Review: Sweet, Juicy and Quite Tasty
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 26, 2012
This charming <wink wink> piece is a novella, not a full-length novel.  It's a brilliant example of how a good writer can tell much story in few pages.A beautiful young woman is found poisoned in an apple orchard.  She wakes up with amnesia, but luckily, her foxy Doc lives in a former bed-and-breakfast with his six best male friends.  And they'd all love to have the woman - dubbed  Blanche for now - stay with them until she recovers her memory.If you enjoy explicitly sexual, witty, tongue-in-cheek stories with a generous helping of the unbelievable, you should take a bite of this book.  Ives does an incredibly clever job creating personas for Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Bashful and the rest and a unique connection to our heroine, who has very different sexual and emotional relationships with all of them.Where this is weak is at the end, where the Prince of Charming Industries comes forward to claim his fiancée, and Blanche's identity is revealed.  Her stepmother is probably the one who poisoned her, but there isn't any real motivation shown, and nobody seems concerned that she might keep trying.  However, we don't get to dwell on this for very long, as we jump right into bed for a hot menage scene.Despite the number of sex scenes (lots) they're all unique, and equally hot.  (Ives needs to better differentiate between her heroes' and heroine's sound effects, however.)  If you want a short spicy read, for less than the price of a latté, this is a great choice.