Review: Guilty pleasure
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 2, 2014
Sin was a surprising 4 1/2 star guilty pleasure. It was short and sweet, mostly erotica with somewhat of a story line and a HEA.Anya the heroine is a 22 year old college girl virgin who goes to work waiting tables at a strip club owned by the hero. As far as 22 year old virgins in romance novels go, Anya wasn't as annoying as most. She actually managed to pull off naive and innocent without appearing stupid.Sin the older (mid thirties) hero was jaded and potty mouthed and didn't do relationships. Or rather he didn't do them until Anya needed money for her car and decided to dance, and he decided to "coach" her...and one thing led to another and then all of a sudden his psychotically possessive "MINE" gene was triggered.There's a little lite BDSM - and one major overreaction from the heroine - who bounced back pretty darn quickly with some enthusiastic curiosity, and then sled right into a little voyeurism.The characters were fairly well developed for a short story and I liked the chemistry between them.On the negative side I would have preferred a longer story with more fully developed characters and more of a plot line. There were a couple of plot points that were mentioned and then just left blowing in the wind. There was insta-lust and then pretty much insta-love on both sides. The few moments of angst/conflict while quickly resolved, also seemed contrived.But overall for a quick beach read, if you like a foul mouthed hero who acts like a jerk and then falls hard...I'd recommend Sin.