Review: Adult fairy-tale. Definitely hot.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 25, 2011
Hot Commodity, by Linda Kage, is one sexy, thoroughly grown-up fairy tale with modern-day equivalents of princes, princesses, wicked witches, poisoned apples, the lot. The "royals" trade in commodities and make fortunes. The "wicked witch" is a scheming mother, and the poisoned apple's depression or alcohol. Fate plays the part of fairy godmother, bringing true lovers together. But now it's up to the young couple's hearts to determine if that's where they want to stay. If the bedroom scenes, played out with delightful imagination and abandon in various parts of hotel, house and street-corner are anything to go by, those hearts and bodies know far more than their still-confused heads. But then, these people have wounds in their past just as deep as any rejected Cinderella's and far more real; everyone knows you have to heal your past before you move on.Linda Kage's characters are vivid and fun, with great dialog and amazing moves, just sufficiently grounded in the real world to be believable, just sufficiently far above us minor mortals to be delightfully fun to read about. From Pasadena, to Vegas, to Chicago and beyond, from abject submission to brave determination, from haunted past to present to promising future, Hot Commodity runs the gamut of US locations and emotions. Secret pains are revealed and secret joys made known. And the reader is left to delight in the happiest of happy everafters. I'd love to see the movie.Disclosure: I won an ecopy of this book and volunteered to write an honest review.