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Pleasure Extraordinaire #2
Zane: Part 2
When he least expects it, Zane Hawkins is back on the tabloid covers with the news of his name getting caught up in a sordid sex scandal. Although scandals aren't rare occurrences in the Hollywood mogul's world, this one has the power to ruin his business and personal life.
Can he convince the public of his innocence and salvage his reputation to have his company remain in the game?
No matter how he handles it, though, whether he'll actually live up to the expectations and be worthy of his new girlfriend’s loyalty and commitment remains to be seen.
Book 2 of 2.
Can he convince the public of his innocence and salvage his reputation to have his company remain in the game?
No matter how he handles it, though, whether he'll actually live up to the expectations and be worthy of his new girlfriend’s loyalty and commitment remains to be seen.
Book 2 of 2.
- GenresRomanceContemporary
173 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 27, 2015
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October 17, 2015
Julie and Zane
Zane is happy for the first time in his life. His girlfriend, Scarlet, is amazing. He doesn't have urges to look at other women. To his surprise, he's totally fallen in love with her. He even professes it to her.
Julie is actively trying to move on. She's dating Nick, an amazingly hot man on the TV show Frat House. She knows how much he likes her and how committed he is to her. If she can't have Zane then Nick will work just fine as a distraction.
This continuation of the story worked out well. There were some unpredictable moments which was nice. I even had a few laughs here and there.
A few notes: Holly is not the same as holy. Stop doing that! It's annoying. Holly is a plant and a name for girls. Dessert has two s's. Desert has only one. This is the sixth book I've read by Liv that has it wrong. Is no one editing her books? C'mon! Get it together! It's easy to remember: you want to have two desserts and only want to go to the desert once. I know I'm being a b****, but it's FN annoying!
Zane is happy for the first time in his life. His girlfriend, Scarlet, is amazing. He doesn't have urges to look at other women. To his surprise, he's totally fallen in love with her. He even professes it to her.
Julie is actively trying to move on. She's dating Nick, an amazingly hot man on the TV show Frat House. She knows how much he likes her and how committed he is to her. If she can't have Zane then Nick will work just fine as a distraction.
This continuation of the story worked out well. There were some unpredictable moments which was nice. I even had a few laughs here and there.
A few notes: Holly is not the same as holy. Stop doing that! It's annoying. Holly is a plant and a name for girls. Dessert has two s's. Desert has only one. This is the sixth book I've read by Liv that has it wrong. Is no one editing her books? C'mon! Get it together! It's easy to remember: you want to have two desserts and only want to go to the desert once. I know I'm being a b****, but it's FN annoying!
October 21, 2015
Loved it
This book was way better than the first I think I couldn't put this one down I had to keep flicking the pages to know what was going to happen next and loved every minute of it.
This book was way better than the first I think I couldn't put this one down I had to keep flicking the pages to know what was going to happen next and loved every minute of it.
March 29, 2020
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I read the first part about a year ago. It wasn’t a great experience, but I didn’t want to leave the story without an end. I know they say second parts are never good, but I wanted to give it a chance. You never know when you are going to be pleasantly surprised. It didn’t happen this time, but I needed to try. Lesson learned? Not at all. I will keep comitting this kind of mistakes. Otherwise, I should give back my reader card. Let’s see what we got in this new chance to visit the two dimensional world of Zane!
Zane wants to be a new man! And by that I mean he want to stick with just one woman and remember her name the following day. The lucky lady is Scarlet, who is elated to have the hunky businessman all for herself. But his past is pretty colourful and is coming back with a vengeance. Can the popular starlet handle all the pressure that comes with dating Zane or is their relationship forever doomed? Whatever it is, we have Julie as a witness. She is still deeply in love with her boss, but as long as he is happy, she will be happy. Or so she says…
One oy my main complaints of the first part was how messy it was. It wasn’t clear in which genre the book was dwelling, but in the end it took more tools from the Erotica one than any other. This second book starts more or less the same way, but it quickly morphs into a more classic Contemporary Romance book with bursts of sudden sex now and then. This time I’m OK with that. But it is still a pretty messy story. That new messiness comes from the weak attempts of the author to bring some drama to Zane’s life. I bet she wanted us to believe his life is not so perfect by throwing some trouble in his path, but it is done in a very chaotic and uncoordinated way. And mostly, in a way that doesn’t make much sense.
