Stroke of Midnight by Bonnie Edwards
Contemporary Erotic Romance
January 24, 2011
E-Book, Novella
Carina Press

Reviewed by Mandi

Jaye Sinns is a single mom, raising her now 16 year old son by herself from the time she was fifteen. She is a bookkeeper and has never really taken time out of her schedule just for her. She finds herself at a very swanky car auction with her brother and sister in-law. She catches the eye of a very sexy man – and they do the staring game for awhile until he finally saunters over.

Alexander Carmichael is a very wealthy man, who jet sets around the world. He sees Jaye and there is an instant attraction. He likes her bolder look and wants to learn everything he can about her. He proposes a spontaneous trip to Paris and Jaye is eager to go.

Stroke of Midnight did not do it for me. It is an erotic book with scenes way too over the top. First Jaye, who has never had a vacation before, drops everything to go away with a man she just met that day to Europe. They can’t just go out to dinner? She leaves her 16 year old son by himself and goes all the way across the ocean when she has never been on a vacation before? So I assume has never left her son alone?

The sex scenes are not hot. The wording and descriptions made me laugh and put me off. For example:

“Less than two inches from her face, his manhood rose, thick and full veined, turgid with hot, yearning life-force.”

“His balls contracted with her touch. Each testicle was a perfect sphere, cocooned in his sac, waiting, waiting, waiting for the demand nature placed on it. Jaye answered the glorious call, as women had always responded.”

Did we just learn his balls are perfect spheres?? For real? And later in the book, her clit is also described as “turgid.” That’s a lot of turgid-ness. This book is just sex scene after sex scene. They arrive in Paris and Jaye didn’t think about bringing her passport. So they have to sneak into London without one. More sex scenes. He forgets to use a condom and then really hopes she is pregnant. More sex scenes. Alexander starts saying repeatedly that he wants her to stay longer than the two weeks. Jaye needs to get back home to her son and job – but Alexander doesn’t let up. At all. It becomes creepy. Jaye finally sneaks away in the middle of the night. Then – more sex scenes.

Stroke of Midnight has plenty of sex scenes but is not erotic in any way. Along with a plot that is lacking, I can’t recommend this one.

Rating: D

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