LUSH by Lauren Dane

Lush by Lauren Dane
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

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I think because I haven't read any of the Brown Siblings series or the first in the Delicious series, I missed a few things. I didn't understand the connection with a lot of the characters. They were just names that didn't seem to have any life to them for me. I didn't know their connections Mary, Damien or each other.

I got Mary's apprehension with getting involved with a famous rock star who seemed to be a manwhore, as his brother called him. But the moment he met Mary he changed and only wanted to be with her. Their courtship was sweet and I appreciated her friends trying to protect her, even if they did it in kind of a demeaning way.

I mean Jules saying he wasn't her kind of people and making it look like she was stupid for getting involved with this guy. I think Mary was doing a great job of keeping their relationship in perspective until Damien decided he wanted a real relationship and told Mary he would go at her pace until she could feel comfortable with it.

I didn't read the book with Gillian and Adrian, but the reporter who tried to break them up does the same to Mary and Damien. He doesn't have much of a presence other than a couple of mentions, the email and a couple of calls. I just felt there should have been more to it, so we as a reader could understand why he does that. It really makes no sense. Other than maybe getting a hysterical response on the phone after calling, what does he get from it? Just seems like there could have been something craftier that could threaten their relations ship. I thought that Mary should have considered the source before going off half cocked. But the author needed the dramatic ending.

Although I love a good sex scene as much as anyone else, I felt that the story was minor and just there to surround their sexual experiences in the book. Just wasn't foe me.

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