Simple Need by Lissa Matthews
November 25th, 2009
Erotic Contemporary
E-Book, Novella
Ellora’s Cave

Why I read: The author asked for a review

Favorite Quote: “By morning you won’t remember his name and you won’t want to forget mine.”

Elise has been dumped by text message by her boyfriend who ended up being married. She has had full access to him – phone number, address, could see him anytime, so finding out he is married is quite a shock to her. Drowning her sorrows at a bar, she meets Vinter (love his name!) who takes one look at the luscious Elise and wants to make her feel better. He offers her a night of sex – for her to forget her worries. He also has the urge to get to know her better, but for tonight, he wants to give her excitement and naughtiness. Having some liquid courage in her she accepts, but that same liquid courage makes her fall asleep on the way home. So their exciting night, turns into a snooze fest – but no worries, they make up for it in the morning.

Simple Need is a hot story – a short one, but in this short space Lissa Matthews writes a pretty convincing relationship. It only takes place over one day, and yet the events that unfold are realistic. After Elise falls asleep, he decides to let her sleep the rest of the night instead of forcing the sex issue. He is a gentlemen – a gentlemen that is tattooed and pierced – in all the right places. When Elise awakes the next morning, that courage from the alcohol is gone and it takes a lot for her to work up the nerve to have sex. But Vinter realizes this and once she starts, she is all for it.

There is a great scene with them in the middle of oh so naughty sexin’ and her phone rings with her ex-boyfriend. It becomes a very steamy scene as she takes the call, and the sexin’ action doesn’t stop.

Simple Need is a fast and furious erotic story. A bad boy that is a gentlemen – it doesn’t get better.

Rating: 4/5

Full Disclosure by Cari Quinn
November 6th, 2009
Erotic Contemporary
E-Book, Novella
Wild Rose Press

Why I read: The author asked for a review

Favorite Quote: Rather than calling out for a lunchtime delivery of Moo Goo Gai Pan, she’d placed an order for sex. Hold the chopsticks.

Holly Burrows is ready to get a little crazy. After a boring marriage and recent divorce, Holly wants some spice in her life. Thanks to the website, Hunk Du Jour, she has found Kent online – a dirty talker that she enjoyed a night of phone sex with. Now she is ready to meet him in person, and schedules a dessert date with him. Beforehand she is having lunch with her colleague, Alex, ten years her junior.

Alex has a secret- a big secret. He is actually the owner of the site Hunk du Jour and he is also Kent. He has had a crush on Holly for the past three weeks, but knowing she is his senior at the firm and ten years older, he didn’t think she would accept his advances. Instead, he uses the pseudo-name and flirts with her that way. His plan at lunch is to come clean, but things change when the sexual tension between him and Holly explodes at lunch. He needs her now – and she is all willing.

Holly feels a little guilty for blowing off Kent, and means to make it up to him. After mind blowing with sex with Alex all afternoon, Holly is having the time of her life.

Full Disclosure has a great beginning and had me chuckling many times. Holly comes across a bit more silly, and desperate to get laid. The tension between her and Alex is immediate and never lets up. They can’t even make it all the way home before they have to pull over on the side of the road to do the dirty. Although at first she has some insecurities about their age difference, that soon flies out the window. Holly knows what she wants and she is not afraid to tell or ask for it. Cari Quinn writes really hot sex scenes!

Towards the end however, my love affair started to dwindle. Once all secrets are revealed, Alex starts acting like Holly is in the wrong for emailing Kent to apologize for not meeting him – saying Holly was almost cheating on him. They had been intimate for one afternoon. Really not grounds to start throwing that word around. He makes her feel guilty, when really he was the one in the wrong tricking Holly with Kent. Their relationship really took a serious tone after one day of really getting to know one another and that to me is way too quick for that to happen.

Full Disclosure has a fun start and is a really steamy book. The ending is a bit disappointing but I will definitely read Cari Quinn again!

Rating: 3/5