I must have been in a Firefly/Serenity mood yesterday, because when I stumbled upon a gift certificate I'd forgotten I had to Samhain's My Bookstore and More, I went and bought two books. Fireflies, by Ally Blue and, um...one about a captain in the title. *checks* My Fair Captain by JL Langley. The captain one is even somewhat spacey I think. So yeah, I musta been feeling in a "Can't stop the signal" mood.

Anyhow, I haven't read the captain one yet, but I did read Fireflies. Note that I've never read Ally Blue before, and I bought this book one hundred percent solely because of the cover. Anne Cain did the artwork and good sweet god it is so beautiful. LOOK . See what I mean? It's absolutely the most beautiful cover I have ever seen. The story didn't sound half bad either, so I was sold.

As it turns out, the story *wasn't* half-bad. It was pretty good actually. I thought Braeden was a bit too femme, but Joey was just as femme which made the sex scenes just a little squicky for me. I like at least one of the guys to be masculine enough to be believable as a top. Joey really wasn't. So it was a bit like watching twink porn, which isn't really my bag, but not bad. Just not my thing.

What *did* throw me right out of "Not bad, I'm pretty okay with spending 4.50 for a novella length book" and into "Oh ew" was....tentacle porn. Except with plants, but still...tentacle porn. I really *really* would have liked a little bit of warning that there was going to be sex with plant-life in this book. Samhain warns "inappropriate use of plants", but their warnings are always so, kind of, cutesy that I certainly was unaware Braeden was going to be taking vines and such up his ass. So yeah, tentacle porn = not cool to spring on people. I get that it's high on the yaoi-lover kink list, but it's never been on mine and a little warning would have been nice.

On the good plant side, though...I was really, oddly fond of the wee honeysuckle vine. I actually got a little misty hoping big bad evil guy didn't hurt the heroic little honeysuckle vine when it came whipping to the rescue. :( I never found out if it survived ok. Kinda bummed about that.

In all, it wasn't a bad book, certainly. And up until the tentacle porn out of nowhere, I was quite enjoying myself. So, yeah, I suppose if you like tentacle sex, go grab this book, and if you don't, just skip some pages when you get to the part with plant bondage. You'll know it when you get to it.

I'm probably going to read the captain one tomorrow. I bought that one solely because the guy on the cover has chest hair (YAY!) and I was somewhat amused by the idea of guys being expected to remain virgins until marriage. We shall see if it's still amusing after I start reading.

*sigh* fire alarm going off in our building for the dozenth time in the past couple months. I hate children, I tell you what. *scowls*