Review: Standard Fair, Bordering on Porn
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 11, 2013
Melting Ice is pretty standard for Stephanie Laurens.  Gently born miss attends a country house "party", which is actually an orgy.  Reluctant nobleman who is trying to side step the marriage issues rescues same and they find romance together.  Laurens often writes steamy sex scenes, but this one went a bit farther than usual for her.  With Laurens, sometimes the trip is worth the ending, but with this one, it's almost not worth even starting the journey, unless the whole reason your reading it is FOR the sex scenes.  Frankly, I'd prefer less about the bedroom activities and a bit more focus on the plot line, but perhaps she's done regency era romance to death and has run out of ideas.  Notes including mention an upcoming medieval romance, and I got the impression from the description that it will be quite steamy, so I think I shall skip that.  Too bad because I have liked her stuff in the past.