Sometimes I like to daydream of what it would be like to be in a bookstore and overhear the following conversation: “Do you have Toni V. Sweeney’s latest novel?” (That’d be an ego-swelling event. I’d have to fight not to rush over and hug the customer.) And the clerk’s answer: “Toni Who?” (Definitely an ego-deflator! I’d want to deck him/her, and shout, “Me! You ignoramus!” and throw my business card at him/her.) But the conversation goes on: “Toni V. Sweeney. You know, s

“Savagely Yours” by Scerina Elizabeth, 2017 This book is a short story and each chapter has a different narrator. It's a bit of a gimmick, but I find it refreshing from books that slip into first one character's head and in the next sentence, another character. This is an erotic tale of inhuman lust. To say more would give away the plot and various surprises—and those surprises are good. Early on there's a brief sexual encounter that ends with a character vanishing and ano