Review: Because everyone, no matter what has gone before, can find their very own HEA
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 20, 2011
Plot:Beaten, scared, alone, Anna turns to the only friend who has ever loved her. Stacy immediately takes her in and introduces her to her husbands' cousins, Ben, Wyatt and Charlie. One look and those cousins are smitten. All they need to do is overcome her obvious fears and insecurities, bonk her every way to Christmas, and get rid of the Bad Guys chasing her. Easy.Comments:- 4226 kindle locations, 56,304 words- Sex is one woman with 1, 2 or 3 men. Includes erotic spanking, and spanking as punishment. The men are brothers, so no m/m. Frequent, lusty, generous.- Anna is 23. Her men are "older". It is brought up a number of times and colours their relationship.- "For the Love of Anna" has a very strong feeling of Leah Brooke and herDesire men. Strong men from a town where menage relationships are common, who coddle and nurture their women. Occasionally these women need a spanking (or other "punishment") to teach them to listen to their men, keep no secrets, look after themselves, etc.- Anna has been physically, emotionally and economically abused by her father throughout her life. The impetus to finally run involves a beating and threatened force by "Mafia types". We witness it and discuss it. Not for the faint of heart. But Anna survives. She fights. She runs. She gets herself to a safe place.Opinion:This really is a good book. It is emotional, clever, sexy and loving. You cheer for Anna and her men. You want it all to work. You can feel the love growing, and the respect and caring. It is achievable. But. And this is a big But. Anna has gone through so much. So very, very much. To go through all of that and come out the other side is Amazing. Yet somehow we lose the story of her survival. This book is about accepting that someone else can care about you, finding your inner sex-kittten, being loved. It loses thefighting back, theromance and wooingneeded to learn to trust, and even thefinding a place in the worldso you can value yourself. Because of the men's natures, they coddle. And I do struggle a little with the Little Woman syndrome. *sigh* But it's still a Good Book. While I am immersed in The World, I enjoy it. I can lose myself and believe in a HEA. I would recommend it. Especially if you are a fan of Leah Brooke. This is her kind of World. A low four stars.(But have a look at some of the other linked books and see how you go).Aside:Sex with injuries. I have made this complaint with a previous Dwyer book (SWAT Team One and the Social Worker) that, despite injuries sustained, sometimes quite severe, the girl still puts out. Okay, it isn't as severe this time. She is allowed to heal for a little while. But still... One example: Anna has multiple broken ribs. A few (three?) weeks later she takes a job in a diner where she works a very heavy lunch crowd from 9am to 3pm. She's tired. Sore. Goes home for a relaxing bubble bath. Where she does Charlie. In the bath. And then Ben. In the shower. And that night she takes on all three of them. One day after her first time, ever. And then gets up for work the next morning. I am not sure how the poor girl still walks!-CR-