The Anatomy of Jane-- Amelia LeFay

This steamy novel is not for the closed-minded or the younger crowd. Definitely earns an NC-17 or even an X rating. Whoooeeeee! The moments in this books were up there in scorch level. Wes, Max and Jane have such a great chemistry together and apart you can literally feel it through the book--like into yourself not through the story-line but you see it that way too.

There is more than just sex, which is huge. I feel quite a few books nowadays try and go "50 Shades" but get lost on plot. "The Anatomy of Jane" weaves a tangled web of love, lies and hope. They love each other, they lie to/for each other and they hope for the best for each other. Each character goes through a journey, trying to find out who they are and what's important to them. Of course, they do that while having a tantalizing ménage à trois.

I will fully admit that there is the cliche of extremely rich, attractive men save a poor, young attractive girl. But in this cliches the two men are totally gay for each other. It's fantastic. I fully admit to enjoy an occasional gay-smut. This book was different from those in the sense that we were the interlopers in their relationship. As the reader (and Jane), we are awkwardly getting turned on as we stumble across their steamy love fest. Ms. LeFay does a their relationship justice. They aren't something new. They have been together for four years. They know the ins and outs of each other and then adding someone new to the mix unbalances somethings. She made it seem so realistic as to how this might actually occur in life.

Please read it, so you too can share in my despair of having to wait for book two. The last three pages, boy did they destroy me or what?! I seriously hate books that end this way, but it's so good. I will just have to re-read it.

The Eden Series--Georgia Le Carre

Each of the books was sitting just under two hundred pages so I didn’t count each one towards my Goodreads challenge. So I am reviewing the series.  It’s about 550 pages, if that. The formatting was a bit funky and the writing was super basic. I mean it took me maybe three hours to read all three books, and for the first hour and a half Captain America was on in the background. Chris Evans is quite a distraction.

That is how I would describe this series, I think. It didn’t grab my attention. Usually when I read not even Chris Evans can distract me from a good story but I was drawn into a movie I have seen countless times to not read this book.

Honestly there are two reasons that I kept reading. I read the description for Eden 3 and it was quite a captivating little blurb. I felt compelled to know what happened in that book. My second reason was that all three of the books were on kindle unlimited and I could read them for “free”.

Now onto the actual story line: in the first chapter you have the instant attraction, the lust at first sight kind of thing.  You have this sexy gangster who owns the strip club that our heroine is dancing at.  Well they fancy each other in the most carnal of ways. They give into their desires and a world wind romance ensues. Sound familiar because it sounds like most of the stripper-y books I have read. BUT WAIT! There’s more.  Of course I can’t tell you the more because that would be big ole giant 

However I can tell you that it is a nice little turn of events that takes this mostly cliché, slightly bland book up a notch.

When I say bland I mean that the characters weren’t all that intriguing to me, they fell a bit flat. I did not mean that the sex scenes were bland.  A bit overdone, like seriously how much sex can one couple have?  It wasn’t like just sex, I mean if they were ever alone with each other they were fucking, hardcore, rough and dirty.  I liked it.

Overall not great, but the plot twist in Eden 2 was definitely enough to keep me engaged.  Eden 3 was by far my favorite. I think that was where the most character development was.  Also there was more interesting things that happened besides sex.

Jacked--Tina Reber

 

This book sucked me in from the very beginning and had me sitting at the edge of my seat needed to know who Cal was. And that was just the first few pages. Immediately I knew that I was going to like this book. Erin was a rather harsh and emotionally stunted female lead but her desire to care for others was an endearing quality that is lacking in quite a few of the more stoic females these days.

Then we have the hunk of the hour--Adam Trent. Sexy-man cop and sexy-man in general, he busts into Erin's life like a SWAT team in a drug den. (Cop pun intended) Of course he isn't SWAT but he does wear cargo pants and is, in my brain, quite a beef cake. He has he kink (as guessed by the cover art) but I mean which male lead doesn't these days. It’s like "50 shades" is the new vanilla. But I think that his kink had its benefits as opposed to just being for sex. It was to prove and build trust. Something that both the lead characters had a hard time doing.

Shoot their lives had so many fucked up things happen to them I am surprised that they were functioning adults.  The major plot adventure I thought was kind of predictable, I mean I was calling it from about halfway into the book. That being said, I still hung on every word of this book. I mean I started it four hours ago. I could not put it down. I had to when it was bedtime for my kiddo, so switching from this intense book to "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" was quite a shock to my system but worth it.

I will reread this book. I will re the rest of the series and I cannot wait to see how Jason's story plays out. He seems even more twisted than his brother. Can't Wait!!

This review was written at midnight. There may be some errors which I will fix in the morning, or afternoon--depending on when my brain kicks in.

