About the book,The Raven Room 
• Paperback: 250 pages
• Publisher: Diversion Publishing (November 3, 2015)
A searing erotic thriller perfect for those tantalized by A.R. Torre’s Deanna Madden series…
Anything you can imagine. Everything you crave. For the members of The Raven Room, it’s every fantasy fulfilled. But for some, that desire is a matter of life and death.
Drawn by needs he cannot control, Julian ventures to The Raven Room, a secret and exclusive sex club in the underbelly of Chicago. It goes beyond sex. It goes beyond kink. The Raven Room is the only place where Julian finds release from the dangerous urges that threaten to destroy the successful life he’s worked so hard to build.
When the police link the Raven Room to the death of a young woman, it threatens to expose a number of powerful people—people who would kill to stay anonymous…
Meredith’s body can’t get enough of Julian. He has opened her sexual horizons to tempting new possibilities. But out of bed she’s an aspiring journalist, and The Raven Room is the story she’s been looking for. By writing an exposé on the club and its elite clientele, she plans to launch her career.
As Meredith embarks on a sexual journey into the forbidden world that Julian inhabits, questions emerge, and dark appetites threaten to swallow her whole. How much can she trust the man who has laid bare her erotic nature and how much will she sacrifice in order to protect him?
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About the author, Ana Medeiros 
Born in the Azores islands, Portugal, Ana Medeiros has a background in Photography, Sociology and Psychology. For the last seven years she has worked in the magazine industry. She currently lives in Toronto, Canada, with her boyfriend and two cats. The Raven Room, book one of a trilogy, is Ana’s first novel and is published by Diversion Books.
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My Thoughts 
Good erotica – and, let’s be clear – The Raven Room is absolutely erotica – can be hard to find. Too often the material is misogynistic and revolting. Alternatively, the sex in many attempts at erotica is either too clinical or comically bad (incidentally, this is also why I avoid porn. I’m not a prude; I just can’t abide bad writing/acting.).
Ana Medeiros’s novel, however, is neither of those things, and the women we meet – the actual characters, as opposed to the woman already dead at the start of the story – are strong women who are empowered in general, and completely own their sexuality as well.
Meredith, the character we spend the most time with, is an aspiring journalist who is using her relationship with Julian in an attempt to discover the truth behind the storied, exclusive sex club, the eponymous Raven Room, and the author has balanced her vertical and horizontal lives well. On the job, we see that she’s smart, savvy, and just reckless enough to do whatever it takes to get what she wants.
In bed, she’s daring, open, and completely comfortable with her own needs and wants.
Julian is painted as the possible killer – but it quickly becomes clear that he’s as fragile and broken as any damsel in distress, in his own way. He’s in command in the bedroom, but only because the women in his life Meredith, and later Alana, allow him to be.
As for Alana – we learn as her story unfolds that she is not the person she presents as her public self.
Author Medeiros has done an excellent job of depicting hardcore sex without losing the sensuality of the act. Her characters make no apologies for their needs and desires, and take complete responsibility for their sexual choices. It’s refreshing, actually, to see erotic behavior without a side of guilt. Yes, each character carries his or her own secrets, but those only add to the escalating sense of danger and the depth of each individual.
While the erotic aspects of this novel are prevalent, there is still a mystery – a suspense story – woven through the book, and it is here where my impression of this novel falters. The plot is fine. The story is fine. But this book is being marketed as part one of a trilogy, and instead of giving us a solution to the central mystery, the book ends abruptly on a cliff-hanger, leaving the reader to decide if they’re curious enough to buy the next two novels in the series, just to find out whodunnit.
If you’re reading this book for the sex, this may not matter. After all, the sex scenes are all incredibly well crafted. (At no time did I find myself questioning the physics behind any act.)
However, if you focus on plot, you may be disappointed at the lack of completion.
Goes well with pancakes and coffee, eaten in the wee hours at an all-night diner.
Ana’s Tour Stops 
Monday, November 9th: Bibliotica
Tuesday, November 10th: Why Girls Are Weird
Thursday, November 12th: From the TBR Pile
Monday, November 16th: Ms. Nose in a Book
Monday, November 16th: Patricia’s Wisdom
Wednesday, November 18th: Sara’s Organized Chaos
Thursday, November 19th: The Reading Cove Book Club
Friday, November 20th: Art Books Coffee
Monday, November 23rd: Worth Getting in Bed For
Tuesday, November 24th: M. Denise Costello
Wednesday, November 25th: Books and Bindings
Monday, November 30th: A Chick Who Reads
Monday, November 30th: Seraphim Book Reviews
Tuesday, December 1st: It’s a Mad Mad World
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