The Fighter's Secretary
This is the second book by Ann Mayburn I've read. The other one was RS I read last year (GUARDING HOPE). The two stories are very different, this being a BDSM erotic romance, but one thing they have in common is Ann's great writing style. It has a certain roughness to it that's unapologetic and I love that.
Being a novella of not quite 90 pages this was one of those reads where character development and build-up to both internal and external conflicts as well as their resolution was sacrificed in favor of some seriously hot scenes. Though I would have liked a bit more depth and some things, like the conflict and its resolution, happened too quickly I really enjoyed how smoking hot, raw and dirty it was. This made it hard for me to rate this read because as much as I love and appreciate dirty sexy scenes, I also want to emotionally connect with the characters and the romance and I didn't quite manage that with THE FIGHTER'S SECRETARY.
Memorable Scene:
- Dallas watching the security video of Amanda with the clamps > Wow! Smoking hot!
Favorite Quotes:
“Amanda is not my secretary,” came Dallas’s automatic reply. “She’s my personal assistant. If she hears you call her my secretary she’ll have your balls in her purse.”
The way he said her name, like he was relishing the words on his tongue, never failed to send her pulse racing, but she ignored it as best she could.
Dallas was about as dominant as they came and the hidden, submissive side of her nature cried out in longing to kneel at his feet.
An image of doing just that, clad only in those beautiful nipple clamps, flashed through her mind and she imagined nuzzling her face against the crease where his balls met his leg and drowning in his scent while he gripped her hair hard enough to hurt.
[...]she almost moaned when he brushed his rough thumb over her lower lip. The need to draw his thumb into her mouth, to suck on it, to nibble at the tip and taste him tempted her to the point where she parted her lips and a needy little whimper escaped.
Being a novella of not quite 90 pages this was one of those reads where character development and build-up to both internal and external conflicts as well as their resolution was sacrificed in favor of some seriously hot scenes. Though I would have liked a bit more depth and some things, like the conflict and its resolution, happened too quickly I really enjoyed how smoking hot, raw and dirty it was. This made it hard for me to rate this read because as much as I love and appreciate dirty sexy scenes, I also want to emotionally connect with the characters and the romance and I didn't quite manage that with THE FIGHTER'S SECRETARY.
Memorable Scene:
- Dallas watching the security video of Amanda with the clamps > Wow! Smoking hot!
Favorite Quotes:
“Amanda is not my secretary,” came Dallas’s automatic reply. “She’s my personal assistant. If she hears you call her my secretary she’ll have your balls in her purse.”
The way he said her name, like he was relishing the words on his tongue, never failed to send her pulse racing, but she ignored it as best she could.
Dallas was about as dominant as they came and the hidden, submissive side of her nature cried out in longing to kneel at his feet.
An image of doing just that, clad only in those beautiful nipple clamps, flashed through her mind and she imagined nuzzling her face against the crease where his balls met his leg and drowning in his scent while he gripped her hair hard enough to hurt.
[...]she almost moaned when he brushed his rough thumb over her lower lip. The need to draw his thumb into her mouth, to suck on it, to nibble at the tip and taste him tempted her to the point where she parted her lips and a needy little whimper escaped.