First drama: the orgy scandal. Why is that a scandal for him? How a sex god’s (as he describes himself) reputation can be affected by a declaration of how good he is during group sex? I didn’t understand that at all. Second drama: the pregnancy. That one is actually a good idea that makes a lot of sense for someone like Zane, who has sprayed his seed all over the continent and beyond. So, why the need of making it so convulated with weird impregnation techniques and even a murder? Yes, a murder! One that is later blatantly ignored, by the way. Third drama: Penelope. It is a very short lived drama (a couple of pages) that it comes out of nowhere, it has zero consequences and I still don’t know why we even had it. Fourth drama: Julie. Yeah, the cool assistant loses her cool and becomes something hard to recognize. That one was a pain to read.
Nothing gets better with the characters in this second part. I would even dare to say it gets much, much worse. Zane enhances his zaneness even more. This guy’s world ends in his belly button. Beyond that point everything is secondary and imperfect. Because we are forced to believe that he is the most of the most at everything. He sets the rules. The pace of the world. Even the Sun makes an exception for him and spins around that celestial being with perfect muscles all over. It’s ridiculous that no one, absolutely no one calls his bullshit. Besides, some lab should run a bunch test on him, because he has to emit some kind of weird hormone that makes women irrational to the point of twisting their personalities until becoming some kind of zombie that instead of brains only wants Zane in their menu. We witness a little bit about that with Scarlet, but with Julie is utterly undeniable. She changes so fast that I’m still dizzy trying to catch up with her new behaviour. The only half decent character, becomes one that it is even worse than Zane. All to make Zane look even better, I guess.
And the ending… I’m not a junky for happy endings. I even dare authors to get away from them. But what I do not want is being sold a horrible existance as a happy ending. And that is what we get with this book. Julie can’t possibly be happy with such daily turmoil in her mind. And I do not believe Zane’s handsomeness and hunkiness can cure all her maladies as we are meant to believe. Since when is she so shallow?
Goodbye and good riddance. I don’t want to meet those characters ever again!
I read the first part about a year ago. It wasn’t a great experience, but I didn’t want to leave the story without an end. I know they say second parts are never good, but I wanted to give it a chance. You never know when you are going to be pleasantly surprised. It didn’t happen this time, but I needed to try. Lesson learned? Not at all. I will keep comitting this kind of mistakes. Otherwise, I should give back my reader card. Let’s see what we got in this new chance to visit the two dimensional world of Zane!
Zane wants to be a new man! And by that I mean he want to stick with just one woman and remember her name the following day. The lucky lady is Scarlet, who is elated to have the hunky businessman all for herself. But his past is pretty colourful and is coming back with a vengeance. Can the popular starlet handle all the pressure that comes with dating Zane or is their relationship forever doomed? Whatever it is, we have Julie as a witness. She is still deeply in love with her boss, but as long as he is happy, she will be happy. Or so she says…
One oy my main complaints of the first part was how messy it was. It wasn’t clear in which genre the book was dwelling, but in the end it took more tools from the Erotica one than any other. This second book starts more or less the same way, but it quickly morphs into a more classic Contemporary Romance book with bursts of sudden sex now and then. This time I’m OK with that. But it is still a pretty messy story. That new messiness comes from the weak attempts of the author to bring some drama to Zane’s life. I bet she wanted us to believe his life is not so perfect by throwing some trouble in his path, but it is done in a very chaotic and uncoordinated way. And mostly, in a way that doesn’t make much sense.
First drama: the orgy scandal. Why is that a scandal for him? How a sex god’s (as he describes himself) reputation can be affected by a declaration of how good he is during group sex? I didn’t understand that at all. Second drama: the pregnancy. That one is actually a good idea that makes a lot of sense for someone like Zane, who has sprayed his seed all over the continent and beyond. So, why the need of making it so convulated with weird impregnation techniques and even a murder? Yes, a murder! One that is later blatantly ignored, by the way. Third drama: Penelope. It is a very short lived drama (a couple of pages) that it comes out of nowhere, it has zero consequences and I still don’t know why we even had it. Fourth drama: Julie. Yeah, the cool assistant loses her cool and becomes something hard to recognize. That one was a pain to read.
