This Side of the Grave D 'n' S & A Naughty Teaser ;)

Woohoo, This Side of the Grave is officially released tomorrow! How excited are we? 

I know some of you have it in hand now and actually I do too, yay! But, I haven’t had the chance to start on it yet. Well, I did take a little peak at CH21 and from what I glanced out whoa mama, this is going to be good! I’ve heard that Amazon shipped their print copies out early, some Walmarts have TsotG and I got mine at Books-a-Million this afternoon. So if you have any of those stores close to you and you can’t wait ‘till tomorrow you might want to see if they have copies in stock early.

So, I'm running a little late today so let’s talk a bit about This Side of the Grave.

• We know that Apollyon is reeking havoc over Cat and her still beating heart. We also know that everyone is weary of her because of her pyrokinesis and telekinesis abilities they witnessed in DfaEG & FDoC. Though they don’t yet know how she came to have these abilities; by drinking from Vlad & Mencheres. Do you think this secret will be revealed to others outside of Cat & Bones circle? And if so, what do you think the repercussions will be?

• On the back cover it says this about Majestic, “…But the price of her assistance may prove more treacherous than even the threat of a supernatural war…” Hmm….that doesn’t sound good or as Mencheres would say; “That bodes ill…” Majestic wasn’t really a ‘bad’ or ‘good’ character in DfaEG but she sure was interesting. I especially loved her and Cat’s Matrix dialogue. But she can be pretty scary if you get on her bad side I imagine, just ask her ex-husband! LoL

• There’s been teases of another half-vampire half-human and Jeaniene has said that this person is ‘kinda’ in This Side of the Grave. From HttG we know there was one publicly outed in history, later Jeaniene mentioned that most vampires knew this half-breed’s identity. Any guesses as to who this might be?

• Jeaniene has also said that Cat & Bones wedding is addressed in TsotG. Will we see some plans finally being made? Or maybe just a quick trip to Vegas? I would laugh my ass off to picture Bones getting married by Elvis. But vampires have a thing with big get-togethers so I doubt we’ll see a little white chapel with Elvis, though how funny would that be, really? LoL

• From the ‘sparkle’ teaser we see Cat & Bones talking to Timmie. Is this the same Timmie from Cat’s college days? Do you think he believed the news about Cat? Because remember, he was a big conspiracy theorist. I don’t think he’d take her supposed murdering rampage and then her own death at face value. It’d be interesting to see what he theorized.

• At the end of DfaEG and in Mencheres’ book EKoD we see that his and Bones relationship is still strained, understandably. Do you think in TsotG Bones will be able to move past that? How do you think Mencheres could redeem himself in Bones eyes, or do you think Bones is taking it far enough?Do you all think that there will be any more hurtles throw at Cat & Bones relationship wise? 

• I know it keeps things interesting but I think this pair deserve a break! 

• They say CH21 from TsotG is comparable to CH32, what do you think would be able to surpass CH32? I mean, Jeaniene covered a lot right there. I’ve read some erotica that wasn’t as good as that!

So there are some things to think about. And I will close off with a little teaser from TsotG that goes with my last point and Belinda’s post earlier. Enjoy!

CH21…

I took one of the candles off the nightstand, considering Bones in the light of the flickering flame. His body was stretched out, arms once again behind his head, limbs completely relaxed even though he was still hard as a baseball bat in one very notable place. All this bounty, mine to enjoy. I licked my lips. Damned if I knew how I’d gotten so lucky, but that was a question for another time. Now was the time for action, not contemplation.

I moved closer until my legs pressed against the side of the bed. “Do you remember the first time you bit me here?” I asked, tracing my finger over the tight bud of his nipple. “Yes.” One word, hissed with all the weight of desire that I could feel through his emotions.

“It felt like your fangs were burning me.” My voice was no more then a whisper from the shiver of remembrance, and I blew out the candle with an unsteady puff. “I can’t duplicate that with you because you’re not human,” I went on. “The juice in my fangs won’t feel the same, but maybe this will be close.”

Then I poured some of the hot wax that pooled on the candle directly onto Bones’s nipple.


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