Review: Sexy
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 15, 2014
Rachel Halson has spent most of her adult life as a single parent, having been widowed at a young age.  She’s tired of being the “good” mother, and wants to experience what life has to offer - especially all things sexual.  She’s decided to move to Texas to be closer to her brother-in-law and ends up in Detective Mitch Lang’s sights.  If Rachel wants lessons in sex, Mitch is more than willing to give them - but happens when the teacher learns more than he ever barained for?The GoodThe first few chapters set up the story well - Rachel’s inner dialogue was funny and self-deprecating, and I could understand why Rachel wanted to get away from everything she knew and do something daring, something crazy and fun.  It’s an erotic contemporary romance, so it was very heavy on the sex, which were executed well.  The secondary relationships - I liked Rachel’s relationship with her brother-in-law as well as Mitch’s with his partner.  While a bit implausible, I liked the idea of the hunt for the dirty cop.The Bits I’d ChangeThe pacing was a bit off for me - in my opinion erotic doesn’t mean that it should only focus on the sex, but that the sex is an integral part of the development of the main relationship.  I would have liked to see more conversation between Mitch and Rachel, especially at the beginning of their relationship there’s an allusion to conversations they had in between sex bouts, but it’s told to me not shown. A bit more of that in the beginning would have gone a long way towards making their connection clear to the reader and would have made me more accepting of Rachel’s declarations of completely trusting him and Mitch’s thoughts of how much he liked Rachel.Mitch was a bit harder to get a handle on, and I wasn’t as big a fan of how he could easily turn on Rachel, though his history explained it to a certain extent.  His very first contact with Rachel at her house rode a very fine line, which was just shy of a turn-off.  He makes up for it eventually and I did like the ending.The Bottom Line (3.5 stars)There’s real potential here - I liked it and I would read more from this author.**Book provided by author in exchange for an honest review.**