Review: Deep, Funny, Erotic, Romantic, Emotional love
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 7, 2012
She's done it again! Just when i thought the first book was the best thing I'd read in a while, she give us the 2nd book with more spices than i can handle. The Bowen brothers are my new favorite male heroes. First James, the tattooed sweet-bad boy sexy as sin and now Cole, the bed-them-leave-them ex-marine with an equally sexy as sin body. One thing these brothers have in common is their ability to make any female (including you the reader) wet herself by their straight-forward/crude/sweet/unapologetic/erotic language. Cole, the oldest Bowen brother is closed up when it comes to trusting and opening himself up for women. His mother abandoned them when he was 10 years old and he was the one that saw her packing to leave and begged her on his knees to stay for him but she didn't so he took it pretty hard and was marked for life. Christy is the female that many of us could identify with. She was raised by a mother that was emotionally unavailable to her chasing after love from one man to the next neglecting the needs of her daughter, often criticizing her instead of being supportive and loving. Christy turned to food to fill the void and became addicted to sweet/sugary food thus becoming overweight and having to fight her entire life dieting then gaining the weight plus more back.  Now even after having lost over 70 lbs. and having taken the necessary steps to maintain the weight off for 3 years, she still saw herself as fat and undesirable, especially when she met Cole with his hard, sexy and tone body. Yes she didn't have the tone body of a model or an athlete but she was still beautiful and Cole made damn sure repeatedly that he told her so even when she had a hard time accepting it. When you're overweight for a very long time, let say your entire life and you finally lose the weight, in your mind you tend to still see the old image of yourself. Christy had a hard time accepting her new body, and it could be a daunting job for any man to deal with such woman if he is not patient but both Cole and Christy had a funny bone and would make you laugh out loud many times. Elle Aycart navigated this delicate issue that is food addiction with tact and success and open my eyes a bit and now I have a different attitude toward overweight people and what they must go through fighting a battle that so many don't see as a disease but instead a weakness and greed. Elle Aycart is on my automatic buy now, because I love how she gives voice to her characters in the boudoir. The language is not just plain crude for the sake of being crude/dirty/uncalled for language but rather crude in an erotic way. Her male characters are always Alpha/dominant type but sweet and loving and the female are my kind, sassy, take-no-bull but kind, loving and supportive.It was also good to see the progression of James and Tate's relationship from the first book.  Can't wait to read about Elle, Tate's sister with James's friend and also Max the youngest Bowen brother, the male-whore if you will and Christy's girlfriends.