Review: Stand Alone Yes, Series Maybe
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 2, 2013
Although not in love with this book, I'm definitely head over heals in like with it. I think it had an unfair advantage because I was so in love with her other books. I'm also not sure how I feel about this being a continuation story series that can all possibly be stand alones.I enjoyed Savannah and Garrick. The love scenes were Samantha Wayland hot. Naughty and scorching. The story was smooth and kept me reeled in. While reading I thought I had a clear picture of who the next books in the series was going to be about, and I was partially correct. One of the characters I thought would be next IS next, but with Garrick....Fair Play has a HEA and can be read as a stand alone. There are no cliffhangers. You can read it and walk away if you want.The thing is, now I know it's just a HFN, and I was excited about reading the series.  I wish I had known going in the series was going to expand Garrick and Savannah's relationship, because the story ends in a way that doesn't leave the reader (at least me) mentally or emotionally open to them not having a cut and dry HEA. The characters will move towards a possible m/m/f triad over the next two books. This is where Ms.Wayland loses me.When reading a triad, I prefer the relationship and attraction of all three characters being established in the first book or at least to know it's coming. I love m/m/f triad books, I just need to know that's what's happening. I'm also not crazy about their relationships being established separately. That's not a triad at all. That's just having an open relationship, which is not my thing. This soap operaing it out into three stand alone stories threw me through a loop.I will read the next in the series, but now it's more out of curiosity than desire to read it. I'm definitely going in with some prejudices and hangups. I was fully prepared for Garrick and Savannah to be secondary characters in the back ground of the next book, not leading characters. I felt done with them by the end of this book, and wish that some of the story line in the next book was set up better, so I could have seen it coming.Having read Ms.Wayland's other books, I kept waiting for it to go in the triad direction. I also thought it would go in that direction with a completely different character than who is in the next book.Although, I must add, I didn't feel a loss at all when it didn't happen. Garrick and Savannah are sweet, and so in love. In fact Garrick is so in love with Savannah, other people just aren't attractive to him.I think Samantha Wayland's making it so each book can be read as a stand alone, which I understand why, but I'm not really into.So, as a stand alone, yes great book. It's a story that hooks you and killer love scenes that don't take over the whole book. As a series.. the jury is still out.