Review: I know. How could such a pretty cover go oh SO wrong?
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 12 19, 2013
I have all different types of kinks when I read and I often like an erotica that focuses in on the spankings. I had been on a Christmas book binge when I stumbled across this one and thought “YES! Erotica spanking and Christmas. Score.”It started off pretty good…. Melissa Mitchele doesn’t have any plans for the holiday. She witnessed a murder and has been placed in witness protection and is essentially starting her life over all alone. Then her co-worked Terri Coleman invites her to come spend the holiday with her family. Melissa is hesitant at first then figures it’s better than sitting at home all alone. We know at this point her co-worker has 3 brothers, one of whom is single. Now I’m ready for some sneaking around raunchy sex with a side of rosy ass cheeks, but in the car ride to the house Terri drops a bombshell on Melissa and me *sad face.*It seems Terri has brought Melissa as somewhat of a buffer between her and her single brother. Terri was a bad girl over the summer and got herself in trouble causing her brother to show up at her house and beat the shit out of her ass…. Yes he pulled down her pants and whipped her ass. I was a little taken aback by this. She is a grown woman and her brother is showing up at her place and smacking that ass. When she tells the story is it no way erotic and it didn’t set quite right with me, but I was all “Whatever. Let’s see where this goes.” While I wasn’t into it my heroine Melissa was and she kind of perked up at the idea.When Melissa finally meets Joe the attraction is pretty instant for both of them. We can tell they are both into each other and some of my hesitation about the story of the sister spanking started to slip away and my mind was just focusing in on the main couple. This didn’t last long because the sister had to stomp all over my parade and piss Joe off getting her ANOTHER spanking. It all comes rushing back and this time it’s OH SO HORRIBLE!Spanking is normal around the Coleman family. The author wanted to make sure I, as the reader, got this. I think it was to help me understand the fact why the brother was spanking his grown sister’s ass, but it never worked for me. Melissa watches hidden in the corner as Terri’s brother hikes up his sister’s skirt, then pulls down her panties and spanks her bare ass even saying “Butt out.”Hey, I LOVE crazy taboo books and I’m the first to admit I like some messed up erotica, but this did not work for me. I have never felt so uncomfortable while reading before. The scene wasn’t meant to be erotic, but it still felt weird. When the sister goes running from the room Joe calls Melissa out knowing she was watching the whole time. He goes on to tell her that there are different types of spankings and she even notices he has a hard on… Is the hard on from spanking his sister or from talking to Melissa about different types on spankings? I’m guessing from talking to Melissa, but the author should have just left it out or something because my head just didn’t know what to do with it. I even started to wondering if I was getting jealous that he was spanking his sister and not my heroine and my head was just all messed up at this point.I seemed to be the only one in the story that finds the sister spanking weird. I wanted to put the book down, but I had come so far I thought I would just finish it. Luckily there isn’t any more sister spanking after those two scenes and everything from this point on mostly focuses in on our heroine and hero. Their spankings together were actually really hot as was their sex. They banged and ass swatted non-stop for about 24 hours and I’m not sure how Melissa was even walking or sitting down at one point. Then our sex slows way down because Melissa’s past is catching up to her.The book seems to take a quick shift from this dirty spanking book to a suspense that I really didn’t care too much about. I started to skim those scenes a little bit just to get to the end and see how the heroine and hero ended, but guess the what?…. Author cliffhangers us. Yep. She freaking cliffhangers a Christmas book… What. The. Flip? She is all “”check out the next part on Valentine’s Day.” Well you know what?… Check out my one star review. BAM! I WIN!