Name: Colters' Daughter
Rating: 2.75 (4 reviews)
ISBN: 9781609283940

Maya Banks

When Max Wilder returns after disappearing without a word, Callie Colter is angry and hurt, yet powerless against his pursuit.

Colters' Daughter

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First, I stayed up way the hell to late reading this. Second, I really don't like the Nook reading app for PC.

For anyone who has read the previous Colters' Legacy books, this is quite a departure. No multiple partners or no unbelievable "We magically fell for the same woman and are absolutely not squicked out by having almost-sex with each other even though we're brothers" here. Not that that bothered me in the other books. The other books were pretty damn hot in places. But the plausibility was way out there (though I'm still unclear why three guys who are brothers banging the same woman would be more unbelievable than three guys who are friends doing the same to me).

As we remember, due to the other characters constantly reminding us in the previous book, Callie had a Bad Thing happen to her and she was Very Upset and her free spirit was obviously bruised. Nice foreshadowing. Thanks for bitch slapping me with it. Now we get to see where all the gloom and doom came from.

I've been coming back to this review on and off all morning. It's taking me an age to write. I can't quite figure out how to explain why I liked it so much even though it made me uncomfortable some times. Here goes nothing, and I apologize for the possible randomness to follow.

As my friends here know, I read a lot of erotica. Probably a lot more than is strictly healthy, but that's a discussion for another time when the voddie's flowing and I'm in the mood for some good maudlin navel-gazing. Anyway. In all that hot, sweaty, smutty action, I've read about several kinds of relationships that intrigued me, that make me want to possibly try them one day. 

But not this one. Why? Well, I'm pretty sure that being completely submissive in ALL aspects of a relationship, not just sexually, would chafe. Like, right away. And the caveman, knuckle-dragging, chest-beating, semen-marking hero of this book was waaaaaaay OTT for me for me most of the time. I had plenty of WTF moments reading this. Seriously, this cat could give Lora Leigh's alpha (and alphole) heroes lessons in dominance (or so it seemed at 2am when my eyes were crossing and I was struggling to stay lucid long enough to finish the book). While I like to read about strong men and a little bit of chest-beating sound yummy, this dude just wasn't tickling my buttons. 

Neither was Callie. I didn't really buy her sudden willingness to let dude take over every freaking aspect of her life, but I've never been in a relationship remotely like that, so I can't really judge how she really should/would have reacted. Maybe all it really does take is that one special person that to make you want different things than you've always dreamed of.

Oh, and the Big Reveal after the second Big Misunderstanding (yeah, we had to get over two Big Mis's in this book) kinda lacked impact for me. I'd figured it out pretty quickly and was just waiting around for The Shit to Blow Up. 

But why, with all these squirmy, uncomfortable, over-the-top what-the-fuckery problems, did I still love the book? It wasn't the amazing writing (the dialogue was a downright cheesefest at times), it wasn't my wish to emulate the relationship explored by our hero and heroine, it wasn't the "mystery" behind everything. 

I think I enjoyed it despite the faults I've listed above and more I can't articulate because it was a visit with old friends. I've invested a lot of time on the Colter family and it was good to "see" them again. And just like with friends, there was stuff that bothered me but my affection for them made it easy to overlook those faults.

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