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Mercy
Lawton has no use for the male species. Her feelings are
more than justified after she and her sister were kidnapped
by a diseased Hienial. When the Goddess declares
Mercy as her next Chosen, she knows there has to be a
mistake. Mercy’s first priority is to track down and
destroy the scum that tormented her and brutalized her
sibling. Being mated doesn’t add into her plan.
Timon
Kirkan and Nicolau Pritton have been at one another’s
throats since childhood. The Goddess must be losing her
touch to place them in a triad. If they can overcome their
differences, the hot-blooded Hienials can use the
combined force of sex appeal and mutual attraction to draw
Mercy in and claim her. Mercy is Amazonian to the teeth and
her experience hasn’t prepped her for Tim and Nico’s fierce
determination and bedroom skills.
Sex Me Fast fell weak on
substance. Everything seemed easily resolved, lacking depth
when it came down to the relationships and character
development. I found it difficult to accept that after
years and years of rivalry and hatred, that Timon and
Nicolau could so quickly (and effortlessly) settle their
differences without bonding through struggle and sacrifice
to win one another’s trust. Mercy is used as the cementing
incentive for the men. My guess, in this instance, is the
use of old adage of “enemies make the best allies”.
I had an even more difficult time
believing that Mercy would simply trust any Hienial
after the hell she and her sister experienced. Hienials
have various powers that Mercy was subjected to. She should
have been more uneasy around Timon and Nicolau. There were
a couple scenes where Tim and Nico prove their loyalty and
love to Mercy, but the way in which it was described didn’t
seem realistic to me. Sex Me Fast did have
few areas detailing how the triad bonding occurs and affects
the mates but it still wasn’t enough to cover all the bases.
Ms. Xander and Ms. Leigh always deliver the goods when it
comes to blazing sex with hotter-than-hell men. Sadly,
ferocious sex alone does not redeem a story, unless that’s
all you’re in it for. Unlike the stronger framework of the
preceding Sex Me Replete, Sex Me Fast
left me feeling unsatisfied. Call me cynical or say I had
high expectations, somewhere along the way I fell behind
when the plot jumped to hyperspace. |