Review: Simple Need (#1)

Simple Need by Lissa Matthews

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Good. Lord. This book..... It's super short and super hot. Very hot. VERY VERY HOT. (Am I being clear?)

The story starts out with Elise in a bar, drowning her sorrows. Just that afternoon, she was dumped by her boyfriend via text message. (How classy of him, right?) While she's finishing her last drink, she's approached by Vinter, co-owner of the bar....although she doesn't know this until later. He makes pleasant small-talk with her and listens to her story and buys her another drink. Then he tells her he wants to take care of her (Read: fuck her silly). Elise usually attracts the suit wearing douchebag types - but he has always fantasized about hot sex with a bad boy. Now is her chance to make that fantasy a reality.

Ok - first of all - could the name Vinter be any hotter? That right there is almost enough to make you go down on your knees in front of this man. I mean.....what is hotter than a tatt'ed up bad boy who is really just a sweet, fluffy marshmallow inside? Granted, he's a marshmallow that will go down on you until you pass out and fuck you until you hallucinate, but still. HOT! In fact, everything about Vinter is just about perfect. He's so incredibly sweet to Elise. Probably sweeter than any other guy has ever been. And in just one short night, he helped Elise discover parts of herself that she'd always kept hidden....even from herself.

The only thing I wish was different?  I wish the story was longer.  (But I ALWAYS want the story to be longer when I love it as much as I loved this one!)

One more thing - COCK PIERCINGS.

Review: Carnal Ecstasy (#2)

Carnal Ecstasy by Lissa Matthews

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Following the same formula as Ink Spots, which is actually the 3rd book in the series.....but one that I read first (I didn't know!) - this book is basically one hot sex scene after another....with just enough plot and character development thrown in to make you care about the story and the characters.

This one focuses on Dallon and Carrie. They randomly meet at a store when she asks him for directions to the local Christian university where she just began working. She is new in town and was running errands and got turned around. They strike up a very brief conversation and he happens to mention where he worked - and then they each go about their day. Dallon is attracted to her, but doubts he'll ever see her again. He's part owner of a bar in a rough part of town and she's a buttoned up goody girl who works at the God school.

Well, that night, she comes in as the bar is closing and wants a drink. Guessing that's she's never even HAD a drink.....Dallon gives her a beer and proceeds to talk to her, since they're the only folks left that late. She confesses that she quit her job. She explains that it just wasn't her....it was a job that her very Godly father secured for her....and she was tired of not having any say so in her own life and she wasn't her parents and this wasn't what she wanted out of life, etc. Dallon immediately feels a bond with her, because he, too, came from a similar background. Religions parents who just didn't "get" him.

Dallon feels Carrie is too good for him.....Carrie wants Dallon to teach her how to be a naughty girl. So, true to all good smut books - they have crazy hot monkey sex in the bar, on the pool table, everywhere.

Hot as hell. Yes.....totally. But I will admit I had a slight problem with 2 things in this book. And really - it wasn't even what was done with the neck of the beer bottle and the pool stick. (Hint - Dallon uses them as, um, sexual devices in Carrie's hoo-ha.) Now.....for me.....it's really a sanitation issue. Did he properly wash those items? I mean, how many gross man hands handled that pool stick? I mean....ewwww. (But I'm sort of a germ phobe....and I'm digressing badly.....)

This was another super quick read with crazy hot yummy sex. Lissa Matthews can write the hot shit, no doubt.

Solid 4.5 stars.

Review: Ink Spots (#3)

Ink Spots by Lissa Matthews

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

First of all - I kind of hate the title. I don't know why.....it just doesn't seem to be hot enough for the contents of the book. On the other hand, I have no idea what a "hot" title would be. So there.

Next, I had no idea when I started reading this that it was the 3rd book in a series. I'm frustrated now because I like to read a series in order. I'm pretty anal-retentive about that. That being said, I don't feel I was lost or confused by the story. But as soon as I finish writing this review - I will be reading book 1 and then 2. If they are as short and sweet as book 3, I should get through them both in no time.

Ok - so, Ink Spots. The easiest way to describe this book is as follows: You know those porn DVDs that just have a series of smoking hot sex scenes strung together with no plot? That is this book. Well, that's not exactly fair. There is a little plot. It's Mandi's birthday.....she's always had a crush on Jaz (her boss's brother).....Jaz has always had a crush on Mandi......the sister sort of fixes them up as a birthday present for Mandi.....and they have smoking hot sex all day long. In a nutshell.....that's the book.

But besides the thin plot and hot sex, there is a great deal of character development. Mandi and Jaz do talk to each other between sex breaks and you learn a lot about them - and their past. It's quite sweet, actually. But then there were the times when the character's inner dialogue went something like this: "He wanted the next piece of meat she put in her mouth to be his cock not another piece of bacon." Yea. See - I'm not mature enough to not laugh and snort at that.

While my review does sort of come across like I didn't like.....that isn't correct. I loved the book. It was hot, short, and to the point. It didn't have any ambition to be anything other than what it was - smoking hot sex intertwined with enough character development to make you love Mandi and Jaz and hope they had a HEA in their near future.

Solid 4 stars.