Review: Great Conclusion to Very Sexy Series
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 31, 2013
Well!!  Isn't this an angsty ride on the wild side?  This is the third and final part of the The Winemaker's Dinner series and this time Dr Ivan is flying solo - no co-writer and I definitely enjoyed this one the most of all three books.  It's much darker with a lot of emotional pain and sadness and I really do enjoy my book characters to suffer!!We left Ivan on bended knee after having his marriage proposal turned down by Jaden in front of several hundred of their closest friends, humiliated and heartbroken.  We now rejoin them six months down the line.  Jaden is in LA working on her TV show and Ivan has remained in Miami making a big success of his Sexual Health practice.  They're in both in sad, lonely places nursing broken hearts, neither one of them able to move forward meaningfully, both holding onto the pain of their breakup.Ivan is a broken man.  Jaden has ripped the foundations of his trust and belief right out from under him and he's left, dazed, standing in the rubble wondering how it all happened.  He's retreated, buried himself in his work and is licking his wounds.  He's began to lose himself in an endless stream of meaningless sexual encounters as his drug of choice, each one more deviant and risky than the last.  There's a very wicked part of me that really enjoyed this part of the book.  Yes, I absolutely felt his pain but the sex??  Oh my God, it was so freaking hot!!  There's a little devil standing on his shoulder with a voracious sexual appetite constantly urging him on.  Ivan refers to him as the freak -  I really rather liked him.  He reminded of Rhage's Beast from the BDB!Anyway, I digress!!  Jaden is just as miserable.  She's made a huge success of her TV show in LA but she's found that it's just an empty, hollow shell without Ivan's love in her life.  His departure from her world has left a gaping void in her life that nothing is able to fill.  They' were like two hearts beating as one and now ripped apart, both are slowly dying.  They've both lost their zest for life and their glorious technicoloured lovedup world  has dimmed to nothing more than a faded black and white movie.Jaden has returned to Miami for a two month hiatus from Tinsel Town  and they're both acutely aware of each other's presence but are studiously avoiding one another - fear overriding sense.  Eventually they do come together to talk in a beautifully atmospheric scene at the beach overlooking the ocean to finally clear the air and get some closure."Don't cry because it's over..."He brought his lips to hers ever so softly, and they shared their final taste -- the end of a voyage that had taken them from the beaches of Miami to the backwoods of Pennsylvania to the mountains of Colorado.As their last kiss broke, she finished his sentence. "Smile because it happened."Oh, my God!  Nooooo!!  It can't be over - these two are destined for one another.  I don't want closure - I want a happy ending!!  My heart hurts!Jaden, Your star no longer shines in my sky.Love for you still flows through my veins, but it no longer reaches my heart. I wish you the world. ~ IvanOf course, it's not over but it sure isn't going to be easy as we follow these two on an emotional and very painful journey - they know they're meant to be together,  we know they're meant to be together but neither one of them is really listening to the other and Ivan can't forgive Jaden's betrayal and they're both lost in their despair and loneliness.  Rest assured, a happy resolution is ahead of us and I confess I got a little misty eyed towards the end.This was a great conclusion to an engrossing story.  I feel that each book got better as the series progressed and I sincerely hope that the good Doc isn't hanging up his pen after this and is going to carry on writing.  I think he emphatically answered the question whether or not men can write good erotica - Hell Yeah!!  What he doesn't know about the female orgasm really isn't worth knowing and can you just imagine how good it must be to have a Sexpert for a lover?  Also, it's good to hear more about the male orgasm from a man's perspective - I really enjoyed this descriptions of how this feels.  D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S!4 very sexy stars