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ISBN: 9781426890529
Publisher: Carina Press
Release date: Aug 30, 2010
Source: requested from NetGalley to read and review

Grant and Vivi Michaelson share everything in their marriage: love, commitment-and their wildest sexual desires. But their relationship is tested when Vivi admits she wants a threesome with Grant’s old friend Cade, proposing their annual trip to the lake as the perfect opportunity to fulfill her fantasy.

All three of them are aroused by the idea. Vivi and Cade have long felt a smoldering attraction to each other…and Grant and Cade have hidden an illicit desire for decades. Going through with the ménage will test their boundaries, reveal old secrets…and maybe tear them apart. After all, there might be room for Cade in bed, but is there room for a third in their marriage?

Coming Clean by Inez Kelley is another book that I picked up from NetGalley mainly because it looked pretty interesting. I was again pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this story! It is a short story – about 90ish pages of erotica. Coming Clean tells the story of Vivi and Grant Michaelson and their best friend Cade. Vivi and Grant have been married for a number of years and have a strong, fantasy filled sex life. Grant and Cade have been friends for many years and had one sexual encounter many years before. Vivi and Grant want to bring Cade into their relationship. Not just as a third person, but part of a triad.

I loved the way the author interweaves the relationship that these three people have. It’s almost as if Vivi has always had two husbands. Although she’s married to Grant, she goes dancing with Cade because Grant doesn’t like to dance. The sensitivity with which the author moves Grant and Cade through their conversation about bringing Cade into the relationship was incredible, as was the description of Grant and Cade’s first encounter. Although I approached this book with a bit of trepidation, I was entranced by the completeness of this group of three people. Society is conditioned to think in twos, yet this story smoothly counters that assumption with a well written story about a relationship of three equal people! I will read more by this author. Pick up this quick read today!

This review was originally posted on Sugarbeat’s Books

ISBN: 9781426890703
Publisher: Carina Press

Mandy is content with her job as a librarian, her longtime boyfriend, Martin, and the lovely home they share. So what if their sex life is vanilla? She’s not the wild type anyway.

But when she wakes up one morning-unsatisfied-from an erotic dream starring her favorite movie star, Mandy starts to crave sexual adventure in real life. Too bad Martin won’t oblige, because it’s not Tuesday or Friday. Then Mandy finds out what Martin’s been doing the other days of the week-or rather, who. And suddenly she needs to prove to herself that she’s not boring in bed.

Fortunately, there is no shortage of smoking-hot men willing to help her on her sensual quest: a nameless library patron who could be Brad Pitt’s twin, a coworker she suddenly sees in a different light, and the neighbor who usually rubs her the wrong way wants to show her he can rub her the oh-so-right way, too! Lucky for Mandy, her lovers are more than willing to share…

Overdue for Pleasure by Shelley Aikens is a book that I received for review from NetGalley.

As you can read from the blurb, Mandy, the main character of this book wakes up one morning and her whole life changes. She goes to work at the library, only to be tempted by a stranger. This encounter leaves her so unsettled that she decides to head off on a buying trip, only to have a fantasy encounter with another stranger on the bus. At this point, she is so unsettled that she decides to abandon her day and head home, only to find her long time boyfriend, Martin, at home, obviously having recently had sex with someone. In a fit of anger, she throws Martin and all his possessions out of the home they were sharing. What a horrible day!

This book is written from the point of view of Mandy and written almost as a dreamy fantasy. It seems that Mandy feels out of control of her life and she is drifting from one fantasy encounter to another. She goes from being a person who has her life all set for her at the beginning of the book, through a period of uncertainty and exploration, to finally a more settled state at the end of the book. This book is quite graphic; it is billed as Erotica. As such, there is alot of sex in the book, but there is also a good story line. The life of Mandy over the short period that the book covers is well conveyed. Her character goes through alot of change. Although some of the characters are a bit inconsistent, the character of Mandy is well fleshed out.

The pace of the book is good and this book can serve as some nice light, spicy reading for a few hours. Not for the faint of heart!

This review was originally posted on Sugarbeat’s Books

Older Women with Younger Men
Would You?

I’ve been asked a lot lately about why I chose to make the heroine of my newest book an older woman.  And even more shocking, she’s an older woman in love with sexy, twin brothers!  How scandalous!
But is it really that shocking?  I like to think not, but I’m especially prejudice since I’m married to a younger man.  Unconsciously, honestly, I seemed to have based my heroine in “Table for Three” on myself.  I spent twenty years in an unhappy marriage, although not physically abusive like Cass, until I finally had the courage to go out on my own.  I’d barely signed my signature to an apartment lease when I met my future husband online in a chat room
Did I consciously go looking for someone much younger?  Absolutely not!  To be truthful, I had resigned myself to a life alone before I broke the ties of my first marriage.  After that many years I think you’re conditioned to think that the chance for love has passed you by, and I was no different.  I was determined to be content just living alone and having close friends.

Then I met Nigel and he literally swept me off my feet.  That man made me realize that I’d never had true love, or known what romance was all about.  He didn’t care that I was older, and when I was with him, I didn’t care either.
What draws women to younger men?  I wish I had a firm answer for that question, but I’m sorry to say I don’t.  I was drawn to the idea that this sexy, younger man wanted me and only me.  He literally bombarded me with romance that included flowers, letters, emails, and romantic weekends together in different cities.  I dare any woman not to surrender to that kind of intense pursuit.
I asked my man why he thought so many men were attracted to older women.  He told me that it was mainly because men develop sexually earlier than women, and most men wanted a woman who had an equal sex drive.  Okay, so he’s not always romantic, sometimes he just a man!  I think, for me, it was the lure of almost living my life over in the eyes of someone who really loved me.  Everything with him has been like a new experience and it’s something I would never give up.  Of course, if I’m honest, he’s right.  The sex is a major plus in finding yourself a younger man!
As for making the men of my book sexy, younger twins, I have to admit that’s a fantasy of mine.  I think every woman, at one time or another, has a secret desire to know what it would be like to have two men make love to her.  I took it one step further, and made the men identical twins.  Can you imagine two sexy men, identical in looks, surrounding you with their heat?  The same body build, the same feel to their hands and mouth, the same scents, and a lot of the time the same thoughts and ideas.  You wouldn’t know where one began and the other ended.  It’s a nice fantasy, but I’m not sure anybody is ready for that in real life.
Thanks for listening to my ideas on older women and younger men.  Pick up a copy of my book “Table for Three” and see what you think of their love.  You can find details at my website:  www.missymartine.com.

By Missy Martine