Review: Devoured I tell you! Devoured!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 19, 2014
~ Maybe the world is more ready for us than we are for the world.~So before this book, I had yet to read anything by Sloan Johnson. Not from lack of wanting to, mind you, but we all know how everlasting TBR’s can be. I am one of those people that even when an author says it can be read as a standalone, if it is part of a series, I just CANNOT do that. I HAVE to read them in order. It’s one of my biggest pet peeves when it comes to books. I NEED to know the back story. That being said, I carved out enough time in my schedule to fit in all three books. I needn’t have worried about not having enough time to finish, because these books were SO good, I literally FLEW through them! Sloan touches on BDSM in these books, and the men are most definitely Alphas, but at the heart of them all is just that…heart. And it is a beautiful thing to read.~ “That would imply we were doing something wrong. And that was anything but wrong.”~I think what I loved about this book the most is that while there was HOT sex, and plenty of it, it wasn’t JUST about that. It was about the relationship between Mary, Zeke, and Jeff. Yes, you read that right; there are three people involved. This is not my first ménage book by a long shot, but it is one of the few that I’ve read where an actual relationship was being worked on. Many people shake their head and look at triad relationships as immoral, but I figure you cannot help who you love, and if you have more love to spread around, what is the harm in that? These were three people that to their core, loved each other deeply. They were all different in so many ways, but it was their commonalities and differences that cemented their union. It was their honesty with each other that kept me coming back for more. It was the way they could see, without even a word being spoken, when one needed something. Unspoken words screamed volumes, and they grew attuned to it in one another. I absolutely adored this book!~ Together in the darkness, our bodies find a languid, steady rhythm, sealing our fate to one another without a single word.~The characters, ALL of them, were extremely relatable and I couldn't get enough. The dominance of Jeff, the gentleness of Zeke, and the level head of Mary; they were three pieces of a well crafted puzzle that just fit. I also loved that while it was a typically unconventional relationship, it certainly didn’t read like one. They all faced problems and dealt with issues that would arise in ANY relationship, and I think it speaks volumes towards the literary prowess of the author to be able to not only portray that, but to portray it so well. Sloan Jonson has cemented me as a fan for life, and I will always come back for more!