Book Blurb
Jace, Ash, and Gabe: three of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the country. They’re accustomed to getting anything they want. Anything at all. For Jace, it’s a woman whose allure takes him completely by surprise…
Jace Crestwell, Ash McIntyre, and Gabe Hamilton have been best friends and successful business partners for years. They’re powerful, they’re imposing, they’re irresistibly sexy, and Jace and Ash share everything—including their women.
When they meet Bethany, Jace begins to feel things he’s never experienced before: jealousy, and a powerful obsession that threatens him, overwhelms him—and excites him beyond control.
Jace isn’t sharing Bethany—with anyone. He’s determined to be the only man in her life, and it’s jeopardizing a lifelong friendship with Ash. Bethany will be his and his alone. Even if it means turning his back on his best friend.
Book Excerpt
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Toot's Review
Fever is the second book by Maya Banks in the Breathless
Trilogy. The Breathless Trilogy is based on three friends whom are hotel moguls.
The three men met in collage and went into business together. Of course, they
are hugely successful and are now three of the wealthiest men in the country. Each
book is their individual HEA.
Book two, Fever, is Jace's story. Jace is the brother of
Mia, who was the heroine in the first book, Rush. Now that Mia has moved on
with her own HEA, Jace resumes his antics with his BFF Ash. The two are famous
for sharing women. They also enjoy BDSM in the bedroom. They live by the motto,
work hard, play hard and have the money to make their wildest fantasies come
true. While at a reception for Mia, Jace sees a waitress from across the room
and instantly wants her. He points her out to Ash, whom is the more brazen of
the two men and approaches her with an offer of a threesome but something about
her makes Jace not want Ash around, which is a first! What is it about Bethany
that has Jace so upside down and will it come between the two BFF's?
I really enjoyed this story as I have with most of Maya
Bank's books. Fever is definitely in the vein of the new crop of CR but with a
twist, i.e. modern day billionaires with too much money finding the women that bring
them to their knees. Jace is definitely an Alpha Male and Bethany is a total
submissive in every sense of the word. If you're looking for a super strong
heroine, it's not here. This book is more about a relationship, with what the
BDSM community calls a "Total Power Exchange". Albeit, this is a very watered down version of the actual definition of the relationship but ultimately, I
believe, that is what the author is trying to convey. Basically Jace wants to
control all aspects of Bethany's life, including what she does, when she does it, whom she sees, when she eats, what she eats, what she wears.... he completely controls all aspects of her life and she gives this power to him willingly. She absolutely needs someone to be in control.
I myself, found Bethany as a character to be a bit dense and
I couldn't really connect with her. It wasn't that she was submissive or had
had a very hard life, in fact I would have thought that having as hard a life
as she had, she would have had a tougher shell, so to speak but nope, she was
as fragile as a broken bird. I did not find any inner strength to her either
except for the fact that she kicked a prescription drug habit and somehow has
survived in the world against extreme circumstances but as the author wrote
her, I don't see how she survived. I think reality would have chewed her up and
spit her out, so in the aspect of Bethany as a character, I didn't really buy into her character before Jace came into her life. As for Jace, I
did find his obsession with Bethany, super creepy at times and the fact that
Bethany was younger than his little sister, who's 14 years his junior, also
made it all the more creepy but I like Jace as a character and if he wants Bethany, who am I
to bitch?
If you have read Maya Bank's books before, you know you're in for some super raw, steamy sex scenes with oooey gooey goodness. If you haven't read her, now you know *wink*.
If you have read Maya Bank's books before, you know you're in for some super raw, steamy sex scenes with oooey gooey goodness. If you haven't read her, now you know *wink*.
I'd recommend this book to all my Fifty Shades, CR, Alpha
Male with control issues and a crop, loving readers.
4 out of 5 books
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