Review: I Guess I'm the Odd Reviewer. This Book was Okay. ***A Few Spoilers Included to Explain Review. Read at Your Own Risk.***
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 13, 2014
First off, this is my all time favorite author. However, this book just didn't do it for me. I didn't feel the love connection. Great sex scenes!Here are my reasons.Sydney, Mia, and Dakota visit their friend's resort on St. Mirabella Island. Joelle, is the fourth friend and part resort owner. It's an exotic location and a means for Sydney to get away on a much needed vacation and a chance to visit her friends. The book centers around Sydney. Sydney, who is sexually open and has a long past with men that were not great for her. Sydney also has issues with her family.Sydney is having a bad day when she arrives to the island, but in comes sexy Tristan. They meet and the chemistry is instant. So instant that within an hour of meeting they become intimate. At this point I'm fine, because it's a novella. It has to start somewhere and it's an exotic novella. Note: this scene was hot!Tristan has a complicated past. He has a deep seeded hatred of Sylvain, who shares those same views toward Tristan. Meanwhile Sydney and Tristan can't stay away from each other. They're going at it whenever and wherever they can. When Sydney mentions going to a party given by Sylvain, Tristan has issues with it. Sydney attends the party with her girls and scenes at the party involves a lot of sex and BDSM.Sylvain and Dakota connect. Sylvain is dark and appears to honestly like Dakota.Some really freaky things happen at this party. This is only a few days into the relationship for Tristan and Sydney.After the party truths are revealed about Tristan and Sylvain, and it's nothing freaky between them, so breath. It's an interesting twist.Meanwhile Tristan and Sydney can't live without each other and must decide after a week if they want forever or if she will go back to her job in the states.This book has drama and it touches upon the subject of interracial dating issues for black men and women.Pros:Well written, of course.Hot sex scenes---those that were my cup of tea.Tristan is sexy.Addressed issues with race.Tale within the tale. Interesting.Cons:I just didn't feel the love connection. A week is way too soon.For ME, I'm not into BDSM.Not sure how I feel about another IR book having horrible black men in it. It appears this is the norm for IR. Once again this is my pet peeve, I sometimes wish there were good black men in IR books that aren't dating the heroine or gay. And end of rant!Voyeur sex isn't my cup of tea.Why would Sydney think of having sex with Tristan and Sylvain at the same time when she knew that Dakota wanted Sylvain. That wasn't cool to me. At some point when a man is your friends your mind shuts that down. Maybe that's just me. It added nothing to the book.There is a part two. Not a real cliffhanger but enough of one to wonder where the next book is going with these two and the rest of the girls.