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La Crimson Femme
Welcome to my dungeon ~ book reviews, musings and education relating to erotica, graphic sex and more. I love gentle pain mixed with rough pleasure.
Currently reading
Safe Word (Carrie’s Story #2)
Gestapo Girl
Redemption
Game Misconduct
White Ivory
Beyond the Edge
An Executive Decision
Sudden Sex: 69 Sultry Short Stories
Ricochet
In His Command
Ms. Banks weaves bittersweet tales. Linger contains two stories, both a menage a trois. In Stay with me, Catherine is the lonely wife of two men. I always thought that having a spare husband would ease the time when the other one wasn't around. This story proved my theory wrong. This was a sad story of a wife taken for granted. She gives up hope. While this did end as a HEA story, I would have been just as satisfied if she left the two workaholic husbands. Songbird is yet another story of a broken woman. Her story is sadder. Emily's devastation with her husband's death is understandable. For her to be with two men, her husband's two older brothers is believable only when the history is revealed. It is a story that is bittersweet for me because it was one of those could have been yet, it isn't. The guilt between the three of them was a bit overwhelming. It's nice to see an author who isn't afraid to show the bad aftermath of decisions. Ms. Banks is a master at showing what could have been, yet rips that away from us to give us the reality due to choices the characters make. Her books are almost always bittersweet an poignant for me.