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Wild and sexy..., February 15, 2009
This review is from: The Bikini Diaries (Mass Market Paperback)
Lacey Alexander pens a spicy story about a woman's growth in Bikini Diaries.
Wendy Carnes is in the Florida panhandle for a few weeks to evaluate a resort investment for her boss. Before the work starts she decides to relax on the beach. Seeing a woman in a white bikini walking on the beach with such confidence gets Wendy to wonder if she could ever be like that woman.
Wendy busy some new clothes and goes out to find a man. She figures she wants one night with a hot guy to see if attitude is really what its all about.
Brandon Worth owner of Emerald Shores resort really needs an influx of cash to help maintain his company to the highest level. To keep his mind off of it he heads out to sample the night life. He is blown away by sexy Wendy. Their one night stand turns into several.
They both are floored when they are introduced formally in a meeting at the offices of the CEO. Wendy and Brandon think they will have no problems mixing business with pleasure.
What starts out as a simple away from home fling gets complicated quickly. Wendy loves exploring her new sensual side but isn't sure if its real or not. Brandon has always been open with his partners. Though Wendy has him thinking about playing for keeps.
The Bikini Diaries I feel is Lacey Alexander's most daring book to date. The sexual exploration is hot and tantalizing. But Wendy's diary entries really give insights into her thoughts and emotions. The story of Wendy and Brandon will stay with you longer after you turn the last page.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Sweet and sexy romance with an adventurous heroine..., February 3, 2009
This review is from: The Bikini Diaries (Mass Market Paperback)
Wendy Carnes has always been a wallflower, but on a business trip to a resort located on the Emerald Coast of Florida, she impulsively decides to break out of that mold and become the kind of woman who attracts attention and takes control of her sexual fulfillment, if only for one night.
She finds the perfect little dress, an even more perfect and tinier bikini, and nature takes its own course. Wendy more than attracts male attention, but she soon finds she only has eyes for one man - the sexually aggressive Brandon. This man is everything she wanted in her beach fling, and then some. With Brandon, she pushes past all of her sexual limits, exploring her sexuality in ways she had previously only fantasized about.
Brandon never spends more than one night with the same woman, but he can't stop thinking about Wendy. He wants more and more from the sexy little beach babe, and soon he finds himself thinking of a future with her. But Wendy makes it clear that their fling is only temporary... Or is it?
No matter which pen name this author publishes under - Toni Blake or Lacey Alexander - she just never misses with me. The two personas write stories that are decidedly different in some ways, and yet very similar in others. In each, the writing is stellar, the characters are captivating, and the love scenes are beyond passionate. With her Lacey Alexander titles, however, the passion takes a definite turn towards the deliciously kinky.
Kinky it may be, but the romance between the lead characters is always first and foremost in Lacey Alexander novels, and THE BIKINI DIARIES is no exception to this rule. Brandon and Wendy might get down and dirty with each other in ways that include everything from public sex to threesomes, but the key ingredient in each experience is each other. The situations may be dang hot, but neither Brandon nor Wendy are turned on by the situation without each other.
I have to say that I was completely swept up in Wendy's journey. She did something not many of us find the gumption to do - she wanted something different in her life and made the changes within herself necessary to make her fantasies reality. We can all learn a lesson from this character.
Without realizing it, Brandon did learn some lessons from Wendy. Her spontaneity and zeal for life captured his heart and made him realize just how empty all of his previous romantic liaisons - if you can call one-night stands romantic liaisons - were. Having experienced something different with Wendy, he starts to yearn for something more, and Wendy becomes the star of Brandon's own fantasies.
Bold, sexy and romantic, THE BIKINI DIARIES is the kind of novel that turns the heat way up and inspires some new fantasies for readers. Lacey Alexander is certainly the queen of what I fondly call `romantic kink'!
**Courtesy of Wild on Books**
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Another winner from Lacey Alexander, February 7, 2009
This review is from: The Bikini Diaries (Mass Market Paperback)
I got this book for myself as an early birthday present, and it's a pretty darn good birthday present if I do say so! Again Lacey Alexander weaves a tale of romance and powerful sensuality together to form a perfect formula. Wendy is a smart woman, but a woman afraid to experience what the beautiful people have had for years. She sees her sign to go for life in the muse of White Bikini Babe and she does it big. Brandon is perfect for her and together they exerience blistering passion but also tender romance and ultimately love. Lacey Alexander's books delve deep into the world of what you grew up thinking was forbidden but secretly always desire. She writes the "naughty" so perfect it doesn't even seem forbidden rather perfectly acceptable.
Her characters often share their passion with others, but ultimately they belong only to each other. She balances the passion, rejection, acceptance, love perfectly in every book she writes.
I really enjoyed Wendy and Brandon's story and anxiously await whatever tale may be coming our way in the future.
For me every book by Lacey Alexander is a keeper.
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