Review: I WANT MORE!!!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 21, 2014
*What Anita Thought*I wanna make a reservation at the Hotel Baudelaire!! This sweet, hot quickie morsel of a romance is part of the Den of Sin series. The Den of Sin series is where every fantasy becomes a reality at the Hotel Baudelaire in New Orleans. Layla and Chris went to college together and after a night of awkward groping they decide to remain friends. Life happens and though they said they would keep in touch with each other, six years has gone by. It’s New Year’s Eve. Layla is still feeling the aftereffects of a dreadful betrayal by an ex. Chris, after the death of his wife, has sort of checked out of life. They each decide to visit the hotel not knowing the other will be there. Layla wants to feel wanted. Chris just wants to feel something and move past his grief.What ensues is a wicked hot night that turns into day. I love second chance romances and I totally loved these two together. The novella is only about 30 pages so you get very little in the way of back story, but that’s ok. I could feel Layla’s hesitance. Her ex shattered her self-confidence and you can see her struggling with her feelings about Chris. Chris can’t believe his luck. You can feel how he has always cared about Layla. It is well written, has great pacing, and, in those 30 pages, I got quite a hot, hot, hot love story. I wanted MORE. Be warned – the book actually ends at about 80%. The remainder are snippets of others books in the Den of Sin series. I understand many of the others in the series are more BDSM-like. This is not – quite vanilla but… there’s absolutely nothing wrong with a little vanilla. A perfect read while you are waiting in line at the post office, in a doctor’s office or a quick trip on public transportation. I scored this a 3.75 because I wanted more, more, more! A little too short. But nicely done.