Monday, July 22, 2013

Seductive Shadows

 

Seductive Shadows 
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Charlie is a passionate, sensually inspired art student, desperately seeking an escape from an abusive past that haunts her and a tragic accident that emptied her heart. Scarred and unable to love, her yearning for physical pleasure and contact leads her into a tantalizing, dangerous world of power and seduction. The anonymity of the deal offers security, the money provides financial freedom, and the madam’s authority is the mother figure she longs for.But the thrill of the mansion and its arousing dominance quickly fades when she meets the renowned yet mysterious Cameron Hardy, whose intense, baby blue eyes send a nervous flutter through her core. He’s sexy, and not in a subtle way. Cameron stimulates her art, intellect and desires. Just as he begins to break through her emotional boundaries, Charlie discovers a devastating connection between her past and her scandalous work at the mansion, shattering everything she thought to be true.
Provocative, intoxicating and erotic, Seductive Shadows is the unforgettable tale of a young woman’s discovery as she learns to forgive, to love and be loved, and to find redemption amidst a memorable journey that will captivate your mind and stimulate your soul.
This book is for mature audiences 17+. It contains explicit language and sexual content.

Review

****This book was part of a blog tour I was given a copy for my honest review****
Charlie is a gifted art student with an innate sensuality, her past has left her scarred and she can't love but she needs physical contact. This need leads her down a dangerous road with a mysterious madam; at first everything is great until she meets Cameron. Cameron changes Charlie and as the two of them really begin to connect, she discovers horrible secrets at her work that change everything. This book is dark and raw with a razor sharp erotic edge to it. Charlie starts out closed off with her emotions only really shown to people through her artwork, through out the book her hard outer shell begins to crack. I really have no words to accurately describe how wonderful this book is. The first pages draw you in and the rest of the book holds your attention until the very end. I loved this book, it takes a lot of talent and skill to create the detailed scenes this author did without it becoming too much or too little. This book is not one that every person will enjoy or understand, but it should be one that everyone should at least try to read.


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Office Toy (Office Toy #1) 18+

The following review is for 18+ readers.
 Office Toy (Office Toy, #1) 
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Office Toy is an erotic MfMM (3 guys, 1 lucky gal) BDSM story of 8,400 words.
Elle’s job interview starts with Cunningham throwing away her cheap clothes and sending his assistant to buy new outfits. He’s got her naked, so of course he’ll lay her out on the conference table and claim her mouth. Soon Elle is trussed up, all of her holes stretched full while three hot men have their wicked way.
She loves her first tastes of liberated, naughty sex. But she’d better not start falling for her boss—no matter how safe he makes her feel—because while office sex is encouraged, romance is strictly forbidden.
This story contains explicit sexual content and graphic language that may be objectionable to some readers. For adults only.

Review

****I was given a copy of this through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review****
Elle knows on paper she’s not the best candidate for the job. She also knows that once in the door she can be the best, she just needs someone to take that chance on her. In this short novella we get to follow her on the job interview of a lifetime…
I worry about novellas because anything that length can easily leave you feeling like you’re not sure what happened. There’s not a lot of room to develop much of a relationship with characters. Office toy, however, did exactly what a novella should. It was a hot, fun little story that made me want to get to know the characters better. I was very happy to see the story continues. 

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The Mistress (The Original Sinners #4) 18+

The following review is for 18+ readers.
The Mistress (The Original Sinners, #4) 
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The final book in The Original Sinners Series - The Red Years.
There's punishment-and then there's vengeance.
Nora Sutherlin is being held, bound and naked. Under different circumstances, she would enjoy the situation immensely, but her captor isn't interested in play. Or pity.
As the reality of her impending peril unfolds, Nora becomes Scheherazade, buying each hour of her life with stories-sensual tales of Søren, Kingsley and Wesley, each of whom has tempted and tested and tortured her in his own way. This, Nora realizes, is her life: nothing so simple, so vanilla, as a mere love triangle for her. It's a knot in a silken cord, a tangled mass of longings of the body and the heart and the mind. And it may unravel at any moment.
But in Nora's world, no one is ever truly powerless-a cadre of her friends, protectors and lovers stands ready to do anything to save her, even when the only certainty seems to be sacrifice and heartbreak... 

Review

****I was given a copy of this ARC from the publisher, through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review****
Forever. Everything.
5 glorious stars
Raw. Chewed up and spit out. I love Tiffany Reisz. She continues to blow my mind, every time I think I’ve read her best work she pulls out something that slaps me in the face. I want to kiss her feet just for the opportunity to read her stories. The Mistress was brilliant. I tried to come up with more adjectives and nothing comes close to describing the genius that is this series. 5 stars, I haven’t given 5 stars since I started reviewing for the blog. I cried three times in this book alone. Three. Not the girlie pretty, single tear running down your cheek. Once was of the put the book down and walk away variety. That is how in love I am with the characters and the story. I want to devour it, I want to own it, and I want to live it. Every time I read these I get the urge to write because I know reading another book immediately afterwards is not fair to other authors. Sure I have other favorite authors that I love and are amazing writers, but not a single one has ever been able to make me feel like this. I’ve cried, screamed, laughed, and smiled till it hurt in other books but I never felt this soul deep feeling. I have no other words to describe it. This series is one of a kind. Our favorites are back to haunt us, we finally get the stories we’ve been begging for in completion. I feel blessed to have been granted with an ARC of this book. I know I will be re-reading this series.  
 
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