Well sweeties, your lovely Mistress of Succubi is hard at work writing her original fiction. I know you’re all tired of reading my lack luster anime reviews that are a whole season or two behind at this point. Though you know, I did say I would do the currently airing stuff, but that was at the time. So now I’m just doing whatever I’m watching and writing about them at my own pace.

However, the biggest thing I said that I would do and haven’t delivered for a long time, is my fiction. I think it’s about time I give you all what you really want. Something original to come here and read and spread the word about how wonderful and steamy it is. Though, I have a small proposition for all of you who choose to read my fiction.

Please, please, please comment or contact me through my email succubusvalley at gmail dot com and tell me how I’m doing and what you would like to see implemented in my stories. I would like to talk with all of you. Don’t be shy with me. I don’t bite… much.

If I do not get any comments or emails whatsoever, then I will have no choice but to assume that no one reads my work. However, the thought of writing my work for myself will be the key motivation for me to keep going even though no one would read my stories.

So the second episode picks up where the first leaves off with the test to the right to be the master chef of the restaurant. Mao makes the dish with five of the six flavors and thinks hard on what the sixth flavor is, and then remembers the past where his mother made them the same dish with another flavor. He digs deep to remember what this flavor is, and after much thought, he figures out the riddle and makes the successful dish. Both sides know the sixth flavor is texture. Mao’s secret, though, is soy beans. Which is usually labeled the meat among plants. So he cooked it in such a way that it tastes like meat.

In the end, Mao’s imagination with the recollection of his memories won out the exam, and he won the right to be the master chef of his mother’s restaurant. However, there is one more task for him to do before he can take the place as Master Chef. General Lee wishes him to continue training in another city where there is a vast exam to become the Super Chef. He wants Mao to become a Super Chef.

This series has a lot of over the top symbolism, but it doesn’t really bother me. It’s more amusing than it is tedious. However, I found out from a friend of mine, something about this series that disappointed me. However, I won’t get into what I discovered until I finish reviewing this series. So stay tuned and watch as Mao becomes a great chef just like his mother!~

As always, I love you~
xxoxoxoxxx

I just finished reading this book last night. I practically read it the whole day and finished it after midnight. When I first started this book, I underestimated Jonathan Kellerman and the book, because I wasn’t used to seeing plain dialogue the way it was written in the book. Sometimes when there was more than two people in the scene, I lost track of who was saying what.

However, for me the book started out kind of slow. The first chapter starts in the present, where Alex receives a call out of the blue from someone involved in a case eight years ago, that he had put behind him. From the second chapter onwards til about a quarter of the way through the book (I forget which specific chapter it ends), there is a flash to the past, showing the case that Alex was involved in. The majority of the book is back in the present, and there was a really interesting red herring that Jonathan brought about.

What was interesting with the book, is that a lot of the exposition of the reason why who did what was a lot of conjecture and speculation; however, I think what the author wants you to do is to actually use the speculation that makes the most sense. I’ve read a few reviews where some people said we don’t find out why the culprit killed such and such, but we actually do if you pay attention to what’s being discussed. The very last conjecture is what makes the most sense and just clicks as the reason the culprit did such things.

I liked the fact that the culprit was right underneath their noses and they never suspected him until about three fourths of the way through the book. The red herring lasts quite a while until they come up with a new revelation. This book is by no means meant for children to read. It has some fair use of language in it, but it’s mostly because of the topic in the book. The main kink that the culprit is into.

There’s a lot of affairs and sleeping around going on, and even though this is the 19th book in the series, it makes me want to read the series from the beginning so I can see the life of Alex Delaware develop and see how many actual years pass from the beginning to now.

I was lucky to find this book in the donation stack. I really enjoyed it, but I wish there was actual confirmation to the motives instead of conjecture. I hear this wasn’t his best work, but I’ll have to see for myself by reading the rest of the series and catch myself up.

So all in all, I recommend this if you’re a mystery fan and like psychological thriller stuff, but if you have a weak stomach, you probably won’t like the book, mostly because of the culprit’s thrill.

On the book site that I use, called Goodreads; I gave this a four out of five stars.