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Willing Victim by Cara McKenna – Anne’s review

Posted on by Dirty Girl Anne

This is Anne’s birthday week, so we’re going to spend two days on one of her favorite books of all time.  Yesterday was  Kate’s review, and now, Anne’s review.

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Grade: A+
Hotness Level: Inferno
Kink Level: Moderate Kink
Genre: Contemporary, BDSM
Published: 8/6/10
Reviewed by Anne
105 ebook pages

This is one of my favorite books of all time.  I’ve been pressuring Kate to read it.  And when I say pressuring I mean that I annoyed her to the point that she probably read it just to get me to stop bringing it up.  I thought she’d LOVE it just like me.  But she read it and said it was pretty good.  Pretty good?  Seriously?  Now I feel the need to defend this awesome story.  So if you’re looking for an unbiased review?  You should probably go read Kate’s review.

  1. Flynn – a tattoed, rough and scarred fighter/boxer long before it was cool in other romances
  2. Rape role playing – this is the best I’ve ever seen this done. Their discussion ahead of time, the safeword, the scenarios they play out, the way they care for each other during and after their sessions – this is sex done right.
  3. This:

They walked to Flynn’s building without speaking and he punched the floor buttons for two and five.  He made his usual stop to knock on his sister’s door then returne, a hardness to his expression.

“You okay?” Laurel asked.

“Second we get in that apartment,” Flynn muttered, “it’s on.”

“What’s on?”

The growl in his voice was all the answer she needed.  “You fucking know.”

 

Now I know Kate didn’t like the abrupt ending – I am fine with it.  I feel confident that they’ll be ok.  And I know that the voyeurism scene is the book is off putting to some, but for me, because all parties involved were on board?  So hot.  It totally worked for me!

So what’s your all time favorite read?  (Or just one of them if you can’t narrow it down!)

Willing Victim by Cara McKenna – Kate’s Review

Posted on by Dirty Girl Anne

This is Anne’s birthday week, so we’re going to spend two days on one of her favorite books of all time.  Today is Kate’s review, and tomorrow, Anne’s review.

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Grade: C+
Hotness Level: Inferno
Kink Level: Moderate Kink
Genre: Contemporary, BDSM
Published: 8/6/10
Reviewed by Anne

When Laurel sees a stranger standing up for a lady who is being harassed, she follows the man and introduces herself. Flynn is an underground fighter not really looking for a serious relationship.  He’s happy with the friends-with-benefits situation he currently has.  Until Laurel shows up in the picture.  There’s so much that attracts him to her, but she’s 100% vanilla and Flynn accepted a long time ago that he needs more than just vanilla.  We get to join Laurel on her journey of discovery with Flynn’s darker side.

This book came highly recommended by Anne and a few other book friends.  And I went into it a little hesitantly because I’m not a huge fighter romance fan.  But I loved Flynn and his fighting and his desires and most of all his dirty mouth.  I could go on and on about Flynn’s dirty mouth.  Seriously.  If hot, dirty, balls-to-the-wall sex is what you like to read this is the book for you.

Despite the fantastic sex, I just wanted there to be more to the relationship. At first I thought “well, maybe if this was a full length…” But then I realized it wasn’t a novella, it was closer to 281 pages. So length was not the problem. I just wanted more than a sexual connection between them. It was clear at the end that there was more of a connection, I just wanted to see it more.

I do want to mention the opening scenes with Flynn and his friends-with-benefits.  I understand that the purpose was to expose Laurel to his lifestyle, but I really didn’t enjoy seeing him with someone else.  However, once I got past that, the story really took off.

The Highest Bid by Joey W. Hill

Posted on by Dirty Girl Anne

Grade: A-
Hotness Level: Inferno
Kink Level: High Kink
Genre: BDSM, Contemporary
Series: Naughty Bits #4
Published: 7/15/14
Reviewed by Kate

When Madison inherited her sister’s lingerie shop, she met Logan-a Dom who owns the hardware store next door.  A while back, Madison told Logan about her secret fanatsy, and this final installment of the Naughty Bits series is when Logan decides to make that fantasy a reality.

I enjoyed this one a lot.  Madison finally, finally, finally starts to believe that it’s possible for her to have a realtionship with Logan, despite her numerous failed realtionships in the past.  As with the rest of the installments, this one is best read in privacy.  Your face will flush and your heart will race (among other things) while reading the sex scenes.

I wish it hadn’t ended as abruptly as it did.  I would have loved to see an epilogue or at least a few more chapters.  I left the book feeling happy for Madison and Logan but wondering how long it could really last for them.

If you like BDSM, this is a great series to try.  With a little bit of a lot of kinks thrown in throughout the series, there’s almost guaranteed to be something for everyone.  I, for one, can’t wait to go back and reread this entire series-one right after the other this time.

Joey W. Hill has been added to my BDSM authors to read.  Do you have any other BDSM authors you would recommend?