Hey Everyone!

We would like to introduce to you a new weekly feature here at Book Lovers Inc:

When planning this feature, the question arose: how did it all start? What hot book sent us down the path of smutty romances and droolworthy men? We thought back hard (for some it was harder to remember the very first sexy book, since they have read so many since ;-p), so for this introductory post, read on to see how we discovered this hidden and delicious genre.

The thing is that, at the time my English wasn’t as good as it is now, so there were parts I didn’t really got what was going on, so when I finally read the whole series a couple years ago and re-read the book, I was able to appreciate it more =)

Jackie (The Quirky Lover): The first smutty book I read I can’t even remember the title. I was about 12 and found one of my mom’s romance novels. It was a totally new experience, to say the least, lol. The first actual title I can remember was Forever by Judy Blume. It’s a bit light on the smut side in comparison to books I’ve read since but it still stands out.


I had taken a hiatus from reading for several years when my daughter was young, so last year Mel at He Followed Me Home told me to get into reading the Twilight series, which I did. Soooo not smutty,right? Well, then I found FanFiction.net with all of its Twi inspired stories. There were 3 in particular that I enjoyed: The Office by tby789, involving lots of La Perla panties being ripped and 2 stories, the same but from different POV’s, The Dominant and The Submissive by tara sue me, that were just….well, phew!


I have to say, overall, I enjoy a book with a great story line but it’s that much better when there’s some hotness involved too. It always makes for entertaining reading 😉

Melissa (The Spellbound Lover): The first smutty book I ever read was given to me for my 16th birthday.  My Mum and Aunty had gone shopping and got a few books on sale and they gave me Savage Wonder.  I started reading it and whoa!! the sex scenes were pretty hot.  Once I finished it I tagged a few really good scenes and read them out one day and the look on their faces were priceless.  There were maybe a couple of books I’d been told to read after, Cold Heart Canyon by Clive Barker(which was kinda gross) and Once.. by James Herbert which was interesting and a bit full on but that’s it.  These days F.E Heaton’s Winter’s First Kiss probably stands out for me as one that I’ve read recently.  I can’t wait to read Her Dark Angel as well.

But my first real hot, love scene was Rosemary Rogers Sweet Savage Love. I did not like the romance because it was old skool bodice ripper, although at the time that style was pretty much the norm and it featured a brutish hero and the heroine was beyond annoying but it was my first real hawt romance. I soon picked other authors from the 1980s such as Johanna  Lindsey (whose covers at the time got me into trouble, they featured almost nekked men with huge mantitties thrust against their heroines!) Laurie Mcbain and Jude Devereux – and they all wrote steamy scenes and helped to cement my love for historical romance.

Jenn (The YA Lover): Honestly, I have never really read an erotic novel before *Blush*

Stella (The Latin Lover): The first sexy/smutty book I’ve read? Hmm let me think.. Oh I know! The very first book I read which had a sex scene in it was Born in Fire by Nora Roberts. I was 14-15, my best friend brought it to school and I was intrigued by the mysterious cover so asked her to lend it to me (I thought it was a book about witches!). So imagine my surprise when I discovered as I read on that it had some pretty hot, sensual love scenes! I fell in love with the romance genre and Nora Roberts at that moment. 🙂


Then, sometime in university I went to the library to study and found the Velvet series by Jude Devereaux..oh my! These were more graphic and smuttier than the gentle romance novels I’ve read before. Then my very first erotica? It was Ménage by Emma Holly. I only have one word for it, and that is “wow”. Since then I discovered I really like my romance novels smutty or at least sexy ;-))

Susi (The Geeky Lover): Ohhhh the first one I ever read. Huh? *puts thinking hat on* What do you mean with “smutty”? Just with sex inside? That would be Dark Lover by J.R. Ward and Amazon recommended it to me after I read the Twilight books. LOL Yep, I didn’t know about the blogoverse at that moment and I had to trust amazon for recs. How sad is that?


From that day on I was hooked and had a 3 months readathon so to say. Read like 20-30 books per month but yep I didn’t do much else. And they all were romance books, different genres but romance at heart. At first I started with paranormals and then dived into contemporary. First erotica I read was a Lauren Dane book but I can’t honestly remember if it was one of her Trinity or a Chase novels. It was hot and I couldn’t stop after that. Love to live in smut heaven. *grin*

JoJo (The Cornered Lover): My very first *snickers* smutty book was Book #2 Lover Eternal in J.R. Ward’s series The Black Dagger Brotherhood. I was searching around my store looking for something good to read that involved vampires and romance, and then something caught my eye. So I picked it up and read the back and thought ” hmmmmmm….. this sounds like it could be interesting” So I bought it, took it home, and opened it up……………


Later that afternoon I finally came up for air, and thought O.M.G. I have entered a world of porn on paper! LOL Rhages story in my opinion probably has the most Smuttiness in it, and I LOVED IT! So the next day after I finished the ENTIRE book, I went back to the store and bought the entire rest of the series! minus Lover Avenged, and Lover Mine, as they were not out yet. But ever since I have been hooked and I cannot stop myself from drowning in more and more smuttiness everyday!

 

Veronica (The Sexy Lover): To tell you the truth, I can’t really remember my first smutty book, lol. The one I do remember first reading was a historical one. A two part book about a young woman in love with a poor man who was wrongly convicted for a crime he didn’t commit. He later reunites with her.

A bit part of the book: The hero is taking a bath in the river where the heroine is completely in awe of his body. The hero says something in the lines of apologizing for not being presentable for her. The heroine walks up to him and begins stripping of her clothes as she says something like she is the one who should be one apologizing.

Well something along those lines/quotes were said. And of course that is where the smut occurs… It was sexy hot and I didn’t even mind it being a historical romance novel.  It didn’t put me off yet this book made me want to read more smutty novels.