Monday 18 June 2012

Review & $25 Gift Card Giveaway: Assumed Master

Original Title: Assumed Master
Author: Lila Munro
Publisher: Rebel Ink Press
Release Date: May 2012
Genre: Erotica



We may be born to the lifestyle,

Julie Stevens and Dante Larson always knew their tastes were a bit more eccentric than those of the average person, but acknowledgement of their chosen paths came at different times. While their lives have run parallel for the last twenty years, destiny always came knocking at the wrong time. Julie was a closeted edge player and before Dante could pull her free of her fears, Mason came along and dragged her kicking and screaming from her self-inflicted darkness, leaving Dante wanting. Although Dante’s been in love with Julie since the day he first laid eyes on her, he's happily married to Blake. But the tides are turning.

But Lady Fate dictates how it should be lived…

Still mourning the death of the only Master she’s ever known, Julie finds herself forced to live with the one man she’s been terrified of for years, Dante. While she has to admit something between them feels right, just as many things feel very, very wrong, starting with the fact he’s married to her gay best friend. Before she even has time to sort out her current predicament, another man catches Julie's attention. But after losing her mother, her sister, and her husband, can Julie come to grips with the fact that Keegan McKettrick jumps out of perfectly good helicopters for a living, rescue diving for the Coast Guard? And where exactly does that leave Dante, who knows for sure he needs a woman to complete his unconventional marriage? Quite frankly, he's tired of waiting.

REVIEW


In this erotic BDSM novel, we see people with Master-Slave relationship.  While Julie was living in such a relationship with Mason, Mason died.  Without a master, Julie feels scared.  But Mason's will states that Julie is handed over to Dante's slavery.  Julie is now clearly terrified, as she had heard about Dante's abusive ways.  Dante is already having a gay relationship with his slave, Blake.  But, soon she starts trusting Dante, and the three (Dante, Blake and Julie) have a trusted relationship.

Dante compromises some of his ego for his slaves, so that he can make them happy.  And Blake's character was adorable at times.  There is nothing to say about the plot or characters, as the novel doesn't concentrate on it.  Lovers of BDSM novels will enjoy this.



GUEST POST

10 THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT GUESS ABOUT ME...
- By Lila Munro



#10…I have a green thumb and love to dig in the dirt. Not only do I enjoy cultivating flowers, I have a raised garden bed full of veggies.
#9…I played clarinet, bass clarinet, and oboe for eight years, but didn’t pursue it in college.
#8…I went to university in Brad Pitt’s hometown, Springfield, Missouri.
#7…I love to cruise flea markets and thrift stores in search of old books, my mission to save their lives. I recently acquired a complete set of Shakespearean texts from Harvard circa early 1900’s.
#6…I switched majors in college five times. I moved from Public Relations to Communications to English to Secondary Education, finally getting three degrees. A Bachelor’s in psychology and sociology and a minor in English.
#5…I was a girl scout.  Sold a lot of cookies, too.
#4…My greatest vice has got to be Vera Bradley. My closet looks like a store. My favorite pattern right now is Very Berry Paisley.
#3…I’ve held driver’s license in four states and overseas. Missouri, Delaware, North Carolina, Virginia and Okinawa. Driving on the left was difficult for me to overcome once back stateside.
#2…I love the ocean and am particularly fond of snorkeling.
#1…I share a birthday with my husband and that day also happens to be our anniversary…
Thanks for having me over today!

GIVEAWAY

Lila will be giving away a $25 Amazon GC to one randomly drawn commenter during the tour as well as to the host with the most comments (excluding the author's and the host's).

To enter this giveaway, all you have to do is comment in this post WITH your email ID.  Readers, I repeat!  PLEASE DON'T FORGET TO LEAVE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS!  IF YOU WIN, WE COULD CONTACT YOU ONLY IF YOU LEAVE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS!

Anonymous comments are also accepted, if your name and email address is present in the comment section.  Please share it with your friends!  Giveaway open INTERNATIONALLY!  Ends July 30th, 2012!


64 comments:

  1. Thank you for your review.

    I always love reading the snippets that are revealed about the lives of others.

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  2. thank you for the giveaway,
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  3. Good morning! Thanks for hosting me today. I'll be by a few times to check in and answer any questions the readers may have. ;)

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  4. I love that her and her hubby share a birthday!

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  5. Your book sounds interesting, at first I wondered, but I think I would really enjoy this. Best of luck on your book tour. Keep up the good works.Dianna//dlmwdavis@hotmail.com

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  6. wow I like the look of this!!

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  7. Great post! I loved your review, and guestpost was really interesting! Look forward to reading some more!
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  8. Great interview. I guess if your husband forgets your anniversary or bday, he is in trouble. Lol. Loved the excerpt. Have read a couple of lia's books and have enjoyed them. Want to read the other books from this series. Thanks for the great giveaway.
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  9. interesting...thanks for the great review

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  10. Thanks for the giveaway!

