Pretty good considering it's not really my cuppa.

I love smut as much as the next girl but I have a low threshold for BDSM. Spanking by hand is fine but as soon as all the hardware comes out - the nipple clamps, the crops, the whips, the handcuffs, the furniture - it becomes a real turn-off.

This book was more hardcore than the first book in the series - SWEET SURRENDER - but beneath all the BDSM, there is a tender relationship with lots of heat. Banks does exceptionally hot sex scenes altho I c More...

4.5 STARS!!!

Dear Damon,
Take me. Make me your slave. You may do what you wish to me. I am yours.

Sweet Persuasion is the second book of Maya Banks’s Sweet series and it is hands down my favourite! I have a feeling that it will remain my favourite even when I get down to reading the other books in this series. This book is sinfully sweet, mixing the perfect amount of kink and tenderness! The BDSM wasn’t over the top or scary. And I think most of that is because Damon Roche, the hero of this book is More...

Serena James runs her own business fulfilling her clients fantasies. She has supressed her own fantasy of being a sex slave. She discusses her fantasy with her friend Faith who tells her to contact Damon who runs a sex club and is a Dom.
While talking to Damon about the fanaties she pretends they are that of one of her clients. Once Damon realizes that it's Serena who wants to be the sex slave he volunteers himself to fulfill her fantasies.
Damon has been looking for a permanent sex slave and he More...

Selfish, pompous douche meets limp, wet dish-rag; awkward kinkfest ensues.
Badly written, with really unlikable and obnoxious characters. The dialogue was especially bad; super stilted and weirdly formal. Who the hell talks like that?

The sex slave fantasy has been done before better. Maya Banks just handled it badly: it was all about humiliation and sexual use (like a masturbatory aid) not about mutual enjoyment. I usually enjoy some BDSM smut, but this was very off-putting.
This book has lots More...

This isn’t the first book in the Sweet erotic romance series by the ever-popular Maya Banks, but, in my opinion, it is the standout title in the line-up. In other words, if you’re going to pick one, this is the one to go for. Sweet Persuasion is a cracking, singe your fingers read. Put the cat out, dim the lights, grab a friend (breathing or battery operated) hot.

Serena is in the business of making dreams and wishes come true for other people. She spends her days fulfilling fantasies and making More...

Second in the Sweet very erotic romance series.

The Story
Serena has spent years fulfilling the fantasies for others through her business, Fantasy, Inc., now she wants to experience her own fantasy of being a sex slave. A fantasy which, unbeknownst to Serena, her best friend, Faith Malone is uniquely qualified to help her with.

Faith's friendship with Damon Roche gets Serena's fantasy kickstarted and, along the way, fulfills a fantasy Damon has almost given up on.

The Characters
Serena, Faith, and J More...

Well-written and emotional, just turned out not to be my type of story. Had a hard time getting into the D/s aspects.

Ok, I love the books written by Maya Banks but I honestly didn't see the point to this. I mean, I LOVED Damon in the first book and I love how he interacts with all the characters but I just cant stand the relationship he shares with Serena. He says he doesn't share but he goes around parading her naked for everyone to see and he also lets random strangers touch and orgasm all over her. The scene when she was giving Damon an oral while two business associates of his watched and then they join in More...

{3.5 stars}

A liked this one much better than the first, the overall storyline and flow of the book made more sense to me. Serena is a strong character, equal to the strong character of Damon. I didn't think I would like Damon, but as much as he seems in control of everything around him, he is just as vulnerable as the rest of us. They start out planning and playing out Serena's fantasy, but along the way they both realize that they really just want reality with each other. Serena runs, not knowi More...

2nd Installment of the "Sweet Series" Contently More Quenching than 1st!

Serena James is the owner of the successful Fantasy Incorp., an organization constructed for ordinary people who couldn't obtain the opportunity to fulfill their long time dreams. Serena would be willing to do all in her power to satisfy her clients, as long as it wasn't anything inappropriate.

However in her case, Serena wasn't satisfied to appease everyone else's thirst for adventure without taking part in one of her own. U More...

People are going to start thinking I'm kinky as hell because I liked this book a lot. It was interesting to watch an independent woman become someone who's goal was to do what her guy wanted her to. In other words, she's his slave. And this is hot for her. It's like giving yourself permission to be used for someone else's pleasure. But that person cares for you so it's not the same as if some random someone used you like you weren't a person. There is respect and an emphasis on how strong a pers More...

On occaison I like to indulge in, what we literary lovers like to describe as, smut. As I was sick today and stuck indoors with my sick son it was a good day for some smut.
Sweet Persuasion is the second book is Maya Banks' Sweet series. Luckily It wasn't necessary to read book 1 (Sweet Surrender) although there are some characters that cross over from the first book.
Sweet Persuasion is a good read and had me enraptured until about three quarters of the way through and then I got lost in the cha More...

