Review: Super Steamy BDSM Romance
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 23, 2013
With a Lainey Reese novel, you get exactly what it says on the can - super steamy and incredibly sexy erotic romance and Innocence Defied is absolutely no exception to that. The steam factor is off the charts HAWT and I completely devoured this one and loved every second.Gage is a delicious southern dom who has been searching fruitlessly for a 24/7 TPE style relationship. He's enjoyed many submissives over the years and has been a man of particular tastes, sharing his subs with other doms pretty near the top of his list and yet he's not been able to find that one girl that completes him and so the search goes on.Unbeknown to him, Zoe who is ten years his junior and his best buddy Brice's younger sister, has been cultivating an enormous crush on him for years. In fact, she has her future all mapped out and he has a starring role as the one man in her life and the one for which she has saved her virginity. She has absolutely no clue about a D/s relationship but her innermost fantasies shock her a little and would most definitely please Gage but he thinks of her as nothing more than a kid and is shocked and shamefully aroused when he first lays on her and realises that she's perfected the caterpillar-to-butterfly transformation and now pretty much resembles his ideal woman.Despite Gages protestations and restraint, Zoe is not giving up easily. As Gage tactfully describes his sexual desires and why he is so wrong for her, Zoe takes it all in and becomes a wannabe submissive on turbo-charge and morphs into exactly what Gage has been looking for all these years and he's powerless to resist. Of course, Gage knows he is going directly to Hell for what he is doing with Zoe and just wait until Brice finds out!!When he turned back around, Zoe was on her knees in front of him with her head bowed, her legs spread and her hands behind her back. His heart stopped.To me this had a bit of a Jane Austen's Emma vibe to it. Like Mr Knightley and Emma, Gage has known Zoe since she was a baby and even held her in his arms and the age difference is going to shock those around them and take him by surprise. He doesn't want to admit the attraction he feels for her but he's finding her harder and harder to resist.I just adored Gage - I loved him when Brice shared Terryn with him in Damaged Goods and was ecstatic to see he was going to get his own book. He's charming with a sexy as hell southern drawl, a highly accomplished dom and a stickler for safety when scening with a sub and I fell for him big time! This book was just about everything I could have hoped it would be - scene after scene of incredibly erotic BDSM as Zoe slowly learns what it means to be Gage's sub. For me, he's just the perfect dom - very in control, very aware of his submisive's reactions and responses, very controlled and deliciously wicked. I fair melted right into a puddle at his feet.Zoe is incredibly naive but she's about to grow up quickly and learn that her most secret fantasies match Gage's lifestyle. She's a natural bone-deep submisive without even realising it. I was a bit wary of her plan of action at first, considered her to be a little bit manipulative but I soon warmed to her and couldn't wait for her and Gage to get it on!We get to catch up with Brice & Terryn and Cade, Trevor & Riley and see how they're all getting on after their Happy Ever Afters and we also get a delicious epilogue to put a big ole happy smile on your face.4 super steamy stars