Review: The cougar's tale: entertaining enough erotica.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 21, 2013
3.5 stars if I could.This story had so many elements that immediately appealed to me: older woman/hot, younger man; the hero was a veterinarian (who doesn't love a well-educated man who loves animals?); the heroine wasn't a simpering miss; and the story wasn't shy on the spice. Yet, for all those positives, it failed to make a really great impression.I struggled a bit with the heroine. As another reviewer noted, for a forty-year-old woman who was very in touch with her physical needs, she seemed a bit lacking in emotional intelligence. She was very prepared to stand her ground on all manner of things, but didn't seem to give a whole lot of thought to her actions before making her decisions. At her age, you do expect a bit more maturity.Another thing that bothered me was her extreme confidence in the bedroom. While I'm all for women being in touch with their inner goddesses, I'd have liked the hot, young hero to be the one introducing her to different and exciting things. However, she was actually the one who seemed to be expanding his horizons, which left me with that definite feeling she was a cougar in every sense of the word, not just an older woman with a younger man. It also made me question how realistic their love was - when you got down to the nuts and bolts of it, their relationship didn't seem to encompass much beyond the omnipresent lust they definitely shared.To be frank, I guess I was hoping for something more along the lines of "Liberating Lacey", by Anne Calhoun, which is the best younger man/older woman romance/erotica I've ever read. It captures the emotions of such a scenario so much better than "Game Plan" did. However, while it fell short of that sort of excellence, this story was an entertaining enough read. Having said that, at a hefty $7.00 I do think it's priced well beyond its real worth.