LURED BY LUST - Tania Picarda

Black Lace

ISBN-13: 978-0-352-34176-1

ISBN-10: 0-352-34276-9

Originally Published 2000

Reissued: March 2008

Erotic Contemporary Romance

Present Day

Art gallery worker Clara Fox has been receiving mysterious and tantalizing emails from a person who will only identify himself as Mr. X. He seems to know every delicious detail about her, and enjoys provoking her into pleasuring herself all the time while he types instructions. But the emails and her real sex life start overlapping, and now Clara is on the prowl for her anonymous seducer. Alongt he way she dallies with her ex-boyfriend Paul, who is intent on winning her back, and a slew of other men and women who are just one piece of the puzzle in unmasking Mr. X. Will Clara be satisfied when Mr. X is finally revealed?

Though LURED BY LUST is billed as an erotic romance, some may be left asking themselves just where the romance is. Clara, though supposedly a sophisticated young woman looking for love, comes off as a sex-starved animal who just wants to have as much kinky and raunchy sex as possible. That's not very romantic to me. The first half of the book consists of the salacious emails from Mr. X, describing in perfect detail how he wants Clara to enjoy herself. And when she's not following those instructions, she's having sex with plenty of secondary characters, many of which aren't key to the plot.  So, if you're looking for love, you won't find it in Tania Picarda's LURED BY LUST. Rather, this is for those readers looking for a lot of hot, kinky sex without any strings attached.

Courtney Michelle