Darcy Branwyn

Spicy and emotional pair bonding romance fiction. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/218111300-tangled-moon

• A woman is often deeply oppressed by the role she is expected to play. She is supposed to be the tender, civilizing force in society and to want commitment and lifelong loyalty. But often her marriages and relationships give her not romance and devotion, but routine and endlessly distracted mates. Welcome back to the Art of Seduction by Robert Green. Today we’re moving on to The Rake.
• You ready? Okay. A woman never quite feels desired and appreciated enough. She wants attention, but a man is too often distracted and unresponsive. The rake is a great female fantasy figure. When he desires a woman, brief though that moment may be, he will go to the ends of the earth for her. He may be disloyal, dishonest, and amoral, but that only adds to his appeal.
• Unlike the normal, cautious male, the rake is delightfully unrestrained. A slave to his love of woman, there is the added lure of his reputation so many women have succumbed to him.
• There has to be a reason. Words are a woman’s weakness. And the rake is a master of seduction’s seductive language. Stir a woman’s repressed longings by adapting the rake’s mix of danger and pleasure. So like always, my warning, anyone who’s just dropping in for the first time, we use this information to protect ourselves from people who may want to seduce us so we can see it coming.
• But we can also use it as a sort of role play in a relationship you already have to keep things interesting. We can also use it as a reminder of the differences between males and females and that we might be looking for different things in the relationship.
• Okay, ready?
• The Rake. Seduction is a psychological process that transcends gender, except in a few key areas where each gender has its own weakness. The male is traditionally vulnerable to the visual. The siren who can concoct the right physical appearance will seduce in large numbers. For women, the weakness is language and words.
• This is really important. This is why we like romance novels, right? We’re all about the words.
• The rake’s use of language is demonic
• Because it is designed not to communicate or convey information but to persuade, flatter, stir emotional turmoil, much as the serpent in the Garden of Eden used words to lead Eve into temptation. A woman is often deeply oppressed by the role she is expected to play. She is supposed to be the tender, civilizing force in society and to want commitment and lifelong loyalty but often her marriages and relationships give her not romance and devotion but routine and an endlessly distracted mate. So guys out there if you feel like you’re losing her, listen up. Because if you’re lost in your daily routine, if you’re not paying attention, she’s trying to get your attention, you’re ignoring her. So she speaks a little louder and then you call her a nag or something like that. You don’t want to hear it at all. Go ahead, keep ignoring her. She’s going to check out. And when she checks out, she won’t be there for you anymore.
• It’ll be over. She’ll just be a body in the house around your life. But she won’t be there for you when you need validation or when you have a bad day and you want someone on your side, she’s checked out man, she’s done. So, we’re going to continue with the rake. Next week we’ll finish that up, talk about it some more. That’s what I have today. It’s only four minutes long. Do you want to do another reading? Should we? Let’s do something. We’ll do a random reading from Tangled Moon.
• …During the night, Danielle and Lothar had met up with a local pack.
• Together they chased the vampires deep into the forest.
• Some time before dawn, they lost them in a labyrinth of caves. Now she stood in a shaft of misty sunlight, winding over the body of a dead moose. It was a female. Most werewolves were selective in their prey. They had too much respect to stand for the slaughter of a species that has struggled so hard to reclaim its territory in recent decades. Not vampires. Vampires didn’t care about much of anything.
• Not my opinion, but that’s where Danielle is at. In the first book, she’s a little prejudiced against vampires, and she doesn’t believe any of them could be good, ever.
• …She circled the cow, then lifted her head and howled, her cry echoing. A rustling in the leaves behind her caught her attention. She turned to face the sound, and saw a knock-kneed moose calf. He tried to run, tripping over his legs and falling headfirst. He struggled to his feet, shaking himself. He was a late-born calf, and now his mother was dead, winter coming.
• She shifted into human form. Time to clean up the mess left behind by the vampires. She’d be feeding and caring for the calf so that he could survive…
• Like all of us, people change Danielle changes in the first couple of books she’s very prejudiced against vampires. She absolutely hates them. She thinks there isn’t a good one that has ever existed. Until she meets one. But I can’t say anymore because, you know, spoiler alert.
• Alright, now we’re almost up to seven minutes so I’m definitely done. I’ll talk to you guys again later and we’ll continue on with the rake. Bye!