Green Broke Woman

Masters of Black Dragon #1

by Zoey Marcel

Kayla Sanders has loved the three Langley brothers since childhood, but her youth and innocence keep them from acting on their feelings for her. Undaunted, she goes to California and seeks the help of Hugh Randall, a Dom, to train her in BDSM so she will be the submissive woman the Langleys want.

She never counted on falling for the Dom who trains her or on falling for Virgil Paisley, the hot cowboy in a white Stetson who comes to her aid when duty calls Hugh away mysteriously.

When Kayla returns to Kentucky, Travis, Keith, and Jake Langley profess their love to her. But a predator from Kayla’s past wants her back, and when she least expects it Hugh and Virgil walk back into her life. All five men want her, but none of them are willing to back down. Will she have to choose from among all of them, or is there another way?

Be menage sex (MFMMMM), BDSM, double vaginal penetration, caning, spanking

Genres: Menage

316 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 30, 2014

About the author

I'm an author of erotic romance and erotica. Some of my genres include: paranormal, historical, BDSM, menage, GLB, shape shifter and dark fantasy.
I love reading, writing, dogs, shopping, traveling and anything to do with health and fitness.
I'm addicted to coffee, romance, long drives and good music.
I'm a firm believer in true love, happy endings and pursuing your dreams rather than sitting around waiting for them to come true.

Reviews

[Rhonda]

Although the plot intrigued me, I was easily confused with this story. It goes back and forth between times that I honestly had to go back and make sure I didn't skip anything important. The story itself was good and I really liked each of the characters but in different ways. Granted, Kayla goes through some very horrible things in her past and it makes her question why she can't seem to make up her mind about anything concerning the 5 men she "can't choose between". I really only connected with Master Hugh and Master Keith. I felt the other three were just there to take care of her if her Masters weren't there. This was the first book of the series and while it's not a favorite, I will probably get the second one because the whole storyline with the three brothers sister has me wanting to find out what has happened with her. Like I said, this wasn't a horrible book, I just couldn't get into it like I was hoping I would!

[♂♀♂ Mary's Menage Reviews ♂♂♀]

Great and weird. That is pretty much how I will define this story.

Great in many aspects, weird only because here again, I changed my mind from outstanding to great. Still excellent, mind you but lets start with the great first.

I loved all the characters. They were all very different. Of course, I was attracted more to some and less to others but overall they were all interesting and lovable characters. I totally enjoyed the part, almost at the end of the story, when she describes them.

I also loved the romance and the originality. It was not a romance I read already and I truly enjoyed that they were not all brothers falling for the heroine. It was totally interesting and I was intrigued to know how the author would reunite all of them. I loved the heroine’s journey. I could follow her, understand her ups and downs along the years. Years, people. Not days, thank you very much! It made all the difference in my mind about the credibility.

Now lets talk about the weird. Then I will finish with great again because this story really deserve a great note at the end of my review. ;)

Weird, because here again I loved the story up to almost the end. I do not remember the exact page but do remember it was almost at the end. It was the moment when they all were together. It started to be confusing and the credibility was not at its best.

One thing that you may want to know is that the heroine had a tragic event. I cannot say because I do not want to spoil the story but enough to destroy all her trust in men. She is definitely traumatized and a normal person would spend years in therapy. Time factor was not included at this point in the story and this is where the author lost me a bit. Love can do miracles up to a certain point. So I was not impressed how the men forced her to face her fears and trauma. I felt it was over the top.

Then you may have notice the meh regarding the equality.

Sadly I did not find it in the romance. The vanilla guy, Virgil, was sweet but besides that and a BJ, I did not feel the love when they finally came back together. For me, he was just tagging along and more a friend with benefits. As a vanilla guy, he was way too at ease in a dungeon and double vagina with three other guys? nope. His character was lovable but totally not necessary nor credible in the story.

Out of five guys, only two stood up for me: the two masters. I got complete understanding of who they were. I did not get this understanding with the the other three and as I said especially one.

So all five men fulfilled different roles: One true Master, one new Master, one Dom, one dominant in the bedroom and one vanilla guy.

You will find all kind of BDSM sex in this story. I labelled heavy BDSM but only because for most readers it will be compared to the other mild romances using D/s. The heroine play a different role to each man. She is a chameleon, mostly a sub and a slave. Since her relationship is unique with each of the men, she just adapted their needs with her needs. With some, she was a slave, and other a sub.


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The story got some bumps on the road for me when they pushed her at the BDSM club. The vanilla guy being totally comfortable in a scene, even participating, did not feel right and I felt his presence was only necessary because the author wanted a double vagina penetration but avoid the siblings doing it. So it had to be a complete stranger. I wished the author took more time to develop the relationship with the heroine and mostly the emotional and sexual parts.

I have to be honest here. I loved the sex scenes except the one before and after the dungeon scene. I skipped several pages to move on to the plot and the epilogue. I was okay with the epilogue. I would have liked something more bloody, more spectacular with one or two villains though. I thought it was way too quick. I wanted them to get their lessons. It was lightly mentioned that one got it, but I did not feel it emotionally.

This said, I loved the plot. (yep lets go back to the great now). I could connect with the heroine chasing her dreams, failing and learning to stand up after and move on. I totally loved that she did not save herself and lost her virginity. The drama was definitely drama and I like that it was not solved completely and it will continue in book #2 of the series which will be another menage, probably à trois, looks like a MFM but this author loves tricks and turns and I would not be surprised if she added more characters in the mix!

[Rara Loves to Read]

I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

I was so excited to read Green Broke Woman by Zoey Marcel. The blurb pulled me in with its description of ménage and BDSM. Unfortunately, the book did not match the excitement of the blurb and I ended up disappointed.

The story starts out with a bang as Kayla Sanders is told to strip off her clothes. The order is from her new boss and caught my attention, but then things became so confusing that I had to double check that I hadn’t skipped any pages. Kayla was allowing her new boss, who she had not yet established a trust with, to order her to strip and allow him to spank her. This was the first of many WTF moments in this book.

The next chapter skipped ahead two years to a time when Kayla and her boss/Dom Hugh were falling in love. This time skip happens a lot in this book which contributed to the confusion I often had. Then everyone seemed to be connected to each other which were just too many coincidences for me to believe. While I have no problem checking my brain at the door and realizing these books are fictional, there has to be some level of authenticity in order to enjoy reading.

The characters were hard to sympathize with. Kayla came across as very young and naïve. I couldn’t understand the choices she made and I found myself wanting to smack her. She never learned from her past mistakes and therefore continued to make bad choices. She suffered from a terrible tragedy that we learn about a little bit at a time. Such a tragedy should have had a profound impact on her psyche, yet other then saying that it hurt her emotionally, her actions indicated little to no effect.

The guys weren’t much better. Each one was a stereotype – the gentle giant, the alpha cowboy, the loving older man, and the one vanilla guy. The reader was never given enough insight into each of the men in order to help us fully understand their motivations. Kayla was in love with five different men and we were supposed to just accept that she did without ever really being shown why she loved them.

I found myself unable to put the book down but only because I just couldn’t believe what was happening and was curious to see where Ms. Marcel was taking the story, sort of like a train wreck that you can’t help but watch. Green Broke Woman is the first book in the Masters of a Black Dragon series. I don’t think I will be reading the second book.

[♡♡~Cyborg-Scifi-Lover~♡♡]

It was more of a 3½ star. I had trouble to keep reading it. Normally I would read Zoey's books in one sitting but this one I read in 3 days.

Although it had a great plot and the sex scene's where great!