Review: Tenderly Erotic
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 27, 2013
There is nothing more claustrophobic than a small country town. It's like living in a large tent on an eternally black night in the middle of nowhere. You are afraid to leave and suffocated if you stay.That's how Lily Prescott feels. Lost and stuck, both at the same time. Bruised still from a broken relationship, she had quit her high-pressure job and moved into a house left to her in her grandmother's will. She has to start again - but can she? And with whom?The question is weighing on her mind when she meets Starr Forrester - a man whose very name puts you in mind of a sparkling lumberjack, a charming supernova, Indiana Jones crossed with Brad Pitt in Thelma & Louise. You know the type, a charming bad boy like a blazing fire that draws you closer even as you feel your eyebrows burning.A designer with a thriving business, what Starr Forrester designs is ways and means to create the perfect companion to take him through the long cold nights, a winter girl who, like the snow on the mountaintops, will vanish from his life when the spring sun rises over the distant hills. Will Lily be his winter girl? And, if so, will she still be there when the leaves are growing again on the trees?Elodie Parkes has created in The Winter Girl a clever, intriguing plot that keeps you glued to the page and you literally do not know what's going to happen until the last page. A love story with both tender and sensually erotic, this is the second book I've read by this engaging author and it will not be the last.