Out Of Bounds (Black Lace)

The subject matter itself is enough to get me going: And hearing that there would be an intriguing storyline full of mystery and romance only helped to get me excited for this purchase. But right from the get-go it rubbed me the wrong way. Probably worst of all is that Kate is so incredibly naive even to the point of stupidity, about sexual matters. For far too long she operates on the belief that Miguel and Eric are gay and "out of bounds" hence the title because she saw them sleeping in one another's arms, even after they both come onto her and make it impossible to doubt their interest.

That ticked me off immensely. Even if we forget that, Kate is a clone of every other woman I read about described in erotica that makes a big deal of being written by women: Oh this is so wrong but mmm so good! I want to be dominated without giving up my independence and womanliness! I think Mandy Dickinson does a good job of fleshing out Kate, getting into a women's mind, etc.

In that same vein are the other characters, Miguel, Eric, and Robert her ex who comes back in. Robert is the most sympathetic character, and, correspondingly, leaves just as things start to perk up. Like almost everything that features two men and a woman be it threesome or simply love triangle , the two men are archetypes so that the woman can get or has to choose between everything that's out there. So Miguel is Spanish and dark, moody, tempermental, artistic, tra-la-la; Eric is Viking blonde, surfer-cool, dominating but with a tender side.

Readers, of course, can pick their favorite, but I'd rather choose neither. Miguel is perfectly romantic and charming and slightly dangerous and all that, which at first did reel me in. But once he "fell in love" with Kate and everything was gooey, goppy sweet between them, I found him extremely dislikable. Again, Eric fell somewhat into the same category for me: His sexual orientation just runs all over the place to lead readers down the wrong paths but melts under the freakish power of Kate. Both Miguel and Eric's actions make little sense when you examine them.

I'm all for intruige and emotionally-laden behavior let's face it, it makes sex a lot more fun to read than just 'they got into bed because they were horny' , but the boys flip-flop insanely, are hard to understand, and in the end, all their wishy-washy weirdness never really changed anything, plot-wise.

Out Of Bounds by Lolah Lace

The plot was just too thin. People have said it was amazing, but it really wasn't. I was never overly motivated to figure out what was going on, because it wasn't ever given utmost importance, and Dickinson dragged it out soooo long. I could see everything coming from a mile away; Eric looks just like Kate and is living in her house, so they share a connection, Robert had cheated and comes with them to notice Eric's uncanny resemblance- duh, he was cheating with guys, is gay, and they get together.

The one thing I never saw coming- that Miguel had been waiting for Kate all his life- was so lame and ridiculous that it ruined things for me completely. I just hated it. In the beginning, there is a definite lack of sex. I understand that its necessary to develop something before everyone jumps into bed, but usually other authors throw in memories, fantasies, etc.

When it does start to happen, it's so short and undeveloped that it just falls flat. Honestly- almost every sex scene consists of 1 Kate somehow glancing one of the boy's out-and-about erections and getting "dripping wet", 2 the boys rubbing her until she can't stand it, 3 some penetration she's been begging for, and 4 a final shuddering orgasm. An entire sex scene might take three paragraphs, maybe up to six if something extra is added on, but it rarely is.

Out Of Bounds

It's boring and repetitive. The only time we get a little extra zing is in the nice occasions that have everyone involved or the kinky stuff, which really isn't that kinky. The boys weren't really bisexual in the way I hoped. The sex is there, but not in the strong way it could be. Overall, this didn't do it for me.

I was bored, I was skeptical, I was dry as a bone 'down there', and in the end, I tossed it. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. May 19, krystle privott rated it did not like it. This was highway robbery at its finest. For those who own or read the previous books this is sure to be a letdown.

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Lace could of tied this in to book five and been done with it. I felt as the reading material was too short and she should of took more time to develop the story.

