Even despite his attitude along that vein, I still like Jack very much. That’s really the only thing I didn’t care for in this book. Just didn’t care of the ultimatum feel of that whole thing between them. So she chooses to do as he wants, though I didn’t see it as a choice. It’s either do it his way or she doesn’t get the guy at all.

He basically challenges Morgan to give it all a go, even though she really doesn’t want to. He even has a sex room set up with every toy imagineable and then some. He’s so certain she is a sub and he’s going to prove it to her. This is where he begins to really push her toward her inner submissiveness. He wants Morgan but he wants her his way. Stealing her away with the help of some friends and creative ways to get her out of town, they end up at his cabin in the swamps of Louisiana where Jack’s alphaness and lust hits an all-time high. She’s also being stalked and during her meet with Master J, someone takes a shot at her, turns the master in to professional bodyguard Jack Cole, and he takes it upon himself to keep her safe. But for me Jack just pushed too much and too hard.īut before all of that, Morgan hosts a sex talk show and she’s meeting Master J to bone up on the BDSM lifestyle which is the subject of her next show. Okay, I know it’s an erotic book, the toys, the ties, the whatever are part of that. What turned me off is the way Jack more or less pushes his wicked lifestyle onto Morgan.

The plot is intriguing, as are the secondary characters. I like the characters, Morgan and Jack, just fine, the sexual tension between them is edgy and sensual. This book didn’t work for me nearly as well as Decadent. But somewhere along the way, I figured wrong. I figured I’d like this one just as well. I’ve been wanting to read this book for a while, especially after I read and reviewed my first Shayla Black, Decadent, last year and really liked it. Sandy M’s review of Wicked Ties by Shayla BlackĬontemporary Erotic Romance published by Berkley Trade 2 Jan 07