Review: Well written, but not original.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 5, 2013
Fifty Shades of Grey was a successful book, I get it. However, due to its huge worldwide success, it has caused an avalanche of new erotic romance authors onto the scene. This is not a bad thing really, if it means that we adoring erotic romance readers are faced with a vast array of brilliantly written and original stories. Except it seems that the avalanche of new authors are trying to rewrite Fifty Shades of Grey! This annoys me for many reasons.1. Fifty Shades of Grey was a poorly written story with a half-assed plot and unlikable characters.2. BDSM is over folks! And if it isn't, it should be! Spanking is not the new Romance. It never will be.3. The erotic short story genre is not meant to be porn. We readers demand a good plot, great characters and a realistic storyline. Unless of course you are writing about sexy vampires and then by all means be as unrealistic as you want.4. Must all heroes be Billionaires? I think 99% of all heroes on the Amazon erotica best seller list involves Billionaires of some description.  Yes, I like the thought of being swept off my feet by a sexy Billionaire as much as the next girl, but must every story be the same rehashing of this one fantasy?It would be accurate to say that I have been a bit over the erotic offerings lately, as there hasn't been anything really new or exciting. The Billionaire Secretary Services by Jessie Jules is sadly no exception. This is the first book I have read by this author, who has six stand alone stories currently for sale through Amazon.  I wanted to like it; I really did, but if one more author tries to rewrite Fifty Shades of Grey I may retaliate with a nasty review! Oh, hang on...What it is about:Kayla Lopez is a secretary working for a prestigious temping agency. Kayla is hired by Brent Ewan, who is a young and successful Billionaire, who also has a penchant for BDSM (stop me if this is sounding familiar).The Good:This is a short story in the true sense of the genre. It runs at 17 pages long, so I was surprised that the author was skilfully able to create a good story, and one fantastic sex scene, plus an extra shower scene for good measure. It is actually harder to write a short and concise story of a few thousand words than it is to write ten thousand words.The story is well written, with no grammatical errors. The scene is well paced despite the shortness, which is again a credit to the author.The Bad:First of all, the Hero is wearing a pink silk shirt. I think I need to repeat that again in case anyone missed it. It is a shirt that is made from silk and is pink! I understand that there are many men out there who love this sort of thing, it is just usually they are homosexual! If the Billionaire hero is wearing a pink silk shirt, my internal `crap story ahead' alarm starts going off!Then there is Kayla's shirt. One minute she is wearing a tight white blouse, then next minute it is dark and spotless??? I hope the author didn't pay an editor a lot of money to miss this?The cover:The cover art is weird. It has a 1960's retro thing going on and is not enticing at all. The Hero looks more like a 19 year old preppy college student out on his first date in his Mother's station wagon than a BDSM loving Billionaire.Rating:Ok, it is well written and despite the story line being unoriginal, It was still a good, quick read.I think I will give it 4 stars despite the blouse error and the unoriginality.