Review: X-Rated Beauty and the Beast
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 21, 2014
This could be such a great book. The premise, having two true loves instead of one and having two beasts is a really nice twist. I was enjoying the book right up until it suddenly fell victim to it's own curse and was bespelled from a good book into an X-rated romance novel. The whole middle section of the book was simply sex. The sex didn't even make real sense given how Lou's character had been so firmly concerned with appearances and her sister's virtue. Yes she was attracted to Ballard, but to suddenly just walk up to him and lick honey from his mouth was simply out of character. It is all explained away later when she tells her virginal sister that since she is a widow HER behavior is not important. This is not true in that even a widow would have been labeled a harlot for living with and sleeping with a man not her husband. Anyway, the sex scenes were not needed. They detract from the story and could have been written to be much more subtle. I found myself skipping pages just to get back to the story. So the beginning of the book is good and the ending of it is good. The middle...well...not so much. It was sex for the sake of sex and not to really advance the story.