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An Invitation: Alayna's Training (2010)

by Jennifer Cole(Favorite Author)

3.29 of 5 Votes: 3

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English

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Romance

publisher

Loose Id

review 1: This book sounded like it had so much potential... but not! The characters took WAY to look to get together (2/3 of the book) and I because VERY annoyed with both characters. He was an a-hole and she was seriously codependent. The writing is decent and the plot leaves much to be desired and it's definitely NOT sexy. I've decided to skip the sequel because spending another 200 pages waiting for the characters to get their act together is just not something that I'm particularly interested in.
review 2: I read Alayna’s training looking for a book that was similar to Cherise Sinclair’s Shadowlands series. Unfortunately, I was extremely disappointed. First of all, the BDSM in this book was almost nonexistent. Alayna goes for training to become a sub and they gi... moreve her books to read? I get why it happened but there was no “training” whatsoever. Not only that but this is one of the only romance books I’ve read where the heroine barely interacts at all with the hero. Alayna spent 80% of the book with another master. She may have been crushing on Logan but she never interacted with him. I think they had maybe 3 conversations and he was a jerk each time.My second issue with the book was pacing. The hero denies his feelings for the heroine for 80% of the book. He acknowledges he’s attracted to her but says he will never allow himself to pursue her—and I don’t even want to get into the reason why because it was ridiculous. Then at the 80% mark he finally gives into his desire for her and within 2 pages he’s professing his undying love (seriously, even though they’d never even had a full conversation) and he tells her that he mates for life like an Alpha Wolf (his words) and she will never have anyone but him. And I am not kidding when I say that all happened within 2 pages. And they move in together within 2 weeks after that and out of nowhere he offers to invest in her business (why was that even put in there it had nothing to do with the story).My final issue was orgasms. Yes, I said orgasms. The heroine has not had sex for over a decade. Not only that but she is unable to give herself an orgasm. This is the whole reason she wants to get trained in the first place—to learn to pleasure herself. This is just weird in my opinion and the training (if that’s what you call it) was clinical and just…off. Then when she finally gets together with the hero she has orgasm after orgasm after orgasm. Seriously, she can’t have one for ten years and then she has ten in a few hours. Right. Overall, I found the overall idea for the story was pretty good; it was just the execution that was lacking. I don’t think I’ll be reading the next book. less

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