Nine Dates Desert Ménage Book 1 edition by Shanyn Hosier Literature Fiction eBooks
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2011 Valley Forge RWA Sheila Award Finalist
Secretary Beth Mitchell has a problem. A 6'2" gorgeous, blue-eyed problem. Office crushes universally suck, but she reckons hers truly takes the cake. For not only is sweet, charming John O'Brien her best friend at work, he's also taken. Not that it would matter if he wasn't, because to top it all off, John's gay.
Or so Beth thought… until he asks her out on a date. And in the span of a few moments, all Beth's preconceived notions about John come tumbling down when he asks, "You understand people come in more flavors than just gay or straight, don't you?"
Being raised in a small Midwestern town by a single mother gave Beth a solid grounding in realism and a strong work ethic, but did nothing to temper her driving ambition or quell her sense of adventure. So when John proposes something she never dared to imagine, Beth leaps at the opportunity, however untraditional, to be with him.
Only John's boyfriend, medical resident Paul Atwater, isn't so sure. When Beth shows up at their apartment proposing they give nothing less than a triadic relationship a try, he thinks the whole thing's a recipe for disaster. He argues, "There's got to be more to a successful ménage-a-trois than a nine date plan!"
For that's exactly the strategy Beth lays out. Nine Dates follows Beth, John, and Paul as they get to know each other. Tender romantic moments, steamy physical encounters, a strong dose of sarcasm, and brownies a la mode all feature heavily. Is it possible for a committed, monogamous relationship to welcome a new member, much less withstand the invasion? Is true love always the right path to follow? And just how complicated can things get?
Nine Dates Desert Ménage Book 1 edition by Shanyn Hosier Literature Fiction eBooks
I'm reviewing the trilogy not just this book. The reason for that is because it is one story in three volumes.Pros-
The characters are three dimensional. Their personalities are unique and fully fleshed-out.
The writing is descriptive and engaging.
The emotions and obstacles are realistically conveyed.
Cons-
Overly long. There was no need for two books much less three.
Since the narrative contained sooo many obstacles it felt like the author added them to fill three stories.
The beautifully descriptive writing often consisted of too many details. I skipped pages just to get past the exposition of the scenes.
In the way that the members of the triad were individuals they were also a little too individual. Beth was perfect. She instinctively knows how to handle the idea of this relationship from the start and doesn't misstep, which can be ideal for this three-sided union but with the plethora of obstacles you'd think she'd get something wrong. John seemed like a Pollyanna. The the only character whose curmudgeonly personality worked over the three books was Paul. He grows the most of the three.
I have to say the authentic reactions to the hate, prejudice and ignorance is realistic but sometimes I felt hit over the head with the shear number of situations. If she had one major conflict that spanned the three books I might have been more invested in it. Because every volume contained diverse events that tested the relationship it might have been more successful if the stories took place separated by year's. The first being their union. The second being about their family after being together for over a decade. The third could be the same obstacles they faced when they first got together being revisited on their adult children who might have to face the same sort of bigotry when bringing someone they loved into the mix.
With that said it enjoyed the books this second time around.
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Nine Dates Desert Ménage Book 1 edition by Shanyn Hosier Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
The story arc of this novel attempts to answer that question. And basically, it wasn't smooth sledding for this trio as they explored that possibility. By the author's design, Beth and John are very appealing, likeable people. John's long-term lover, Paul, is by author's design a cynical grouch, always suspicious that nothing good and positive can really last. While that contrast presents part of the conflict necessary to make this an interesting read, it also makes it challenging for the reader to like and care about Paul.
Fortunately, both men are decidedly bisexual, so there's a real chance that they might be able to bring Beth into their mutual relationship.
A major part of the story is Beth's struggle to be true to her sexual and romantic desires, in spite of opposition from her friends and her apprehension about potential repurcussions in the workplace where she and John first met and began to fall in love with each other.
Although there are some hot sex scenes, they do not dominate the characterization or the central plot of the story. Hetero scenes with Beth are central, but some MM sex scenes are included, as well.
This had the potential to be a really good read for me, the sample and the blurb were promising. Elizabeth Mitchell and John O’Brien work for the same company. Beth’s has had more than an office crush on John but after finding out that he’s not only taken – he’s gay she’s not sure what his flirtations were about. After being asked out by John, knowing what she knows, she decides that the best way to handle to situation. I’ll get back to that in a bit. Paul Atwater is John’s boyfriend. He’s in his residency as an orthopedic surgeon so you can imagine his schedule is…limited. John and Beth’s proposition is something that he’s not sure of, rightfully so, but he’s willing to do whatever it takes to keep John. I’ve read way too many types of this story where there’s a 3rd person to a couple and I felt this was one of them.
