Breaking by Claire Kent

Grade: B
Hotness Level: Inferno
Kink Level: No Kink
Genre: Contemporary, same couple series
Series: Escorted #1.5

Reviewed by Anne

61 pages

 

This 61 page story picks up a with Ander and Lori a few months from the end of Escorted. (See my review of Escorted here.) Ander has been working on his doctorate and they've been apart off and on.  He unexpectedly comes home from a trip a week early because he needs to be with Lori.  (This story, in contrast to Escorted, is told entirely from Ander's POV.)  He may have been needing to see Lori, but he can't bring himself to share his problems with her.  Instead he just keeps seducing her.

 

Amazingly, I think this book had too much sex in it for me!  However, that was a plot point of the story, so it's not exactly gratuitous.  It's exactly what Ander was up to - he's distracting Lori with sex.  He uses it as a shield.  It's an interesting and kind of believable idea. Of course, that's not going to last forever, and that conversation was where the story really shone for me.

 

I'd recommend this story to anyone who enjoyed Escorted, but I think this story would be more enjoyable after reading Escorted.

So, what do you think of this trend of authors writing novella length sequels/epilogues for established couples.  Do you like it?