Too Cruel for Love by B.D. May
Genre: Steamy | Sexy | Romance
Pages: 264
BACK OF THE BOOK:
‘Too Cruel for Love’ is the second in the ‘Crimes of Passion’ series. Can be read as a standalone.
You don’t choose love – it just happens. You can’t scrub it off or ignore it. It stays there for life. It can hide behind a rock or be quiet for a while, but it is still there and will be along soon enough to stretch its legs.
Set in Victorian London, hardened detective, dashing, granite-jawed Reuben Keene has a penchant for ladies of a particular kind, but this lifestyle has a price to pay.
He is a savage and dominant lover and enjoys pleasing ladies who desire a submissive role in the bedroom. He cannot help but take complete control.
Independently wealthy, Reuben’s servants are specifically chosen to meet his wanton demands. One such servant, Victoria, is a member of the aristocracy and secretly works for him to fulfil her fantasy of total subservience. Yet love is not far from her mind. She must learn to be less clingy but can’t help herself. Master claims he is ‘too cruel for love?’ But is he?
Reuben’s complex affairs and indiscriminate promiscuity inevitably create problems and pleasure.
A man with Reuben’s reputation and rumours of his savage sexual encounters means he is sought after by certain women desirous to sample the experience.
While tracking down a rapist, Reuben, too, is pursued by a powerful woman in society and is put in an invidious position; she demands sex, or she will expose his ‘unusual’ lifestyle. There is a snag. It is Lady Farrah, Victoria’s mother, and it would be a horrible betrayal to his aristocratic servant were he to succumb. It is a dichotomy. Will he, or won’t he? Has he any choice? Can he find a way out?
Meanwhile, the rapist is targeting those closest to the detective, they are frightened, and Reuben must intercept the fiend before it is too late. If he fails, it could have deadly consequences.
In ‘Too Cruel for Love’, we see the multifaceted and flawed Reuben Keene: sexual animal, insatiable, sadistic, sexually reckless, protector, and a man who can show the most touching compassion to those in desperate need.
Is he a monster or merely misunderstood?
Contains: sexual violence, explicit sex scenes, violence, submissiveness, bondage, adult language, and adult theme
REVIEW:
Too Cruel For Love is the second book in The Crimes Of Passion series. Having not read the first one I was unsure what to expect but the book made for an excellent read and the story was not reliant on having read the first one to understand it. I had never seen a crime book coxed with explicit sex scenes but had previously thought the two genres may mix well together.
The story follows Reuben Keene, a police detective in Victorian London, as he is put on the case to discover and capture a rapist who attacked one of London’s High Society Ladies. Alongside this story is the arc of his interactions with the women he ‘owns’ as well as encounters with other ladies throughout the book.
Although unsure of some of the language used for describing sexual activities I found the book to be entertaining for both the crime aspect and the erotica mixed within it.
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