Review: The story started off great, but seemed to peter out in the end.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 9, 2013
2 1/2 starsI was a little worried going into this ménage. I find it hard for authors to do a successful ménage in a novella and this one was only 125 pages. The story started off great, but seemed to peter out in the end.Katrina and Liam Holland have been happily married for over ten years. They don’t have your typical marriage because they like to add a male third to their sex life from time to time. Sometimes Liam would even go out to have one-nightstands with men. As much as I read, I can’t seem to recall reading something like this that didn’t involve the BDSM lifestyle. This was just something they were into. They seemed to need another man in their lives to fill some missing piece they both had. I know it sounds a little weird, but the authors did a great job showing us how and why this worked for them and I actually felt NO jealousy about these issues… SHOCKER! My only problem was I didn’t think they were in love. Did they love each other? Yeah, they did love each other. Do I think they had that earth shattering I need you to live love? No. It seemed to me like they were two people who loved each other as deep as two friends could and maybe that’s why they needed Hunter so badly.Hunter has always been in love with Katrina and had feelings he was fighting towards Liam. It scared the crap out of him so he enlisted in the Marines and just took off. Ten years later he is back and Liam has plans for the three of them to have a relationship together. The first chunk of this book is really the three of them banging it out. I’m not a huge m/m fan, but the scenes in this book were freaking hot. In fact, all the sex in the book was top notch. This is pretty much all they were doing for the first part of the book; F-ing and I loved every second of it. Then the authors seemed to switch gears and wanted to show us how these people could be together and to me this is where the book falls apart.We have 125 pages to do this ménage love story. To me it seems you have to pick what you want to do…. Do you want to make this a story and connect us to the characters or do you want to give us a sex fest and slap some inta-love on it? Because in all fairness you have to pick. The authors didn’t pick. They tried to pull it off and the story hit a miserable rock where I just wanted to tell people to stop fighting and just banging it out again. We truly know so little about these people and the author is trying to lay down how it would work out between them and this goes on for pages. By the end of these sections I actually felt worse about the situation not better.We do somewhat get to know these people and I totally got how these three people could fit together. I just didn’t find that it was pulled together in anyway. When the book ended I felt like I was left hanging. That is not a happy ever after in my eyes…. I’m not even sure they will have a happy weekend.