Review: Different feel than the first in the series
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 7, 2014
The Erotic Light picks up right where we are left at the end of The Erotic Dark. Lydia has come to embrace her desire to submit to the three men she lives with at La Nouvelle Vie. A turn of events causes her to need to leave the plantation and return to her family and a life she no longer wants. Shortly before she is forced to leave the plantation, she starts to realize the depths of Preston's obsession with her and desire to possess her completely. She finds that even though she is now living in a different world, Preston has no intentions of letting her go.This book has a much different feel to it than the first in the series. While that book explored Lydia's discovering her true erotic desires and coming to terms with her desire to submit, this installment looks at the unraveling of the system that Preston has put in place. I think we can tell from the first book that Preston is not a healthy person, nor one who will be able to maintain any sort of symbiotic relationship with other people. He is selfish, cruel, and obsessive. It is still interesting to watch how initially Lydia responds to him after he begins to have contact with her in the "outside world". Seeing how she has changed so much that her life with her family leaves her so empty that Preston's attention actually does give her some of what she needs even if in a way she knows she doesn't really want. Gabriel and Kruin are also struggling to know what the future will hold as the system of protection Preston once provided is clearly not going to be able to sustain under Preston's intense jealousy.I found the second half of this book much more engaging than the first. Overall, I enjoyed the first book in the series more. There were some interesting elements to this story and I thought the different emotions and issues the characters were dealing with actually gave a more realistic feel to parts of this story. The life that the three men and Lydia lived on the plantation was interesting and erotic, but in reality it was bound to fall apart when the leader of the "program" was as obviously unstable as Preston was. I like this author a lot and will be reading more books of hers in the future.