Blog Tour Review: Sapphire – Jeffe Kennedy

Sapphire by Jeffe Kennedy
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Release Date:  October 24, 2011
Publisher:   Carina Press
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Source:  NetGalley
Buy the book at: Amazon

A successful executive, M. Taylor Hamilton is on track with her ten-year plan. Too bad her personal life consists of hitting the gym and grocery shopping. Enter the seductive Adam Kirliss. They may have a working relationship, but everything changes at an office party when he handcuffs her to the rail of a yacht.
Taylor writes off the adventure as too much champagne, but when Adam challenges her to a date, she agrees to meet up with him. And follow his rules. They share a night of exquisite intimacy, brimming with both pain and pleasure. But afterward, fearful of losing her heart, Taylor pulls back emotionally.
Adam is determined to prove that she longs for the loss of control he can give her—and the passionate release it provides. How can he make her see that he wants her, and not just her body? 

Taylor Hamilton is a balls to the wall ice queen who forces everyone to follow her rules.  She learned the hard way that is better to control every aspect of her life rather than leaving anything to chance or to someone else’s whims.  One man threatens that control, Adam Kirliss.

Adam has wanted Taylor since the moment he laid eyes on her.  What did he see?  Someone who was just like him and maybe wanted the same things he did.  But to get through to Taylor, he has to break through that icy exterior to find the passionate woman she has buried deep inside.  The woman he likes to think of as M.  Can he break through to her and show her there’s more to life?  Only time and a little spanking will tell.

Adam was a character that, as a reader, I wanted to connect with.  You could tell there was so much more to this man (other than the BDSM scene in his library) and I really wanted to know what it was that made Adam tick.  Unfortunately, we didn’t get all that much character development on him.

I didn’t like Taylor.  Couldn’t connect with her and really didn’t like how she acted as if she hated what Adam was forcing her to do, yet secretly loved it.  If you like it, fess up to liking it and then be pissed at him later for making you reveal such a secret.

If you like a little intense BDSM with your boardroom romance, this one is for you.