This is another book where the woman owns her sexuality, something that I love to read about even if she chooses to go about it in an unconventional way.

Serena, a strong take charge woman, has a secret desire to be a sex slave. It is a good thing that she has a friend that knows someone that can help her find her fantasy.

After hearing about Serena's fantasy, Damon was willing to help her out, but when her fantasy came in detail Damon knew he was the only one that would be able to help her out. H More...

I had difficulty rating it as a whole because there were some parts that made me cringed. I'm not a stranger to BDSM, I'm open minded about most unusual things and most of the time I don't judge on face value. There's a strong D/s theme here that Maya Banks twisted her way around.

Serena's business is fulfilling other people's fantasy, give them a slice of it, and she made a lot of people happy, but she herself feels something missing. So when Faith endorsed her to Damon, things got really inter More...

Liked this one better than the first. Of course Damon had my heart in book one too.
Serena, Faith's best friend, helps people realize their fantasies for a living. If you want to be a master chef for night, she will make it happen. But now it is time to make her fantasy come true. For one month she wants to be a submissive. But who can be her top?
Faith hears her request and knows that Damon can probably find a safe choice for Serena and so she gives Serena his number.
When Damon hears the request More...

I love it when a book doesn't have to have any life threatening moment to be fast paced, dramatic, entertaining, and ridiculously hot!
Because seriously, how many almost murdered characters can you put in a series where they are all related? ok, a lot, even everyone of them if you take other series as an example, but this is not the case and that is only one of the many reasons why i loved this book so much.

The kink factor is way out there, at some moments way too much, but it all happened with a More...

This is the 2nd book in MB's Sweet Series. Damon was introduced in Sweet Surrender and became a very good friend of Faith's. Faith just happens to have another very good friend in Serena, a very independent woman who owns her own business.

Serena wants Faith to help her scratch her itch; she wants to 100% submissive to a man and the idea drives her wild. So, Faith sends Serena to Damon and Damon, being 100% dominant, takes her on.

This is a BDSM book; make no mistake about that. It is also one o More...

this book was well written. the characters were pretty well developed. the story flowed good. the ending was pretty sweet. for a book that had so many harsher scenes there was actually quite a few touching spots throughout it. that being said i wanted to chop parts and characters out of it. i didn't have a problem with Damon and serena till we got to the public punishment scene. that was just not ok. i would also imagine she would have been pretty injured after that one. apparently not, which ma More...

so.. this was better... ish
where to begin? Going in I was already worried about whether I would like this book or not. Not only was the first book a total and utter disappointment, but this book was a little to much in the realm of erotica and BDMS for me. However I still felt the need to give it a fair chance and, well, I can't say it made a difference that i read it or not. There was things I liked yes; such as the fact that Damon once more appeared. He was literally the only bearable charact More...

After finishing the first book in this series I decided to read the next one straight away.

The mighty fine Damon was calling to me....calling I tells ya.

I fell in love with him in the first book. Apart from the hunky goodness, he was rich, dominant and held himself in the sexiest, confident manner that made me go all soft inside.

Unfortunately, I had the same problem with this book as I did with the first and maybe a few added annoyances to make it only 3 stars.

The first half was enjoyable, t More...

It’s always the boring ones who turn out to have the most shocking secrets.
- Julie
The internet is a wonderful tool. Amazing what will turn up in a Google search.
- Damon
Never settle for anything less than what you truly wanted.
- Damon
I love it when a woman pouts. It’s such an opportunity to give them what they want.
- Micah
It’s kind of hard to look for something you’ve stopped believing in.
- Damon
What is it with women always ordering salads, anyway?
- Damon
You’ve completely and utterly knocked my f More...

The reason I gave this book 2 stars is because --- OMG!! IT was chock full of penis butter!! Ewwwwwwwwwwwws!!!!! I am sooo OCD when it comes to bodily fluids lolz. I guess I like my fictional porn like I like my soft core porn -- left to the imagination when it comes to the big guns firing. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! I thought I was going to go blind!!

And yet... I didn't stop reading lolz.

I also wasn't too big on the girly in this story wanting to be all SUBMISSIVE. Uhhh... do people like that really exi More...

This book is one of the most intense romance book I've ever read. I love Serena, because she never give up and doesn't make stupid assumption like other female characters do. but don't get me wrong; she thinks but not like others do and she doesn't really know what she wants when she starts to fall for Damon but there's just something about her that makes their relationship unique and hard core but sweet at the same time. Their sexual relationship is tense but there's this sweet side of it that More...