Review: Definitely hot, not a lot of story
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 30, 2013
3.5 StarsWhen I heard about Tease by Missy Johnson I was beyond excited to get my hands on it.  First of all, this entire book is a male point of view and I am in love with books from the male’s perspective.  I love the insight into the male mind and find it absolutely fascinating to read a love story told by a man.  On top of that this guy is not just any guy, this guy is a male escort! I was intrigued before even opening the book!Unfortunately this book fell pretty short of the high expectations I had going in. The book is called Tease and that is exactly what the premise was for me. What happened?  As far as the male point of view, I just wasn’t put into the male frame of mind as I usually am with this perspective.  I didn’t feel a strong male presence in the narration and it seemed that if all the female references were changed to male references, this book could easily be from a female’s standpoint.  Many of the thoughts, feelings, and expressions came off more feminine than masculine to me. I found the love story left a lot to be desired.  Mia and Liam shared a past during which time some feelings had started to surface between the two.  It then seemed that when the two meet up again later in life it is taken for granted that all the same feelings are still present and they automatically fall in love.  Really within a one to two week span of time which is glossed over in favor of Liam’s exploits as an escort the two fall in love and simply and easily drop the guard they have each built around themselves. Finally, wholly fornication Batman! So much of this book was dedicated to Liam’s activities that the story was almost nonexistent.  The glimpse into his mother’s life and condition was brief, the relationship with family and friends was established as fact with little interaction, and the most important relationship in the book was overlooked and extremely anticlimactic.  I was especially disappointed in the friendship with Beth considering it is to be further explored in a sequel.  There was very little significant interaction between the two other than the descriptions of the services provided.That said this book was definitely red-hot.  There were plenty of erotic encounters to satisfy all tastes including fetishism, toys, M/M/F, with a healthy dose of good old fashion oral stimulation. The idea of following a male escort was titillating but the sheer number of scenes and ratio of sex to story was a bit over the top.Overall I felt that there is a good solid foundation to this story with tons of potential to be amazing, regrettably it just missed the mark a bit for me.  Liam (Coop) was a genuine and likeable guy with a strong loyalty to his family.  He is generous and caring almost to a fault while his outlook and personality make him an easy character to connect with and become invested in.  Mia is a fun and playful character who seems to be full of life and adventure but there just wasn’t enough about her to really get to know her and fall in love with her along with Coop. The storyline is genius and the hotness factor off the charts, it just leans toward excessive at the expense of any romance.