Review: Great Read Great a Series
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 30, 2014
The Colorado Mountain series is starting to become my favorite series , after Driven and Crossfire (I think it just surpassed Crossfire). I like that the series features older adults; as I've said in prior reviews, sometimes the indecisive ingenue and young, domineering billionaire alpha male type gets old sometimes.  The characters in thi series provide a refreshing change. First, no one is super rich, they may have money but they've earned it and they watch their budgets like the rest of us, which makes it easier to relate to the characters. The sexy scenes are hot but again, realistic ( well, the stamina these folks have to make love 2-3 times a day, everyday is not realistic, but that's ok, we expect some fantasy in these stories as well!).Lady Luck started a little slow for me and at 1st I thought the plot was implausible and I thought that Lexie's feelings for Ty grew too quickly, particularly because he acted like a behind in the beginning. But I found myself really drawn in by their burgeoning love story, when Ty and Lexie went thru their "thing", I found myself leaving notes to Lexie where I told her what to do (cuss his behind out) and what to say (I don't like to post profanity, but let's just say it was very colorful). I loved the way Ty and Lexie grew to see themselves as a team and I loved the support they received from their friends in Carnal, these are characters that were featured in earlier books.Now there was one thing I felt seemed a little unrealistic and one thing I dislike, hence 4 instead of 5 stars. I LOVED that KA included a more culturally diverse set of characters, YAY!  But I thought some of the things Ty said about racism and growing up black didn't sound like a black person talking but more of how a white person thinks black people think about these things. For one, most biracial people either say they are biracial, mixed or say they're black, don't usually say they are "half black" (cf President Obama). The way Ty talked about experiencing racism just sounded weird, again didn't sound at all like the way the black people I know (I'm black) would think about it or say it. Maybe the author thinks this is how blacks who grow in a predominantly white town would think and speak but I have friends who fit that bill too and it still sounded a little strange.The thing I really DISLIKE and I saw that other reviewers commented on this was the language that the men use when describing the women; using the c*** word is a big NO NO.  Maybe its a generational difference (I'm in my 50's) but for me, that is the height of disrespect and any man referring to a woman as a c*** or referring to the "C" word in the context of making love just spoils the mood.  I know this isn't genteel society but really?  I gave young adult children and asked  them (both males and females) if they used this type of language among friends and they looked at me like I was crazy. I have a pretty open relationship with my kids so I think they would be honest - they too thought it was disrespectful.  If the men in these stories cherish the women like they claim, they need to think about the words they use, even when caught in the throes of passion of love making.