BOOK REVIEW: End of Innocence by Alessandra Torre

If you would like to read my reviews of the first 2 books in this series; Blindfold Innocence and Masked Innocence..click here.









He thought I owned him. He thought he loved me, that I was enough. But this animal, this sex god who could drive me crazy and steal my heart in the same breath, he would never fully be mine. It was impossible. No one ever owned a God…

One year. I have one year to find out more about this man I am marrying. More about his family. More about our sex, and all of the dirty, delicious places it will take me.

I thought I’d spend this year making a decision. I never thought the decision would be taken from me, snatched right from my naive little hands.

This is the final chapter in the Innocence series. And it was the best one, in my humble opinion. So much so that I gave it 4 stars.

It jumps right in, so if you didn't read the first two books, you wouldn't have a clue what was going on.  So don't read the book or this review if you haven't read it. There will be spoilers for you.

Anyways, Julia is giving Brad de Luca a one year engagement. One that was basically forced on each other because Brad belongs to a gangster family and they want to kill her. Well they can't if shes family. Sneaky sneaky Brad.

The thing I like about this series is that the sex scenes are done well. They aren't every second page, and they are described pretty decent.  Brad and Julia still like to engage in group sex/threesomes - so there is a bit of that thrown into the mix. They were kinky and raw, and well that's what you want when you pick up an erotica book.

“I didn’t, couldn’t, begrudge any woman who wanted Brad. I wanted him for everything— his strength, his weakness, his sexuality, his humor, his ego, his temper, and his security.” 

I also liked how Julia finally started questioning things, about if she really did want to marry him. I respect that she waited a year too decide something that was thrown at her.  And it seemed like Brad did in fact love her in the end. He passed all the tests thrown at him. His controlling ass of a nature didn't even matter in the end.

And I have to say the final part of the book was really good,  it definitely kept me glued to my iPad until I finished it. Turned into a bit of a mystery type book, which was done right.

So the series started good, had a slow middle, and then picked up at the end for a good finale.

 

BOOK REVIEW: Blindfold Innocence and Masked Innocence by Alessandra Torre

Instead of writing two separate posts and flooding your newsfeed with book reviews, I decided to combine the two. I recieved both of them from netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

First off, Blindfold Innocence:

 

Brad De Luca is incorrigible. The premier divorce attorney in town, he is a forty-year old walking hunk of sex, bedding half the town, including his own clients. Brad is used to getting whatever, and whomever, he wants, and when the newest intern arrives - Julia Campbell, a pre-law student fresh off a failed engagement - he embraces the challenge. Only, happy in her new independence, the last thing Julia wants, or needs, is an older man who could destroy her job prospects, and possibly her innocence.
Julia is confident in her sexuality, and her effect on men. But she is far out of her league. Before she knows it, Brad is stretching her boundaries and opening up a forbidden world of sensual and sexual exploration.

 

 

Julia  is a pre-law student just out of a two year engagement, starting an internship at a prestigious law firm where she is stuck with the slave driver of a boss. (I mean working 15 hours a day...what the shit?!). This boss however warns Julia to stay away from Brad De Luca. He is trouble. Well of course, this is only going to heighten Julia's interest.

 

Julia and Brad finally meet. Have an innocent pizza dinner at work. Where, Julia who appears to be Miss. Innocent on the outside, actually is an inner slut, confides to Brad that she's never had an orgasm. Umm... first off you just met the guy, you are at work, and you aren't even a couple or friends. I mean... who does that? Cock tease Julia that's who- who is a self-proclaimed tease as she likes to be in control of the situation).

 

Well based on this, Brad asks her to accompany him on a trip to Vegas.  I mean no side agenda at all. *SPOILER* (and not at all a shocker) Brad givers Julia her very first orgasm. Then after that she boldly tells him 'I am not going to have sex with you' You wait Julia, you just wait.

 

Well Vegas happens, and then propositions happen, and the usual smutty stuff... (won't give away any spoilers)...

 

 

This book did a good job with setting up characters, getting to know them a bit more than just having steamy sex. Julia wasn't the prototypical virgin who was afraid to stand up and speak. She let Brad know what was bothering her, what her limits were. But she was also adventurous.  Brad on the other hand, is the prototypical male in erotica. Rich and successful with control issues that make him not suitable for a monogamous relationship. He just loves sex way to much, poor baby.

 

I have to admit I was waiting for more smut.... which made me excited to read the next book right away because of what was alluded to with Brad not being able to be in a monogamous relationship without the allowance of threesomes/group sex.

 

Obviously if you haven't read the first one STOP.

 

Second up: Masked Innocence

 

 

A man who always gets what he wants often has something to hide.

Julia Campbell never knows what to expect with win-at-all-costs Brad De Luca. And she’s starting to like it that way. She gave up safe, conventional relationships when she let the elite divorce attorney seduce her into his world. Now that he’s determined to strip her naked of her every inhibition, she’s in danger of falling too deep and too fast.
But their affair begins to feel even more dangerous when a murder leaves a trail of suspicion that points straight to the mob … and Brad. Trusting a man with a bad reputation and a past full of secrets seems like a mistake. But when she’s forced to make a choice, the consequences will take her further than she could’ve ever imagined.

 

 

Okay, this one only garned 3 stars. Why? Well with all the hype of threesomes and group sex, this is what I was expecting in the book. This is not what I got. While they dabbled once (maybe twice?) and the sex scenes were hot, they were more monogamous in a sense. Anyways. That makes me sound like a dirty perv.  This book turned out to be more of a mystery(???) than erotica.  Julia's slave driver boss at her internship ends up getting murdered. She over hears some stuff, and it places her on a to kill list. Luckily Brad is loaded and can protect her.  BUT be prepared to be shocked. (well not really... kinda saw it coming)

 

I wanted to like this more as I had such high hopes based on how the first novel ended. I just felt like I was reading another book. I didn't care about family dynamics. I didn't care about the maids. Although everytime she mentioned breakfast I did get fairly hungry.

 

With the way that this book ended, you know there is going to be an Innocence #3. Which I probably will read. You know, just to see how it ends and maybe I'll get my group sex..

 

 

Oh and Alessandra Torre wrote a mini novella about Brad De Luca.