Review: Everything But The Cake
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 5, 2010
This story has all the elements that would make it one of the sexiest stories that I have read, but, it was just too short.  The length of the story does not allow the reader to become invested in the characters.  Bailey is a beautiful person.  She's a divorced, full-figured woman who owns a bakery and who is discovering her submissive nature.  She frequents a sex club where she feels alive and free.  One day while she is shopping she sees a guy she's noticed at the club, Aidn.  He's hot and a well-known Dom.  Their attraction for each other is mutual and explosive. The two get together at her place in one of the hottest scenes that I've read in a while.  Aidn wants her but he is reluctant because of a failed Dom/Sub relationship that he had and pulls away from Bailey.  When Bailey and a friend go to the club so that Bailey can take her mind off of Aidn, something happens that forces Aidn to admit that Bailey is the woman for him.  There could have been so much more to make this story a very memorable one.  I would like to see this story redone and made into a full length novel.  The heat is definitely there, the love scenes are exciting and sexy.  The potential for backstory and more insight into the other characters was left unexplored.  Overall, the story, for a short one was good, but I was left wanting more.  I will still check out more titles from Lissa Matthews because she really can write the sexiest love scenes, but the story did not come together as a love story for me.  The stories that I reread and that I remember are ones where the characters fall in love as well as lust and declare the emotion to each other.  This is missing from this story and possibly could have been its' saving grace.  The best icing comes WITH cake!