Kathy Love writes good vampire fiction and she's a local

Fifty Shades books were really good! I couldn't wait and went ahead and found the fan fic original sequel ending and read it.

Recently read the new Larissa Ione Lords of Deliverance Immortal Rider. It was alright; didn't like the heroine.

I also read Gena Showalter LOTU series, Kresley Cole IAD series, and Nalini Singh - love her Psy/Changeling books!

Thanks guys! kindle is my gift to myself this Christmas, it will greatly reduce the embarrassment factor .

I can always switch to Chaucer or Balzac, if someone becomes too curious.

Chaucer, Rabelais and Balzac.

Sorry couldn't resist. It was on TV not too long ago (Music Man).

10:16 here. I definitely agree with the Brockmann recommendation. Another really good series of this type is by Kaylea Cross.

Pamela Clare's I-Team series is great.

I am the PP who called herself the "Queen of Trash."

Suzanne Brockmann has the best of the "special forces" sub-genre. She has a series called Troubleshooters. The main heroes are Navy Seals and former Navy Seals. Start with the Unsung Hero and go forward. The first two are a bit slow setting up the story and the characters, but by the third book you will be hooked. She weaves story lines and characters through several books. The best part is that these books are pretty good action/adventure stories. They are involved in all kinds of international and domestic terrorism/crime/espionage. She has 16 in the series and all should be available at the library.

Happy reading.

Just went back and many of Elizabeth Lowell's books. I love them. Wonderful trash.

Trash books featuring special forces hotties have become very popular. Some of them are good.

Fifty Shades of Grey, and the sequel, Fifty Shades Darker, by E.L. James. I just finished them both in the span of a week and went back and started reading them again. Soooo good. Trashy good. It's a trilogy and the final book is coming out January 19 so if I could go back and do it over again, I would wait until mid-january to start reading the first one so that I wouldn't have this agonizing wait. They're that good.

Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel series. Hard-core smut, vaguely fantasy, but also a very intricate plot and a cast of thousands.

I would put the Sookie Stackhouse books squarely in the trash category, but I enjoyed them!

I am the queen of "trash." Nora Roberts, Jayne Anne Krentz, Suzanne Brockmann, Linda Howard, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Jill Shalvis, Julie James, Robyn Carr, Sandra Brown, Carly Phillips, Sherryl Woods. I've also done lots of "chick lit" and I'm pretty well versed in that area.

I like some of Ellora's Cave but that is the category of erotica. There is less plot with most of the books and the sex is more explicit and much kinkier. The mainstream romance gets very steamy but the sex is "vanilla" and uses lots of euphemisms. If you are interested in erotica or "romantica," I highly recommend Olivia Cunning's two "Sinner" books. The main characters are a rock band on tour. There is lots of explicit sex of the "vanilla" and "non'vanilla" varieties but there is also a real plot in between.

What are you looking for? I'm sure I have some recommendations.

Not really trashy (although maybe by DCUM standards) but the Sookie Stackhouse books are fun (True Blood is based on them). Some have more sex than others.

Anything printed by Ellora's Cave Publishers. short samples are even free on Kindle

Sherrilyn Kenyon would be right up your alley.

I read a book called the Pleasure Slave by Gena Showalter. It was about a mousy antique store owner who found a box that had a hunk who'd been cursed in it.

Total bodice ripper crap, and I couldn't put it down. I still wonder how it ended up on my Kindle.

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What trashy books have you read lately?

I am reading Kresley Cole romance books about vampires, fairies, valkyries, demons. Escapism at its best.

I am looking for recommendations.