Review: Hold on tight, this one's a doozy!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 28, 2011
Book 5 of "The Brothers of Wilde, Nevada" series. Preceded by Book 4Wilde Nights, followed by Book 6 (and final) "Wilde Love" (not published at the time of this review).Plot:And finally we get to Austin. Can Jessie find her way into his heart by being the perfect sub to his 24-7 Dom in 7 very intense days and nights? If she doesn't, she knows there's no hope for a future with her cowboys. It's all or nothing.Comments:- 2267 kindle locations, 25,085 words- m/f and 1f:4m. LOTS of bdsm with toys, outside, dungeon, D/s behaviour, pain. Intense, emotional, loving. Always consensual.- Characters from previous books re-appear.- This is a serialized romance; each book is complete, but the over-arching plot extends through every book. They CAN NOT be read out of order, without losing much of the enjoyment. Think of them like a television series where each episode tells a story, but there's a major storyline we're watching play out, getting another glimpse each episode. Without any one of the episodes we would miss a vital clue.Opinion:No, no. Nononono. He can't do that to her. He can't do that to them. Where's the next book? *sob* Ms Lang!!! What are you doing to me?!?What a cliffhanger! What an emotionally charged episode. What are we to do?Now that that's out of the way...Okay, this is a really great addition to the series. Watching Jessie toughen up, accept herself, find love, has been a privilege. Even taking the sex and bdsm out, the over-riding feelings of love and strength are amazing. And then when you add the sex... Wham! How intense is that?!? Okay, I said early on that I'm not really into bdsm. And I stand by that. This isn't the bdsm ofThe Reluctant DomorClub Shadowlands. Yes, Austin is a "Dom" and Jessie is being his sub, and yes, there are explicit descriptions of floggings, bondage and use of other toys. BUT Lang doesn't focus on it. It's all about getting into Jessie's head. Feeling her desires, her release, her connection to Austin and his brothers. It helps that we have built up to this. It helps that we have taken the journey with Jessie. And we feel every kiss, stroke and "sweetheart" rather than every spank, tie and humiliation.At the end of the day, I suspect that if you really are into bdsm erotica, you'd probably find this a little "lite". And if you are anti-bdsm then this goes way too far. But if you are open to the possibilities, willing to go there in a story, but not in Real Life, then the whole series could well be your cup of tea (as apparently it is mine).-CR-