Book Reviews

Visions by Larkin Rose at Bold Strokes Books

Genre Lesbian / Contemporary / Romance
Reviewed by jj on 20-July-2014

Book Blurb

Paige Burton meets the love of her sexual life at a masked sex party when she's too young to realize how special their connection is. After years of searching for similar sexual bliss, she has officially given up. Now she pours out her frustration via her online blog and by dancing away her frustrations in her club.

Billionaire architect Mayson Montgomery made her fortune building eco-friendly offshore wind turbines. She learned quickly that money stood in the way of finding a happy ever after. But she still remembers her masked angel years ago.

When they meet again, Paige doesn't make the connection between her masked lover from the past and Galveston's raunchy rich heart throb. Fortunately, Mayson is a little more aware and won't give up until Paige has fallen head over heels for her.

Will Paige and Mayson grasp the love in front of them or will they let it slip away a second time?

 

Book Review

I howled, applauded, panted, and dabbed away the tears from pure pleasure while reading this book. This is a wonderful multi-layered love story, peppered with nearly devastating confusion, and practically undermined by misunderstood class collision. I think it would be divine to see this as a play or movie, but the remarkably pure sexual heat would definitely limit the distribution venue. What a shame. At least there is the written word and that has masterfully unraveled the intimacy and details allowing me to savor the humor, the women, and the monumental obstacles seeking to crumble the wishes and desires for the star-crossed characters. I unquestionably recommend this!

Paige Burton came alive in New Orleans. She was supposed to be in Jamaica, but an airline booking snafu gave New Orleans the chance to become the birth place for all the magic. On one night with an adroit mystery maiden hidden behind a mask, she reaches the Mt. Everest of sexual highs again and again. Now for six years she has been haunted by that experience. She has accomplished a great deal on her own. Built her amazing club, called Visions, in honor of the secret password leading to New Orleans' heated encounter, from practically nothing and gathered a coterie of followers for her *X* blog. However, that memory of the masked woman who took her to the unparalleled climactic highs hovers over all experiences since that memory was created and all of them more than pale in comparison. Fascinating!

Mayson Montgomery was born to rich parents. However, as she adroitly said one time, “They were rich, I had to earn my own way and sometimes it was messy.” It would probably take a passel of experiences, exposure, and flat-out heroism before Paige's view of Mayson, the rich bitch in her view, transformed to the real Mayson in Paige's eyes. Hence, the brilliantly elaborate subterfuge that Mayson orchestrates involving an amazingly ingenious fan of *X* the blogger in the form of Vinden Gudinna. This alter ego may be the most extraordinary, imaginative, creative, and inventive ploy I have ever read. Vinden provokes all the amazing responses I listed in my opening above. Vinden Gudinna is a virtuoso creation in Swedish, since Sweden was the site of one of Mayson's breakthrough North Atlantic aquatic wind farms. Mayson may be too good to be true, but I choose to believe her parents and a solid upbringing laid the foundation for this phenomenal woman. Bless the gods!

Two very strong women with a pointedly painful history from a single moment in their youth which ended when Mayson pushed Paige into a fountain soaking her and her diary. Mayson knows all the underpinnings leading up to that moment, but Paige paid the price of losing her sanctuary and so started Paige's utter contempt for Mayson. That is the uphill travail that faces both of these women. This is a story that should not be missed. I relished it and I exhort it wholeheartedly. Magnificent!

 

 

 

 

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Additional Information

Format ebook and print
Length Novel, 240 pages/63000 words
Heat Level
Publication Date 01-June-2014
Price $9.99 ebook, $16.95 paperback, $19.99 bundle
Buy Link http://www.boldstrokesbooks.com/9781626391086e.html