 | By: Lori Foster Binding: Paperback Publisher: Kensington Publishing ISBN: 0758200870 ISBN-13: 9780758200877 Released: 02 Apr 2004 RRP: Average Rating:  |
It was great to catch up with the familiar characters & watch Ben falll inlove with Sierra (including some brilliant sex scenes).
Definately worth buying.
Ben loves the ladies, & they love him right back. He enjoys his life as owner of a motel / diner / bar complex, & is happy with his life. Ben has very few inhibitions. He loves his brother, his mother & is beginning to come to terms with his grandmother, Agatha. He enjoys women, but is happy with the status quo. Into his life waltzes Sierra Murphy - new owner of her own landscaping business whose offices are just across the street from Ben's motel. The attraction between them is instant. Ben wants hot sex, but Sierra although attracted to Ben, doesn't want sex at alll. Or so she thinks - it is up to Ben to convince her, to find out the very private Sierra's secrets & open her up to him. Only in doing so, he finds he's also opened himself to her. And then her past comes back to stalk her...
What I like about Foster, her 'warts & alll' approach to her characters, especiallly on the sensual side, is actuallly what gave me a problem in the first part of this book. Ben is supremely confident in his sexual prowess, due to extensive experience. He initiallly actively seeks to dominate Sierra sexuallly, in part because she is able to stand up for herself verballly but seems to have no defences from him once they touch. I found this extremely unattractive in Ben, & I found particularly distasteful his & Sierra's comparison of their own activities with those in Ben's past. I don't mind the comparison, but I would have liked for Ben to realise that Sierra was different, & then moved on. This didn't occur until much later in the book. I think this situation is very realistic, but I just didn't like the continual references. On the other hand, once he realised Sierra's vulnerability & the reason behind her distrust, Ben handled the emotional side of their relationship probably better than Sierra did, so the character scales ultimately balanced.
Once I got past Ben's calculatedly dominating sexual ways, when he came to know Sierra & her vulnerabilities, I found the book very enjoyable. The blunt speech, particularly in the men, is very refreshing & serves to show exactly how they are feeling & what they're thinking. Noah, Grace & Agatha return to reprise their roles from Too Much Temptation, & it's interesting to see how Sierra views these characters - a fresh perspective on old friends. The little gem that was the relationship between Ben's mother & Sierra's best friend was a highlight of the book for me - I almost enjoyed it more than Ben & Sierra's romance! The gradual revelation of Sierra's past was well done, & Foster is able to make each of the characters distinct from one another, & the relationship between them very well defined. The erotic aspect of the book was well handled by Foster, who is by now a past master at slow burning heat.
Those who have read Too Much Temptation might want to compare Noah & Agatha's relationship to Agatha & Ben, or to see how Sierra views Noah compared to how Grace did - I certainly saw him differently through Sierra's eyes - he seems much more dangerous!
Overalll another winner by Foster.
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