Tracy’s review of The Swing by Lissa Matthews
Two years after his brother’s death in Afghanistan, Jethro is doing well. His handmade porch swing business is booming, his hip injury has healed and he’s still in love with Caitlyn. He knows he should resist her, but can’t, and pulls her into his darkly sensual world of sex and spankings.
Caitlyn has grieved, created a life for herself and has finally come to terms with her need for Jethro, her dead husband’s brother. With no small measure of hesitation, she takes a fateful step-daring him to turn her and their chance at happiness away.
What would you do if you feel in love with your twin’s girlfriend and remained in love with her even after they got married? Not only that, but the woman is in love with you as well – and your twin knows it?
Well that’s exactly what happened to Jethro and his twin Marcus’s wife, Caitlyn. Marc knew that Jethro was in love with her but he also knew that his brother wouldn’t do anything about it – and neither would Caitlyn. But how hard would it be living life with that knowledge? Pretty darned hard, imho.
But Marcus died while in Afghanistan two years prior to this story’s beginning and now we’re seeing Jethro and Caitlyn trying to see if they can piece together a life while dealing with the guilt they feel. They finally realize that Marcus wouldn’t have wanted them to struggle the way they have and even asked Jethro to take care of Caitlyn knowing that Jethro was thoroughly in love with her.
It was an emotionally charged book for as short as it was but Ms. Matthews managed to convey the feelings of this couple extremely well. I even found myself tearing up at one point.
Now this being an Ellora’s Cave Quickie I knew going in that it would be on the sexy side with emphasis on the sex…and sex on a swing! That was incredibly hot even though Jethro was not the sweet romantic type. He liked his spankings and wanted to show everything to Caitlyn that she had missed while being married to a sweet romantic man.
I think I liked this not only for the emotional aspect of it but the fact that Ms. Matthews really made us see how Jethro and Marcus were most definitely two sides of the same coin. One soft and loving, one harder but just as loving but both of them not afraid of who they were and the love they had for Caitlyn.
A great quick story that is worth taking the time to read.
Rating: 4 out of 5
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This book is available from Ellora’s Cave. You can buy it here in e-format.
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