Lainey Reese

I cannot stress how bad the writing is in this book. It is straightforward porn, not romance at all, which is fine, but terrible writing is a boner-killer if ever there was one. The storyline is the women's creative equivalent of the pizza guy showing up and finding two 18 year-olds in desperate need of a penis. Here our heroine shows up in NYC, asks the cab driver to take her to a club, and finds that she has been taken to a sex club. The owners take a fancy to our blushing newbie and the show more rest is history. Also, I am begging people who have never been to New York or who once spent a weekend here waiting in line at the Olive Garden and the M&M Store and seeing the Lion King Live not to write about New York. Please! There are so many cities to choose from where entertainment is so thin on the ground that storefront clubs for three-ways might be the only clubs in town. The New York parts are painful to read. They are worse than the "romantic" parts, and that is saying a lot. show less

Lately, it seems, I am having zero tolerance when it comes to m/f books. There was a time when I felt really guilty for not finishing a book, I dare say I have overcome that habit, as there are simply too many interesting books out there, and too little reading time.

I was in the mood for some m/f pairing, a nice macho and protective alpha hero and hot sex scenes. Well, I did get some of that, but also an approach to BDSM that felt like a, sorry to say, bad carbon copy of Cherise Sinclair's show more books... needless to say this lady knows how to write in that genre.

I read about forty percent of the story, but I should have discontinud after the second chapter, after reading an interlude between the woman and her two men who featured in the first installment of the series. Now, I know I might betimes be a little narrow-minded when it comes to BDSM, though I do like to broaden my horizon. But erotic asphyxiation is just something I don't particularly find, well, erotic. It doesn't even rate very high on my kinkometer, but the thought of playing around with something so vital to my life AND knowing the serious damage it can cause, takes out everything sensual and sexy of this particular practice. There might be something sexy about a dom learning how to whip or cane properly without breaking skin, there's nothing erotic in a top learning how to erotically (and not permanently damage) a willing participant. Shudder. DNF [As an aside it needs to be mentioned that the erotic asphyxiation scene shown in this book, at least as far as I’ve read, is quite tame, but just the imagination of more to come grossed me out.] show less

I noticed the blurb in the edition I have marked as read on GR doesn't mention that one of the heroines was raped as a warning in the bottom so I feel like I should mention that because the blurb I read inside the book mentioned that. It's not graphic, but the heroine is not 100% the person she was before and goes in a bad place when something that reminds her of what she went through happens.

The book is strictly F/M/F so no F/F action is happening. I love menage books and that's why I show more wanted to read this one. And I wasn't disappointed. I loved Evan and his two subs. Their scenes were very hot and they might actually be the hottest I have read in a while. I liked the friendship Cami and Z had. They supported each other and they were really close which helped me get into the story and like them.

Just around the time I was started to wonder if the rape issue was going to be discussed at all, a little accident happened and the characters had the chance to open up about how they felt about it.

The readers who have read the previous books will be happy to know that the couples that have appeared in the previous books make a brief appearance in this story. I liked the book even if it didn't blow up my mind. It was a nice story with characters the reader can relate to. show less

Reviewed by: Marissa
Book provided by: Publicist
Review originally posted at Romancing the Book

This book is pretty much sex, from cover to cover. I read it over about four days and sometimes it was hard to put my reader down because I knew there would be another hot sex scene coming up. I love multiple partner sex scenes and this book is mostly threesomes (with a fourth voyeur thrown in for good measure).

The characters were a little weak, though. The main character, Riley, is somewhere between show more innocent virgin and hot tamale and I had a hard time relating to the goody two shoes side of her. All she wants to do with her life is to help other people through volunteer work – but get paid for it – and rather than wanting to see typical New York City tourist sights on her first night in town, she wants to go to the hottest nightclub. Her first night in town she has public sex with a man she doesn’t know, yet she’s had only two boyfriends. I just wish she were a little more “solid”, less wishy-washy.

The men, Cade and Trevor, are handsome, wealthy and kind. No flaws. Of any kind. It would have been nice to see a scar or a commitment issue or even a fear of spiders. I think the problem I had with them was that they were fantasy men – the kind we women put into our daydreams and think we want but when it comes to real life, realize we don’t really want all that fawning and attention. We just want good sex and to have the garbage taken out.

Luckily this book has plenty of that. The good sex, that is. I swear, almost every chapter will leave you wet and wanting. While the characters may not be my ideal, the sex is sizzling and exhilarating. I’ve already put a couple of ideas to my guy and I’m sure you’ll find one or two of your own as well. show less