I’m not a big fan or workplace romances because I just don’t believe that you should s*** where you eat but I was curious of this because the category is one I enjoy. As a secretary, Beth is doing well. She’s from a small Indiana town where a single mother raised her. Wanting to get away from small town minds and mentalities, at 17 Beth makes her escape by moving in with one of her mother’s cousins. There she was a caretaker to an old and dying man while finishing high school and going on to college. There’s so much promise for a likeable heroine. But I didn’t find her likeable at all. When Beth is first asked out by John she’s very reluctant. She even temporarily (okay, so she took a day off work) separates herself from the situation to think about what John is offering.
When Beth comes up with her proposal of 9 dates along with the sequence and format with which the dates would happen, my eyes kind of got big. That’s when my ‘oh crap oh crap oh crap’ suspicions began to rear its ugly head but I was very willing to play along and see where this went. While she’s going over the rules of the dates, Paul who she’s meeting for the first time behaves like an absolute douche. I can’t really blame him because if anyone came into my home dictating to me the way Beth did to him – I can’t promise civility and courteous behavior either. As her character progressed I couldn’t find a reason to like her. There were peaks here and there that I could but she would say something that would set me right back to ‘can’t stand her’.
Paul is a class A jerk in this but then again I didn’t think that he and John were in agreement about having a 3rd person in their relationship. I absolutely thought his bad attitude should have been towards John because that 3rd person thing should have been worked long before John asked out Beth. It’s not like it’s even their first or second time having a sexual threesome with a woman so I can’t even say what he was anti-sex with a woman it was the ‘relationship’ part that Paul had a problem with. It’s amazing that after 6 or 10 years (depends on who you’re asking) Paul isn’t sure of his place in John’s affections, so he takes all of that out on Beth. But Beth is in this for John, I wasn’t convinced otherwise, so she’ll do whatever it takes to get her man even put up with whatever Paul had to dish out.
Then there’s John. I don’t even know what to tell you about John because he was the one who I came away understanding the least about. He seemed to be the fantasy guy for both Paul and Beth but he also seemed clueless about knowing the people he’s involved with.
For this reader, I don’t find this type of story interesting. For being an educated man, I found Paul to be narrow minded, crude and full of vitriol towards his family; Beth was pretentious and had too much unresolved issues about her mother and lacking father figure and let me not get started on her negativity towards friendships. If she got that stick out of her butt and realized the majority of people didn’t care what she, John or Paul did behind closed doors she might have come across a bit more likeable but she might want to sop having sex in public and having make out sessions during the lunch hour with her ‘gay’ co-worker on a public bench. Tsk, tsk tsk.
Happy Reading Folks!
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I'm reviewing the trilogy not just this book. The reason for that is because it is one story in three volumes.
Pros-
The characters are three dimensional. Their personalities are unique and fully fleshed-out.
The writing is descriptive and engaging.
The emotions and obstacles are realistically conveyed.
Cons-
Overly long. There was no need for two books much less three.
Since the narrative contained sooo many obstacles it felt like the author added them to fill three stories.
The beautifully descriptive writing often consisted of too many details. I skipped pages just to get past the exposition of the scenes.
In the way that the members of the triad were individuals they were also a little too individual. Beth was perfect. She instinctively knows how to handle the idea of this relationship from the start and doesn't misstep, which can be ideal for this three-sided union but with the plethora of obstacles you'd think she'd get something wrong. John seemed like a Pollyanna. The the only character whose curmudgeonly personality worked over the three books was Paul. He grows the most of the three.
I have to say the authentic reactions to the hate, prejudice and ignorance is realistic but sometimes I felt hit over the head with the shear number of situations. If she had one major conflict that spanned the three books I might have been more invested in it. Because every volume contained diverse events that tested the relationship it might have been more successful if the stories took place separated by year's. The first being their union. The second being about their family after being together for over a decade. The third could be the same obstacles they faced when they first got together being revisited on their adult children who might have to face the same sort of bigotry when bringing someone they loved into the mix.
With that said it enjoyed the books this second time around.
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