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This story while it revolves around Jeff’s life and his partners Alice and Mason is narrated from all three character’s point of view, albeit Alice’s PoV dominates with Jeff’s coming right after and Mason’s making some appearances. And that the dynamic of this story as well.

Alice is a woman that knows what she wants sand how to get it. She used to have an affair with Jeff when she was finishing college that ended when she moved to work on her career. She used to have an affair with Mason that ended when she was offered a job at Jeff’s company. And while Mason came along in that company and all three of them became partners and friends in the process the sexual relationship never bloomed with either of two men. The answer is simple. She loves Jeff and she loves Mason and she wants them both.

Things didn’t go her way for a while due to Jeff’s fiancé, Naomi, but when all of them moved to the Hudson House along with their business everything changed. Naomi, a self-centered woman chasing after money, in believing that Jeff’s company wouldn’t prosper didn’t join him, instead eloped with another man, leaving Alice a wide open field to finally pursue her dream.

While not easy, and a great risk to their friendship and jobs she managed to lure both men into having a relationship together. With Jeff feeling more relieved than irritated by Naomi’s infidelity, the Hudson’s Three started living a dreamy life that had all the best parts of everything they wanted. Alice had both men she loved, Mason has a relationship that reflected his bisexuality and Jeff had the woman whom always had a special part in his heart along with his best friend with whom he could explore his sexuality in the most secure way. Until Naomi came back and started intruding back in his life, wanting the prestige and place she once had.

It sounds interesting and enticing I know, unfortunately I didn’t liked this book at all. The writing was not to my satisfaction. The characters never made it to capture my interest, let alone care for them. Alice’s character was too bossy; her relationship with the men in and out of bedroom was telling them what to do and how she wanted it. Mason’s character felt like a ghost, always in the background, almost like a pawn, and Jeff, well if I ever saw a weak character than this was it. He had almost no say in his life and the fact Naomi dumped him was pure luck. Nothing in that character made you give him a second look. Furthermore the characters were completely underdeveloped. Who they were, where they came from. For 250 pages of a book that was quite disappointing.

The plot was quite a disappointment as well. There was the attempt to create intensity and suspense with Naomi coming back in their lives and make trouble, but from her very first move, it screamed non-realistic from miles. Something that could be dealt with a simple police charge was give space and life and breath and drama that was not only unnecessary, but incredulous too. I lost all interest in that and made me feel even worse since I’d been waiting for something to happen for half the book.

What was left was the erotic part, and for an erotic romance it never made it up to the expectations. No sensuality whatsoever. No heat or passion in the text. The erotic scenes were beyond dull and the dialogs were rather a turn off. Add to that that every scene seemed a repetition of the previous one and you get 250 pages of the same thing over and over and over again. Unfortunately I am not exaggerating. In addition the male/male scenes were beyond unrealistic. Mason and Jeff never seemed to have an attraction to each other. As I said they felt like pawns and only were together because it fit to Alice’s plans. And that was very irritating.

All in all this book should have been a one day read for me, but it took three and to me that means boring and not worth it. Not something I can recommend.

Thommie