Nothing gets better with the characters in this second part. I would even dare to say it gets much, much worse. Zane enhances his zaneness even more. This guy’s world ends in his belly button. Beyond that point everything is secondary and imperfect. Because we are forced to believe that he is the most of the most at everything. He sets the rules. The pace of the world. Even the Sun makes an exception for him and spins around that celestial being with perfect muscles all over. It’s ridiculous that no one, absolutely no one calls his bullshit. Besides, some lab should run a bunch test on him, because he has to emit some kind of weird hormone that makes women irrational to the point of twisting their personalities until becoming some kind of zombie that instead of brains only wants Zane in their menu. We witness a little bit about that with Scarlet, but with Julie is utterly undeniable. She changes so fast that I’m still dizzy trying to catch up with her new behaviour. The only half decent character, becomes one that it is even worse than Zane. All to make Zane look even better, I guess.
And the ending… I’m not a junky for happy endings. I even dare authors to get away from them. But what I do not want is being sold a horrible existance as a happy ending. And that is what we get with this book. Julie can’t possibly be happy with such daily turmoil in her mind. And I do not believe Zane’s handsomeness and hunkiness can cure all her maladies as we are meant to believe. Since when is she so shallow?
Goodbye and good riddance. I don’t want to meet those characters ever again!
February 20, 2019
Loved it!
This book was addicting, i.couldn't stop reading it. I love the character's. I don't want to.say anymore because I may spoil it for those who may not have read part 1 and 2.
This book was addicting, i.couldn't stop reading it. I love the character's. I don't want to.say anymore because I may spoil it for those who may not have read part 1 and 2.
February 14, 2021
Ruined by typos and bad grammer
While I enjoyed the premise of the book, the vast number of typos and grammatical errors on every page were so off-putting it made the book less interesting and less joyful to read. I would suggest the author find a new and more qualified editor.
While I enjoyed the premise of the book, the vast number of typos and grammatical errors on every page were so off-putting it made the book less interesting and less joyful to read. I would suggest the author find a new and more qualified editor.
March 19, 2021
Zane & Julie
After many bumps in their way to happiness, Zane & Julie find that their love is solid. They marry and despite her insecurities she finally can breathe when Zane shares his insecurities with her. They have 4 sons and live HEA.
After many bumps in their way to happiness, Zane & Julie find that their love is solid. They marry and despite her insecurities she finally can breathe when Zane shares his insecurities with her. They have 4 sons and live HEA.
January 13, 2023
Well Zane was a little better in this one, but not by much. For such a powerful man he makes a lot of bad choices. He did manage to redeem himself a little in this one. In my opinion this series is not worth it.
October 2, 2019
AMAZING
Ugh. I love these books. It was amazing I can't believe I got done so fast. This book sucks you in. I wish it was more
Ugh. I love these books. It was amazing I can't believe I got done so fast. This book sucks you in. I wish it was more
January 4, 2026
the storyline its self if great! however the grammatical errors and spelling errors were plentiful. the over use of 'irises' got to me a little too. the story was good once you get past that
July 28, 2015
My addiction to the PE series knows no bounds so it's no surprise I lapped up the final instalment of Zane with gusto. Thanks for a great finale Liv.
Zane is selfish, self absorbed and loose as all hell as far as his moral grounds stand. He knows he's got it with the way he uses and abuses his body with anything that is female and moves, and all the better to feed his appetite for sex. Strangely, I like him and not just for getting me all hot. He has a kind of vulnerability and naivety about him that draws you in. Even while wanting to slap him around the ears you still want to kiss him at the same time. It explains why Julie finds him hard to resist.
I do feel sorry for him after growing up with a very shitty and abusive father, blocking out some of his ugly childhood just to cope made him what he is. He's always harboured a teenage love for Julie that he chose to ignore and with women falling at his feet, he doesn't know what to do with them once he's had his fill. BUT it's gonna come back to bite - BIG TIME!
Talk about going from the frying pan into the fire, poor Zane. He is promiscuous, loves his sex and just when he thinks he has a shot at love, things go haywire starting with a YouTube sex orgy. He starts to feel his behaviour is soul destroying to the women he's touched and it gets worse as some come out of the woodwork when he finally thinks he has his life in order, or so he thought....
Despite Julie's efforts to stand by and help him unconditionally because of her deep love for him. Her willingness to put him first, regardless of his recklessness is admirable. Julie has an equally low sense of sense worth also having suffered abuse at the hands of his father.
Zane has a male naivety run by the brain cells in the neither region but kudos that he finally gets it and Julie who's been under his nose the whole time. Together they finally begin to heal and thrive.
I thoroughly enjoyed the last Zane book and now feel strangely bereft.
