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Anne Stuart, with "Fire and Ice" managed to make me howl out loud for several minutes, as our hero, a hot Japanese man, gets very nearly blatantly referenced to a character in Kingdom Hearts (2). She seriously whipped out the video game title name, in the novel text, in reference to the hero, and it took two seconds for my head to go from "teardrop tattoos" and red hair to... HOMG AXEL?! It sent me into spasms of delight, completely apart from the correct Japanese, and the reference to Advent Children in the forward (Reno? Ahahahahahaha. If Reno and Axel had spawned a...) and the actual use of lolita fashion in such a way. And by gracious, it actually managed to be quite risqué in places... more so than I am used to seeing in your average romance... and believe me, I've read a few. So beside my clear amusement, it worked as a novel quite spiffily. I enjoyed it very much in the two hours I spent determinedly devouring it. I actually believe I enjoyed it more than "Ice Blue" though now I'm going to have to go back and read that one again to see if my memory of it is slightly lacking.

Ah, books. :)