Review: I never thought I'd get bored with steamy sex scenes until this book came along
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 20, 2013
This might be the book for you if-- you love a lot of dialogue between characters about food or banal topics that have NOTHING to do with the actual plot-- you love to read A LOT of sex scenes, over and over again with the same dialogue over and over again ("Oh God, " "Nico!" "Zavier!" Oh God I'm coming!"  After that kind of thing is written once, it really should be incumbent upon an author to mix it up.  At some point I just started flipping across the pages to the point where the plot would move along kind of)-- you like a long, slow read, with very little drama-- you hate HEAs/love cliffhangers that aren't exactly cliffhangersOkay, I know that seems kind of harsh, but there were very few reviews of this book when I purchased it and it's pretty clear that I  read a completely different book than the 3 other reviewers.  I gave this 3 stars because I give the author a lot of credit for writing some steamy scenes and getting this published.Essentially, this book is about a successful artistic photographer who meets a CEO of a tech company and who enter into a sexual relationship.  At some point (as with most relationships) they then need to determine if there's more than just the sex.  And we read about every single sexual encounter they ever have.  There's lots of shower sex, vanilla sex, outdoor sex, a couple of different types of positions, fantasy role play, vacation sex, descriptions of every kind of food and wine they ever consume.  And then there's more sex.  I mean these people can't keep their hands off of each other, which should be hot, but by the 15 or 20th description, I was wondering where this was going and I was only 50-60% into the book.  When this couple is together and there's dialogue (after the sex is described), they don't talk about anything meaningful.  I mean, if I can see as the reader their relationship is going nowhere, why couldn't this chick??  I mean it took her until the end of the book to figure it out and that was about 300 pages too long.There's no real drama here, just a lot of boring dialogue about what she made for lunch and how she worked on yet another photo and then went shopping and then tried on her clothes.  good lord.  She's supposed to be old enough to know better, but the dialogue put her into teenager-dom.These folks are described in a shallow manner; their dialogue is simple, and I'm not quite sure what they had in common with the exception of the "electricity" between them and an appreciation of art and eating.  When even the sex scenes get boring you know there's a problem.  I really thought that this would have potential... but it needed an editor (not just for typos, and there are a few) for weeding out the crap and working on building a little more drama into the plot and for developing more into the characters.There's apparently a second book coming next year.  I'm not so sure I'd buy it.  The cliffhanger, if you need to call it that, wasn't very dramatic... I'm glad she figured herself out with Zavier, but the only question remaining for me is if she finds another guy or if Zav can figure himself out.  But unless the next book is his point of view, I kinda don't care what happens next for her.