Blurb from Amazon.com - Due for release 02/12/13
The second in the intensely erotic Avalon series that started with Destined
to Play. Perfect for anyone who was seduced by 50 Shades of Grey.
Life was going well for psychologist Alexandra Blake. Her career has taken off
and she has been exploring her darkest sexual fantasies with her lover Jeremy
Quinn. But her bliss is rudely interrupted when she is abducted in London,
caught up in a dangerous struggle between unscrupulous corporations. Her captors
want her to help them with their sexual experiments – pushing the boundaries of
convention in the search for a drug to stimulate the female libido. But at what
cost? How far will Alexandra be willing to go to satisfy her curiosity, both
professional and personal? What will she have to do to escape, and – more
importantly – does she want to? This scorching novel is an erotic exploration of
trust and betrayal, experimentation and control, lust and love.
Hello again all, I'm back with another ARC review. This was sent to me by Avon and unfortunately I haven't read the first book in the series, so I'll have to just give you my thoughts on the second book. Let me first say this, this book was definitely in the same vain as the Fifty Shades trilogy but with some nice background story and written nicely. Being as this is the second book in a series, I wasn't sure how I'd take to it as a stand alone book. Sometimes when you pick a book up that's in the middle of a series, you don't get the full impact of the story because too much has gone on before but that wasn't the case with this. The story does a good job of showing flash backs to what I assume are major moments in the first book while explaining what has gone on so far in the story. I did at times feel a little behind but it was soon explained and I felt comfortable in the story.
The blurb above gives you the gist of the story but I'll summarize for you. You have two people Dr. Blake (our heroine) and Dr. Quinn (the hero). They are lovers who have reconnected after years apart. Dr. Blake (Alex), is married but her husband has come out of the closet and is OK with her reestablishing her old relationship with Dr. Quinn (Jeremy). So the book starts out with Alex flying to London for some business and will then meet up with Jeremy later on. What Jeremy doesn't tell her, is that he has caught an earlier flight and plans on surprising her at the airport. Not knowing this, Alex lands in London and is shocked to see a limo waiting for her. She immediately goes to the car but turns to see Jeremy walking fast to meet her but she is shoved into the car and kidnapped. Jeremy is beside himself and being the alpha male type, flips his lid because his woman is gone. In the meantime, Alex is swiftly bound, gaged and drugged all in an effort to transport her safely to some rival drug company's HQ. They have decided that they want Alex to participate in helping them come up with a Viagra for women and they won't take no for an answer.
In and among the sex, sexy flashbacks, BDSM, experimentation, kidnapping and eventual happy reunion, this book definitely has an underlying message that takes a swing at the pharmaceutical companies and really makes you think about how the drugs/prescriptions we take are actually tested. The ordeal Alex goes through is a bit frightening even though there's eroticism laced throughout and it shows the very ugly side of drug testing. As Alex says at one point "I think about how we stumbled upon drugs for HIV, chemotherapy.....Then more specifically for women, the contraceptive pill, the IUD and now hormone infused implants, among other things; how readily we accept chemical solutions to manipulate our natural hormonal cycles. Someone has to test them; indeed, many people trial new drugs. Now I've become one of those people." It is actually very scary to think hard on how much testing it takes to bring these drugs to market and who they test them on. At one point one of the characters even says "Some testing is worse than others, but drugs do have to be tested on humans at some stage. How else would they get to market?"
Totally food for thought.
Totally food for thought.
All in all, I did enjoy the book and would recommend the series to those of you who like your "mommy porn" like I do *grin*.
4 out of 5 books
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