| Title: | Just One Night, Part 1: The Stranger | |
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| Author: | Kyra Davis | |
| Publisher | Pocket Star | |
| Publication Date: | January 21, 2013 | |
| Publisher's Description | Kasie knows who she’s supposed to be. But one passionate night with a mysterious stranger will teach her who she wants to be. You should sleep with a stranger, her best friend whispers in her ear as they take to Vegas for one last pre-wedding fling. Despite her best intentions, when Kasie Fitzgerald enters the casino and sees him, a man whose tailored clothes belied a powerful, even dangerous, presence, she loses herself to the moment. Maybe it’s the dress, much shorter than she’d ever normally wear, or the Scotch, but something makes her give herself over to him more completely than she's ever done with a man before. It was supposed to be just one night. But right as she’s thinking she wants more, he shows up in her office with an agenda. As the billionaire CEO of a company that’s engaged her PR firm, his demands just became her reality...and he desires so much more than just some attention in the boardroom. |
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| My rating: | *** | |
I am a fan of Kyra Davis’s previous books, both her series and standalone titles, so I was exited to see a title by her in the NetGalley catalog. I always like to see authors work in different genres, so I was interested to see what her foray into erotica would bring. After having read Just One Night, I will say that while I don’t think that it is a great read, it interested me enough that I will read the next installment.
Oddly enough, it wasn’t the erotica in this book that didn’t work for me; those were fine. Ms. Davis managed to blend the sexy fun times with an interesting plot. First first thing about this book that annoyed me was the language. This book is full of metaphors. It’s actually bursting with metaphors (that is a metaphor). I like figurative language as much as the next person, but at some point, I want things to be said. I think this problem is directly related to the second thing that bothered me: Kasie. Kasie was the one using most of the metaphors, because she wasn’t a fan of reality, and it seemed like the figurative language gave her another layer to hide behind. Since Kasie was not that into reality, sometimes I was not that into Kasie.
Likewise, Robert Dade is, in the vein of Christian Grey and Gideon Cross, far too good to be true. I know this is fiction, but come on. A super rich, sexy, sexually experienced and adventuresome guy who wants nothing more than to help some undersexed woman rectify her criminal lack of multiple-orgasmic experiences? Give the guy a prize. Obviously, I get why Dade is sexy, and I might even understand why he is attracted to Kasie, but what keeps him coming back? Her indecision got annoying pretty early on, and her fiance was so obviously wrong for who she really was that staying with him seemed more like cruelty than anything else. I award her no points for her selective fidelity or after-the-fact guilty freakouts.
Asha might prove to be interesting in further installments, but in this book, she was kind of annoying. She popped in long enough to say something that was equally insightful and bitchy, and then disappeared for another 40 pages. Alrighty then.
This book had problems, but they’re not insurmountable. The second installment is going to determine whether I stick with this series or call it a day.
