Review: No Reservation – Lilly Cain

Travis Morgan is thrilled to encounter the one woman who’s never failed to get his blood pumping. Seeing Alicia Davis again brings it all back: their fierce academic rivalry, and the fact that he never followed through on his erotic fantasies about her.
Alicia can’t resist Travis’s smoldering sensuality—or the opportunity to finally bed the man who starred in so many of her lustful daydreams in college. Unable to avoid the temptation to best Travis one more time, Alicia plans to submit to one night of pure pleasure and then leave Travis empty-handed and craving more.
When Travis wakes up and realizes Alicia’s played him, the gloves are off, and the game heats up as they each try to emerge on top—by whatever means necessary…

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Release Date:  October 29, 2012
Publisher:  Carina Press
Source:  NetGalley
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Reviewer’s Thoughts:

When Travis Morgan fails to book his flight to Boston for his “Boys Weekend”, he finds himself asking a favor from his college classmate and secret crush, Alicia Davis.  When he has the opportunity to spend a few hours with her in an airport hotel room, he thinks he’s fantasies have finally come true.

Alicia Davis is reminded of all the reasons she had a crush on Travis when they were in college, but she also remembers what men like him do to women like her.  She figures she’ll get her one night with Travis and go on her merry way.  But Travis changes the rules to their game and Alicia finds herself risking the one thing she can’t afford to.

Travis and Alicia certainly were combustible, if the hotel room, hotel shower, her stairwell and bathroom can attest to.  Why they never gave into the heat in college is unbelievable.  Alicia was burned by her ex-husband and Travis by a married woman he thought was single.  They both came into their “relationship” playing a game, which bugged me.  Seemed that was something they should have done in college, rather than doing it as adults…especially given the past bad relationship.  And while I could understand those past relationships tainting them, I think the game just fed into their insecurities and caused them to unnecessarily hurt the other person.

For a short 40 page read, it had some outstanding sex, but I wanted more story development between the Travis and Alicia.  I think if I had that, I would have like the characters a bit more.