Liberating Lacey by Anne Calhoun 5 Star Erotic Romance
22 Dec, 2010 in 5 Star Reviews, Erotic Romance 14 Comments
Genre: Erotic Romance
Pages: 158
Publisher Ellora’s Cave
*I believe this book is cheaper if purchased at Ellora’s Cave
I found this book visiting one of my favorite blogs Smexybooks who mentioned it on her addictive (Friday) Top 10 post. When I read ‘favorite erotic romance this year’ I immediately whipped out my iphone Kindle app and hit ‘buy now with one click’ (I swear that thing will bankrupt me). Now, usually when I read ‘older woman…. younger man’ my excitement tends to fizzle and unless I’m peer pressured I don’t tend to read May/Dec romances (my therapist and I are ‘working’ through this issue). Liberating Lacey is a very different kind of erotic romance…
I confess I’ve been a bit bored with my erotica reads lately (I know, I’m broken or something!) and I think its because I want….. more. I want more than just lovin’ and dirty (spells out) s-e-x words and Liberating Lacey has done the impossible and pulled me out of my reading funk.
Do not judge this book by the blurb because it really doesn’t do it justice!
Newly divorced Lacey has put on her revealing going out clothes and is ready to shed her missionary-position -ove life style at hook up club Buff. She shyly bumps into to sexy cop Hunter Green.
“Like what you see?” he asked.
Healthy male musk under the scent of a clean, woodsy cologne remained when he moved back, his green eyes assessing as he waited for her reaction. Despite the cocky arrogance behind them, but rather a challenge.
“Yes,” putting into her smile some of the confidence that served her so well in the brokerage world. “But you must heat that all the time.”
“Not from a woman like you,”
I think why I liked this book so much was the writing style and three-dimensional characters. It didn’t focus so much on Lacey being older than Hunter as a relationship tension builder but more on how the two of them evolved from one sexy encounter against a car (yes, you read that right they have sexy time against a stranger’s SUV) to a relationship. This author writes male characters REALLY well:
“Honey, you can’t hide class under those f*ck-me clothes”
and contemporary relationship issues between a financially successful woman and a blue collar man. I think one of the more poignant scenes had to be when Hunter was thoughtfully replacing Lacey’s comforter and realized his credit card max limit could barely cover the cost of her comforter. This book intelligently handles the socioeconomic differences (Ah-Ha I knew I would some day use my Sociology degree…in a sentence somewhere) between the two; while keeping you engrossed in the story.
Liberating Lacey is one of those rare erotic romances with a lot of depth and makes me wish for more books out there like this.
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Completely agree with you! I loved this book, way more than I thought I would. Sure the sexy times are smokin *wink* but it was the whole story that drew me in and had me right till the end. I finished this book with a smile and a happy sigh, which to me means, the author has well and truly done her job.
I would love to buy this book but $9.99 on the Kindle and almost $14 elsewhere? Even $6.99 seems high for me for an ebook.
Yay! I just love their relationship…
I love, love, love that this book is making the rounds! I’m so glad you enjoyed it! I’ve already re-read it!
Thanks so much, K.C. I originally wrote Lacey for an Older Woman/Younger Man series at EC, but it was accepted too late to make the themed series of novellas and Quickies, so I rewrote it to single title length. As I was working on the book the socioeconomic issues became far more important than their age difference (which, IMHO, is true in life, too.)
So glad you enjoyed it. Happy holidays!
Anne
Great review my little buttercup. Mandi got me with this one too and it is waiting on my reader to be read.
Wonderful review, the title didn’t really catch my fancy but after reading your review I will have to place this book on my reading list…that list keeps getting bigger but hopefully one day I will be able to actually make a dent in it.
Not sure how I will feel about the older woman with a younger man but I guess we’ll just have to see. 
@Jo I loved the depth and how the two main characters interacted with one another. It was made of awesome.
@KT Grant I know! I bought it at $9.99, sometimes at Ellora’s Cave they’ll offer an e-version fro $5.99.
@Mandi I bow down to your book rec awesomeness.
@Kati I’m totally going to not run errands tonight so I can re-read it.
@Anne I liked how you wove the younger man/older woman theme but also had another focus. Loved it!
@Tori I think you’ll really like and I except a full ‘tweet’ report when you finish it!
@Deanna I usually am not a fan of older woman/younger man either, but that theme was such a small focus of the story. I think that is why I liked it so much. Instead, it was more about their backgrounds, which made it more interesting (to me) than just a may/dec romance.
I bought this one, and can’t wait to read it. I really overpaid for this book on the evil Amazon…but have a feeling it will be worth it!
@Colette I paid $9.99 at Amazon for Kindle – I felt it was worth it. But then I also had a gift card
*raises eyebrow* Sexy-time against a car?
I love a sexy-time book with a story.
I grabbed this on as soon as Mandi said it was making her top picks for the year. I can’t wait to get to it. Good to see you have it 5 stars too!!
@Melissa oh yeah, in public..against a stranger’s car!
@FV I have to agree with Mandi probably one of the better erotic romances I read all year.
I couldn’t resist – got it…
Thanks for the heads up…