Name: Shameless
ISBN: 9781635550061

Brit Ryder

Fire Investigator Emery Pearson doesn’t have time for a relationship. Her career is everything, so the rest of her life is put on hold until she reaches her professional goals. Sex is always on the table, though. Finding the perfect woman who only wants a quick hookup seems like a fantasy, but when she meets Lily online, the fantasy turns to reality when they agree to meet. Their tête-à-tête at the museum is more than Emery could imagine—satisfying, exciting, and passionate. Can Emery walk away from sex this good with no strings attached? Or will the lure of lust keep her going back for more?

Shameless

Renee

Lucia Correa

UPDATE 01/12/2020: I decided I *must* do a re-read of this “more than just an erotic story” Why? Well, I was reminded of it after reading Kris Bryant’s (aka Ryder) Q&A on Facebook last night. Bryant said she is going to write “a pre-Shameless, during Shameless, and post-Shameless from Claire’s POV”. She doesn’t know when she will begin writing it, but she sounded positive it will happen, just not sure when. If I interpret her hints correctly- she’s planning it to be novel length. I hope she writes it soon! 

****

Hard to rate a novella. 3 stars when compared to novels, but since it's very well written - so 4 Stars.
It's more just than just a PWP (plot? what plot?) - a term used in fanfic, for an erotic story. I really liked the story (yes, there is a plot and characterization) You really do get to know Emery as she hooks up with Lily, a woman she meets online. They both want the same thing - sex with no strings attached. 
I enjoyed this book by Brit Ryder aka Kris Bryant. I'll read more from Ryder. BTW - I understand why some authors use pseudonyms - using different publishers, books are very different from their normal books etc. But why have their real names on the cover? Sure it's more erotic than what Kris normally writes (if I remember correctly), but it's still f/f - now if it was f/m or m/m, ok.
Whatever. 
Bottom line, if you like steamy, well written novellas, you'll like this one.

Jude Silberfeld

I was told earlier today that I had to read Shameless, since Kris Bryant, aka Brit Ryder, just  announced that she signed the contract for her fourteenth book, Not Guilty, which will be Claire’s side of the story, in a full-length novel.

Emery Pearson has been flirting online and having phone sex with a very sexy woman, and they have plans to meet at the museum, where she hopes they’ll go for semi-public and very exciting sex, before she goes back to her daily life as a fire investigator whose testimony can make or break an arson case.

Since Shameless is pretty short (it’s a novella), I won’t give too many details, I’ll just say not all is what it seems to be. One thing is exactly as it seems, though, and that’s how hot this story is. I mean wow.

Megan Cooper

Oh my. 

I'm torn between a 4 and a 5. I really liked it and it was was one of the best erotica stories I've read over the last couple of years. I'm going 4.5 as, for an erotica novella/long short story, it was excellent.

Kris Bryant writing erotica under a pen name - based on how much I've enjoyed her novels recently, I thought what the hell and finished the book with a "oh wow - not what I expected but - oh wow". A very steamy bit of erotica - imaginative, well written and definitely delivers on the erotica. An enjoyable quick read that sets the stage with a nice build up and a pretty damn good conclusion with not one but two twists delivered with a subtle bit of humour. I particularly liked that there's a framework around the erotica and there's enough in the story to give Emery a relatively well balanced character - as much as you can in 50 odd pages, she wasn't a one dimensional cardboard cut out. It also makes me want to go visit a museum.

Shameless

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