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All Tied Up: Pleasure Inn, Book 1 | 
 enlarge | Author: Cathryn Fox
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Category: eBooks
This item is no longer available
Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 1013
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B0028256JI
Publication Date: April 30, 2009
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Product Description
Need the job done right? Get a handyman with the right-tools. Pleasure Inn, Book 1 Interior decorator Lindsay Bell jumped at the chance to help restore the old inn at Mason Creek. What could be more fun than letting her imagination run wild on an unlimited budget? Eagerly she plans to turn her assigned room into a fantasy BDSM playground. All she expected from her newly hired handyman was to help her tear down a support wall. She certainly didn-t expect Brad Caldwell to be so drop-dead gorgeous in a tool belt. When he proves to be a steady, hardworking, stand-up guy-unlike the men she-s dated-Lindsay has a new and wicked idea. To take her new creation on a test drive down the road of their deepest, darkest, most delicious desires-and seduce her way into his heart. Warning: Smokin- hot sex with creative use of toys, and a dash of magic.
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 Couldn't Finish it! August 17, 2010
KonaCat (Phoenix, AZ)
Completely agree with those that noted the characters have no personality (except for constantly thinking about sex), writing is just plain boring and no story to speak of. I put this book down probably 6 times before I finally gave up on it......because.....
OK, I got to the part where Brad thought he could be a competent Dominant because he had seen some movies and just knew that the Lindsey "wanted" to be punished. I, too, suspect that the author has no knowledge about BDSM. Avoid this book at all cost.
 All Tied Up is a Bit Knotted August 15, 2010
Tracy (Fort Myers, Florida, USA)
Pamina, Goddess of Passion and Everything Enchanted is summoned by the pledge of three friends determined to swear off men. With a touch of magic and a bite of an apple, she hires the three women who share a design company to renovate an Old Victorian and turn it into a sexual retreat, with each friend taking a room to decorate according to their deepest fantasies. Lindsay Bell, the bawdy bad girl of the trio, is intent on a BDSM room that'll tickle her fancy. What she hadn't planned on was gorgeous handyman Brad Caldwell to help her. Soon all Lindsay can think of is trying out - with Brad - all the new toys for the room and getting Brad to take her where she's always wanted to go...the pledge to swear off men be damned.
Unfortunately, I had some problems with this novella on just about every front. Beyond the set up of the concept for the plot, there just wasn't much attention given to plot or character development, and the relationship between Brad and Lindsay suffered as a result. Seeming perfunctory and shallow, neither lends to the sort of tone that would allow for a seductive BDSM scene...but that doesn't even really become an issue because the 'play' in this role play was exceedingly tame. Not that I would have wanted hard core, I didn't. But I just couldn't suspend my disbelief...and a bit of distaste...in part because the development of the characters and relationship were so sparse, and in part because I just didn't buy the idea that Lindsay would in just a few days time share with Brad a kink (a relatively harmless kink, really) that she'd never mentioned to any of her other boyfriends before. There are just too many problems with that all around.
There was an attempt to add some depth to Brad's character, and much of that attempt succeeded. I liked his issues with wanting to go to med school and the problems he's had with women over his blue collar job. He and the not-quite-a-cat were my two favorite parts of this novella. I wish there had been more time spent on and with both of them and less on Lindsay, who's unrelenting focus on sex and not much else turned me off.
Originally reviewed for One Good Book Deserves Another.
Meh August 13, 2010
KAH (Chicago)
BTW, This is a short story. Unrealistic Hero who is of course majorly HOT. The BDSM and sex scenes were not that great, I don't think the author is really into BDSM or even researched it that well which normally would be okay but the plot was based off of the heroine designing a BDSM room. I've read better and I wouldn't recommend buying it.
MOM in Fl, you were so right July 30, 2010
suzie
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have to totally agree with Mom in Fl. This is a cute read, not too expensive. I was looking for much more in the way of sex than this novelette provided. But the story is cute and has its funny parts.
Wow. Just... wow. July 24, 2010
Wynn Finnley (Happy Valley, UT)
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
I read a lot of romance, and enjoy reading sex scenes, so I'm no prude. Lately I've even been reading quite a bit of B and C grade junk. But nothing could have prepared me for the craptastic horribleness that was this book. With absolutely no plot to speak of, insipid characters and lame dialog, combined with cheesy and somewhat creepy sex scenes, I feel the need for a shower, and a magic pill to purge my mind from any memories of this book.
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