Review: "Elegant, romantic smut" indeed!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 18, 2012
Nina Lane bills her erotica as "elegant, romantic smut," and this book lives up to that tagline. This is not an erotic romance, however; it's more of a happy-for-now kind of book. The writing is a cut above most erotica, and the characters even exhibit some limited growth. The only thing I didn't like about this book were some of the odd euphemisms ("pleat" and "stalk") that seemed out of place in a book of this nature. I'd expect those terms perhaps if this book had been set in the Victorian era, but since it's set in the here and now, and given the nature of the relationship, I'd expect straightforward language, and I found the euphemisms jarring and annoying. But, as in everything, your mileage may vary. Well worth your time if you're looking for something a bit more smutty than "Fifty Shades of Grey."