Hunger is the Best Sauce and Hunger Aroused is Saucy!

Hunger Aroused

by Dee Carney
Carina Press

Pub. Date 11-08-2010
Excerpt from Carina Press
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Jasmine is sick in bed when a sexy stranger breaks in and reveals she's suffering an irreversible case of vampirism. And because her turning wasn't approved by the Council, he must kill her once the transition is complete. In the meantime, the executioner offers to ease her torment with chocolate, hot peppers or sexual release. Fortunately for them both, Jasmine's kitchen is bare...

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Corin's honor demands he do his duty, but he cannot execute the lovely woman while any part of her humanity remains. He must also find-and kill-her sire. Jasmine denies ever having contact with a vampire, causing Corin to question the justice of his orders. Sensing his hesitation, the Council dispatches [reinforcements], forcing the pair to make a run for it.

Every hour they spend together-every sensual encounter they share-finds them growing closer. Now Corin will have to choose: kill the woman he loves, or go against everything he believes to set her free.

Book Type: Paranormal Romance/Erotica
Length/File Size Kindle Edition 361KB
Paranormal Species: Vampires and 1 Unknown Other

Characters: 
Jasmine George, RN:  Has been turned by unknown means, a loner, thinks she has the flu
Corin: Executioner for the Vampire Council, Formerly a Gladiator, Sire raped/enslaved him for 30 years.
Councilman Sage: Corin's contact on the council
Ezra: Unknown supernatural species, bar owner
Gregory: Gay bartender with a decade long crush on Corin
Cartius Primus: Corin's Domina to whom he has been blood bonded

Sex: F/M and M/M, rape
Plot line: The synopsis above is pretty much on target.

I thought the process through which her executioner becomes her lover and her love was interesting. The Council's justice was bizarre. How could you justify killing an innocent who had been turned, in order to, I assume for it is not said, protect humans and thus protect Vampires? Since at the very beginning it is implied that this mysterious turning is serial, there is obviously something going around. You would think the Council would come up with something else.

There is a new twist on the vampire turning, with the process taking three days and occurring in waves of fever and abdominal pain requiring first, some sort of catharsis and then, once the teeth start to form, blood.


Jasmine meets Corin in the worst condition. After giving her the female version of a happy ending, he tells her he has to kill her in three days, not now, but after she has turned. Until then he will provide her with sex so she isn't in pain.  Problem is that he starts to doubt the Council's meting out of the death sentence. An issue he has had before.  In a sort of reverse Stockholm Syndrome he gets too attached to and protective of Jasmine. As is the way of PNR/E they fall in love.


The story goes through a period that reminds me of the Harrison Ford film, The Fugitive in that at some point the situation is so hopeless you believe he will be forced to kill her. That point had me a bit verklempt—I always have a tough time with hopelessness. I personally found the intimate scenes very sexy.  I did find how she completely trusted him to find a way out for them a bit silly as was her acceptance that he would kill her in three days. She only tries to get away one time.

This is a short read and it took me about two hours. If I had to give a grade I would say it is a B as the characters were a bit on the typical side or conveniently complacent.