Reviewed by Desere
I have been a fan of Dani Collins's Harlequin Presents books for a long time. The books are always so realistic, gut punching emotional and very addictive once you start.
But along with the very emotional there has always been this little part of me as reader that has always wished that the author would let her fun side shine through. But of course in a Harlequin Presents book this is not the norm and when you pick up the books you know you are in for a memorable, compelling tear jerker, which of course is just one of the many reasons am so very addicted to them.
Sop when I first was asked to review this author's erotic side of life, I jumped at the chance, as I said I have always wanted to know what the stories would be like that this brilliant author can dream up , like she always does, but with a little bit more of her fun side mixed in with loads of hot spice!
I could not have been more delighted! I am not a very big fan of erotica, as yes it always feels like am meant to be looking over my shoulder and having to see the reaction on people's faces when they start chanting " You're reading a dirty book". It is feeling I hate, yet cannot seem to get rid of, guess it's the 'good girl' in me having a bit of a battle with the bad one!
Putting that whole matter aside, let's get back to the book ladies. The book contains two super hot and very addictive reads. The first Mastering her role tells of Arianne, she has had it bad for her sexy ass neighbor Jason. But she picks up on a rumor that Jason has a bit of a kinky side, and knowing she badly wants the man and she is no where near anything but plain old vanilla she knows she will have to pull out the big guns to get his attention. So she asks Jason to introduce her to his Dominic a sexual dominant instructor. And very soon Arianne finds her inner tigress in the arms of Dominic, only something about the man behind the mask seems very familiar.
In the second read Playing the Master we meet timid Ann Parker, Soon she will belong to the very handsome but also very cold Porter Navarro , a marriage practically arranged in hell, because her stepfather insisting on the what is bound to be fiasco of a marriage is as good as a deal with the devil. But then she gets a secret makeover and is presented to her husband to be as Violet. As Violet she is able to get go of all her inhibitions and let the real sexual woman out and into the world of Porter 's dark and exquisite delights, which she simply cannot get enough of. He is the master and all she has to do is go along for the ride, but will her liberation cost her the man who has become her sexual teacher and the one she loves with all her heart?
Both reads do have that special emotional punch associated with the author's Harlequin Presents books, but as I said those don't always feel like the author is unleashing her full fun and spicy side, the spice does make an appearance here and there, but in these erotic reads obviously she let's go and gets down and dirty all the way.
I loved every minute of it, it not only showed the author's fun and kinky side come to life, but let me as reader know that when you take the brilliance of an amazing author, add a dash of her gut punching emotion and combine it with off the wall hotter than hot sex , you get a read like no other, perfect in every way, even for those readers never sure about erotic reads, start with this one you will never look back.
I am taking away a message from both reads, with is a simple yet memorable one, when you are too scared to risk a little something new you will never find out who the real you is that lurks inside!
5/5 star review
" Being submissive does not always mean being controlled, sometimes it comes down to letting go just a little"
