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Decadent | 
 enlarge | Author: Shayla Black
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Category: Book
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Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 42511
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Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 1.1
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
ASIN: B0017HZ4RE
Publication Date: October 2, 2007
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Product Description
The author of Wicked Ties wraps her steamy prose around the premise that two men are better than one.
Kimber Edgington is a virgin with a crush-on a pop star with a penchant for threesomes. Determined to prove that she's woman enough for singer Jesse McCall, Kimber turns to bodyguard Deke Trenton for sexual education...lessons that include his super-sexy friend Luc. Though she's saved herself for Jesse, Kimber soon learns that he's not the man adept at stoking her aching, endless need. That's Deke, and he can't resist when Kimber begs for more-and more.
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Hot enough - Wicked Ties was better September 23, 2008
I bought this book after loving Wicked Ties and Decadent was a good read over a long weekend during Hurricane Ike. This is a different type of sex than we saw in Wicked Ties and while it was done nicely for the most part, none of the sex scenes in Decadent were as hot as those in Wicked Ties.
We met Deke (lead male character in Decadent) briefly in Wicked Ties, but the Deke in Decadent just did not measure up! He was the ideal alpha male in many ways - competent, brave, funny, absolutely no low self esteem issues. The sort of guy we want covering our backside in a firefight or in front of the fireplace with a bottle of good whiskey. And then you reach the last quarter of the book. For some reason I just don't understand, the author chose to turn him into a girly man complete with whining, immaturity and paralyzing self doubt. Why spend 250 pages tempting us to love the male lead and then in the last second turn him into the sort of boy no self respecting woman would want to spend her life with?
I will come back to Shayla Black in the future though.
 Decadent September 13, 2008
Another great book by Shayla Black. Great tie-in to Wicked Ties. Waiting in anticipation for Luc's Story and would like to know more about Hunter, Logan and Brandon. Great book. Could hardly put it down.
 Entertaining September 7, 2008
I liked this book, but I thought it would be hotter - lots of story line that didn't matter - there is a lot of description that doesn't really matter and falls a little short on some of the hot scenes. I will try more books by this author
Disappointing............. September 7, 2008
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Decadent stars Kimber Edgington as she's tracking down ex Army Ranger Deke Trenton and his cousin, Luc Traverson for help. She needs a crash course in menage so she can prove to her girlhood crush, Jesse McCall, that she's not afraid of his menage proclivities and can handle it. Since she was seventeen she's been fascinated by Deke and the rumors surrounding his love life and she hopes he can be the one to teach her. Luc is only too happy to step in as her sexual tutor but Deke has his reservations. He's wanted Kimber from the moment he saw her, but his own personal hangups prevented him from making a move, plus there was the added fact of her being underage at the time and her father threatened to cut off his balls if he so much as looked in her direction. At first he tries to scare her off, to show her how intense being with two men can be, but when he realizes she'll only go to someone else for lessons, he agrees to teach her. He agrees that he and Luc will play sexual tutor with their little houseguest for two weeks, with the understanding that there will be no emotion involved. Deke is trying to protect his heart and a secret that he's been hiding for twelve years and he's afraid Kimber is going to blast right through all his carefully erected barriers. Luc is also hiding behind a facade and has his own reasons for agreeing to Kimber's plan. He is putting all his hopes for a perfect life with the three of them and is going to use every manipulative, sensual weapon he has. While the fun and games begin, there is a dangerous stalker out to get Kimber's father through her and after a vicious attack the men snap into protective mode and hide her away for protection. This only isolates the three of them in close quarters where they are forced to confront past secrets and bitter jealousy to find the ultimate winner of Kimber's heart.
In the first part of the book, the sex in Decadent was as decadent as could be. I was fully enjoying everything until the emotions started running amok. For a man who had insisted on emotions playing no part in their menage, he's sure got a lot of inner turmoil. Deke is just one hot mess. His deep, dark secret from when he was sixteen has scarred him for life and he's carried those wounds ever since. At first it was nice to know that a great big Army Ranger can be hit by feelings of uncertainty, doubt and even fear, but this took it too far. He needed a shrink. Luc does too, but Deke far more than Luc. As if there wasn't enough emotional hysteria running around in this steaming pile, Shayla Black adds in Kimber's emotional train wreck of a boyfriend, Jesse McCall. Now there's a crash and burn if ever I saw one. Jesse latches onto Kimber with a pathetic, whiny, selfish need that thoroughly grates on the nerves and you almost wish she would put the boy out of his misery and just shoot him. The villain of the book is hardly mentioned, it's more alluded to that he gets caught, and there is also a surprise villain that leaves you feeling stunned stupid. Where the heck did that come from?
I didn't even have good hot, nekkid sex to get me through this book because it was too uncomfortable with all the angst. With menage I don't want any feelings of jealousy or bitterness. I want the guys to love being with the girl and to also love being with the guy. Not in a sexual way, but to be almost comforted by their presence, like they can feed off each others emotions making the whole experience that much more erotic. Right from the beginning Deke has proprietary feelings towards Kimber and resents Luc's presence and during the middle of the book, Kimber also resents Luc's presence and wishes it was just her and Deke. Well, it sucks to be Luc. I felt extremely uncomfortable knowing that three of them were having sex and wishing one of them was gone. Luc was very much the third wheel and I felt on edge reading the book, waiting for the shoe to drop on Luc's participation in the menage. All in all, some of the sex scenes were good but it focused too much on her butt. Since Kimber is saving her virginity for Jesse, that leaves that orifice out and so the men work with what they've got. I don't have a problem with anal, just thought there was too much of it. I'm also not going to mention the absurd rationale of saving your virginity by taking big, hard c**** up your butt and down your throat, because to do so would take up too much time and will probably end in me cursing, so I'm just going to stop while I'm ahead.
Read Decadent if you like lots of anal action, don't mind menage a trois, like a lot of angst and inner turmoil and don't mind if your heroines (and heroes) are slightly stupid.
exciting new author August 26, 2008
I was so excited to find this author. It was one of the sale items in Amazon, so I said what the Hel*! And I was hooked. I can't wait for her new book that comes out this week. Definate an author I will keep an eye on!
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