High School and essentially an outcast with no friends and crappy parents. I mean really, her parents are awful despite she is not neglected. She does get this job that has odd people working there. I did laugh a little when describing the smell there(a little like a dead animal). Katie does need to be slapped by Captain Obvious. Call me paranoid but if a person smells like a zombie, looks a little like a zombie and eats brain rolls, I would peg them as a zombie.
Did I say I love Fred? It is funny that she does not understand what he means when giving her advice. She should read more fortune cookies to understand.
I like the book and will be reading the next book. The book was left to leave me a little aggravated I
have to wait for more!

For all my Zombie lovers, I give this book a 4.1. 
Sunny's Review:
I was pleasantly surprised that I enjoyed this book. I was a little nervous when it started out. Most of you know that I read to escape reality and really don't like reading depressing stories. This book definitely started out that way and honestly stayed that way...but luckily there was a zombie infestation to deal with so....couldn't really complain. Katie had an awful life. No friends and her parents couldn't wait for her to get out of the house after graduation. So Katie gets a job and suddenly nothing in her life really makes sense anymore. The hottest guy at school is interested in her at a party, the world goes crazy and she left to fend for herself during a zombie apocolypse. Her boss pays her a ton of money for basically doing nothing. Katie also meets an FBI agent that is (YAY!) blond hair blue eyed and a zombie (seriously? so close to having a good blond guy). He actually seems like a good guy but this book is a series so the author left me HANGING!!! I really hate/love cliffhangers...now I have to wait for the next book....

I think this book is a 4 out of 5 stars. I recommend you go get it. It is different and I think you will enjoy it.

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Jill Elaine Hughes is a professional journalist, playwright, memoirist, and fiction author. She has written for the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Reader, Washington Post, Cat Fancy magazine, New Art Examiner, and numerous other media outlets. Her plays have been widely published and produced by theaters in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, Boston, Atlanta, San Francisco, the United Kingdom, and Australia. She is also the author of several New Adult fiction books. Ms. Hughes also writes erotic fiction under two pen names: Jamaica Layne and Jay E. Hughes.

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Thursday, June 6, 2013

Templand by Jill Elaine Hughes





I did read Templand this past week. It is about Melanie Evers trying to seek out jobs and can only find short term(Temp) jobs here and there. It explains she was well educated but still is unemployed. Here is the problem I had with this. I was depressed for her the majority of the book. She has a loser ex-boyfriend and only meets IT Dave once on a job she quits. I did like Dave and finally we see him return by the end of the book. I did like the ending and how it unraveled. I just wanted more Dave and less living in hell only eating ramen and canned meat. We did get the point her life sucked not being able to find a job. I need more development of other characters and less details of all the years of hell in her life.
I would give this book a 3.3. A very goal oriented woman with bad luck. Just want more characters in her day to day life.

Darra
Book Description
The heroine, Melanie Evers, is a plucky young working-class woman from Akron, Ohio struggling to support herself in Chicago in the post-9-11 economy. TEMPLAND follows Melanie's journey through the temporary employment world from a college student on "just a summer job" to a 28-year-old woman with a lot of intelligence (and a heap of student loan debt to match) through multiple layoffs and a series of ever-more-wacky temp assignments, as she struggles not only to survive, but also to find romance and always remain true to the honest, working-class values instilled in her by her beloved grandfather. In her long, solitary journey through Templand, Melanie encounters adventure and romance on her search for that always-elusive Permanent Job---which she finally gets, along with her man.
TEMPLAND is a highly entertaining, wickedly funny social satire, contemporary romance, and
mystery novel all rolled into one.

About the Author: JILL ELAINE HUGHES is a professional playwright, novelist, journalist and freelance writer with more than 15 years' experience in publishing and professional writing/editing.  She has contributed to many newspapers and national magazines, including the Washington Post, theChicago Tribune, Yahoo! Shine, the Chicago Reader, the New Art Examiner, Cat Fancy magazine, and many others.  Her plays have received productions nationwide and internationally, are widely published, and have been anthologized alongside Pulitzer and Tony winners.  She is also a published novelist under the pen names "Jamaica Layne" and "Jay Hughes", and recently began self-publishing New Adult fiction under her own name.
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