Review: Started great, then fell flat
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 12, 2014
This short novella is a prequel to book 1 of Blakely's series, "The Thrill of it". This book was free on Amazon, and I really liked the cover and sample, but after finishing the book and book 1's excerpt afterwards, I didn't feel too compelled to move on.I give this story 2 stars because I loved the beginning. It started out as an awesome, sweet romance. Harley, the heroine, enters a tattoo parlor to get her first tattoo. It's there she meets the hero, Trey, the mysterious but cute tattoo artist with a scar on his cheek, and the sparks immediately fly. It was refreshing to read about their first-time experiences, and the steamy make-out sessions they do on the NYC train and back at Trey's place.But then that's when it all comes to an abrupt halt. Apparently both of them are sex-addicts. Okay, I can understand Trey being one, because he admits in the story of having tons of women -- more than he could count. But what is unbelievable is that Harley is not only a sex addict, but a VIRGIN sex addict? What kind of sense does that make? At first, I figured, that perhaps she's a virgin sex addict, in that she's addicted to porn or something and simply likes to please herself. But it's mentioned in the story that she puts on some alternate persona named "Layla" to get guys. Sorry, just not believable to me. I was totally turned off with the rest of the story once Harley mentions she's going to a sex rehab group after it was mentioned earlier that she was a 'virgin sex addict.'