Review: HFN ending
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 24, 2013
Menage on 34th Street. Sounds like it should be a light, sexy romp, doesn’t it? It’s not. Well, it IS sexy – pretty much steam-off-the-wallpaper sexy. What it isn’t, is light. It takes a long, hard look at what being in a committed ménage, especially one that contains one or more partners in the public eye, means.The story starts with Kat and Liam, who have been married for ten years but have pursued occasional threesomes with other men.  Hunter, the man they were both in love with before he left them, is home on leave from the Marines. They want a permanent third and they want him to be it.Liam lies to get Hunter to come over, only to discover the luscious Kat arrayed in sexy lingerie and all too willing to go to her knees. What he feels for her, and even more what he feels for Liam, scares the hell out of him. Like any good Marine he trots out aggression to deal with the fear – and they welcome him anyway. Cue the steam-off-the-wallpaper sex. [If male/male interaction isn’t for you, avoid this book.]There’s a lot of relationship driven plot so there IS a lot of talking. Bad things from the past come out that test Kat and Liam’s relationship but mostly the problems are due to Hunter’s past and present. The present problem is Hunter is a career marine – to him that’s what he wants and that’s what he is. And the Marines don’t recognize anything like triad arrangements; to them it is simply adultery and could get him anywhere from passed over for promotions to actually dishonorably discharged. Then there’s the problem of him having no control over where he is posted, when he is deployed, and they can’t even be informed if he is injured or killed since they won’t be ‘family’.Essentially this is a ‘happy for now’ book. The future holds many questions that only time will answer… and fortunately the publisher and authors agree. According to the editorial note: “we’ll be releasing [Emily Ryan-Davis’] solo sequel to Ménage on 34th Street in 2014, where we’ll get a chance to experience the highs and lows of really making a triad relationship work—both inside and outside the bedroom.”  I’m looking forward to it!Copy received from Netgalley and publisher for an honest review.