Review: Needs some character development
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 30, 2012
STEEL and LACE (Lace Series#1) by Adriane LeighSTEEL AND LACE is the first storyline in Adriane Leigh's new erotic romance Lace Series. Released December 16, 2012, Steel and Lace has a premise that is all too familiar to the many fans of Sylvia Day's CROSSFIRE SERIES and E.L James Fifty Shades of Grey with a little of Lisa Renee Jones's Inside Out Trilogy, although more along the lines of Day's current series.Carter Morgan is our hero-a billionaire who knows what he wants and he wants Evangeline (Eva) Austin.  Eva first meets Carter at a society function where anyone who needs or wants to be seen-attends.  For all intents and purposes, Carter introduces himself to Eva and from that point proceeds to discover everything about Eva that he can.  He is everywhere Eva is and ensures that she is by his side whenever necessary.Because this storyline is approximately 90 pages in length, the relationship must develop quickly. From the requisite BFF, sex in the back of a limo, mysterious packages of antique jewels, flowers and expensive gowns, to attending a benefit to raise funds for a children's organization the similarities cannot be ignored between Steel and Lace and the other more popular and best selling novels and series.  And because the relationship developed rather quickly I did not feel the connection between the two leading characters.Steel and Lace is the introductory storyline but there was not enough character development and definitely no storyline beyond the obvious need for control and sex.  We learn and know very little about our two leading characters who seem willing to jump into a relationship without benefit of friendship or getting to know one another-and it felt the same for me. Adriane Leigh needs to develop her characters beyond the one dimensional faade of sex and nothing else.  Book two is due to be released in January 2013.Copy supplied by the author.