Kris‘ review of Dangerous Pleasures (Pleasures Book 4) by Bertrice Small
Annie Miller, a widow with five kids, didn’t have any fantasies. She didn’t have the time or the money. But then her younger sister enters her in a contest. Annie wins, and suddenly her life falls into place. Whisked off to The Spa at Egret Pointe Annie discovers The Channel for the first time. And after her week of pampering she’s offered a job at the spa. Wanting to have the wherewithall to help her children have a few small luxuries Annie finds she has a talent for business, and climbing the corporate ladder is more fun than she ever anticipated. But Dangerous Pleasures may cost Annie everything she holds dear. Still, it is really all for the children. Isn’t it?
If you are interested in a good erotic story then this one is pretty good. The first three books in the series had an HEA but this one does not. This is an erotic story not an erotic romance. Which I think is surprising from Ms Small. I thought this was a romance so I kept looking for a hero and waiting for her to fall for one of the guys in the story but it did not happen.
The story was interesting but not what I was expecting so that detracted a lot. The synopsis on the book is a good one and summarizes it better than I could. She gets sucked into her job so much that she never sees her kid and they become raised by their nanny that her new job pays for, but keeps saying that she is doing it for the kids and I know that that is supposed to be the irony of it but I think because it was about her kids it bugged me that she could be that self absorbed. She was an okay heroine for a erotic story but not for a romance.
For the most part these books can be read in any order, but this one has a lot of Nora Buckley in it, who is the heroine from the first book, Private Pleasures. If you have read the other books I will say that you find out interesting stuff about Mr Nicholas (the guy who owns The Channel) and about The Channel itself.
Because of the lack of HEA I would have to give this one a 2.5 out of 5.
But even if I knew that it had been just erotica I still think I only would have given it a 3 out of 5.
This book is available from NAL Trade. You can buy it here.
I read Forbidden Pleasures. I thought the heroine was TSTL, but I still ended up ordering Private Pleasures, and then never read it. I just never got around to it, and really, I have better things in my TBR stack to entice me.
From your review, it sounds like the rest of the series would be just as disappointing to me as the book I actually read.
I ADORE Bertrice Small. She is a GODDESS. But (and it’s a very big BUT) I think her contemporaries are AWFUL. I tried the first one and could not believe that the goddess wrote it. Now granted, I’m not a big fan of contemporaries as a rule anyhow, but GEESH her contemps suck! I still adore her historicals and her fantasies, but a big NUH-UH on her contemps.