Climax, Montana 2: Having It All (Bride Train saga)
As the doctor for Climax, Montana, Nikki Meshevski counsels poly families. Rejected for her height, brains, and take-charge attitude, she's still a virgin, but is eager to change her status to better serve her patients.
When she sees engineer Eric Frost, home for a quick visit, she realizes her fantasies of domination and control could become reality. An affair with the Frost brothers seems the perfect solution, especially as she's already fallen in lust with his fun-loving younger brother, Matt.
Nikki wants a short-term solution, but Matt wants a wife for the Circle C Ranch, and children to love. Sister Marci is a happy ranch wife, but Nikki's never been domestic. While she loves both Eric's commands and Matt's gentle touch, and wants them in her life, she will not give up her career to become a wife.
Must she choose between their love or her profession? Or can she have it all?
Note: There is no sexual relationship or touching for titillation between or among siblings.
Genre: BDSM, Contemporary, Ménage a Trois/Quatre, Western/Cowboys
I was extremely disappointed in this book. It is a pricey read for what you get. I have liked this author's bride train books but this setting just does not work for me. I liked the characters but the author's writing killed the story for me. The book spent much of the time in the heads of the characters, which could have been much more interesting but instead dwelt on the large sized bodies and body parts, beds that fit 6 feet people, bathrooms that fit 6 feet people, over and over again. When the book was not about this it was about random events of the hero's and heroine's childhood and some kind of psychological breakthrough that did not even make sense. The book is a MFM menage but one of the M's is MIA until about 60% of the book when he turns up and by that time who cares anymore because its so boring!!! Overall, a very poorly constructed book, very repetitive and I give up on this author especially at these prices. I would not recommend this book at all.
I am always amazed when an author can make me love a character or characters that I wouldn't be able to stand in real life. That's the case with our two heroes in this book. One of my notes in this one actually reads "If Eric is a cavemen, Matt is a ten year old." Eric was possessive and Matt just came across as happy to have some one to screw. And yet, I really liked their characters and was cheering for them to get their HEA with Dr. Nikki.
I enjoyed Butler's original Bride Train series, a lot. I missed the historical aspect of that series, but I enjoyed getting lost in the small world of Climax, Montana and I look forward to seeing what Ms. Butler's next release brings us.
Not having quite the same feel as the first in the series I didn't like this book as much. While I had been looking forward to it and it was nice that the first three quarters were taken up with the evolving relationship between the dominant and the woman this time (Eric and Nikki) I couldn't get past the opening conversation between Matt and Eric talking about Nikki as though she is a horse and paving out shared time, sex and expectations of her. Just a bit too unsexy for me. Still, the story got better and I do enjoy the writing style, just hoping future books will involve more of the threesomes together as opposed to apart for the majority of the book.
Once again we are wowed by Reece butler. We feel for Nikki and Marci like they are our loved ones. Nikki has what she never had before in her thirty six years, someone who loves her, actually two someones. Will she learn to give up that tight control that she had to have in order to survive her childhood in time to grab that love? Will she be able to keep her career as a doctor and still be able to keep that love that has been so elusive? Her sister Marci did and was now married and expecting her first child.
I really enjoyed writing this story. It is listed as BDSM, but it is light, as in "domestic discipline", otherwise known as spanking. There is also Power Exchange dynamics.