Review: A tiny choice that changes everything ...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 16, 2013
Is karma real?  Do we reap what we sow?  Do we get what we deserve?Often, it doesn't seem like it.  Marcy is a single mother whose only sin was working to support her husband through professional school and bear his child only to then be turned out to fend for herself, when he capitalizes on the education she paid for and then finds himself a younger, shapelier, better-connected trophy wife.Marcy and their daughter have been thrown to the wolves, when she sees an opportunity literally fall at her feet to help herself to a little good luck at someone else's expense.  It's a fateful fork in the road that will reflect her inner strength or her human weakness and possibly change the remainder of her life, as karma watches her decision and then seizes her destiny and that of her little seven-year-old daughter Katie, for good or ill.Marcy is barely holding their lives together, earning just enough as a bartender in a Las Vegas casino to afford to share a small apartment with two other casino employees in similar straits, when a series of circumstances conspire to make her hard life ever harder.  One of her roommates moves out.  Her crappy little car dies.  Katie breaks her arm.  Marcy's reduced to working extra shifts at the casino job she hates just to make ends meet instead of spending that precious time with her little girl.It's not fate, but her own actions which bring her to the attention of André Chevalier, a character who has appeared in several other of Nikki's stories. If you have met André before, you will know that he is charming, completely irresistible, and completely dominating.Again, Marcy has to choose.  The comfortably familiar life where she has complete control and where she has long since decided to swear off men forever, or an anxious new path with obstacles, opportunities, and perils of its own?  She works at a casino, but does she have the right to gamble with her life and that of her little daughter based on nothing more than a tiny choice she has made?Marcy's life is about to be filled with liquor, big money, fast cars, hidden cameras, revenge, sexual deviance, domination, submission, voyeurism, pool boys, cowboys, big boys, betrayal, and challenges to her most deeply-held beliefs.  This is a story which from the first moments arches Marcy's life into the unknown and unfamiliar, and eventually completes the circle of fate, like the mythical snake eating its tail.I just love Nikki Sex's stories; her characters seem completely real to me, which sets these stories apart from anything else in this genre that I've encountered.  This is (I think) her longest book to date, and (I know!) her best so far!  It's a great story, and not coincidentally, really hot, kinda kinky, and hard to put down.  Nikki has built a karmic machine here, and it's great fun to watch the cosmic gears move and mesh based on Marcy's revealing initial choice.Highly recommended!