Review: I didn't feel anything.  I wasn't pulled in or engaged.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 20, 2013
BREATH ON EMBERS by Anne Calhoun.I've really enjoyed some of this author's other writing, but this book felt flat - like cooking without spices.  I skimmed parts of the sex scenes.  The problem was probably because it was about sadness, grief, and withdrawing from life.  The happy ending did not uplift me.  I like change in books.  Here Thea changes, but I didn't feel and see her process of change.STORY BRIEF:Thea's husband Jesse died in a car accident two years earlier.  She is still grieving for him.  She picks up Ronan as a sex buddy.  She only wants sex, no conversations, no connections, no looking in the eyes with feeling.  She wears her ipod earphones almost all the time playing music so her mind won't go to her grief.  Ronan would like more and is being patient about it.DATA:Narrative mode: 3rd person.  Kindle count story length: 1,863 (234 KB).  Swearing language: strong, including religious swear words.  Sexual language: strong-erotic.  Number of sex scenes: about 7 includes rear door activity and menage a trois (2 men 1 woman).  Setting: current day Manhattan, NY.  Copyright: 2012.  Genre: erotic contemporary romance.