Kris‘ guest review of the anthology And Lady Makes Three by Nikki Soarde, Anya Bast, and Ashley Ladd.
“Prism” by Nikki Soarde – Dax and Clay are happy. The sex is great. They’ve been in a committed, fulfilling relationship for years and see no need to change anything. Until they realize they’ve become a little too comfortable. They’ve fallen into a rut and need something to nudge them out of it. And then tall, raven-haired, exotic Sidney stumbles back into their lives. Fresh out of a painful divorce, she needs some comfort and excitement. When she seeks out her two best college buddies, she gets far more than she bargained for. They all do.
“Twilight” by Anya Bast – The dark, the light and one to merge them. Nico and Dai have searched for years for the third member of their Sacred Triad. Their combined energy released in a sexual ritual will drag their reality back from the Encroaching Darkness, a mystical force that threatens their world. Finally, Nico and Dai have found her. But Twyla has been emotionally damaged by an event in her past and has lost her magick. It will take all of Nico and Dai’s deep love to help her overcome her fear and give her the sexual healing she desperately needs.
“Pirate’s Booty” by Ashley Ladd – When space pirates kidnap Princess Melena Androkova, thwart her peacekeeping mission and strand them on an uncharted planet, things can’t get worse. After weeks alone with two sexy men, tenderness warms her heart and the hostile world becomes a paradise. Enjoying erotic dreams of both Keir and Zarod, not knowing they’re a couple, she suggests the only sane solution in an insane world-a ménage. They may never leave this planet and what’s a life without love-or sex? Once she accepts that lady makes three, she finds true paradise in her lovers’ arms.
As the title suggests all of these stories start with a male/male couple. The anthology had a nice range of settings, contemporary to fantasy to sci-fi. If you enjoy menage stories and like a little man-love you will enjoy this book. The first two stories were my favorites.
“Prism” is a friends to lovers story which I always think are great you just have the added bonus of an added third. It was a good complete story. I did not feel like I was missing anything or that it needed to be drawn out more. This one was my favorite story of the book.
“Twilight” I had read a excerpt for when this book was released and had been wanting to read it ever since. I enjoyed it and the world that was created and visited for this story. I felt for the heroine and enjoyed the epilogue to the story.
“Pirate’s Booty” was my least favorite. The love scenes were hot, but the story felt forced to me and I think I just had a really cheesy porn movie playing in my head (complete with the chick in animal skin bikini) as I was reading parts of it. But maybe if that is your fantasy the story would work for you, it did not for me.
Averaging the stories out I would give the entire book a grade of 4. Individually the stories would get an 5, 4 and then 2.5
This book is available from Ellora’s Cave. You can buy it here or here in e-format.
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Hi Kris! I love Anya Bast’s Witch series. I haven’t read anything by her from Ellora’s Cave, nor have I read the other authors. This anthology sounds good though. Do all the couples from the stories end up together in the end? Do they stay together or was it just a hook up? Sometimes its hard for me to tell Erotica from Erotic Romance.
They stay together. The first was a friends to lovers. The second (Anya Bast) was a magic triad thing and the third was a captive princess scenario.
Hi Kris 😀 as I told you yesterday, really interesting 😀 Especially the first one 🙂 LOL, I guess they felt like it was time to experience new stuff 😛 Too bad the others weren’t as good.