eBook, 308 pages
Published June 18th 2012 by Loose Id
ISBN 13: 9781611188431
Source: Author, for the purpose of an honest review
Genre: Erotic Romance
Stars: 4
Flames: 4
If you are looking for a Knight on a White Horse to save the
damsel in distress…you are looking in the wrong neighborhood, however, there is
a lot of saving going on in this book.
Amber Lin’s first foray into the erotic world is a definite good first
effort and I look forward to reading more of her work. I would like to see her expand on some of the
characters of this book to fill out the rest of the world she has opened up for
us. There is definitely more to the
story of Colin, Philip and Rose and it’s a story I think I’d love.
There are many things I liked about this book and several
things I didn’t, but the good definitely outweighed the bad. First thing is that Allie is a rape victim
and yes, that brings about bad mojo for a person, but not every rape victim
basically becomes a slut looking for every man to debase her – Allie does. This is how she meets Colin and he rocks her
world by giving her what she NEEDS not what she WANTS. Then when the rapist returns and threatens
Allie she runs to Colin for protection.
OK, you can have your rapist’s child, stand on your own two feet and
provide a decent life given your circumstances, but you just run and move in
with a man that you slept with one time and let him take over your life for
protection? Give me a break. These are the type of women that in real life
would annoy me. With that said, Allie
does eventually stand up for herself and starts to be the type of women I
wanted her to be – self-sufficient and independent and able to defend what is
hers. She was that way from the start,
so to make her be whiney and fearful didn’t fly too well for me.
Colin was dark and gritty from the start. He’s real. Not some buffed up invincible body
builder, but a real, good-looking, hard-working, rough hands and all man –
thank goodness they really do exist in the literary world. Anyway, Colin picks Allie up in a bar and
gives her what she needs and is opened up to the possibilities. Regardless of her past or present situation,
he creates a safe home for her and her child – almost the perfect little
family. He isn’t very talkative and
doesn’t share a lot of himself. He stays
true to himself from start to finish – a man that pulled himself up from his
bootstraps in hell as a child to a successful business man with a dark side
that if you hear his name you shake in your shoes…I liked him immediately. He isn’t very trusting, and with good reason,
but he listens to his gut and decides for himself – he doesn’t have to be convinced. He wants that happily ever after, but his
past has taught him that it’s not for him, but he knows that if you change your
circumstances you can get what you want…and he does.
There are many twists and turns…sex in an alley, an evening
at the ballet, the brother living with a hooker, a dirty cop and an arms deal
gone wrong which all made this book hard to put down. It’s not for the squeamish to say the
least. It isn’t your typical erotic
romance and if you don’t like the dark stuff, the happily ever after may leave
you empty but the writing and the story line were both excellent. I’ll be honest, it could have used more
smut…it had good smut…but I wanted more smut.
The descriptions of Colin having both the vanilla sex and the hardcore
sex…I wanted more of it…most eroticas they can’t have a life because they can’t
get their clothes on…not so in this book.
So, if you aren’t a sex every page girl – you’ll definitely appreciate
the story and if you are a girl that likes sex every page, you’ll still enjoy
the path of Colin and Allie. The ending
was believable and definitely makes me want the story to continue and I hope
Amber Lin keeps going in this direction.
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