Ames’ review of Because I Need To by Beth Kery.
After time away, Ian pursues Francesca once again. She can’t resist him, despite his secrecy… As their relationship deepens, Ian begins to take pleasure in teaching her his strengths while she tempts him with the beauty of spontaneity and the rush of letting go of control. And for a while, they do let go…
It’s intoxicating and it’s exhilarating as they indulge themselves in the sweet, addictive fruit of passion. But as Francesca knows, when pleasure gets this intense, the quick burn-out can be devastating. For Ian’s secrets have tested Francesca yet again, leaving her to despair that the one man with whom she has become obsessed is the one man she may never really have.
I found this second to last installment bitter sweet. Francesca pissed me off at the beginning and then I liked the last chapter, I thought it did a lot towards building their relationship.
But Francesca. Oy. In Paris, Ian pulled away after he felt vulnerable. So when Ian opens up to her in a big way back in Chicago and then the next day he has an emergency he has to take care of, Francesca freaks out and thinks he’s pulling away again. So she gives him an ultimatum, if he leaves to go take care of this ’emergency’ (that he won’t give her details about) she will leave and he shouldn’t bother calling her when he gets back. That gets Ian upset and he tells her they’ll talk when he gets back but nope, she sticks to her guns and when he leaves, she goes home. And mopes because he doesn’t call her. Hello! You told him to consider you guys over if he left!
I did not like that. She puts so much trust in Ian with the way he treats her sexually (tying up, harnesses, etc) that I felt like she should have trusted him more at this junction when he said he really had to go take care of something. But I do understand that the parameters of their relationship were blurred on her end because she fell for him. It felt like a cheap way to create conflict though.
Now, throughout this whole series, Francesca has been working on that painting that brought her into Ian’s sphere in the first place. The commission that will go into Noble Tower’s lobby. She’s in the lobby a few days after Ian walked out, checking out the light and how her painting will look there. She’s visiting a friend in the restaurant in Noble Tower when Ian finds her. He has something he wants to show her. Back to his apartment they go. And when Francesca sees what Ian has done, she melts and falls back into bed with him.
The chapter ends with Ian having to go away again for some emergency and Francesca determined to go after him…
I liked the parts of this installment where Francesca and Ian’s relationship grew. But I really didn’t like the ultimatum she gave Ian. Especially when she does it because she’s stubborn, and she knew it. But with stubbornness comes pride and even though she knew she might be overstepping the boundaries, she kept with it anyway. It annoyed me. And then for her to go jetting off after Ian? We know how that’s going to play out.
3 out of 5.
This book is available from publisher. You can buy it here in e-format.
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Because You Are Mine Series:
Because You Tempt Me
Because I Could Not Resist
Because You Haunt Me
Because You Must Learn
Because I Said So
Because You Torment Me
Because I Need To
Because I Am Yours
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