Review: Suddenly Craving Greek
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 30, 2013
Scorned is hands down for me THE breakout book of the Torn series.  If you haven't read the three previous books - Scornfully Yours, Frayed and Blasphemous -- I HIGHLY recommend you do so.  The Torn series is an intricate web of characters, plots and sub-plots that begins in book one and proceeds with twists and turns in the subsequent books.  Each book focuses on its own character and romance.  However, because the characters are all inter-related, you can't tell the players without a program, so you really have to start from the beginning.  The earlier books were pleasant reads.  However, Scorned took a trajectory that gripped me from chapter one.  So much so, that it became a one-sitting read.  The only breaks I took were to "cool down."  (More about that later!)Lindsey and Dimitris are familiar characters in this series, but Scorned is their story.  And what a story it is!  Lindsey is one confused young woman.  She comes off as fickle, flippant, and somewhat callous, but Lindsay -- the real Lindsey -- isn't any of those things.  She's built a wall to protect herself from pains no one should have ever experienced, and it's going to take something epic to break down the barriers she's constructed.Dimitris is pure, unadulterated, sex on legs!  I mean, just wow!  He gives a whole new meaning to the word lascivious, and it's ALL about Lindsey.  If there's 101 ways to seduce a woman into loving you, Dimitris wrote that book, and Scorned has whole excerpts from it!  The scorching (no, blistering) hot love scenes between Dimitris and Lindsey had me taking breaks for ice!  Anyone have a sudden craving for Greek?  ...and I'm not talking falafels here, ladies!  Unfortunately, Lindsey's barriers are solid, and run so deep that even the formidable Dimitris is having trouble breaking them down.Unlike prior books in this series where development of other characters played a substantial role, Scorned is wholly the story of Lindsey and Dimitris.  The other characters are there, but merely in a supporting role.  Through Lindsey's struggle, Author Pamela Ann tackles an extremely delicate topic with both care and sensitivity.  She shows us that some experiences have long-lasting, indelible effects that may do irreversible harm.  What remains to be seen, now, is if Dimitris' love is epic enough to overcome Lindsey's obstacles.