3 Smooches

Synopsis

Not all dreams come true. Lucy leaves behind a promising education as an aspiring pianist to come back home and take care of her ailing mother. The only thing keeping her afloat is her best friend Gage. He is funny, doting, and sinfully sexy. She continues to torture herself fantasizing about him. She is dying to reveal her feelings.

Gage is pretty focused on two things: his career and fast women. He has dreams of his own but he is afraid to leave Lucy. She is beautiful, smart, and lost. When his dream turns into reality will he leave Lucy behind?

Witty, charming, and steamy: Release Me is story that will warm your heart.

Review

I honestly don’t know what to write about this short story, yet again I see definite potential with this author but unfortunately it just doesn’t transpire here.  All the elements of a great love story are present, the complicated feelings for your best friend, the sexual tension and the subtle flirtation and outright propositioning and witty banter, however in Release Me we are taken on a journey of self-discovery and learning to love and trust again; a journey I never really saw coming, what we ended up getting was a tale about a pretty confused heroine called Lucy learning to let go of some hero worship for her intended love interest, Gage, who in actual fact turns out to be the biggest jerk I’ve had the displeasure to fantasise about.  I did like the actual hero of the piece, Phoenix, he had a kick-ass name and treated Lucy like a goddamn princess,  although he came across as almost too perfect; a restaurateur, sexy as sin and had intense and romantic feelings towards our intrepid heroine- this guy even kisses the backs of hands like a throwback die hard romanticist.

Lucy at times showed remarkably poor judgement and at one point I figured she was going to be another silly simpering girl and use her hormones to accomplish the foolish, but thankfully she turned her character around and managed to redeem herself.

At times I thought the pace was picking up and we were finally getting the romance I had expected with a good dose of drama to kick start the storyline, while at other points I felt incredibly let down by the stilted and often immature dialogue which took away my enjoyment of the novella over all.

I know I’ve said before but I have to reiterate this: I hate giving negative reviews but I also feel I need to be honest because what doesn’t work for me might be the next best thing in Indie land for someone else.  It was a passable read but I also wouldn’t keep it lying around on my Kindle either.

~Nicole

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