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  11. Hi everyone! Thanks for stopping by. We get a lot of funny looks when we are somewhere we both have to show ID and people put two and two together about our birthday. :) I thought when I first met him and he tried to convince me he was born the same day without picture ID proof it was the worst pick up line ever. Now I think it was the best. :)

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  13. Sounds steamy! Love the cover. Thanks for the giveaway :D

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  14. I love the "10 Things about Lila." I've had a driver's license in SEVEN states (my gosh that's scary...and I never thought about it until you mentioned you've had one in 4 states)...but I've never driven in another country. I think that, for me, would be very scary.

    AND...While my husband and I do not share the same birhday, we DID get married on his birthday. He picked it--so he'd never forget it. Now, I give him a birthday gift and he gives me an anniversary gift. It works out very well.
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  15. New follower, love the blog, and the books sounds okay, but not really for me. I love reading diff. reviews though because that lets me know ahead of time. Again thanks can't wait to follow more.

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  16. That must be nice, for you and your husband to have your birthdays and anniversary on the same day. And I've always wanted to ask people who've lived in a Springfield...are you disappointed that it's not the one in THE SIMPSONS, or relieved?

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  17. Thanks for the giveaway.

    Not my normal genre, but the review has made me curious

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  18. Sounds fascinating! Good luck on the tour!
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  19. The book sounds great! Thanks for the giveaway :)
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  20. Good afternoon! I so love this cover, too. Very clean and sexy. Catherine has me beat on stateside driving, although, it's about time we move again so I might catch up yet. ;) The Simpsons...well, I never really thought about it. I only lived there a short while and am not a native of that town, but I think it would be kind of cool if it was the one associated with Bart and gang. Wouldn't it be kind of neat to be a walk on cartoon character extra? :)

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  21. The giveaway sounds great. I visited Okinawa! My sister sure could drive those old back roads that have single lanes and then doubles. I loved seeing the places where you could rent rooms in private can't remember what you call them hotels I guess. They are so lit up at night and in shapes of unusual buildings..
    Anyway, would love to win the amazon card!

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  22. My husband and my birthdays are both in Oct. Mine is the 22 and his the 20th. I won't give ya the year. haha. I sooo want to read Assumed Master, well, the entire series really. I'm a series kind a girl. :)
    Great giveaway, thanks for a chance to win.
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  23. This sounds deliciously hot. Thanks for the wonderful giveaway, and the review.
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  24. I love the cover!! I am always drawn to books by their covers!! Sounds interesting too!

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  25. would love to be entered!
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  26. To be honest haven't read too many BDSM's books but this one really grabbed my attention I just have to read this one.

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  27. Sounds good!

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  28. What a.... yummy.. lovely cover!!

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  29. Thank you for the review and the giveaway.

    :).

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  30. i like that i learned so much about the author!

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  31. Great review, Thanks for the great giveaway!!
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  32. Thanks for the post!

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  33. Thank you for the giveaway!
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  34. Nice review. Sounds like an interesting book.

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  35. Good review, I'll have to look this one up and put it on the tbr list.


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  36. Thank you for the giveaway.

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  37. Thank you.

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  38. CelticsDraftee29 June 2012 at 16:20

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  39. Love to read. Thanks for this. My email: iambigred(at)mail(dot)com

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  40. I dig the cover! Thank you!

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  41. I imagine it would be cool to do a book tour...
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  42. thank you for the giveaway. my email is jaspersjunk08[at]yahoo[dot]com

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  43. Nice review. The book sounds good.

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  44. intriguing blurb! Looks like a great read!

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  45. I can't wait to read this one!

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  46. looks like a great book

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  47. Thanks for the giveaway!

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  48. Nice review and thanks for the giveaway!

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  49. Great overview. Sounds like a good read!
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  50. Thanks for the giveaway!

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  51. Great giveaway!
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  52. I like the cover....makes me wonder what he's thinking ;)
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  53. Nice cover! The book sounds interesting :) Both birthdays and your anniversary on the same day wow! I guess that makes it easy to remember dates :) Thanks so much for the great giveaway!
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  54. Check out that cover :) lol. Sound like a great read!
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  55. Although is a book out of my realm, this actually sounds pretty good! Thank you for the giveaway!

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  56. Nice review! I read erotica but BDSM not really my cup of tea. Sound good though.

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  57. Ooh what an interesting sounding read.

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  58. Good luck on the tour.
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  59. Thanks for the giveaway :)

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  60. I am more and more into lifestyle (romance) novels. I am so glad I expanded my reading horizons. This one sounds like a very good one!
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  61. This does sound like a different book--much different from what I read, but hey, it's good to expand and try new things, right? :) Perhaps this will be one of such new things I'll try in the future.

    Also, I think that is so great that you and your husband share a birthday AND aniversary--talk about busy day! lol

    Enjoy!
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  62. I love blog tours/hops! This is a great to find new authors/series to add to my ever growing TBR pile. Thank you for the excerpt!

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    Thanks for the amazing giveaway

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