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<\/a>Arresting Mason<\/a> by Amber Daulton<\/a>\nMy rating: 3 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n
When I first read the blurb for this book, I felt there were so many spoilers about the plot in it that there was hardly any reason to read the actual story. But I was wrong of course and rapidly covered the first six chapters of this fast paced, so called, \u2018steamy romance.\u2019 I then found there was very little left to the imagination when it came to the descriptions of their sexual behaviour. It is not so much a steamy romance as a very raunchy one; even erotic enough as to be accurately included in that genre.<\/p>\n
Page after page contained so many titillating descriptions that it became tedious for this aging reader. I am now a grandfather, who was around as a teenager when the unexpurgated version of Lady Chatterly\u2019s Lover caused such a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic, with its \u2018obscenities and profanities.\u2019 Thus I was not easily shocked in this novel so much as bored by its repetitive use of contemporary explicit adjectives to describe sexuality; the act, their behaviour, as well as intimate parts of the human body. Such common language feels not so much profane as puerile, when there are so many subtle and wonderful ways of expressing loving and emotional exposition in a novel.<\/p>\n
The background of the main two characters, Mason and Mia, is well written and interesting. However, some of the scenarios felt predictable and not as thrilling as was hinted at in the blurb. On the other hand some of the doubts and fears that Mason reveals are also well done, but there was not enough time spent on the plot about Mason\u2019s Onyx gangland connections. The romantic side of their relationship, and the way he mellows at end of the book does leave you wanting more. This is important of course but obvious, as it is the first in a series and not a stand-alone novel.<\/p>\n