Review: Great New Adult Romance
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 8, 2013
This one started out with a bit of a Cinderella vibe for me.  Rather than Cinderella disappearing and only leaving behind a glass slipper, our heroine Alexis has an incredible and highly sexually charged encounter with a mysterious stranger at a masked ball and, after giving her a mind-blowing orgasm, he disappears out of her life leaving her with just a memory of knee-buckling lust and intense, beautiful blue eyes.back a few paces before finally turning himself around. I watch as he walks briskly towards the large iron gates, away from me, and out into the night.The next day, after confessing her mysterious encounter to her best friend Alyssa, they embark on Operation Orgasm - a quest to find this enigmatic stranger.  They don't have to look far - he's a new arrival in town and is friends with her college room mates, Ryan and Neil and his name is Brandon.Brandon is a darkly brooding, mysterious student with an even darker past.  He's got so much pain and sorrow locked away that he just doesn't consider himself good enough for someone like Alexis and he tries to keep his distance, despite their incendiary attraction and the proprietorial possessiveness he feels towards her.  I really did love Brandon and his tragic past is a real shocker.  He's suffered far more than anyone of his age deserves to have suffered.Alexis is a sweet heroine even if she is really rather naive.  She's had a bad experience with her ex, Matt, and is now slow to trust but she can feel herself falling deeply for Brandon and wants to learn his secrets and to comfort him but he's always putting up emotional barricades and just will not let her in.I did really enjoy this - there's so many twists and turns and revelations that I truly never did know what was coming next.  It's very sexy and Brandon is definitely a hero to get your heart racing.  I will say that there were a huge amount of misunderstandings and jumping to conclusions by the central duo and, sometimes, I really wanted to bang their heads together and to scream at them to listen to each other instead of constantly judging one another.  Brandon, when he finally lets down those defences, is sexy and charming and I cared a lot for him and found myself desperate for these two to work through all the difficulties and find that Happy Ever After together they so deserved.There's also a mother of a cliffhanger - just when everything finally seems to be coming together and they are finally happy, something strange happens to set the whole story off in yet another direction.  We will have to wait for the release of Misplaced Trust to find out what's next for Brandon and Alexis.  There's a great host of secondary characters to love as well as a few you will hate who all richly deserve their come-uppance.4 stars