Review: First Position
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 8, 2013
As posted on The Smutty Kitty reviewed by Zen Kitty3 out of 5 LicksAlthough I did enjoy First Position, it's not one that I'd keep on the Kindle for another read through. It's definitely more of a standard contemporary romance, not edging anywhere close to erotic, which for me was disappointing. If you want a superbly angsty tale with a screaming amount of unresolved sexual tension through 70% of the book, this is the one for you. I have a great deal of respect for an author that can keep the gut wrenching angsty going for over three hundred pages. Not a small feat.This is one of those stories where a couple meet and have an amazing loving relationship in college and then end up going their separate ways, never having really dealt with the fact that they were utterly in love. They meet back up six years later both dealing with some pretty life changing events that ultimately bring them back together. However, they need to deal with the secrets that have been hidden for years before they can have a healthy loving relationship in the present.I did like Emory and Mason, but the dialogue did go on and on and the smut when it did happen, lacked intensity for a couple that waited so long the second time around. There were also some things about Emory that annoyed me to no end. I actually found myself more involved in the book when the secondary character, her gay best friend Wesley appeared. He was fantastic!There was a couple powerful moments in the novel where Emory's dancing through her issues and another where her father speaks of his wife who had passed at a very young age. Those parts were so heart-warming I shed a couple tears.My favorite bit where Emory is telling her best friend Wesley about how she threw herself at the NFL player:"Well it depends," she said. "Before or after, I threw my half-naked body at Mason?""Excuse me?""It was just for a little while," she said playfully."How little?" Wesley munched on his biscuit."Not too long?""How naked?""I told you - about half.""Which half?""A little of both.""Both breasts?""No. Top and bottom."