Fear Me--B.B. Reid

I have absolutely no idea how the average rating of this book is so high. This book is basically glorified rape. I know that the disclaimer says dubious consent but I understood that as maybe drunken or drugged sex not the rape that occurred. The main male lead is described as an antihero, and alpha male, when in reality he is in high school, a grade-A asshole, abusive and a rapist--no dubious consent about it. He is a rapist.

The story stars of with Lake’s first encounter of Kieran. They are young, I think around 8.  Someone is stuck up on the monkey bars, no one moves to helps so Lake being the new kid goes to help him.  One quick shove and she is hurt on the ground.  This is when Kieran first starts threatening her and hurting her.  He threatened to kill Lake just like he did her.  For ten years, he is verbally and physically abusive to her for reason she has no idea about except that she reminds him of her.  Her friend informs her that he is back from incarceration. The psychological trauma is so extreme that she hyperventilates to the point that she PASSES OUT!  

Well, now he is back and he threatens to kill her aunt and tells her that she can longer be friends with her best friend of ten years. He controls almost all aspects of her life, including making her quit her job. All of this is done with ulterior motives and sexual ones at that.  As previously stated, he threatens to kill her aunt if she doesn’t become HIS--his to take however, whenever he wants. She fights especially the first few times, Lake even calls Kieran a rapist. Sure she is attracted to him and always has been, but it doesn’t counteract all the crap he pulled.

There is more to the story that is a great big spoiler, but that whole storyline is so not plausible. It’s basically we have two stories one with a bullying rapist and one where someone’s past comes to destroy everything.  Of course the past is also kind of rape-y. This whole book was a cluster of rape and abuse.

This is not okay. This book was not okay. Not only all this but the storyline just is hokey. No! There was just so much wrong with this story. Maybe if it wasn't set in high school? Maybe if there wasn't rape? Maybe if the characters were likable and not annoying? Or maybe not. I'm not sure if this book could have been salvageable to me.

The Starlight Rite--Cherise Sinclair

Description:

“Genre: BDSM Futuristic Science Fiction
Her voice is known throughout the galaxy; her face is completely unknown.
Fleeing her monstrous husband back on puritanical Earth and the police assassins he's hired, singer Mella Archer becomes stranded on the frontier planet of Nexus. Desperate to survive, she picks the wrong target--Dain, the head of planetary security.
Dain is amused by the attempted theft, and when Mella is sentenced to serve time indentured as a bedroom slave, he buys her contract. As he introduces the repressed Earther to the pleasures of sex with a dominating warrior, he slowly comes to realize that the little thief has stolen his heart.
When the monster arrives on Nexus and has lunch with Dain, Mella is panic-stricken. Her owner must be part of the conspiracy to kill her, and it will only be a matter of time before the monster discovers that she’s still alive. She attempts to escape. She fails. Embittered by her lies and mistrust, Dain returns her to Indenture Hall to be sold again.
Now the monster has found her. And she has nowhere left to run...

Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: Anal play/intercourse, BDSM theme and elements (including/not limited to: bondage, caning, spanking), dubious consent.”

I loved this book. I mean the genre says it all “BDSM Futuristic Science Fiction”. Obviously from the genre we can imply that this NOT SUITABLE for those under the age of 18. It definitely is not, nope, not suitable. Cherise Sinclair is probably one of the best BDSM writers out there. I originally found her though her Shadowlands series. Those are addictive and wonderful, but once I was finished with those I looked into her other books.  This one sort of fills all the requirements for a random afternoon/evening read. A hunky Alpha male, a different world with different cultures, a young woman unwilling to conform and sex. Really well rounded in that sense.

Now to the nit-picking.  Mella comes from Earth but is charged of a crime on Nexus where she becomes an unshuline or sex slave. Well in the first moments with Dain, he goes through her body parts and tells her the word in his language.  BUT then we come to find out that sex is almost taboo on Earth and Mella (who was married) hadn’t actually seen or felt any of the goods. So how on earth (heehee) do the translated words mean the “dirty words” (cock, pussy, etc.)?  For a society so sexually repressed they sure do get off on some of the more vulgar words. I mean they could have called it “her precious flower” or something like that but NOOOO.  That is really the only issue I found while reading this book. It was like she wanted to be “dirty” while using the different language but it didn’t fit in with how her worlds were described. Like I said before, it was the nit-picking.

Just a little bit more on the story, I thought that the romance developed in a way that eliminates Stockholm Syndrome, which I feel like a lot of sex slave stories go in that direction. Dain is a very strict law-abiding man and he does right by Mella. Their relationship while starting out sexual expands to more than that. Quite a bit of it due to his dominant personality, he wanted to know her concerns and fears. In doing so they both opened up to each other, reaching a level of trust that neither expected and of course that trust was tested by being pushed to it limits.  The story is beautifully woven for a storyline focused mainly on the sex. There was also more storyline in this book than some of her others. Sex may be a main part but it is not the storyline, whereas some of her books sex is the story line.