• Alex Toda La Noche
• Enviame Un E-Mail (This one is different because it's about William and Maite as themselves)
• Amor Hostil
• El Vizconde Que Me Amo
• Calor En La Noche
• Jugando Al Amor

All of these are related to Cuban telenovela superstar superhunk <<Guapisimo Mangote>> William Levy.  If the heroine is Jacqueline Bracamontes who was his co-star in SORTILEGIO, then that's a "Levymontes" story. Geddit???  If the heroine is Maite Perroni who was his co-star in CUIDADO CON EL ANGEL, then it's a "Levyrroni" story.  Personally, I prefer Bracamontes, whom I call "Placamontes" because she has a truly spectacular set of teeth.  Even though her character in Sorti cried a lot and was a total doormat, I liked her character's development better.  Perroni's character on CCEA was a petulant, stubborn, annoying, self-absorbed bitch.  I could not stand the character, but there I was like an idiot every weeknight at 7 PM.  Levy's characters in both novelas were cut from the same cloth: naive and wishy-washy, a total crybaby.  And not dignified singular drops gracefully caressing down the cheek, I'm talking wet, snotty, puffy-eyed, mostly snotty...Oh My God! I never saw an actor let so much snot loose since Burton Cummings of The Guess Who in an obscure movie from, like, 1980, where he was having an emotional meltdown and snot and spit was flying everywhere...

And he would do it ON DEMAND! Or so it seemed. He was always ready with a tsunami of tears and snot.  "La Placa" was too.  Damn!

 

William Levy y Jacqueline Bracamontes

en los papeles de <<Alejandro Lombardo>> y <<MariaJose Samaniego Miranda>>

 

So...yeah...webnovelas.  They're basically fanfiction in Spanish. The first one I read was "Alex Toda La Noche" (Alex All Night).  Levy's Sorti character Alex Lombardo plays a guy who comes to Tuttle, Ohio to work as a DJ.  Placa's character Mari (pronounced MA-ree -- with a rolled R) is a radio show producer determined to make him a star.  But -- he has a hidden agenda.  It was a little disconcerting mentally to read about a Spanish story taking place in Ohio, but you get used to it.  It was a sweet little story. I really liked it. It had some good dialogue and a lot of humor.  Other characters from Sorti came out in it, too.

After I finished reading that one, I started "El Vizconde Que Me Amo" (The Viscount Who Loved Me). It has a Barbara Cartland veneer to it.  This one's pretty long as it has actual plot development. It's a really good story for being hobby writing.  This one, though, is a "Levyrroni" so I've run a mass find/change -- finding all the Maites and changing them to Jackies.  It's costing me a lot of ink to print it, but reading it online is not worth the potential damage to your eyes.

My ToBeRead list includes the other titles in the bullet list above.  Sure, I could be reading my all-but-forgotten copy of FREEDOM & DEATH, my languishing edition of Aristophanes's "Birds", my festering tome of THE MIRACLE OF CASTEL DI SANGRO...perhaps...even relishing my peripatetic professional publications.  But when you have an itch, you have to scratch it or you can't concentrate on anything else.

WebNovelas are fun. Period.  FanFiction is something I have a little experience with. I've written four, but only posted two.  Actually, if you count the one I wrote in 8th grade about a certain pop star who was on tv and making albums at the time, that makes five. Oooh, Oooh!  I just remembered the one I wrote in 1997!  Oh My God! And there was a WHOPPER of an absolutely horrible one I wrote when I came back from England.  Oh Lord! Then there was that utterly GHASTLY bit I wrote after I saw A Room With A View and The Princess Bride.  Wow! Oh Wow!  I didn't realize I had written so much. It was all coming back to me as I was typing!!!

I'm even working on one now.  er...when I say "working", I mean, I get around to adding to it every few months.  You see, that's the thing about me and fanfiction.  I have to be obsessed with the characters.  Obsessed!  It's the only way for me to do fanfic.  As I'm no longer obsessed with the actor, working on the story is not a priority.

