Tracy’s review of The Bottom Line
Spicing up her sex life sounds exciting-until the fantasy hits the fan.
When Maggie Drummond buys an erotic romance novel by mistake, she gets more than an unexpected eyeful. She gets an introduction to a world that arouses her to a fever pitch. Spanking.
Her boyfriend isn’t interested in pushing his vanilla-flavored sexual boundaries. Then there’s Connor Grey, who haunts her fantasies like a magical genie. As a source of masculine advice for her and her female friends, he’s off limits. The only safe place to explore her fetish is her anonymous blog.
Maggie picked up what she thought was a romance novel that ended up being an erotic novel that included spanking. The more she thought about it the more she wanted to try it as it made her so hot just reading about it. She does tons of research about methods, positions and even what to wear to make the experience hotter. She starts a personal blog where she can anonymously write about her secret fantasy but does end up telling 3 of her best friends about the blog.
Maggie wants to explore this new and exciting aspect of sex but truthfully she can’t even imagine it happening with her current boyfriend. She’s been thinking that he’s really not the man for her but after a dinner out with his co-workers she’s positive that it’s time and breaks up with him. When her friend Connor suggests that they begin a friends-with-benefits relationship Maggie is all for it but unfortunately she’s still completely focused on spanking and doesn’t quite know how to broach the subject with Connor.
Connor has had it bad for Maggie for a while but he’s not been able to crack the “only friends” outer shell that Maggie has surrounding her. His suggestion of the friends-with-benefits relationship to Maggie is him getting his foot in the door that he thinks and hopes will lead to more. Maggie never gets the nerve up to talk to Connor about the spanking but he finally takes the leap and takes matters into his own hands, literally. He discovers that Maggie’s not the only one that finds spanking incredibly erotic.
I’m not quite sure where to start with the book. I’ve told you the basics but there is so much happening in this book that it’s hard to talk about all of it. In fact, I believe that was once of my issues with the book is that I felt it had too much going on. We have Maggie’s spanking obsession, Maggie and Connor’s relationship, Maggie and her ex’s issues, the blog Maggie runs and all that encompasses, Maggie and Connor’s friends, Christina, Julia and Susan who Maggie and Connor are lying to in order continue their relationship and those friends’ relationship issues as well. I think because there was so much going on that not everything could be thoroughly explored or explained and I felt the book suffered because of it. I also didn’t care for the fact that we got to know some things about Christina, Susan and Julia but there were no resolutions for these issues and I was left hanging. Was the author setting things up for a series of books on these characters? She didn’t make these three women very likable so I’m not sure I care to read more about them but I would have liked to have matters come to a conclusion.
The book did have some smoking hot sex scenes – both in person and of the cybersex kind and as an erotic read this book scored higher in that department. Ms. Munro definitely knows how to get the motors running and she does it very well.
Rating: 3 out of 5
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This book is available from Samhain Publishing. You can buy it here or here in e-format.
Sounds steamy…adding it to my TBR