Review: Never drew me in
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 21, 2011
There was nothing particularly wrong with this story, but neither was there anything that made me want to keep reading.  I didn't particularly like the characters, or feel they were well-developed, complete people.  I don't expect a ton of plot in a short story, but unfortunately, the last short I read managed to have a strong plot regardless of length, and this story suffered in comparison.The Kindle file indicates that this is a Harlequin Blaze book, and I was really surprised that this came from a major publisher.  I mostly read queer smut (although I've favorably reviewed m/f stuff); all the big publishers in that genre have a strict "no unsafe sex" rule, and you see the condom go on every time.  In this book, the hero-who-has-casual-sex-with-lots-of-girls doesn't routinely carry condoms with him.  And when he says he has no condom so they shouldn't have PIV sex, the heroine replies that sex is just fine because she's on the pill, and off they go.  If they'd said nothing about protection, I could have made my own assumptions, but watching them have intentionally unsafe sex was kind of squicky.