Review: Platinum has never looked so good . . . .
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 25, 2013
Platinum by Jeffe Kennedy(Facets of Passion #2)My Rating: 5/5 starsSource: Netgalley**This title is classified as erotica and for 18+ readers only**Althea Grant is a prim and proper southern lady.  She wears prim and proper clothing, her hair in a flawless chignon, she has a proper southern boyfriend her parents can be proud of and, she owns an art gallery that sells nothing which could possibly be deemed anything other than proper.  Until the day Steel walks into her gallery, Althea Grant is certain she is living the life she is meant to live.Steel is not prim and proper.  Steel is big, built and beautiful; he rides a motorcycle and wears his leathers like a second skin; he is a bit brutish but totally honest about his desires and; he is an up-and-coming sculptor whose work is superb and exudes sex and sensuality just as he does.  Steel needs a place to work and Althea's gallery has a basement she is willing to rent out so long as Steel doesn't interfere with her business or her life. HA!From the moment Steel and Althea meet there is an undeniable chemistry Steel is more than willing to investigate and Althea is more than willing to ignore.  The problem is, Steel is a very, very hard man to ignore and he brings Althea's prim and proper (read: boring) life into sharp focus.  Once the clarity sets in, Althea begins to make some major changes in her life.  All manner of naughty happens in the basement of the gallery as Althea comes to understand a little rough and tumble can indeed fit quite nicely into a prim and proper southern lady's life.The Bottom Line: Kennedy does a fantastic job of managing her time and space and though this is a novella, both the plot and the characters are fully developed.  I very much enjoyed "watching" Althea open up and begin to explore her desires with Steel.  Steel, though ravenous for Althea knows he must push her only so far with each of their encounters.  Kennedy writes a mean sex scene and varies each encounter enough to avoid redundancy and keep the reader fired up and flipping pages furiously.  Seriously, the sexy, naughty bits are freakin' awesome in this one.  While the sex is all kinds of great, the true growth and development of each character is my favorite part.  At the risk of being spoilery, I like both Steel and Althea and am quite pleased with how their story turned out.One final note: this is the second installment in the Facets of Passion series though it can be read as a stand-alone.