Review: Excellent Writing, but not a real stand alone short..
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 20, 2012
This is book one of a series.  I normally get irked when author's of shorts write books in serials making the reader wait until the next part comes along and explain everything.  That is the only reason why this is a 3 and not a 4.  It's not a 5 because there isn't a relationship when they have sex, it's a potential one night stand, but that is my issue and may not be for many other readers.The story begins with Victoria setting Eliza up for a blind date with Todd, a cousin of Victoria's husband.  From the get go we know that Todd is a black sheep and not very adept at polite society.  However, after a disastrous first meeting, Eliza drunk dials Todd to tell him how rude he had been.  One thing leads to another....The story is very well written the actions and dialogue flow easily.  Luckily this story ends at a place where I can pretend it was just an erotic short.  The sex scene was well written and was able to portray passion in contrast to a simple insert tab A into Slot B.Which brings me back to why this is a 3.  The next part of their relationship is in the next book. As this is only 38 pages and the next part is around 55 and I assume the 3rd would be of similar length, then the author could have easily given the reader the full experience by making this "series" a full length novel.  I understand when a book is 500 or 1000 pages long, that the author might need to organize the story into separate books.  However, I don't give the same leeway to shorts.I realize that many of the authors are writing shorter stories in the hope that they can write more of them and partake of the quantity  of sales. However, I find it irritating and usually stop reading when I believe that the author is using the readers to polish the work for the author, so eventually it can be sold as a polished and edited boxed set.So if you don't mind having to read the next book to answer questions from this one. Buy this and then you can get the next oneLondon Lace, #2and wait for the 3rd installment.If you are like me and like your short stories to be stand alones then give this a miss.ETA spelling