Holly Bardwell is running from her past mistakes. Straight into the arms of the Colter Brothers. Adam, Ethan and Ryan aren’t looking for women. They’re looking for a woman. One woman they know will share their lives and their beds. They don’t want a casual romp in the hay. They want the woman who will complete them. And they’re losing hope they’ll find her. That is until Adam finds Holly lying in the snow just yards from their cabin.
Adam knows she’s different the minute he folds her in his arms. But before he gets his hopes up, he knows he has to gauge his brothers’ reactions. Soon it’s evident, they all know the same thing. She’s the one. The problem? Convincing her of that fact.
This is the first erotica I’ve read where there’s one woman and three men. I’ve read m/f/m, but never m/f/m & m. It’s not m/f/m/m b/c the three men in the book are brothers and that would just be nasty. So this was a new experience for me.
I srsly had to suspend disbelief while reading this book. It is just so unlikely that if I dwelled on it, I would never have finished the book. It’s not even that there was one woman shared between three men. It’s how it starts that really is unlikely.
Adam, Ethan, and Ryan Coulter haven’t found the woman that they know will be theirs. They know she’s out there, just like their fathers found their mother. They just haven’t found her yet. When Adam finds a woman lying almost dead in the snow, he just knows that she’s the woman they’ve been waiting for.
The rest of the book happens so fast, that it’s almost laughable. Holly’s acceptance of the three men is just unbelievable. Especially when you consider what she’s been through at the hands of a man. The night that Adam found her (on the verge of hypothermia), he decides he can’t keep his hands off her. He gets her off (there really is no other way to put it) which wakes her up (for the first time). Srsly. He’s a stranger. She should have freaked. But she didn’t. She just accepted that a stranger touched her.
I finished the book, but really had a hard time with several parts. It really had the potential, it just didn’t quite get there. I have read Banks’ new book, Be With Me, which also features three men and one woman. I loved it (look for my review soon). So maybe it was just a fluke.
3 out of 5.
This book is available from Samhain Publishing. You can buy it here or here in e-format.
I had the same feelings about Colters’ Woman. It seems a bit incomplete – and I had a very hard time suspending my disbelief that three brothers were actively looking for one woman to share.
Be With Me made much more sense – and I enjoyed it much more.
I haven’t read this one and it’s mostly because I have a hard time picturing three brothers looking for a single woman to share between the three of them. The brother aspect is what really bothers me and is keeping me from reading it. However, I am looking forward to reading Be With Me.
Thank you Casee! I have read Colters’ Woman and while I liked it I agree with the points you raised.
I have Be With Me sitting at home ready for me to delve into (once I have a day with no interruptions 🙂
I recently read COLTERS’ WOMAN because we were talking about polyamory romance books on another board. I HATED this book. I thought it was simply dreadful. The whole thing was horrible: the writing, the characters, the storyline, the sex scenes. I thought it was creepy that the hero diddled the heroine while she was unconscious, shortly after he rescued her. (And when she wakes up and asks what happened, he’s all, “You orgasmed. Don’t worry. You’re safe here. We’ll take care of you.” And after a day or so the woman is totally on board with the idea.) I was also MAJORLY creeped out by the amount of bath-drawing and washing-of-the-heroine that takes place in the novel. Shower play is fine. Playing find the soap during a bath for two is fine. But it was creepy that these guys would BATHE this woman…wash her and towel her dry. And part of the ick-out factor was that she’s described as “tiny” and they call her “baby” and “doll” and there’s one scene where they shave her pubes. I just got this major pedophilia vibe, despite the heroine’s age (24). She didn’t seem like a person to me at all the way she was portrayed. She was a receptacle. An inanimate object, an unequal participant in their relationship, and very little more than a receptacle for their lust.
Bad book. I simply don’t understand the glowing reviews at Amazon.
Nifty