Reviewed by Dee
TITLE: Liaisons
AUTHOR: Nicole Linssens
PUBLISHER: eXtasy Books
LENGTH: 209 pages
BLURB:
Friendship, love and sex—the driving forces behind two best friends who couldn’t be any closer, or any different. Samantha just wants things to go back to being the way they were. Levina just wants to get laid. From torrid one-night stands to explosive breakups and dreamy wedding proposals, Liaisons explores the friendships of these women alongside five of their closest friends, and the escapades that keep their lives stimulating
REVIEW:
This story features a number of women exploring friendships and relationships, from break-ups to marriage, and many things in between.
Unfortunately it also has a huge amount of ‘telling’ as opposed to ‘showing’. There are information dumps, which I assume were dropped in to try to give the reader more backstory of the characters, some of which I found totally unnecessary. I was constantly told what the characters were doing and much of that involved excessive use of adverbs… softly, tersely, audibly, sheepishly, sexily, shakily, teasingly, shrewdly, heartily, and I lost track of the amount of times a character spoke, softly.
Add to that, the fact most of the characters spoke the same, I had a hard time keeping up with who was who. I guess you could say they came across as one dimensional. The story lacked what I call ‘the feels’. I felt no emotion and therefore detached from any events that should have moved me.
Moving on – Given the first line of the blurb states, “Friendship, love and sex” and the publishers website gives this 4 flames, I expected the heat level to be higher, but the sex was mostly off page! What was on page was brief and forgettable.
The author has huge potential and I feel a little sad for her that I couldn’t give a higher rating to a story she clearly poured her heart and soul into. With that said, reading and review can be so subjective so by all means grab a copy of this story. I hope you will be pleasantly surprised and fall in love with the characters and the world Nicole has created.
The story ends with a cliffhanger but in order (for me) to continue with a series I need to have become invested in the characters…which unfortunately didn’t happen in this instance.
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