Review: If You Like The Previous Two Books...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 3, 2013
Then you'll definitely like this one.  If you're a Carolyn Faulkner fan, be forewarned that this series is a lot more romantic and a lot less punishment driven, it's definitely on the light side of her usual darkness.  And, personally, I think it's really enjoyable.As spanking stories go, Carolyn Faulkner has some of the best and the Priceless series does not disappoint on that level.Where it excels is with the storylines and the women.  Bridget, like Frances and Mary, is a strong female character.  She's poor and prideful, she's generous and ethical.  So when she inadvertently gives help to Dominic Martinelli and immediately recognizes the famous gangster's name from the newspapers, she absolutely refuses his attempt to pay her for her help at the end of it.  Even though, truthfully, her family could really use the money.  Her father is dead, her mother is dying, and her brother is "simple" (going by his behavior and his ability with numbers, I'm guessing he has autism, which I thought was written extremely realistically being pretty familiar with the various types of autism that a person can have and how it effects them and their families).  Dominic, not being the type to back down from a challenge and because he found himself more than a little interested in the feisty female, pays off her mortgage.  All of it.  Bridget is incensed, because not only has Dominic invaded her family's privacy, he's done something that makes her feel indebted to him.  So she starts trying to pay HIM back.It's a battle of wills that is tempered by his romancing of her, his careful bid to charm her family, and the danger that comes from being at the head of a gangster family.  That last part of the plotline is the least dealt with; we only get glimpses into that part of Dominic's life, although to be honest I'm pretty okay with that because the majority of the plotline is centered around the relationship between him and Bridget and I'm glad there aren't a lot of distractions to that.All in all, I think the Priceless series might be my favorite of Ms. Faulkner's works.  They've got some darkness, plenty of light, hot spankings, fantastic alpha men, and even though the women are constantly getting into trouble it's NOT because any of them are stupid or act stupidly (which is something that I see all too often in spanking books).  I highly recommend.