Free Download! A Box Of Pleasures by Evie Hunter

To celebrate the publication of A BOX OF PLEASURES - a complete box-set of all four of bestselling Irish author Evie Hunter's PLEASURES titles, together for the first time - Penguin are offering you a chance to experience Evie..

If you've never read Evie or even erotica before, this is your chance to try it. Go on, we won't tell anyone! And you might be pleasantly - or even pleasurably! - surprised... 

We are also having a #pleasuresunboxed event next Saturday 6th December where readers and fans can ask Evie anything. Follow@pleasureswinter on Twitter for more.

Review! SECRET Revealed by L. Marie Adeline

The only thing that Cassie Robichaud has ever really wanted is Will Foret, the love of her life. But when Will discovers that Cassie is part of S.E.C.R.E.T., an underground group devoted to helping women experience their deepest sexual fantasies, Will breaks it off. Heartbroken, Cassie dries her tears and focuses on her work with helping the latest S.E.C.R.E.T. recruit, Solange Faraday. Cassie also reignites her relationship with sexy bad-boy Jesse, even though she knows he can never love her as deeply as Will did. 

     Meanwhile, beautiful, brilliant Solange, a local news anchor and divorced mom, has a great career but a wilting love life. She rekindles long-lost passions, going deeper and hotter than any other S.E.C.R.E.T. candidates before her. Can Solange find what her heart most desires? And when Will realizes he's made a tragic mistake, will Cassie be able to forgive him? 

     S.E.C.R.E.T. Revealed is the explosive, sexually-charged finale to the phenomenal S.E.C.R.E.T. trilogy.

(I've included both the UK and the US covers as they're equally lush and gorgeous so you can feast your eyes on them at the same time-woo!)

Review: this was a fitting end to this wonderful trilogy! I was a little apprehensive that, being the last book in the trilogy, this book would be a bit of a let down, but it wasn't! It tied up all of the loose ends and was a good solid ending to what has been a great story! I actually didn't realise how much I was waiting for this final book but because the storyline for this series is so compelling and you always always find yourself rooting for Cassie and wanting the best things to happen for her, you too will be waiting for this final installment! 

The storyline is very much the same as in the other books except featuring a few more characters and not focusing as much on Cassie and her sex life as in the other novels. It focuses on her romantic relationships and friendships a lot more this time, and her involvement with SECRET is not as much as in the regions novels. Don't worry though, there is still plenty of SECRET action and plenty of hot and steamy sex scenes. One of the best things about these novels is that women are really and truly empowered, they get to take charge of their destiny and it is women helping each other that lead to all the fun and happy things in these novels. Although people may poo poo novels like this because of the high sex content, they really are putting a good message out there about women empowering themselves and supporting other women. 

This is the final book in a trilogy and you really do need to have read the other books in the series to enjoy this one. It's a brilliant book in its own right but to understand Cassie, her relationships and indeed, SECRET itself, you need to have read the first two in the series. Not like this is a hardship though and the whole trilogy is a brilliant read and is so compelling you won't be able to out it down until you've finished the whole thing. Solange is a great addition to the cast list and the men in the novels really come into their own in this book. I honestly can't fault this, it was a fun read with just the right pace, just the right amount of sex and the just the right aww factor at the end! 

Review: This Man by Jodi Ellen Malpas

Young interior designer Ava O’Shea has an appointment for a first consultation at The Manor with the owner, Mr Jesse Ward. She is expecting nothing more than an overweight, cravat wearing, well-to-do countryman, and on arrival, nothing would suggest otherwise. How wrong could she be? This Man is devastatingly handsome, charming and confident. He is also a conceited, hedonistic playboy, who knows no boundaries. Ava desperately does not want to be attracted to him, but she can’t control the overwhelming affect he has on her. Every instinct is telling her to run, so she does, but Jesse Ward is not so willing to let her go. He wants her and is determined to have her. She knows she is heading for heartbreak, but how can she run when he won’t let her?

Review: I have to state straight away that this book really wasn't for me. I had to read this book for a book club and was quite pleased because I'd been wanting to read this one for a while now, I have the sequel as well so I thought I could marathon the two books. I found though, that this was incredibly hard going. I downloaded it on audiobook and I found myself completely switching off from listening because I just wasn't interested in what was going on in the book. To begin with I found there to be a storyline, I liked Ava and her friend Kate and thought it was intriguing that she had even asked to be part of a design project that really didn't seem like her. Things really went downhill from there for me though and I felt the storyline just tapered off. The overarching storyline seemed to be discovering just who this man was, whilst there was a storyline of her doing up his 'hotel' running alongside this. Both of these facts seemed to be ignored though so that we could read about repetitive sex, and not particularly exciting repetitive sex at that...

I didn't find any of the sex scenes particularly interesting. I thought that this author retreated a lot of the words and phrases that she used fairly often and found myself growing tired of them Gavigon the same conversation before, after or during sex again and again. I felt the some of the things Ava said, as well, she really wouldn't have said, I didn't find them believable from her as a character. I didn't like Jesse, I thought he was very one dimensional and I don't think he would have been able to get by in life behaving like he did. 

I found the fact that Jesse wouldn't reveal his age to Ava throughout the book funny, he continued to tell her one year higher than the last time every time she asked. There were also some very funny scenes between Ava and Kate and I would've loved to have seen more of these because these were the parts of the book that kept my attention. Overall I wouldn't recommend you read this book, it took me a very long time to get through and I don't remember parts of the storyline whereas normally with an audiobook I can't wait to get the chance to listen to it. As a piece of erotica I didn't really rate it either, although I am going to give the sequel a go because I was told by the book group that things get explained,more in the sequel and also to see if I enjoy this authors writing more on the page than listening to it on audiobook...