Judith’s review of Forbidden Fantasies by Jodie Griffin
After fifteen years of marriage, Jessica Meyers’s sex life is, well, a little predictable. Her handsome husband turns her on, but missionary style once or twice a week? It just can’t compare to the hot new world she discovers in the pages of erotic romances. Her fantasies fuel the fire of her desire, adding a new spark to her and Alex’s lovemaking. But Jess is afraid to tell her husband what she really wants in bed—and her secrets start coming between them.
State trooper Alex Meyers is a master at uncovering the truth—except when it comes to his sweet, shy wife. She’s clearly keeping something from him. An affair? She wants out? When he finally confronts Jess, he’s shocked to learn she wants to turn her forbidden fantasies into nightly realities. But when he takes her to a unique B and B—Bondage and Breakfast—catering to couples and multiples, Alex is about to find out just how far he’ll go.
This is a winsome and erotic novella that takes a reader into a marriage that is, for all intent and purpose, a very good one. These two people really love each other, have managed to form a solid and loving connection to one another, love their children deeply and are willing to accept the responsibility that goes along with being parents, but in the midst of all of that, they are still lovers, or at least that’s what it seems. Alex loves his wife deeply and is very turned on by her still. Even coming home after a stressful shift as a state trooper, his wife’s beauty and sensuality keep him interested. But he is deeply troubled when after some of their most erotic and sensual encounters, Jessica turns away and seems to shut down. Something is truly wrong.
Perhaps the true curiosity that this writer highlights is that two people who are as close as it is possible for people to be find it so difficult to express their deepest desires to one another. We all know that there are indeed relationships that “hit the rocks” when one partner is massively offended to find out that the other partner wants to introduce some kink into their togetherness. That was the fear Jessica had. The more she and Alex were together, the greater her fear, the more she shut down, the more Alex came to believe that his marriage was in deep trouble–and perhaps when all is said and done, Alex was right. Yet the reader experiences some of the joy that comes when Alex surprises Jessica with his openness–more than even she anticipated.
This is a short read but is packed with emotion and sensuality and the stuff of which good romance fiction is made. It’s one of those litter literary gems that we like to revisit from time to time and I know I have already put it on my “to read again” list. It’s a good one, to be sure!
I give it a rating of 4 out of 5
This book is available from Carina Press. You can buy it
here or
here in e-format.
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I loved Forbidden Fantasies. It touched me on so many levels.