Thirteen Hours by Meghan O'Brien Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Thirteen Hours
Book Review: HOT
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great read. Once you start, I promise, you won't want to put it down. It is super hot and steamy. I love it!Book Review: HOT HOT HOT
Summary: 5 Stars
Since there is a description of the book and others have written about it also, I'll skip that and just say: This book is so hot it will scorch the eyes right out of your skull! What a pleasant surprise. I have never read anything by this author and ordered it on a whim (desperate for something good to read). The description intrigued me enough and am I ever glad I took a chance. I've since ordered Infinite Loop by the same author, but haven't started it yet.
I loved the characters and was sucked into the story from the opening line (and if you've read it already, you know what I mean *wink wink*). Considering almost the first half of the book takes place in an elevator, with only the two main characters present, I was very impressed by the author's ability to keep my interest. I am one of those readers who tend to skip over things that don't look important, but I read every single word in this one (some parts I read more than once).
This is erotica with a bit of kink thrown in for good measure. Excellent read and I can't wait to read more by Meghan O'Brien! Highly recommended!
Book Review: HOT! NICE AND SWEET!
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought the book because i read the reviews, and the day i got it in the mail was my day off and i took me less than 4 hours to read it! i was hooked and could not put it down. I finished in less than 13 hours, he.he :)Book Review: Hot and Cold
Summary: 3 Stars
I selected this book from Amazon along with about a half dozen other lesbian-themed books to read over the holidays so I could explore some new lesbian authors out there. I wasn't expecting anything deep or literary with a plotline about a stripper hired for a lonely, uptight workaholic on her birthday. Just a fun ride. And that's pretty much the sum of it.
Yes, I gave it only 3 stars because the second half of the book is poorly developed... but the sex scenes overall are so incredibly well done that you will be forgiving... so I do recommend it.
What surprised me is that I was really sucked into the story right from the start as I could really visualize the scene. This author knows how to write some steamy, playful erotica! And you really do develop an interest in her characters. The dialogue is the strongest device here. Unfortunately, this book does not run with these strong points and evolve into a really good story. It reads like a porn flick... sex scene after sex scene and a rather shallow storyline. However, no skanks in sight. Both characters are not at all what they seem upfront and the duality here is just gorgeous... at least during the first half of the book anyway.
The book kind of went downhill once they got out of the elevator. There are glaring implausibilities that distract you from the story and the sex scenes begin to morph into an instructional manual for light BDSM and anal play. While there is something truly appealing about a stripper who turns out to be the brainy girl-next-door (even if there is little support of this as their work lives are so poorly developed)... this relationship turns into a sappy tribute to the perfect long term relationship where people have no issues and never, ever, and I mean EVER fight or have conflict (um... anyone know lezzies like that?!) and of course they get a dog and don't get me started on lesbians and their pets. :P
I struggled to get through the last few chapters... BORING BORING BORING. No real depth or development here. Just seemed to be a rush to show how perfect their lives turned out. Laurel's perfect breasts: awesome. Dana and Laurel's perfect happy ending relationship: BORING. I have never heard two lesbians apologize so much over nothing. The author calls it fantasy... I call it lazy writing.
Ms. O'Brien... you have some real potential and I'll forgive ya 'cause you're like 29, right? (That and your editor at your makeshift publishing co. screwed you.) You're better than this. Or you can be. You know how to bring characters to life... now you need to work on giving them a real life span and a plausible setting. Screw the porn script structure (serves nothing but masturbatory purposes anyway). Be the first in your neighborhood to thread your awesome erotica with a well-developed story. We lezzies want 'em both!
Book Review: Hot and dynamic
Summary: 4 Stars
There are already many reviews which list the virtues of the book in terms of hot, hotter, and hottest. And they are all true! Hot it is!
I'd just like to add that it's a dynamic, entertaining read, and the one reason I'm not rating it 5 stars is because it's a bit two-dimensional for my tastes. Personally, I don't think the characters are so very well developed per se, what's fantastically well developed is their sexual persona, which happens practically within a bubble (and I'm not talking about the elevator!), there are no friends to contextualize the relationship, their "work" world is referred to but never brought to the forefront, the family angle is barely touched upon but not really explored...
I did have a LOT of fun with it, and I really do recommend this book for hot, fast-paced enjoyment, but in my humble opinion 5 starring a book requires a bit of extra work in terms of "rounding up" the story.