Review: Hot love triangle
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 9, 2013
This was a quick, short read at a little under 70 pages. I was engaged from beginning to end with the story and the pacing was pretty good. There wasn't really any time to get bored and the plot just kept moving along taking you with it.I'm really happy this book was set in one of my all-time favorite countries and one of my favorite cities within that country. The setting is Venice, Italy. I've been to Venice twice so for me the descriptions of the city were pretty accurate and made me envision that I was back in Italy strolling along the streets taking in the vendors and splendor that is very unique city on water.  If you haven't been to Italy, I think that the author's descriptions were good enough that you could envision yourself there. Or at least make yourself think it's time to take that romantic getaway trip that you have been planning on but haven't had the chance to take.As for the romance that is set in one of the most romantic cities in the world, it is a love triangle. Typically, I'm not that into love triangles but this one wasn't so bad. We have Allison, who has never quite gotten over Cole; whose was pretty much a dick in their "relationship" but the relationship was so intense in and out of bed that no one since has quite matched up. That is until Nico picks her up from the airport. Nico is the intense attraction with some more substance behind him.  Nico is just as intensely attracted to Allison as she is to him. In this love triangle, Cole arrives in Venice determined to win Allison back. Since they parted he too has not felt anything as intense as it had been with Allison. All Cole really had to do to win Allison over was pretty much say hi. I was pretty disappointed that she went back to that douche so easily; but at the same time, when your dickmatized (youtube dickmatized the Queens of Comedy, you won't be sorry!) sometimes it's hard to think clearly. LOL.  And this chick was clearly dickmatized... I am not a fan of Cole, from the get go, there really is just not much to like about him. His way of "making it up to" Allison for having sex with one of her best friends was to have a threesome with another man. Now, admittedly Allison is pretty sexually open, but come call it what it is a fantasy, but not a way to make it up to her.  Only in a douches brain would that be a good way to make it up to the one who got away. Now that being said, that I clearly didn't like our "hero", I don't think we were supposed to like him. I think Normandie Alleman didn't want us to like him, wants us to root for Nico and for Allison to get her head out of her a$$ and choose the right man for her. But the question is, who will she pick in this crazy love triangle??Since this is an erotica novel, I feel like I would be remiss in my duties if I didn't at least mention the sex. I have to say it was pretty hot. The flash backs to a younger Allison and Cole as well as the older Allison and Cole, it is easy to see why the girl was dickmatized. Cole certainly knew what he was doing. He understood Allison's needs better than she did. The threesome scene wasn't what I was used to from other such scenes, Nico and Cole weren't really a team, they didn't really work together for Allison's pleasure. It was basically three different people with three different goals. All three goals were hot and it was pretty sexy but it wasn't as cohesive as I was used to, but it worked within this story's framework. I think would have gone against the love triangle aspect if it had been cohesive with Nico and Cole working as a team.Overall, it was a pretty good novella. I enjoyed it for what it is and I would pick up another book by this author in the future.*This title was provided by the author for an honest review. No other compensation was provided.Rating: 3.75 Romanticals