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I still tap Mason in a heartbeat though ;-. Dudi rated it liked it Sep 11, Paula rated it really liked it Jun 16, Claudia Sifflet rated it liked it Dec 30, Krystell Lake rated it it was amazing Oct 12, Hazel Ann rated it it was amazing Apr 01, Florida Hellcat rated it it was amazing Feb 09, Sylvia rated it liked it May 27, Jenn rated it it was ok Oct 26, Yvette Johnson rated it it was amazing Oct 26, Nia rated it it was ok Jul 07, Crystal Moody rated it it was amazing Jan 12, Rebecca Anderson rated it it was amazing Sep 27, Gina Morgan rated it liked it Oct 02, Liane rated it really liked it Jan 25, When the reader thinks that this is about as hot as it can get Katie's ex shows up and she finds herself being taken to the dark side of passion..

The stereotypical concepts that we have about eroticism and sexuality are are twisted turned and exposed by the author in such a skilled fashion that we follow the story as if the reader was there as a player in a five part play. If it's every man's voyeuristic dream to see two women getting it on then this book takes that dream and and develops a womans dream and awakening Well done Mandy Dickinson well done! I am a fan of several of the books in the Black Lace series, since I value well-written erotica i.

Just turn me on, mind and body, k? I wanted to like this book; I seriously did. The subject matter itself is enough to get me going: And hearing that there would be an intriguing storyline full of mystery and romance only helped to get me excited for this purchase. But right from the get-go it rubbed me the wrong way. Probably worst of all is that Kate is so incredibly naive even to the point of stupidity, about sexual matters.

For far too long she operates on the belief that Miguel and Eric are gay and "out of bounds" hence the title because she saw them sleeping in one another's arms, even after they both come onto her and make it impossible to doubt their interest. That ticked me off immensely. Even if we forget that, Kate is a clone of every other woman I read about described in erotica that makes a big deal of being written by women: Oh this is so wrong but mmm so good!

I want to be dominated without giving up my independence and womanliness!

Out of Bounds

I think Mandy Dickinson does a good job of fleshing out Kate, getting into a women's mind, etc. In that same vein are the other characters, Miguel, Eric, and Robert her ex who comes back in. Robert is the most sympathetic character, and, correspondingly, leaves just as things start to perk up. Like almost everything that features two men and a woman be it threesome or simply love triangle , the two men are archetypes so that the woman can get or has to choose between everything that's out there.

So Miguel is Spanish and dark, moody, tempermental, artistic, tra-la-la; Eric is Viking blonde, surfer-cool, dominating but with a tender side. Readers, of course, can pick their favorite, but I'd rather choose neither. Miguel is perfectly romantic and charming and slightly dangerous and all that, which at first did reel me in.

But once he "fell in love" with Kate and everything was gooey, goppy sweet between them, I found him extremely dislikable. Again, Eric fell somewhat into the same category for me: His sexual orientation just runs all over the place to lead readers down the wrong paths but melts under the freakish power of Kate.

Both Miguel and Eric's actions make little sense when you examine them. I'm all for intruige and emotionally-laden behavior let's face it, it makes sex a lot more fun to read than just 'they got into bed because they were horny' , but the boys flip-flop insanely, are hard to understand, and in the end, all their wishy-washy weirdness never really changed anything, plot-wise.

The plot was just too thin. People have said it was amazing, but it really wasn't.

I was never overly motivated to figure out what was going on, because it wasn't ever given utmost importance, and Dickinson dragged it out soooo long. I could see everything coming from a mile away; Eric looks just like Kate and is living in her house, so they share a connection, Robert had cheated and comes with them to notice Eric's uncanny resemblance- duh, he was cheating with guys, is gay, and they get together.

The one thing I never saw coming- that Miguel had been waiting for Kate all his life- was so lame and ridiculous that it ruined things for me completely. I just hated it. In the beginning, there is a definite lack of sex.

I understand that its necessary to develop something before everyone jumps into bed, but usually other authors throw in memories, fantasies, etc.