[Siren Ménage Erotic Consensual BDSM Cowboy Ménage a Trois Romance, M/F/M, paranormal elements spanking, paddling, flogging, sex toys, HEA]
Tough rancher Lila Frost is determined to prove to her parents that she can manage the Circle C Ranch while they're away for a month. She's desperate for hired hands, so eagerly signs up Jet Quartermain and "Houston". Having just left the Army, Jet wants to ease into civilian life while Houston needs to recover from his injuries.
Lila's experience with men has been limited and boring, though her fantasy life is rich. Jet's insistence he be her master at night both arouses and annoys her. Naturally dominant men, they find her independence an enjoyable challenge. She enjoys their attention, and the jealousy shown by spiteful rivals from her past.
The stakes are raised with the possibility of pregnancy as Jet, born a bastard, insists a baby means a husband while Lila refuses to consider it. When Lila's life is threatened all three must reconsider their pasts, the present, and future plans.
No Strings Attached (Climax, Montana #4) by Reece Butler C+, inferno, BDSM, menage, contemp
Lila is taking over the ranch while her parents head out on a cruise. She's out to prove to everyone that she's got what it takes. When Jet and Houston come along looking to hire on as ranch hands, they're just what the doctor ordered-both for the ranch and for Lila's sex life.
The main thing that bothered me with this one was that Lila's parents-Matt, Eric, and Nikki-and her aunt and uncles-Simon, Lance, and Marci-were so open with everyone about her budding relationship with Jet and Houston. It was a little squick-inducing to hear them tell her to go at it. And to hear them tell Jet and Houston that she needed to be spanked.
I also didn't really care for the fact that Beth Elliot (an ancestor of Lila and the heroine from Barefoot Bride for Three which took place in 1870) was still in this one, coming back as a spirit. The woman's dead and buried. Let her be. I loved her in her book, but her popping up in the Climax series of books is stretching my boundaries of believability.
This one was filled with everything that I've come to love and expect from a Reece Butler read-steamy, hot sex and romance that tugs at my heartstrings. I'm still enjoying the books, but I would like to see what Reece could do with a different series. As much as I like the Bride Train series and the Climax, Montana series, I'm ready for something new.
While I enjoyed the actual relationships that built between Jet, Houston and Lila I was a bit disappointed by the change from a little bit of mystique and magic in the air to outright silliness with materialising ghosts, interference and impossible pregnancies. It took the whole tone of the book down and stopped the enjoyment. Just not required.