Serving Pleasure by Alisha Rai
Released: June 16, 2015
Contemporary Romance
Self Published

Reviewed by Mandi

Serving Pleasure is a very strong romance – I’ve been so impressed with Alisha Rai’s stories recently. I hope she writes more and more.

Micah Hale was a successful artist in London, but after a vicious attack where he almost died, he lost his energy and passion. He moves to the US for a fresh start, but becomes a hermit. Rarely leaving his house or socializing, he has tried to get his painting back on track.  We’ll come back to Micah in a minute.

Rana’s family owns a restaurant and she takes turns working in it with her sisters. Rana has dated a lot and has decided, with a push from her controlling mother, to really focus on dating lawyers and doctors and to not sleep around anymore. Pressure from her family is one area Rana has a hard time with. Rana’s one guilty pleasure in life is to sneak peeks at her hottie neighbor through his window. She doesn’t know his name or much about him, except he rarely leaves his house and he paints at all hours of the night. She becomes very obsessed with spying on him. Although he is a stranger to her, she starts to make up his personality in her head. She calls him her “muffin” because she is trying to stay away from hottie guys who her parents would frown upon, and muffins are her guilty pleasure.

One night she catches him sans clothing and pleasuring himself.

But he was naked. Fully, delightfully naked.

He held a towel in his hand and used it to finish blotting his wide chest before he tossed it into the bathroom.

Even knowing he leaves wet towels on the floor doesn’t diminish his sex appeal.

Feeling extremely guilty that she watched his – she tells herself she will no longer ogle him through his window. But when she sees him leaving in his car, she follows him and ends up at his art show. Unknown to Rana, Micah knows she has been watching him, and put on the pleasuring show for her enjoyment. When he sees her at his art show, he  makes a move to take her back to his place. Let the sexy times begin!

While this book has really great sexual tension and very, very hot sex scenes, it also features a really strong and sexy heroine. I love Rana. She is confident and independent, yet lets her mother’s disappointment seep into her blood and she lets her sisters boss her around. When it comes to family, she is vulnerable.  When she is with Micah though, she is not ashamed of anything. He worships her body and she lets him.

He walked toward her until his chest was a few inches from hers. She wanted to breathe harder so her nipples could brush against him.

Damn. She’d had sex with this man? Go her.

Micah is very intense and serious. Rarely smiles or laughs, it has been very hard for him to move past the trauma of his attack. He scoffs at the idea of a therapist and would rather live alone and closed off to the world. Rana is a tornado of energy that storms into his life and he starts to crave her. She reawakens his sexual desires. She makes him food. She models for him and allows Micah to remember how fun life can be.

And this book is damn sexy. I’ll prove it in one sentence:

“Make me suck it,” she whispered.

Highly recommend this book.

Grade: B+

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