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Title: French Quarter (Ellora's Cave Presents, Hot in the City)
ISBN: 1419950118
Author:
Lacey Alexander
Publicate Date: 2004-07-31
Publish: 2004-07-31
List Price: $12.99
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Paperback
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1: I'd Like To See Bourbon Street Like That!!
As strictly erotica, this book is HOT! As romantica, not so much. There isn't much in the way of a plot, or character development. But if you're looking for some steamy sex in just about any way you can imagine (and some you wouldn't even begin to), then this is a book for you.
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2: Great erotica, decent story
I am not going to do a rendition, I see this has been done. This book was not bad. I thought it lacked passion, but it did have hot steaming pages. Overall I thought there were no twists and turns to the plot to keep the actual story line going. The only thing good about this book is the erotica. I do recommend this book if you are not looking for a romance novel.
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3: Talk about HOT and STEAMY
Wow, this is a must read book if you want hot and steamy. I love the spontaneous sex they have in the strip club and in some courtyard. The story is great, the man sounds so yummy. Wish I could meet someone like this. Lacey does an awesome job on this book. You won't want to put the book down.
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4: Sensual...Almost Too Much
NOTE: I am a huge fan of erotica, a big supporter of women's sexuality. And as a bisexual woman, I was thrilled to hear that this heroine is as well, and has some encounters with women in this book unlike many others.
PLOT: Liz Marsh thinks her stodgy fiance is cheating, and so, for some unknown reason, when she decides to hire a PI, she decides to dress like a high-class whore.
The PI is Jack Wade, a tall-dark-handsome-alpha-male sex god amongst men, instantly as smitten with Liz as his best friend Ty is when Ty walks in on their flirting.
Jack takes the case, discovers Todd, the fiance, is cheating only by getting lapdances from strippers. Liz demands to see with her own eyes, goes to the club with Jack, catches Todd, lusts after the female dancers, and has sex with Jack in an alley.
She realizes magically she never loved Todd, dumps him, and asks Jack to help her discover her sexuality. They do it almost every way a vanilla mind can imagine, she gets a grinding private lapdance from a woman that makes her orgasm, Jack buys and shows her how to use a "massager", Liz moves in with her wild bi best friend, and then she agrees to have a threesome with Jack and his best friend.
I stopped reading there, sorry I can't finish it.
PROS: The prose style is great, the author's voice is strong. The sex is toe-curling steamy, the anticipation is a page turner. The author builds fairly believable characters (some things are a huge stretch), and the sex was realistic. Liz is like a real woman in that she doesn't always climax by intercourse alone.
CONS: What made me stop reading in the middle of a MFM threesome? A plot is absent. It's just a sexual odyssey, and sometimes you go from one long, descriptive love scene right into another. The sex might be toe-curling, but it gets old quickly.
Todd shows some signs he might be a stalker, but if he was villianous, that should have showed up sooner.
Also, the greatest irony? Did Todd actually cheat? Emotionally maybe, but not physically. And yet Liz shows the same addicition he had to the VERY SAME STRIPPERS HE WAS HOOKED ON!!! And, she technically pjhysically cheated on Todd with Jack. If they had been married, divorcing, and I was the judge, I'd fault her 100% by pure reason only.
At this point I began to see Liz as a selfish, immature idiot, and couldn't believe Jack was really in love with her.
SUMMARY: I'd still get if I were you, but only because, heck, open to any page and there is a hot fantasy waiting for you. Not good as a novel, but as inspiration it's priceless.
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5: Promising, but ultimately disappointing
I wish I'd liked this one better, because it had certain things I appreciated very much, but ultimately, it bored me.
The book starts with what I thought was a silly twit alert. Liz Marsh's fianc?? has been acting weird lately, coming home very late from work, and so on, and Liz suspects he might be cheating on her. Before she confronts him, Liz wants to confirm her suspicions, so she decides to hire a PI to follow him around. Through a friend's recommendation, Liz decides to hire Jack Wade. So far so good.
And here came what made me groan: she gets it into her head that she cannot bear to let this PI (who she hasn't even met, remember, and who she suspects will probably be a paunchy, burnt-out old guy) think that she's a loser because she suspects her fianc?? could be cheating on her. Therefore, she will dress up sexy (see-through blouse, that kind of thing) so that the guy will think her fianc?? is crazy for cheating on such a bombshell of a woman.
Fortunately, the book doesn't continue in the same idiotic vein. Jack, the PI in question, who happens to be young and hot, is so impressed by this sexy lady that he takes the case, even though he's stopped doing adultery cases years ago. He follows the fianc??, sees that he's spending his evenings in a strip club, even going into the private rooms with some of the women, and takes some photos. But since the photos come out a bit too dark and don't convince Liz 100% that the man with the bare-breasted woman in his lap is actually her fianc??, she insists in going to the strip club and seeing for herself.
And here starts Liz's change from shy and proper "good girl" to adventurous sex kitten. She and Jack embark on a journey of sexual exploration, which includes from girl-girl action in the strip-club to a threesome with Jack's best friend, in which Liz is an enthusiastic participant and Jack an extremely supportive and appreciative companion.
I liked that unlike in some other erotica I've read that centers on the heroine stepping out of her comfort zone, I never got the feeling that the hero was somehow pressuring the heroine to do things she didn't feel comfortable with. Not at all: in this case, Liz was the one who took the lead, with Jack enjoying everything very much, yes, but mostly concerned about what Liz would like.
So why 3 stars (I actually gave it a C+ in letter grades)? Well, it's simple. I loved the idea of the heroine exploring her sexuality, but the actual explorations involved didn't work for me at all. Unlike the similar scenes in Emma Holly's All U Can Eat, for instance, I didn't find these scenes particularly erotic or engaging. In fact, except for some very specific scenes (LOL, no, I'm not going to share exactly which!), I ended up pretty bored by most of them. Many, especially those between Jack and Liz, which should have been developing their relationship, I felt very tempted to skim.
As this might indicate, the romance didn't work for me very well. At the end of the book, I didn't buy that Jack and Liz were in love. In lust, sure, but not in love. And the suspense element with Liz's fianc?? who refused to let her go was very weak and didn't add much to the story.
Eh, well, at least it was a quick read!
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