Review: Very disappointing!
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 06 21, 2012
My biggest objection to Wicked Desires was that the sex scenes throughout the book were all straight raunchy sex; there was no love involved and it is the love that makes a book qualify as a romance. Frankly, one raw sex scene after another got to be boring and i think the plot was only there in order to hold the sex scenes together.With all his talk of loving his wife, the fact remained that Michael committed adultery over a period of months (and just because he thought his wife was the whore he used for sex doesn't excuse his actions). I also took strong exception to his wife accepting even part of the blame for his actions; the blame for his adultery was 100% his! I am not a prude and I even find many of the sex acts depicted erotic if they are performed lovingly, but I agree with the reviewer that stated the language was coarse and vulgar. I don't think that the crudeness added anything positive to the story and I'm certain that Michael and Clarissa would not use that language at all and definitely not with each other.The most telling attribute of the Regency Period in England was there was a protocol for everything, even the specific way that a lady used her fan to show her interest in a gentleman. (I got that information from Google.) With protocol being so integral to society, this story was totally unbelievable. (Their oldest son would never have been put to work in the stables as a punishment no matter what he had done!)I did not find this book to be a love story and I did not enjoy reading it. I would not recommend it and I will not read any further books in this series.