Mac MacAllister is obsessed; the online news reporter needs enough evidence to write a story accusing billionaire art collector Daniel Terrebone of stealing The Golden Dancer, a priceless work of art, from Horst Von Berg. The story promises the recognition Mac craves. But then Mac meets a real golden dancer, ballet star Trelain Medveyev, and his attraction to the man rocks his formerly straight world.
When the mysterious Terrebone "collects" this beautiful dancer, too, Mac rushes to the rescue like a knight in shining cargo pants and plunges into a three-way passion that tears him between love and guilt. Can Mac keep investigating when his story could send one man to prison and another to the morgue? Will this reporter get his story or get his men?
Publisher's Note: This book has previously been released elsewhere. It has been revised and re-edited for re-release with Pride Publishing.
I love a good menage story, especially with dancers. Any kind of dancers. But ballet dancers are something special, with their ridiculously bendy bodies, and stacked legs. Take a look for yourself.
Beautiful, right?!
So I picked this up because menage, and ballet dancer. The plot sounded interesting too. A billionaire and the reporter investigating him for theft, battle it out to win favour with the sexy star ballet dancer, and they all end up in bed together. Not bad, not bad at all.
I liked the premise, but unfortunately the execution wasn’t quite right. The sex was hot, I have no complaint about that. Tara Lain definitely delivered on sexy menage erotica. The scenes were scorching, and it definitely qualified as wank fodder.
But the rest of the plot was too disjointed. There were too many points of view, too many additional characters that took away from my enjoyment of the core relationship. This could have worked without the additional POV of the villains. I didn’t like it at all. I also thought that the homophobia was overdone. I understood that point of view the first time it was stated, but unfortunately the writer went too far, and had it stated multiple times. Yuck. It threw me out of the story and made me want to stop reading. If not for the threesome, I would have put it away. Don’t get me wrong, I am aware homophobia exists, and I am not naive to think people aren’t venomous in their hatred towards LGBTQI or anyone else for that matter, but in a novel that is mostly about relationship building, and three people who are trying to get to know each other, it just left me feeling cold. Once would have been enough to deliver the threat effectively.
Moving along to the relationship between Trelain, Mac, and Daniel. I really enjoyed the dynamic between the three. Even with Mac’s secret, I thought they all worked well together. Daniel started off sounding like a villain, but as we get to know him, that assumption is corrected. Trelain and Daniel are beautiful together. Mac fit in well with them. I had high hopes for them and their future together.
There were some parts of the story that were tied up too neatly. Trelain’s mother for instance. She has spent the better part of Trelain’s life planning to marry him off to a woman, knowing full well that he is gay. Clearly not accepting it, and stating quite boldly that two men together are not welcome in her house. Then one conversation with Daniel, right after this declaration, changes her into some LGBT ally?! It just wasn’t believable. If she’s spent that many years in denial, 5 minutes isn’t going to flip her views so quickly. She’s had years and years to ponder it already. What was the difference here?
Another plot point that bothered me: Mac’s parents. Apparently, they are big in the ballet scene. Everyone knows them, but Mac’s impression of his father is homophobia. Okay, let’s go with that. I can see him being reluctant to call him and spill his guts about his gay relationship with two men, but when they do speak, the conversation they have is bordering ridiculous. Some pretty wild secret is revealed, and now Mac has no idea what’s going on and his entire childhood is in question because of it. And then they hang up the phone and it isn’t explored again. Way to leave me hanging. I wanted more from that. I wanted to get to know Mac’s parents. For people so heavily in ballet, it sort of makes sense that we would see them at some stage in the book, because, um, Mac is dating a famous ballet dancer, that they are very fond of and know personally.
The relationship between the three main characters was built enough for this story to work overall. But I do feel a bit cheated. This could have been more than it was, and I think a decent beta reader would have said something about it. Also, what is with their dick size? Apparently they are all hung abnormally long and thick.
It sounded a little porny when I first read it, and it continued to sound porny every time it was mentioned. Maybe go easy on the next couple. Not everyone is a size queen. Not everyone has a big dick. Variety is good for the soul.
Recommended for people who enjoy MMM Erotic-romance with a bit of action suspense thrown in.
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