Review: Not my cup of tea.....
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 3, 2013
Carmen's New York Climax did not work for me, because it's a cliffhanger. I never would have selected this book if I knew in advance it was not a complete story. I like my books to have a beginning, middle and end, no matter how short they are. I don't blame the author I blame Amazon for not including that little fact in the product description.It wouldn't have been so bad if the story stayed focused on the H/h coming together under mistaken identity and enjoying an afternoon of monkey sex, granted you had to suspend belief big time just to get past their initial coming together, but OMG the endless inner dialogue while having sex was just too much for me. The reader is to believe these two are insatiable for each other all while they constantly reveal their back story during sex. I didn't want to read about crummy past relationships and dysfunctional family issues in between fore play and orgasms. Some of those passages were so long I forgot they were having sex and why. As I skimmed those pages I kept thinking, FOCUS people, will you get on with it. I love, love, love pillow talk during sex if it is done well(check out early books by Jaid Black and Sasha White) it will turn the reader on, instead I was turned off. There is a time and place within every story for the H/h to reveal themselves to the reader, if it's erotica it is either before or after they bang each others brains out not during to the point the reader gets distracted. That is why I read erotica, the smuttier the story the better it is for me as long as it is wrapped around a tight plot no matter how much belief I have to suspend. There is a D/s element in the story....enuff said. The H/h were very likable, unfortunately the abundant use of inner dialogue and the fact this is a cliffhanger ruined this book for me.