Never Enough

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Summary: Not Quite What I Expected!
Review: Although this is an erotic romance I felt rather cheated with the relationship between Dave and Tracy. Or rather the romance. I thought they would be the main focal point of the story but this is not the case. Yes there is a developing relationship but I felt like it was almost secondary to the storyline revolving around Kim's (this is Tracy's sister) lovemaking program that she holds once a month at Dave's hotel out in the Catskills.

Tracy has been emotionally abused by her ex-husband he accused her of being frigid and that's the reason behind his affairs. She goes back home and licks her wounds quitely and keeps men for the most part at arms length. Her sister finds out she's pregnant with twins and since she is in her 40's must take it easy. This means that she has to back down from a lot of her responsiblities and this means her weekend seminars. She askes Tracy to take over but she is reluctant. What does she know about good sex? Tracy goes to one of her sisters seminars and meets Dave. Between the different seminars that her sister hold and Daves persistance Tracy finds her self sexually waking up.

The story started out good but eventually slowed to the point where we seldom saw Tracy and Dave together but had plenty of interaction with secondary characters. I was unsatisfied with the ending between Tracy and Dave and felt rather cheated. I wish Ms. Lloyd would have spent more time with the relationship between Dave and Tracy. This was still a good read just not what I normally look for in the romance genre. I wouldn't write the author off and I will try her reads again sometime.

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Summary: What happened to Dave & Tracy's story?
Review: Kim Ryan writes the syndicated "Ask Miranda" column and facilitates the "Creative Loving Weekends that provides sex therapy to participants. However, she is pregnant with twins that her doctor labels as high risk. As such she will either cancel or find a substitute for her winter session in the Catskills. Using her weapon of last choice, their ailing mother, Kim persuades her reluctant older sister Tracy to run the session.

After two years Tracy still reels from catching her nasty spouse in bed with another woman and worse to her psyche are his comments about her frigid lack of compassion in the sack. However, she finds Dave Markoff, owner of Catskill Lake Resort, host to the therapy session, attractive. They make love in every imaginable position and soon fall in love. Still, she carries ex-spousal baggage while he has a commitment problem making a permanent relationship impossible.

Erotic romance readers will enjoy the torrid relationship between the lead couple in and outside the sheets. The story line is fun to follow as Tracy regains her confidence and other couples find their way to an adult consenting relationship (with one male exception). The overuse of profanity sometimes feels more like shock value and Tracy's ex is such an obviously nasty loser that readers will wonder about Tracy's post reaction to his ugliness. Still fanss will declare this novel is NEVER ENOUGH, as they will demand more hot stories from Joan Elizabeth Lloyd.

Harriet Klausner

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Summary: Spicy romance
Review: Kim Ryan writes the syndicated "Ask Miranda" column and facilitates the "Creative Loving Weekends that provides sex therapy to participants. However, she is pregnant with twins that her doctor labels as high risk. As such she will either cancel or find a substitute for her winter session in the Catskills. Using her weapon of last choice, their ailing mother, Kim persuades her reluctant older sister Tracy to run the session.

After two years Tracy still reels from catching her nasty spouse in bed with another woman and worse to her psyche are his comments about her frigid lack of compassion in the sack. However, she finds Dave Markoff, owner of Catskill Lake Resort, host to the therapy session, attractive. They make love in every imaginable position and soon fall in love. Still, she carries ex-spousal baggage while he has a commitment problem making a permanent relationship impossible.

Erotic romance readers will enjoy the torrid relationship between the lead couple in and outside the sheets. The story line is fun to follow as Tracy regains her confidence and other couples find their way to an adult consenting relationship (with one male exception). The overuse of profanity sometimes feels more like shock value and Tracy's ex is such an obviously nasty loser that readers will wonder about Tracy's post reaction to his ugliness. Still fanss will declare this novel is NEVER ENOUGH, as they will demand more hot stories from Joan Elizabeth Lloyd.

Harriet Klausner

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Summary: Loved it!!
Review: There are a lot of things about this book that I enjoyed. The first is that the main male character is not an alpha-male hero who seems to be in every novel I pick up these days. Both the main characters are realistically created, complex and sympathetic. Secondly, the minor characters introduced in the second half of the book really emphasizes that sex and intimacy mean different things for all of us. It is an erotic novel, so there is quite a bit of sex, but there is just as much about intimacy and having ones needs met.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys romantic fiction and is looking for something a little different.

Rating:
Summary: What happened to Dave & Tracy's story?
Review: This book held my interest, although the line of work Kim and Tracy were in made me cringe when, thinking realistically, there were any number of ways these women could have been sued!
That said, the characters were interesting enough, but I was disappointed when Dave and Tracy's relationship just dropped off the pages. Other than Tracy's random appearances, she and Dave were nowhere to be found. I guess I expected the overall story to be "theirs". They resurfaced near the end of the story and then only briefly, mostly in the past tense. I expected a better closure on this couple than that.