BOOKS ‘n COZY SPOTS BOOK REVIEWS – Safeword Trilogy by Candace Blevins
5 stars for the series
Review for the Safeword trilogy by Candace Blevins
Contemporary / Erotic Romance / BDSM
Reviewed by Jaycee ~ for Books ‘N Cozy Spots Book Reviews, www.Talon-ps.com
Purchased at Amazon.com
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Safeword: Matte
Matte, pronounced mah-tay, is the word used in some forms of martial arts to stop a fight. It’s the Japanese word for stop or wait. Sam (short for Samantha) has made a hobby out of learning the various fighting disciplines, but she also happens to be a sexual submissive. What better safeword than matte?
Sam wants to find someone to submit to who she can’t beat in a fight. She’s tried to make it work with men from the scene who know nothing about fighting, but it doesn’t feel real to her – she needs someone who can truly control her. However, after dating from the fight scene and discovering not all guys like to spank their girlfriends, she’s decided to just back away from the whole dating thing for a while… until Fate decides to step in.
Warning: This title contains graphic language, consensual BDSM, bondage, and use of toys including crops, clamps, canes, and floggers.
Safeword: Matte In Training
The wedding is four months away, and Ethan has promised to train Sam to handle a planned honeymoon activity. He’s calculated the math to figure out her goals each week. When she reaches the weekly target she gets a massage and lots of fun orgasms. But if she doesn’t, it’s the stainless steel cane.
All this along with navigating her clients’ drama, planning a wedding, dealing with her mother while planning the wedding, and having lots and lots of wild and kinky sex.
And we haven’t even mentioned the bachelorette party.
Warning: This title contains graphic language, consensual BDSM some may find objectionable, anal sex, bondage, and the use of toys including crops, clips, clamps, plugs, and gags.
No Safeword: Matte, The Honeymoon
The wedding ceremony is over, and the couple is on their way to Hawaii. After so much build-up for the big night, how will Ethan handle it? Sam has no idea, and while she’s pretty sure she’s ready, she’s still a bit nervous. Who wouldn’t be?
Most newlyweds don’t ride bicycles up and then back down dormant volcanos for fun on their honeymoon, but Sam and Ethan aren’t the average couple. They find lots of fun things to do on the islands and in the ocean, and Ethan’s creativity knows no bounds when in the privacy of their secluded beach house.
If you’ve read Safeword: Matte and Safeword: Matte – In Training, you’ve been waiting for the honeymoon. Here’s hoping you enjoy it as much as Sam and Ethan.
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What do you get when you cross a masochistic divorce attorney with a sadistic cage-fighting businessman? Sounds like either the beginning of a really bad joke, or a teaser to a really good book—or series of books. Fortunately, it’s the latter. I have never combined multiple books to one review, but since I voraciously read one after the other, I figured I might as well review them that way as well.
Ms. Blevins wastes exactly zero time in detailing just how the “sadist with the perfect tool” gives the un-toppable divorce attorney proof-positive that she can indeed, be topped. And not just topped, but loved in the process; her perfect Dom/life-partner.
5 Stars!!
Book 1 ~ Safeword: Matte does use a case that Sam(antha) is working on to amp up the storyline to beyond the D/s angle. But it also serves to quite perfectly outline, in my mind anyway, the difference between a healthy, consensual kink and a pathologic existence with an abusive jerk. It’s all in the Consent, with a capital C.
5 Stars !!
Book 2 ~ Safeword: Matte In Training Well, suffice it to say that Ethan’s idea of pre-wedding activities in NO WAY resembles the wedding showers with hats made from bows, and the ubiquitous deviled eggs of my own pre-wedding experiences! And ain’t that just a shame. ‘Nuff said, though there is also enough background life and family drama going on to keep the overall story well fleshed out. You are not getting any spoilers from me! So, ‘Read on, MacDuff’…
4 Stars !!
Book 3~ No Safeword: Matte, The Honeymoon largely takes place in Hawaii, on, you guessed it: the Honeymoon, though I am willing to bet most of our hubbies did not use UPS to illustrate “What Brown can do for You” on our honeymoons! Again, read for yourself people… If there is a weak spot in the series, I think this may be it. Book 3 struck me more as a primer for “How to Navigate a week of SM” than it did as a continuation of the life and love story of these two very engaging characters. Nothing wrong with that, except for this reviewer, the relationship is always key. It was missing that personal connection; that zing to the heartstrings for me. But it was also wicked-awesome, so I’m torn.
Lest I sound entirely negative about the third book, I believe it also serves as a set-up for the final chapter. I am hoping for an HEA that ties up the court case, the family issues and danger provoked by the professions of both main characters and their families. And who am I kidding?: I’m also hoping for more crushingly hot sex! All from an author with a gift for dosing out fact cloaked in deliciously perfect fiction.
Heartiest of hearty recommendations.
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The SAFEWORD TRILOGY also received the following ratings:
ROMANCE FACTOR ~ 5 hearts
HEAT FACTOR ~ 5 flames
STING FACTOR ~ 5 paddles
TWIST FACTOR ~ let’s hear it for absolutely ZERO angst!
BONUS FACTOR ~ a lawyer you can love to love
~ a sadist you can fear in all the right ways
~ some wickedly inventive sex!
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