Dangerous Pleasures (Pleasures Series)
by Bertrice Small
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Author: Bertrice SmallEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-08-05
ISBN: 0451223977
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: NAL Trade
Book Reviews of Dangerous Pleasures (Pleasures Series)
Book Review: This book is simultaneously intriguing and disappointing
Summary: 2 Stars
Since first reading Betrice Small's "Skye O'Malley" 20 years ago, I've greatly enjoyed diving into her novels. However, her latest offerings involving The Channel show such promise in the beginning, but halfway through just leave me cold.
First, the good:
1) Most women will relate to the heroine, Annie, and her struggles involving money and family. After all, who hasn't worried about how to pay for their children's college, missing work because of a vomiting child or dealing with their own aging parents?
2) I found it refreshing that Annie was in her mid-40s and a size 16 (although she later slims down to a size 12). Congrats to Ms. Small for incorporating such a realistic character. No matter our size or age, we can still be desirable and sexy.
3) The Channel. Until some brilliant woman actually invents a way to allow us to star in and control our very own porn movie, I enjoy the experience vicariously through Small's characters.
The bad:
1) All too familiar sex scenes. She's seriously running out of ideas.
2) Mr. Nicholas. Small's loyal readers already know it's going to end badly when he's involved. I sincerely hope she incorporates The Channel in upcoming novels, but please leave the devilish Mr. Nicholas out it.
3) Annie has sexual relationships with her male assistant and 2 other underlings, both at work and elsewhere. This is professional suicide and I speak as a woman/mother/wife who works full time. Simply cringeworthy.
4) The whole "I'm doing it for my kids" mantra. At the beginning, Annie is a stay-at-home mom to her 5 kids, 4 of whom still live at home. Within a year of Annie starting work, her children have a full-time nannie who is virtually raising them while their mother often spends the night at her work apartment having 3-ways. How exactly is playing with and casually discarding her boy-toys helping her kids?
Started promising, but I didn't even care what happened to Annie because she was virtually unrecognizable by the middle of the book.
Summary of Dangerous Pleasures (Pleasures Series)
A new novel from ?the reigning queen of?erotica, romance, love, and lust.? (Literary Times)
New York Times bestselling author Bertrice Small explores the deepest recesses of the imagination where one woman?s sexual fantasies lie in wait?
Widowed with five children, stay at home mom Annie Miller has been just getting by?and growing restless because of it. Thinking Annie just needs a vacation, her sister enters her into a contest sponsored by The Channel, a network that caters to delivering women?s fantasies. Annie wins the grand prize, a week at a luxurious spa?and gets a treat when she turns on the flat-screen TV. The one working channel lets Annie program?and experience?her own personal fantasy each night. Suddenly she?s living out dreams she didn?t even know she had. But now that she?s experienced a complete sexual awakening, how will everyone in her former life handle this humble homemaker turned vivacious vixen?
New York Times bestselling author Bertrice Small explores the deepest recesses of the imagination where one woman?s sexual fantasies lie in wait?
Widowed with five children, stay at home mom Annie Miller has been just getting by?and growing restless because of it. Thinking Annie just needs a vacation, her sister enters her into a contest sponsored by The Channel, a network that caters to delivering women?s fantasies. Annie wins the grand prize, a week at a luxurious spa?and gets a treat when she turns on the flat-screen TV. The one working channel lets Annie program?and experience?her own personal fantasy each night. Suddenly she?s living out dreams she didn?t even know she had. But now that she?s experienced a complete sexual awakening, how will everyone in her former life handle this humble homemaker turned vivacious vixen?
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