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Sarah's Library

I read pretty much anything, from fantasy (City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett) to romance (Bared to You by Sylvia Day) to classics (Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad).  The only genres I don't read are self-help and comic books/graphic novels.

Currently reading

The Last Honeytrap
Louise Lee
Progress: 100/346 pages
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

Submission and Seduction (Bound Hearts, #2 & 3) by Lora Leigh

Submission & Seduction - Lora Leigh

27/4 - Just starting this tonight.  I think this'll be my last in a moderately long line of Leigh books - this'll be my fifth in just over a month (not counting the Laurenston books I've been reading over the same time period) - and I think I'm a bit erotica-ed out.  I've about had enough of naked people and their shenanigans.  If this gets a low rating it might be due to reading too much of it at once - you know, you eat a litre of ice cream in one go and you feel really sick? - well I've had about 850 ml and I'm starting to feel queasy.  The only reason I am going to read it now, instead of giving the whole genre a rest, is because it's a library book that's due back in 14 hours (really by the end of business tomorrow, but I'm not making a special trip to the library at 7 tomorrow night, so I'm taking it back when I go grocery shopping tomorrow morning around 10).  To be continued...

 

28/4 - Submission, the first book in this two-book omnibus, compared to Leigh's other Bound Hearts books that I've read, seems to be almost plotless and focused on the sex more than anything else. It's also considerably shorter than the previous two-book omnibus from this series that I've read - 152 pages shorter - so obviously there's less room and something's got to go. In this case it's character development, not that that was a huge feature in Shameless Embraces, but it seems to be completely absent in Submission (I don't have high expectations for Seduction). Most of what I know about Ella (heroine) has been discovered through her memories and internal dialogue - Ella and James don't talk except about him unwaveringly wanting her and her absolutely not wanting him. Ella appears to find her sexual appetites absolutely disgusting, she beats herself up so much that I believe she needs to see a professional. She almost seems capable of self-harm due to her extreme self-hate. I'm not sure James' plan to f*** her out of her self-disgust is going to, or should logically, work. To be continued...

 

18/5 - Finally finished this last night/this morning, but I'm not feeling particularly motivated to write much more about it.  Fortunately I was able to re-borrow it as other books were more pressing and more interesting, so no fine to be paid on a not-wonderful book.  Both stories went as expected, neither woman wanted to admit to their true desires, both men had watched their respective woman go through abusive/unhappy marriages, both stories ended happily after a ménage scene, due to it in fact.  That's about all there is to say, except that the second story, Seduction was slightly better than the first.  There was about one extra page of plot explanation/background and Jesse was slightly less forceful in his manner of encouraging Terrie to accept him and his lifestyle.