But getting back to the Spanish ones.  I have a huge crush on the actor Levy, and Spanish is my second language anyway, so it's no hardship that webnovelas are in Spanish.  What I have a problem with is Spanish grammar.  The masculine/feminine thing I just take for granted at this point, having spoken it all my life.  Reading Spanish, though, is like scrambling over rocky terrain. It's the fact that Spanish uses so many articles!  And words for basic emotions have like 18 prefixes and suffixes you have to climb over to get to the root. Damn Latin!   Plus, where we say "a little bit" or "a little tiny bit", in Spanish would be poquito, poquitito, poquititisimo, and so on and so on depending on how emotional you're feeling.  Case in point:  William Levy is not just guapo, he's guapisisisisimo!  Geddit?

 

William Levy Forum at Univision Foros

William Levy Official Site

Sortilegio

"Un Amante A La Medida" (Either "A Custom-Built Lover" or "A Lover Made to Measure") @ YouTube

William Levy at IMDB

Check William out at YouTube -- just type "William Levy" into the search box.

 

 

 

 

 

Video from YouTube collection of liayponcho

PMS: Perpetually Mucking about in a Strop

 

Cabal St. Laurents, Bengal breed, is, sadly, one of the most boring breeds. What? There's another?

Yeah, okay. Del-Rey.  But anyhoo, this is the story of Cabal in brief (no slouch there, btw.).

 

 

 

 

pp. 4-5:  snarling, murderous

p.8:  hissing

p.16   irritated

p.24  growling (and not in a good way)

p.25   displeased

p.42   snarling

p.46   threatening

p. 47   angry

p. 55  wants to snarl

p.64   fury

p.67   angry and horny

p. 70   frustrated, mad, horny

p.92   conflicted

p. 95   pissy, snapping at Jonas

p. 100  possessive and growling

p. 109   mocking

p. 117   horny and not happy about it

p. 122   suspicious, demanding

At this point, I'm tired of this book; I'm tired of Cabal's shitty attitude.  Not once has he been relaxed or happy or enjoying his mate. There hasn't been any ROMANCE at all.  It's all been duress, duress, duress.  GAH!

p. 141   bossy, predatory, still being an asshole with Cassa

p. 150   latent violence

p. 156  tormented.  He doesn't even act like he likes Cassa. All he does is make her mad and defensive.  This is so 1970s Harlequin Presents.

p. 161   using mating heat to control her

p. 167   fear of losing his mate; tense

p. 173   AT LAST, A CHUCKLE! but it's for Jonas, not his woman.  He even made a joke about caffeine.

Wow, Cabal's emotions run the entire gamut from A to B!

p. 180-183   angry.  Quelle shoque! Quelle surprise!

By the 190s, he's finally calming the f*ck down and having actual conversations with Cassa. He even cracks another joke. Cassa's even thrown by it.

p. 200   HALLE-FREAKIN'-LUJAH!! They are finally relaxing with each other and having fun -- albeit breed/mating heat style fun. But at least it's fun and not strop-sex. (that's my expression, btw. I made it up.)  But look at the page number!!!  Jeez!

p. 205   affectionate and post-coitus lassitude. Now it sounds like a romance.

p. 222   all business, but at least he's not angry or "tormented"

Whew...I'm a little bit beyond that, but it's been slow going.  The first 200 pages were frustrating and even dead boring. The plot has picked up momentum now that all the pieces of the mystery are starting to come together.   The plot isn't even that interesting until you get into the 200s.  The sex scenes (I'm not about to call them "love" scenes.) were spiritless.  After p. 200, Cabal and Cassa start acting more like feisty lovers instead of enemies, which is kind of nice. There's not much more left once you reach the 200s.  But, I have high hopes for the last couple of the chapters of the story. 

I'd like to see an end to this saga soon.  Or at least, see it morph into something else.