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Seduced By Magic (2008)

by Stephanie Julian(Favorite Author)

3.71 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1419914936 (ISBN13: 9781419914935)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Ellora's Cave

series

Magical Seduction

review 1: This book was hot. Justin and Scarlata were a force of nature. Although this is primarily erotic, I was impressed by the underlying story and the supporting characters. Scarlata is of the folletta race. They are basically gods and demigods from an Italian pantheon which I never heard of. It was a little confusing at first because it screamed Fae. None the less, she lives in the forest and pollution makes her sick. Oh yeah, she doesn't wear any clothes (at all) because artificial things bother her skin. Justin is a human that finds out the stories his father told him about magical creatures were not fairytales. Scarlata figures out that Justin is not on an extended camping trip but he is in her forest to expose her. She plans to stop his search for the truth when s... morehe breaks into his cabin to kill him. She takes one look at his sleeping form and has other ideas. After taking advantage of a very willing Justin, Scarlata discovers he can brush off her spells like shooing a fly. She wonders if he is 100% human. This question (along with many others) is resolved as the two find themselves targeted by the Mals. These are the required bad guys but that's about all we learn about them. I was never clear if they were all 100% human, only that they used black magic. Of course, since this is erotica, Scarlata’s magic stemmed from sex. It made for some interesting escape scenes. While on the run, she and Justin discover love and few secrets that change everything. This is a novella that packs several punches. I do not recommend this book for those looking for good fantasy with a splash of erotica. The erotic scenes are frequent, detailed, and make up 50% of the book. The passion between Scarlata and Justin managed to be hot but not trashy. It was refreshing not to deal with body insecurities or emotional scars. They behaved like secure adults. I give this one a solid 4 stars. I will read more of this series as it becomes available.
review 2: Scarlata is folletti, a mythical fairy like creature. She likes her secret existence. She does not wish for any humans to find her or the even bigger secret that she is hiding in the Forest of Hawk Mountain. There is a very specific reason she has snuck into Justin’s cabin. He is a researcher. He is a researcher too close to her and her secret. He is a researcher that wishes to expose her to society. She can’t let any of this happen. As far Scarlata is concerned he must die, now and by her hands. There’s just one problem, Justin. She never expected to want to touch him, to seduce him, to do so many other things to his perfect body. What would one taste hurt? Plenty, Justin is not as affected by Scarlata’s magic as he should be and he wants more of what she has already offered!When Scarlata and Justin finally come up for air they realize there is a bigger problem that Justin stumbling into the forest that she lives in. The company Justin works for sent him there. Justin has always been obsessed with field research, just like his father. He got the drive to find proof of the mythological from his father’s stories. Was Justin offered this assignment because of his imagination, his beliefs, or does someone at his company believe he can actually find something in the woods other than wildlife? What a sweet erotic read this was. Very sexy read with such easily likable characters. I had no idea going into this book that it was set in the same world as What a Goddess Wants. Nortia and Salvatarus are in this book too. You need not read one to understand the other. The two series can be read independently. This is not witch magic, for whatever reason I have just never enjoyed witch magic. The magical element here is the natural magic that the mythical beings carry within themselves naturally. That is another enjoyable factor with this book, the uniqueness of the mythical characters. They are not the same characters you see over and over in so many books. Julian uses the Etruscan pantheon. It’s certainly fresh and a new variety of beings for me. less

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