Review: "Always Room for Four promised to be a hot erotic read..."
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 19, 2013
Department store manager, Tera Connolly, is invited on a weekend getaway with her college friend/former lover, Amanda, and her husband, to heal from her recent heartbreak. Tera eagerly goes and finds that she is somewhat attracted to the owner, Patrick Dennison, of the resort they will be staying at in Colorado.Amanda has ulterior motives for the invite and a surprise birthday gift for her husband's cousin, Patrick Dennison. She lays it all out on the line with Tera: a hot foursome with Jake, Amanda's husband, Patrick, and Amanda, too, if Tera is interested . . . if not, the threesome will proceed without her. Tera can't pass up a chance to have a weekend fling and jump back on the horse, but what will she do when more than bodies enter the equation?Patrick is definitely interested in sizzling the sheets with the attractive manager from Florida and even more so when he discovers there might be more in the realm of bedroom activities! Patrick enjoyed his hot threesome with his cousin and his wife from two years previous so he is not averse to the idea of another go. However, he has found that those one night stands he had been participating in have left a lot to be desired. But Tera is only in it for the weekend and Patrick soon finds he is very reluctant to let the beauty return to her home state and leave him in the cold.Always Room for Four promised to be a hot erotic read involving a FOURSOME of friends and lovers, yet I found it didn't completely deliver. The scenes between Patrick and Tera were more involved than what was brought about when all four characters got together. I really expected them ALL to get in the act and not some twosome/threesome while other parties just looked on. I wanted that double action going, but it didn't deliver. I suspect that the tie-in book, The Birthday Gift, delivered some of that action. Always Room for Four felt like it gipped Tera out of that Patrick-Tera-Jake sandwich that she craved, all for what Amanda desired.Always Room for Four had a decent plot, but some of the things that Patrick said seemed a bit contradictory to me, and I couldn't get past that. There seemed to be a bit of angst thrown in, but it wasn't fully realized and made me wonder why it was even brought into Always Room for Four. I couldn't believe how quickly Tera jumped in with virtual strangers, but I went with it. Since she had experienced some betrayal from an ex, it seemed reasonable to assume she would be more leery of a guy who had women crawling and drooling all over him, but she didn't. I sometimes find that too much description can be distracting, but in this instance Always Room for Four need more when Tera tries something that she has never participated in with any other man. It just didn't seem too realistic in this scenario. The really big turn off for me in Always Room for Four, and perhaps I'm just a prude, was the cross contamination of the downtown eatery with the backdoor entry and then back to the uptown! That so grossed me out! But, hey, different strokes, or eat-outs, for different people.Vanessa for Joyfully Reviewed