Review: Intense from start to finish!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 12, 2014
The first book in The Desire Series, Darque Desires explores the deeper sense of BDSM and tries to dispel the clichéd version of it from far more popular erotic book series. I appreciate the more mature approach that Blythe used in the story, plus the more mature characters.Dominic Darque is a 50-something Dominant who adheres to what he dislikes others call a “lifestyle”. When he ditches a pretentious twenty-something on their third date at a poetry reading, he didn’t really expect that he’d come across one gorgeous surprise—tall, blonde, and curvy Deedee.As with erotic novels go, the story quickly spirals into uncontrollable heat between Dominic and Deedee. And it’s important to note that aside from their sexual chemistry, they actually go along with each other even outside the bedroom. I appreciate this element because it makes the story believable when the characters are developed properly and not made two-dimensional.The writing is also quite clever; you know how they say imagination is sexy? Blythe’s narrative style is so powerful that the book will paint very vivid and intricate details in readers’ minds. And when it comes to erotic novels, it’s one very important element. The writing style is also able to provide adequate insight about each character, from the meticulous Dominic to gender-bender Deedee, who is revealed later in the novel to have been in a relationship with another woman and fellow stripper (yes, stripper) Charlene.And if you think that the book is going to decrease in intensity as the story progresses, you couldn’t be more wrong—I will tell you this only because I think it will definitely convince anyone to get a copy of Darque Desires immediately—because the novel ends in a three-way between Dominic Darque, Deedee, and Charlene. I think Darque Desires is one of the more elegantly written erotic novels currently on the bookshelves today, and Darque Temptations—book two in the series—couldn’t come soon enough.