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Publisher:
Berkley Heat
Release Date:
October 2, 2007
Genres:
Erotica
Contemporary Romance
Ménage M/F/M
ISBN:
Print
9780425217214
Bookmark Rating:
Reviewed by
Jennifer Ray
Review Posted:
April 2008
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Virginal
Kimber Edgington needs some rather unorthodox lessons fast – in the art of
ménage á trois! She is determined to prove to her long-time friend and crush
Jesse that she can handle his rock-star lifestyle and sexual eccentricities and
be the woman he needs. Who better to ask for help than a man known for his
preference to share his women with other men? Never mind that she and Deke
never quite got along when he worked for her father while she was in her teens.
With Deke’s cousin, the delicious Luc Traverson, rounding out the threesome, she
figures she can handle anything Deke throws at her during her ‘training’ –
especially when the sexy chef makes it clear he is more than willing to
accommodate her needs, with or without Deke’s help…
Bodyguard Deke Trenton could barely stand to be around Kimber when she was a
teen-ager. It wasn’t that he didn’t like her – he liked her TOO much! But she
was jailbait for him and he knew it, prompting him to leave her father’s employ
before he found himself in more trouble than he knew what to do with. Finding
her literally on his doorstep all these years later was unexpected enough, but
he never could have imagined the grown-up Kimber would come asking him to
introduce her into the world of threesomes! His body is more than willing to
teach her everything she wants and more, but once he has a taste of her
considerable charms, his heart can’t seem to accept the idea of letting her go
when her tutoring is finished even though his mind fights these new feelings
every step of the way…
When an unseen menace threatens Kimber’s life, Deke and Luc pull out all the
stops to keep her safe and under their wing – and none of their lives will ever
be the same again!
Fans of
Shayla Black’s book Wicked Ties
will be high as a kite when they finally get their hands on their very own copy
of its sequel, Decadent,
in October 2007! There is not a single person I have spoken with who has read
Wicked Ties and done
anything but loved it and I know the same will be true of this follow-up story.
We initially met one of our lead characters, Deke Trenton, in the first book
when he helped Jack and Morgan, going above and beyond the call of duty… LOL!
Black whets our appetite but good for more of this rogue’s story, and she has
not disappointed her readers with
Decadent. While intriguing and mischievous before,
Deke turns out to be a very complex character for whom nothing is superfluous –
there are reasons for everything he is today, and unraveling his multi-layered
psyche proves as fascinating as his numerous sexual exploits… Completely Alpha,
brash, confused, and wonderfully (dare I say it?)
Decadent, Deke takes us on
the ride of our lives as he struggles to come to grips with what he thinks he
wants and what his heart demands. Deke is all at once maddening, sexy and
frustrating as all get out, but regardless of how mad he makes you sometimes,
you can’t help but love him. Fighting himself is difficult enough, but fighting
Kimber proves impossible – especially when his cousin Luc aligns his loyalties
with her in the battle for Deke’s love.
Deke has
more than met his match in heroine Kimber Edgington! Raised by three military
men – her father and two older brothers, she can take just about anything Deke
can dish out. She has handled men like him her entire life, and refuses to be
dissuaded by his reluctance to become involved with her. Of course, she has a
bit of her own personal confusion to work through first – namely her
relationship with the wayward rock star, Jesse. Having set her sights on a
goal, Kimber attacks her mission in a very military fashion – with single-minded
focus, and doesn’t realize the end game has changed until it is too late… Or is
it?
Luc Traverson balances out the ménage nicely with his smooth demeanor,
maneuvering Kimber and Deke deftly, with benefit to all concerned. He provides
the glue that binds the trio together, albeit precariously, but are his
machinations purely altruistic, or is there more to Luc than meets the eye?
Sensitive readers should be warned: this book is smoldering hot, and contains
numerous ménage á trois scenes, all M/F/M (no M/M is in this book). Of course,
that is a selling point for many of us! LOL I have to say, both
Wicked Ties and
Decadent are enough to
make you curious about things you have never been curious about before, but the
two together – WOW! I am almost thankful for the wait between the two books’
releases – I’m afraid I’d have had a nuclear meltdown if I had read them back to
back! Who am I kidding? If they’d both been released before I’d read the
first, I wouldn’t have stopped reading until I finished them both.
Avid fans of this author know that she writes as both Shelley Bradley and Shayla
Black, publishing her spicier novels under the Shayla Black moniker. No matter
which pen name she is using, this author can always be relied on to spin a
fascinating story with fully-fleshed characters that engage the reader from page
one, and keep you turning the page until you finish the book! I know this book,
like her others, kept me up way too late on a work night, but once I started it
I knew I could never sleep until the story ended!
I look forward to many more stories in this series – between the first two books
alone, there are at least four or five characters I would dearly love to see
books for – and I have no doubt that each new book will spawn longing for still
more!
Brimming with the most tantalizing love scenes and two undeniably mouth-watering
heroes, Decadent is
undoubtedly one of the hottest books this year! But underneath it all, Shayla
Black has nestled one of the most touching stories of romantic love you will
read this year. Decadent
will sweep you up and run you through a gamut of emotions - frustration,
desire, fear, love, and more – until it finally leaves you ultimately
satisfied.
Note: This review was originally
written by Jennifer Ray for another review site. It is being reposted at
Wild on Books.
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