Wicked: Sasha White

Lara Fox has been making her own way since she was fifteen years old and she's never seen a reason to submit to any man. She prefers to keep her sexual escapades as non-committal as possible. When she meets Karl Dawson, an alpha male who’s also a Dominant she sees him as a fun challenge. Dawson sees her as a challenge as well; can he bring the wild Lara to her knees in submission or will she back away from the feelings that the new situation reveals?

Since Lara proclaims to be a girl that will "try anything once" she agrees to do things Karl's way and lets him call the shots. Giving up control isn't easy for her but it begins to reveal facets of her personality she had thought long buried. As the heat between them builds they grow closer but it seems as if everything may be ruined when a vandal targets Lara with several violent attacks. The attacks have the taint of a woman scorned and Karl reveals just how much he cares for Lara when his protective side comes to the fore. The situation may force both of them to rethink their ideas about relationships, commitment, and love.

Not really much to say about this one. It's your basic boilerplate erotica novel with a little side plot of man-on man sex in the form of her gay room-mates. That actually seems to be quite a common seasoning in erotica novels lately. Take a straight couple for the main plot, toss in a couple of very gay and very pretty boys doing it like bunnies for a side plot. Authors seem to be stuffing them in any way they can but at least this time it moved somewhat smoothly in conjunction with the story. The story itself was unremarkable and the characters were relatively flat and didn't elicit any sympathy. They were pretty stereotypical; tough-alpha-male-lawyer-as-sexual-Dominant, sexy-sassy-easygoing-chick-who-secretly-wants-to-be-dominated. And the thing with the vandal? Once it's discovered who it is... it's kind of just dropped and forgotten. In fact, the ending of the book is rather abrupt. It's almost as if the author herself got bored and decided to end it as quickly as possible. So, points for pulp-romance seppuku but that's the only points I give this book.
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Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Berkley Trade (January 2, 2008)
ISBN-10: 0425219186
ISBN-13: 978-0425219188
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