Review: KARMA for CARMEN
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 12, 2013
Carmen's New York Romance trilogy is a hot read that just goes to show that there is such a thing as Fate... and Karma!  While this book is firmly in the Erotica genre, what it isn't missing is a STORY.  From the first you get pulled in to the lives of Kurt and Carmen -- Carmen, who is traumatized & on the run from a past "boyfriend"/lover; and Kurt who is leery of relationships after being wrongly accused of abuse against a woman.  These scars affect their love story in ways that make you end up rooting that they can get past them and have their "Happily Ever After".Okay, so you didn't originally pick out this book for the story.  You picked it out for the sex.  And yes, it is worth the purchase price for the sex scenes alone!  SCORCHING!  Now color me Vanilla (& note the capital "V") - but this is a book with STRONG BDSM scenes.  As a matter of fact, the middle section (#2) is REALLY hardcore since it veers into the sex slave / debasement element of BDSM.  If this is not for you, you will probably find this a bit disturbing (I know I did).  However, just take it like I did - with a spoonful of sugar and realizing that you've just gotten a bit of an education & you now know it is NOT the path for YOU.  (And then tonight you can go to bed, say your prayers, and hope that all human sex slave / traffickers burn in a fiery hell... or that they get the same sort of payback that Robert Ellis does at the end of the trilogy - yep, it's THAT appropriate!!)  With the heat in this trilogy, you'll want to make sure you have someone (or some thing, as it may be) close by once you finish - because you'll need some "cooling off" <wink>.For fans of Nikki Sex, you'll be glad to know that Andre Chevalier has a role in the 3rd book... and for those who have finished reading the Carmen trilogy and have found Andre to be intriguing, be sure to check out these other books - "Bound and Freed" and "Elizabeth's Bondage" - because you'll learn more about Andre there!There are some things about the trilogy that really bother me - first and foremost, THE COVER.  Kurt is blonde.  It is mentioned often.  Especially since Carmen nicknames him "Thor".  WHY is the cover model not blonde?  Okay, I know - picky, picky, picky.  But it's my review and I can call it the way I see it.  And I see a man on the cover that does NOT reflect the man who is supposedly in the book.Overall a great read; price is very fair for the page count & the story really pulls you in and through the whole trilogy!