TITLE: HOT TICKET
AUTHOR: OLIVIA CUNNING
Pages: 400
Date: 03/02/2013
Grade: 4
Details: Original Sinners no. 3
Received from Source Books
Through NetGalley
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From the author’s website:
When Jace walked through the doors of Aggie's dungeon, the last thing he expected was to find self-forgiveness and the love of a remarkable woman. But when a terrible accident sidelines Jace during the band's tour, the burdensome chains of his past wrap ferociously around his heart.
She needs him to forgive himself…
Determined to crack through Jace's armored shell, Aggie must go beyond her usual methods to mend his heart to love again.”
When Jace (never,
ever call him Jason) first meets Mistress V all he wants is someone to hurt him
so hard that it pushes the pain he always feels inside into the background,
just for a little while.
Mistress V is good
at what she does. Men may pay for twenty minutes on the other side of her
floggers, she usually has them begging for mercy within a few minutes. Jace is
something different though; it doesn’t matter what implement she uses or how
hard she strikes him, Jace doesn’t beg for mercy, he begs for more instead. And
Jace is special in a different way too. For the first time ever Mistress V
wants to disappear into the background and allow Aggie, her day to day persona,
to interact with what should be nothing more than a paying client.
Jace has a past
filled with pain and despair. A past he refuses to talk about. A past that
leaves him unable to believe that anybody could see him as good, never mind
loveable. As the bassist in the Original Sinners hard-rock band he should be on
top of the world. Instead he is insecure of his position in the band he joined
late when their first bassist was kicked out, and always afraid that the other
band members will get rid of him too. Aggie has had a turbulent past as well,
and her mother still causes upheaval in her life on a regular basis. But while
Aggie’s attitude is to let the past be the past and live in the present, Jace
can’t distance himself from his hurtful memories and doesn’t trust the present,
especially not when the here and now is actually good.
When Jace finds
himself injured and unable to perform with the band he is temporarily replaced
by the original Sinners’ bassist and all his insecurities come crashing down on
him with a vengeance. It will take all of Aggie’s talents and love to show Jace
that she wants to be with him regardless of his past and that she is not the
only one who loves and needs him.
Before I start on
my thoughts about this book I have to get something off my chest. Who, I’d like
to know, is in charge of the order in which the books in this series are
published? Why is it that I read and reviewed “Double Time”, which is quite obviously
the last book in the series, last November and “Hot Ticket”, with a story that
clearly takes place much earlier, is only being released now? And how did this
book end up being number four in the series but number three in the reading
order? Since I haven’t read any of the other books in this series it doesn’t
bother me too much, although I do find it strange. I am sure though that for
readers who want to read their series in order and not have stories “spoiled”
for them, the way in which these books are released must be frustrating to say
the least.
As for my thoughts
on this book, leaving all of the above aside; I enjoyed it. Olivia Cunning
tells a good story. She manages to draw her readers in with a smooth writing
style, conversation that sparkles, interesting and life-like characters, humor
and a gripping story-line. It is easy to fall a little bit in love with her
flawed characters and it isn’t long before you find yourself rooting for them. There
is a lot of rather dramatic action in this book but all of it served a purpose
in the story. I loved the group dynamic as described in this story. The author
portrait the interaction and banter between the band-members in a realistic and
life-like way. The only thing I wasn’t entirely sure about was the role Aggie’s
mother plays in the book. While she brings some comic relief, I do think that
her role in the story could have been smaller without the book losing anything.
As it was I found that her interruptions in Aggie’s life took the pace out of
the story on one or two occasions.
And I haven’t even
mentioned the sex yet. Well, let me tell you, this is one hot book. The reader
is treated to a lot of corporal punishment, and I mean a lot, inflicted with
every implement known to man. But we also witness a lot of tenderness; two
characters determined to please each other in any way possible. The descriptions of both Jace and Aggie discovering pleasures they didn't know they were needing were wonderful. I loved watching Aggie discover that she doesn't always has to be in charge; that she enjoys submitting to the sensations Jace wants to bring her. The pleasure and frustration Aggie experiences when Jace continues to withhold her orgasm from her was very enticing. And it was equally beautiful to see Jace discover the pleasures love-making brought him even when pain wasn't involved. As far as the
scenes in which Eric joins Jace and Aggie are concerned, they were steamy too
even if I wasn’t entirely sure what purpose they served in the story except to
push up the heat levels.
Overall I would
classify this as a very steamy and at times heart-breaking love story that will
keep the reader captivated from the very first page.
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