Review: Talk Supe Review
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 2, 2013
*copy provided by the author in exchange for an honest reviewThe hotness factor of SECRET DESIRE is high playing Claire's reactivated sex life side by side with her upcoming erotica novel which I want to read as well. But aside from having a story within a story, Claire's crush and fantasies about Dustin had me enamored. The tension, the longing, the hesitation and its eventual fulfillment was well played off and very relatable to an extent. We all had big crushes and to read it vicariously fulfilled through Claire was satisfying.For a short novel I liked that the character list was short, it gave the story depth in terms of character introductions and such. Claire and Fran, though twins, are polar opposites. I want to yank Fran's hair and slap the living s*** out of her. She's such a Bitch with a capital B and Claire too, got on my nerves for not standing up to Fran's manipulative ways! Dustin was your typical guy next door and I liked how he stood by Claire and stayed focused on her. Loyalty is well rewarded on my book and Dustin deserves the grand prize.The only thing that I wasn't a big fan of was the conflict. The way Fran behaved was a little out of character for her considering she's this high powered broker in New York, sophisticated and such and what she pulled was something very trailer park. The big confrontation was a let down, to me it didn't feel like it flowed very well because Claire heard/saw how it all played out and she saw that Dustin was the innocent party. It was a little too dramatic and basically I was just waiting for her to bitch slap her twin. Both Claire and Fran are intellectuals and it would've been great to see Claire just dish it out to Fran, stand her ground and not back down. Instead she said her piece and ran off much to Fran's delight. The ending was also overdone or didn't match the sequence of events and to me, it didn't fit the story as a whole.