Zane is selfish, self absorbed and loose as all hell as far as his moral grounds stand. He knows he's got it with the way he uses and abuses his body with anything that is female and moves, and all the better to feed his appetite for sex. Strangely, I like him and not just for getting me all hot. He has a kind of vulnerability and naivety about him that draws you in. Even while wanting to slap him around the ears you still want to kiss him at the same time. It explains why Julie finds him hard to resist.
I do feel sorry for him after growing up with a very shitty and abusive father, blocking out some of his ugly childhood just to cope made him what he is. He's always harboured a teenage love for Julie that he chose to ignore and with women falling at his feet, he doesn't know what to do with them once he's had his fill. BUT it's gonna come back to bite - BIG TIME!
Talk about going from the frying pan into the fire, poor Zane. He is promiscuous, loves his sex and just when he thinks he has a shot at love, things go haywire starting with a YouTube sex orgy. He starts to feel his behaviour is soul destroying to the women he's touched and it gets worse as some come out of the woodwork when he finally thinks he has his life in order, or so he thought....
Despite Julie's efforts to stand by and help him unconditionally because of her deep love for him. Her willingness to put him first, regardless of his recklessness is admirable. Julie has an equally low sense of sense worth also having suffered abuse at the hands of his father.
Zane has a male naivety run by the brain cells in the neither region but kudos that he finally gets it and Julie who's been under his nose the whole time. Together they finally begin to heal and thrive.
I thoroughly enjoyed the last Zane book and now feel strangely bereft.
August 14, 2015
Again the author has produced an amazing second book in the series, so full of character that it just comes alive as you read it – it was just so enthralling and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It certainly had plenty in the story to keep one’s interest (as well as a few tears) and I was extremely overjoyed with the final outcome. Zane has finally found someone he loves, someone perfect for him, or so he thinks, but will she stand by him. Drastic steps have to be taken when the media leak information that could ruin his life and business – in addition his consequences bring him impenetrable heartache and loss. Zane is hit from all sides because others are conspiring against him in a quite unusual way, with immeasurable results. Throughout all his heartache, there is one person that loves him unconditionally, that pulls him out of his misery, makes him a stronger man and opens his eyes to the power of family. This is an exceptional storyline, and I would have no hesitation in recommending both books. I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
March 1, 2016
Loved this story!!!!!
This is a story about a womanizer, Zane, who has basically had enough of this lifestyle. Growing up with a maniacal father who was abusive to him, his sister, and brother did more damage to him than he admitted to. Julie also grew up in the same household after her mother dropped her off and disappeared, never to return. She was abused also vu]y the same man in a different way, forced into a form of prostitution for years until he died. Now she worked for Zane and loves him, but he never sees that. This 2 book series was riveting and captivating. So many twists and turns!!! Great series!!!!
This is a story about a womanizer, Zane, who has basically had enough of this lifestyle. Growing up with a maniacal father who was abusive to him, his sister, and brother did more damage to him than he admitted to. Julie also grew up in the same household after her mother dropped her off and disappeared, never to return. She was abused also vu]y the same man in a different way, forced into a form of prostitution for years until he died. Now she worked for Zane and loves him, but he never sees that. This 2 book series was riveting and captivating. So many twists and turns!!! Great series!!!!
July 30, 2015
A wonderful conclusion to this story. Liv Bennett's writing has evolved along with her sexy tales. Zane the ultimate playboy. Julie the strong survivor. Can he change enough for her? Can she put aside her fears for him? A great journey of two souls. A must read.
August 13, 2015
Couldn't wait for this to come out and I wasn't disappointed. Fabulous ending to a great series. Really enjoyed it.
September 13, 2015
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September 14, 2015
Really nice happy ending to this love story!
October 22, 2015
BRAVO!!!
I knew Julie would get her man, I knew from book one that Julie was in love with Zane, and I can't blame her one bit this was a great love story!!
I knew Julie would get her man, I knew from book one that Julie was in love with Zane, and I can't blame her one bit this was a great love story!!
October 29, 2015
Dissapointing , love the first part but the second, she just put everything and the kitchen sink in this book. Way to many plots!!!!! This is not abc family!!!!!
December 30, 2015
Great quick easy read
What a nice sexy storyline . Always to the point and very entertaining other authors in this genre need to take note.
What a nice sexy storyline . Always to the point and very entertaining other authors in this genre need to take note.
May 6, 2016
soo hot zane
January 19, 2016
loved it
October 18, 2015
can't wait to see what happens next in this series
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