Review: A No Holds Barred Sexy Romance
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 1, 2013
I haven't read such a hot read in a while.  It really made me sit up.At the core, it's a love story.  Chelsea was maimed in an accident which took her fiance's life.  She was left with a damaged leg and her life was interrupted.  She's now living in New York City and trying to make it in life without the cushion of parental protectiveness.  Xander Lawson was a child from a broken home.  His father was violent and controlling.  He has become something in life, owning an engineering degree and a security company.  But deep inside, he's hurting.It's said that when two people are destined for each other, they recognize each other, even if they don't really realize it at the time.  Xander and Chelsea embark on a sexual relationship.  Neither of them wants anything long term and permanent but they both want the kind of emotional release which they seem to be able to get only with each other.  As they explore the depths of intimacy and sexuality, the unthinkable happens.  They fall in love.Natalie Anderson writes deep, sexy, passionate prose.  She literally takes the reader by the hand and boldly goes where other writers don't.  Short of being in bed with Xander and Chelsea, I couldn't have gotten in any deeper.  Arousing?  Yeah, very much so.Therein lies the problem.  How do you  go back to washing the dishes and cooking dinner having explored the depths of fantasy with Xander and Chelsea?This couple get so intimate that they feel each others' pain.  The healing can begin when they literally go over that edge - going that extra mile with each other on the road to recovery and self discovery.It's a human, sexually vivid story.It's a very precious story.So I would hate for someone to misread it and classify it as a 'dirty book'.For mature readers only.It explored levels of commitment and possessiveness that had me sitting up and taking notice. And it was that closeness, that intimacy, that moved me much more than the sexploration, the sex play and the role playing.  Heck, being a fly on the wall is NOT much fun.It also made me want to grab hold of my significant other.  And get down and dirty.Kudos to Natalie Anderson for her courage in writing a book like this.  Any fault?  Well, I don't fancy sharing my private world with the greater world out there -  I wasn't sure if Chelsea would either.As a certain Irishman used to say, books are neither bad nor good.  Books are well written or badly written, that is all.This was well written.  Very much so.