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Norris
Brownell has started and quit just about every diet out there, but she
is
determined to succeed at the one offered by Sweet Discipline, if only
to prove
her friend Kendra, who completed the program, wrong.
Initially appalled and revolted by her
assigned trainer’s regimen of exercise, diet and behavior modification,
Norris
soon comes to crave Adrian’s
attentions and his touch.
Adrian
Townsend knows that Norris’ expectations are part of what helps her
fail. That’s why he creates a regimen that
will
force her to change; however, that regimen is also his initial training
of her
for himself. The more she bends to his
will, the more he wants her. Can he
finish what he started before he claims her as his own?
A diet
program with a twist is how Ellora’s Cave should have marketed Sweet
Discipline, the
first release from Bonnie Harme. Told
mostly from Norris’ point of view, the book keeps you wondering as to
the
actual program at the exclusive spa up to nearly the end.
And while Ellora’s Cave did release the book
with a warning note to the readers that the book contains several
scenes of
discipline, this reviewer found them to be no more than the normal
standards of
BDSM in their usual releases. Perhaps
not what is expected at a luxury health spa, but no more than that? When Norris and Adrian finally have sex, the
scene leaps from the page with an electric release of tension that
catches the
reader off guard, but is the perfect climax to the long tease before it. Ms. Harme has a talent for words that
surprised me considering this is her first release in this genre. This
is a wonderful book that I highly recommend.
Reviewed
by Meribeth McCombs for The Road to Romance
September
7, 2004
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