Review: She's the keeper of his heart, owns it in every way
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 11, 2012
This story was incredibly hot and erotic, no question about that. I was very impressed at how well-written the sex scenes were, just full of tension and longing and passion. As the hero, Logan, tries to resist this girl who is seven years younger and who is also his little sister's best friend, that sexual tension builds and builds. While seven years isn't necessarily a huge age difference, the story begins with Rowan at seventeen years old, but about to turn legal, and at that tender age, her lack of experience and confidence makes this age gap very noticeable and even forbidden. Rowan didn't come across as really childish or immature, or too virginal, either; instead, her character seemed uncertain and vulnerable, sweet and sincere and resilient. She has a very painful past, and her home life is unbelievably sad and abusive. She is very much a girl ready to love and be loved.So, for that reason, we have a hero who desperately wants and desires Rowan but does not want to leave her feeling used in any way. Logan is soon to graduate law school and leave for his dream job in another state; his future is ahead of him, as is Rowan's, and he also knows his sexual experience out-weighs hers. But as he's pulled more into the turbulence that is her home life, he's drawn more into acting as Rowan's protector and benefactor in many ways. She moves into his apartment with him, and this time spent together leads to temptation, one thing I truly love to read in romance. Along with an older man, this romance really had that sexual tension and temptation for me.I cannot tell you how hot the scenes were. Logan is a bit of jerk in the beginning of the story; he seemed that way to me at least. He kind of reminded me of those old Diana Palmer romances I read back in the day, where the hero is almost cruel to the young, virginal heroine as he tries to push her way, as he tries to protect her from himself and his brooding and obsessive desires. I love that, being cruel to be kind, calling her 'little girl', but he's not a jerk for long. Because when this hero caves in, he caves. And that's when the heat is turned up and the sweet comes on. He's determined not to take her virginity, and let's just say this led to some way hot and inventive moves on his part. We're talking oral, lots of hot and detailed oral, some rimming and that was something else!, and just this very sexy feeling of going and going but not all the way. Very, very hot and teasing. That one scene where Rowan catches Logan self-pleasuring while he's thinking of her, super hot, and every scene after that just got more arousing.And for all the sex, that is tender and intense, there is also a deep feeling of romance to this story. There is such a feeling of love and need, a feeling that these two must be together, one way or another, somehow, someway. This story is told in first-person from both Logan and Rowan's POV, and this put me there in the scene with them. It really allowed me to appreciate the longing and the turmoil on Logan's part especially. I melted when he thinks this about Rowan: "I want to f- her so bad it hurts sometimes. When I don't see her, I miss her, and when I do see her, I'm tormented by her. She's all I think about anymore." Now that is some good stuff, a real tortured and needy hero.I was very happy the author gave me a five-years-later epilogue, because if there's any couple I wanted to see down the road, it's this one. And I'd actually love this author to write a story for the little sister, Sara; I think that would be a story worth reading, too. Plenty of hot scenes and passion, a true feeling of romance and love trying to find its way; just a very good read all the way around. I even cried some during a scene toward the end, some nice emotional moments there and throughout the story. My first time reading this author, but it definitely won't be my last.