Review: Incredibly Erotic, But...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 11, 2012
Luke Stacey fell in love with Kennedy Stacey as a teenager, when her dad took Luke and his brother in after the death of their own parents. The problem was that Luke never revealed his feelings for her, and Kennedy got involved with Luke's brother. This story takes place eleven years after Luke walks in on his brother and Kennedy; her father has recently died and Luke resents that she didn't tell him about her father's illness. Kennedy has pretty much been left destitute, and when Luke sees that she may turn to his brother for help, he steps in and provides her with a job and a place to stay.The chemistry between Luke and Kennedy was incredible, and the labeling of this book as "erotic" is no accident, nor is it a mistake. Luke and Kennedy are incredibly hot together, and the author can definitely write a love scene that's a little dirty and a whole lot of sexy. And she writes plenty of them. I suppose what makes this book work better than so many of the Kindle books that sell themselves as erotica is that there is actually a pretty decent story involved here, and I liked the characters and wanted them to win their happily ever after.The one drawback for me was the prologue wherein Luke sees Kennedy and his brother in bed together. Liam, Luke's brother, is pretty much a jerk and didn't really care for Kennedy, and she seemed to enjoy the sex with him, but I didn't think it was necessary to the story. It would have been enough for them to have shared a kiss or just some chemistry, as there really is never anything in the story that justifies her having slept with Liam when she seemed to have been in love with Luke in their younger days too. I kept hoping that this would be dealt with in some way during the course of the story, but while that previous relationship is mentioned, there's no attempt to settle it or to get rid of the Springer-esque quality of having a torrid romance with the brother of an ex-lover. As that part of the story took place eleven years ago, I just had to let it go because the rest of the story was totally worth the read.