Review: With strings attached
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 21, 2013
Corey and Matt are friends who get it on from time to time. Sure, they help each other out, they discuss family troubles and each run their own business. But Corey is a stubbornly self-reliant girl, and Matt fears to lose her if he expects more.Corey is an award-winning chocolatier, with a small industrial premises. She doesn't have time for a boyfriend but thinks it's great that Matt, who runs a micro-brewery and bar, is in her life. Then Dylan, a professional surfer comes to stay with Matt while he recovers from an injury. Dylan fancies Corey right away, but doesn't want to jeopardise anything Matt has going with her. Finally none of the three can deny the sizzling heat going on and they all end up in bed. However Corey is going to have to choose one of the great young men, strings and all.Kelly Jamieson gives us far more than a steamy story, because each character is well developed and their lives are rounded and peopled with family and friends. Matt is constantly helping his mother with repairs in her house, so he is taken up short to discover that she has a new man in her life. Dylan has flashbacks from his near-death surfing accident which threaten to stop him competing or even enjoying his sport. And Kelly, whose mother has bipolar syndrome, buys her own cacao beans from Brazil and processes them into full cocoa butter truffles. WITH STRINGS ATTACHED also contains advice for those who might be considering a threesome: using protection, a girl considering this rarely and only with men she trusts, and not suggesting such activities while in a committed relationship.