Review: Lusty cowboy menage - we'll deal with plot in Book 2
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 16, 2011
Book 1 of 3 in "Badlands" series. Book 2 isTwo Wanted Men, Book 3Double Chance Claim. Note thatBadlandsappears to combine all three, in paperback.Plot:When her life in New York became unbearable, Clarissa signed on as a Mail Order Bride. Her choices narrowed when her fiancee married someone else just days before her train arrived. Luckily for her (?!) the wife Derek and Logan had ordered jumped off the train. Lots of sex later and a non-traditional marriage may well lead to a HEA in the Badlands.Comments:- 2170 kindle locations, 27,767 words- Set in "The Badlands", South Dakota, 1890.- m/f/m - they get into it very quickly (by chapter 3) and keep it up to the end! Frequent, explicit, generous.Opinion:A surprisingly nice little story. Lots and lots of Wild West cowboy menage; the whole book is really just two days of unbridled bonk-fest. Yet there is a nice little plot interweaved  that is thoroughly enjoyable and allows you to convince yourself you're not just reading smut. *grin* Good characters, nice story, happy ending.Aside:The Badlands books are written by "Elle Saint James" but looking around it appears this is a pseudonym. Does this matter? Probably not. And I'm not going to say who I believe it is, 'cause that would be telling... Okay, it's not difficult to work out but where would the fun be in that? If an author writes under multiple names, there's usually a reason. Often the author is testing a different voice, or a different genre. In this case I suspect she is using it to delve into the cowboy menage genre (not really featured under her other name). And "Elle Saint James" is an excellent name for Wild West author. Very evocative.***SPOILER***Derek and Logan's ordered wife, Miss Miranda Hetherington, jumped from the train. Her story is told in Book 2 "Two Wanted Men".-CR-