Books: 3 for $10

This is my idea of heaven: five trestle tables piled high with books that previously filled Borders’ shelves with a sign reading 3 for $10. I’m not worried that they aren’t best sellers, this is where many gems of the genres I enjoy reading hide. And an hour of browsing turned up nine lesbian-themed novels and even a Buffy-branded novella (each of which would normally cost me over $30). All found a new home on my bookshelf for a total of $30.

A good buy? This is the introduction that grabbed my attention:

“When Rye Woods, a fairy, meets the beautiful dryad Flora Withe, her libido, as squashed and hidden as her wings, reawakens along with her heart. But Rye is a poor builder's labourer with a teenage sister to raise, while Flora is a wealthy artist-celebrity with a tree-top condominium and a sporty, late-model flying carpet. If those aren’t obstacles enough to the scorching attraction that rapidly develops, Rye lives under the pall of a dark secret that has made her a fugitive in the very land where she sought freedom. […] Can she and Flora find their way to loving one another in the face of their social and cultural differences while struggling with the dark forces that threaten Rye?”

And, despite its somewhat Mills and Boons-esque blurb (although wait for the review on Branded Ann), Broken Wings by L-J Baker easily creates a magical United States multicultural United Forestlands populated by dryads, brownies, gnomes (each with their own physical attributes, religions, cultural practices and even prejudices) which prosecutes and repatriates terrified refugees illegal immigrants who have sought sanctuary from torture or even death in less forgiving regimes, like Iran/Iraq/Saudi Arabia Fairlyand. And this is the world in which our steamy (lesbian) romance takes place.

Some might call it a lesbian romance but it is probably more accurately described as lesbian fairy-porn* and well-worth the $3.33 investment and three hours less sleep it cost me to read!

*If you're after more heterosexual faerie-porn, check out Laurell K Hamilton's Merry Gentry series, which centres on faerie Princess Merry's life with her orgy group of loyal lovers bodyguards. Just don't pick up the sixth book in the series without reading the ones before, like I did. It kinda ruins a romping good story!