Review: Deeper than I thought it would be
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 10, 2014
I was provided with a free copy of the book in exchange for an honest review by the author.Lab Rat's Love is so much more than I thought it would be.  I was expecting something along the lines of hot and smexy with a little sci-fi tech thrown in.  Don't get me wrong it is that but dang it's so much more.  Ms. Phoenix gave us a nice complex storyline to follow. She takes on childhood tragedy, gambling, substance abuse, death, a little mental illness, and love.Kane has just lost his best-friend, business partner, and guinea pig, Styx, to a tragic car accident.  Kane and Styx are business partners in adult "toys" and have come up a new product for the BDSM community.  It's a computer chip to enhance the sexual experience but it has to be implanted in the brain.  On his deathbed Kane learns that Styx has an identical twin brother, Nex, that gets Kane to thinking he may just have a new guinea pig.Nex and Styx weren't very close because of Nex' self-destructive behavior.  The brothers were seperated from each other at the age of 10.  Styx grows up to be a successful entrepreneur and Nex grows up to be an addict.  Nex has a gambling problem, a drug problem, and money problems and a best friend that enables him.  When Kane offers him an opportunity to turn his money problems around, he jumps at the chance.The death of Styx,the one person that brought them together could very well be the one person that drives them apart.Both Kane and Nex have to overcome their own demons and deal with the loss of someone they both loved and come to terms with feelings of betrayal.  It was a long road but there is a HEA at the end, so YAY!The only downside I saw from the story was it really didn't talk about the chip.  I mean they spoke of the chip but not in detail, how does it work, where does it go in brain, how did they come up with the idea for it.  Just some details I think would have added to the story more.  Overall this was a very good story.