Review: “Use this beautiful mouth of yours to tell me what you want, Adrienne,”
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 5, 2014
Isabel Lucero.Jace Jamison is a 6’4 dream lover complete with a hard body and tattoos. He is a successful businessman about to open a new night club in Sin City with his partners. Oh, what’s his business? Jace is a high paid male escort.Adrienne Miller is a beautiful event planner who hasn’t had sex since she dumped her last boyfriend for hitting on her best friend.Adrienne has seen Jace around at various social events.  Always a different woman on his arm.  Sure, he is gorgeous but the last thing she needs in her life is another man whore!After bumping into one another one more time than her libido can tolerate. And Adrienne gives into the fire the ‘god like creature’ ignites in her.  But afterward she is committed to just being friends.Soon Jace discovers being friends isn’t nearly enough.  Will confessing his profession ruin his chances with the lovely event planner?Can Adrienne get past what Jace does to see who he really is?  That is the question.I was struck by a couple key elements in this book.  First the characters themselves are quite likeable.Adrienne is charming, intelligent and not ruled by a sex drive that prohibits functioning as a human.  She acts her age, which is refreshing and she has priorities.  The reader can easily slip into her ‘skin’ and live the experience with her.Jace, on the other hand, is that larger than life man women fantasize about in their daydreams.  Confident, successful and utterly sexual.Ms. Lucero does something that a lot of writers of erotic fiction neglect.  She lets the reader see how the fictional world sees her characters.  By observing Jace’s interactions with employees and staff, the reader gets to glimpse more than the rock hard abs and a preternaturally well-endowed midsection.  Readers get to watch Jace treat others with courtesy and respect.  You see him act like a gentleman and a ‘sexy beast’. And that is a combination worth your time.Ms. Lucero also does an admirable job weaving minor characters into the plot.  She uses dialogue to illustrate the relationships between friends and would be lovers. The readers get to meet the people in the protagonists’ lives.  And, I hope, we get a peek at the ‘players’ in future installments of this series.One of the best features of good erotic/romantic fiction is the excitement of sexual attraction.  Eyes meeting from across a crowded room, accidental touches, breath catching in anticipation of the first kiss.  At the half way mark in this narrative the author uses a line that serves perfectly as the moment Jace realizes he wants more from Adrienne.  He shows he is a man with a need for this woman and this woman alone.“Use this beautiful mouth of yours to tell me what you want, Adrienne,” he says as he brings his thumb to my bottom lip and gently pulls it down. “Whatever it is, just tell me. If you want me to leave you alone, I will.”  Lucero, Isabel (2014-01-01)Now the reader see a man with vulnerability and there is nothing sexier than that.