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Summary: Bends all the rules!
Review: My favorite Thea Devine. Not only is this one wildly erotic, it's also a rarity in the romantic suspense genre - a book so filled with plot twists and tension, that about halfway through you begin to think the unthinkable: the hero and heroine might not end up together! So I'm ashamed to admit, I broke my own cardinal rule and skipped to the last page just to make sure. Otherwise, it would have been downright painful to keep reading. There's no "big misunderstanding" keeping this erotically-charged couple from trusting each other. In fact, her suspicions of him are well-founded. Roak may not be betraying Genelle in exactly the way that she - and we - begin to suspect, but he's definitely decieving her - and since she's paying him a fortune to help clear her of her husband's murder, the stakes are high. Devine masterfully weaves a web of intrigue in this book, keeping the reader almost as much in the dark as the threatened heroine is herself. The only thing we readers know at the outset that Genelle does not is this: her "skilled investigator" was no stranger to Genelle's murdered husband - and he's taking on this assignment for his own reasons, not his client's. The two become lovers, of course (which he has planned from the start) and the sex scenes are as steamy and frequent as fans of Devine have come to expect. But the sexual tension isn't the only tension building as the novel progresses. As Scotland Yard begins to build a compelling case against Genelle, and her arrest for murder begins to appear inevitable, she slowly realizes that nothing is as it seems and that her lover/detective is hiding critical information. In fact, he appears to be using their sexual relationship to distract Genelle from her own investigation. Most chillingly, Roak refuses to either confirm or deny that he has his own agenda...In the hands of a less careful author, it would be hard to believe that Genelle would continue paying her investigator for what amounts to little more than his sexual services. But in Devine's skillfully woven web, Genelle hangs onto Roak because he is all she has. She has no friends, and it seems that everybody who knew her husband - including Genelle's own despicable mother - wants to see Genelle hang for his murder. She is addicted to Roak, for better or worse. And so will you be - if you don't mind tension that will keep you awake until the alarm clock goes off!
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Summary: Haute Victorian Vice
Review: The divine Thea has done it again, providing a veritable feast of secret and not-so-secret pleasures. More erotica than romance, Secret Pleasures kept me turning its pages eagerly and left me hungry for more, and also wishing for shopping information for the clothes and accessories! A really hot read, in the best sense of the word -- wear gloves reading this one!
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Summary: Secret Pleasures
Review: There is a good story plot if you like murder mysterys. Probably most people do not read erotica for a mystery. Throughout part of the book there was WAY too much sex. It just went on and on and nothing else. It has some rather sick characters and overall there was no love between the sex partners. The ending is rreal strange. But I would recommend.
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Summary: Secret Pleasures
Review: There is a good story plot if you like murder mysterys. Probably most people do not read erotica for a mystery. Throughout part of the book there was WAY too much sex. It just went on and on and nothing else. It has some rather sick characters and overall there was no love between the sex partners. The ending is rreal strange. But I would recommend.
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Summary: Bends all the rules!
Review: There is no confusing Thea Devine's work with any one elses. She is at the forefront in descriptive eroticism. There is sex galore, everywhere!!! SECRET PLEASURES traces one woman's road from a quick and unexpected violent act making her a widow (and the chief suspect) through treachery and debauchery and then back to some degree of normalcy. This book questions family commitment and loyalties. It also looks into the secret night lives of "respectable" people. The reader is taken into "gentlemen's" clubs consisting of rooms where anything one wishes can be obtained if he (or she) can pay. SECRET PLEASURES is a different kind of book. It doesn't really fall into what we consider romance. There is not much emotional attachment and the storyline is farfetched. But I must admit, it was hard to put down.
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Summary: MORE SEX THAN ROMANCE
Review: There is no confusing Thea Devine's work with any one elses. She is at the forefront in descriptive eroticism. There is sex galore, everywhere!!! SECRET PLEASURES traces one woman's road from a quick and unexpected violent act making her a widow (and the chief suspect) through treachery and debauchery and then back to some degree of normalcy. This book questions family commitment and loyalties. It also looks into the secret night lives of "respectable" people. The reader is taken into "gentlemen's" clubs consisting of rooms where anything one wishes can be obtained if he (or she) can pay. SECRET PLEASURES is a different kind of book. It doesn't really fall into what we consider romance. There is not much emotional attachment and the storyline is farfetched. But I must admit, it was hard to put down.
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Summary: An eye opener to the "secrets"
Review: This book is really an eye opener to the subject that to certain people classified as taboo. The sex is quite explicit and graphic but very erotic. The plot is quite simple, a beautiful lady force into marriage she doesn't want, and then her husband dead. The next thing happened is she fall in love and had a steamy relation with the person searching for her husband murderrer. Not complicated but that is quite a solid foundation to make the story goes on. But what Ms. Devine make the difference is in her ability to reveal the what so called "secrets" or taboo in the society especially in the eastern part of the world. Her description of love and sexual relationship really a challange to our honesty whether we want to bring and enjoy love and sex as it is or keep it as a "secrets" Highly recommended book for night reading, but of course this book is not for "children".
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Summary: Could not put this book down!!
Review: This book was an emotional roller coaster. Very very intense - not just the erotic senuality - but the darker plot and all of the hidden secrets that everyone in Genelle's life had. I just found this story very compelling. I definetely thought it one of Devine's very best books! Highly recommend it!!
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