Review: Great love story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 25, 2013
KymD's 4 sweet pea review appears at mrsconditreadsbooks.com/index.php/?p=13528Lee Brazil is one of my go-to authors and Temptation did not disappoint.Told in the first person, Lake Wynters is a model who, while attending a holiday party, is captivated by the older Solomon Arsdale. Lake seduces Solomon (I wonder who really does the seducing); they have a brief, albeit hot, encounter, and Lake asks Solomon to call him while writing his number on Sol's hand with eye liner.Time passes and there's no call. Lake finally takes matters into his own hands and goes to Solomon's office to confront him...or maybe to find out if Sol is as exciting as Lake remembers? Imagine his surprise when he meets Adonis Kosmias, who is obviously in a long-term relationship with Sol! Lake is embarrassed that he seduced a married man, humiliated that he finds himself chasing a married man, and surprised that he is totally enamored of Adonis as he is Sol!Lake is also hurt when it seems as though the other two men are laughing at him and making fun of him.Sol and Adonis have a somewhat open relationship. They are monogamous in the sense that they each can sleep with someone else...once. Sex a second time, though, equates cheating. No second dates.It becomes obvious fairly shortly that all three men are interested in more than just a quick fling. But, misunderstandings get in the way and Lake is left feeling alone and bereft.I love Lake; he's so "twinky" with his make-up and heels where both Solomon and Adonis are masculine. The three men just work together (once they actually start communicating and stop jumping to conclusions). The ending is so cute and sappy, but, it's an HEA and those are always the best.Lee Brazil's writing is emotional and angst-y. Lake is high maintenance and, luckily, he finds two men who are committed to welcoming him into their relationship.There's no real heavy thinking to Temptation; it's just a great ménage love story that leaves a happy feeling when the final words are spoken.