Review: Clothing the Naked Sheriff – Rebecca Joyce

[Siren Menage Everlasting: Erotic Menage a Trois Romance, M/M/F, with M/M, HEA] Pisces lived his life one cosmic reading at a time. He’s gorgeous, with a beautiful head of hair, and has his favorite companion, Henry. Pisces wants for nothing, that is until he met his Princess Sugar-Britches. Angelica “Ace” Emerson hates everything about Celestial, especially the town sheriff. The last time she saw the man, she threw him in jail for being a nuisance, just so she didn’t have to look at him anymore. Landon Michaels doesn’t mind looking at the naked sheriff, there’s something about the man that calls to him on a universal level and has him wanting to learn more. Forced to return to the town she hates, to seek out man she loathes, Angelica’s only consolation is that her partner will be by her side. In Celestial, it doesn’t take long for the Cosmos to rear its wicked head, and soon she is sucked into a rabbit hole of Pisces’s making. ** A Siren Erotic Romance

Series: Celestial Nights #1
Release Date: September 27th 2014
Publisher: Siren Publishing
Source: Manic Reader
Reviewer: Kenna
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3.5 Cocktails

I’m torn about “Clothing the Naked Sheriff”.  I was thrilled with the concept of the town of Celestial.  Gods, witches, and other supernatural/heavenly creatures peacefully co-existing in a place that is hidden away from the rest of the world sounds delightful.  Know what else sounded delightful?  Pisces, the aforementioned naked sheriff, is handsome, charming, and well…naked.  There is also a mystery that brings two sexy FBI agents to town.

Angelica, whose nickname is “Ace” is beautiful, and Pisces wants her.  REALLY wants her.  In fact, even though there is a genuine issue, he calls in a few favors to get the FBI to send her personally.  She wants nothing to do with him.  In fact she doesn’t even want anything to do with Celestial on the whole. Ace is secretly in love with her partner, Landon.  He’s older than her, and this is going to be his last case before he retires.  Of course, Landon is in love with her too, but with a twist.  He and Pisces have been together for awhile…really together.

I love a good mystery plot, and if it’s included in a hot MMF menage, then all the better.  Therein lies the rub.  Pisces’ single determination to win Ace’s heart and body gets a little old afterwhile.  His arrogance that seems to be played for laughs becomes rather annoying.  Meanwhile, Ace’s tunnel vision about Celestial and Pisces is nearly equal to that.  The biggest issue?  It seems petty, but Pisces has named his penis Henry, and he talks about him in the third person.  EVERYONE talks about Henry in the third person.  I was even confused in the beginning because I couldn’t figure out who in the hell Henry was.

I don’t want you to think I hated this book.  Far from it.  After I got used to the characters and their personalities, they started to gel.  Except for that Henry thing.  That was still squicky in my book.  When the three main characters get together, it’s romantic and hot.  Their sex scenes were smokin’!  The mystery was interesting and had me intrigued through the whole story, and there was a very nice twist.  Seriously, the twist was great.  Another thing that I really enjoyed was the interraction between the background characters.  They were really funny.  It brought me to mind of a Terry Pratchett novel. (If you don’t know who Terry Pratchett is, you’re sorely missing out.)  I did a lot of laughing.  Without giving anything away, the witches are awesome.

This is the first in a series called “Celestial Nights”.  I am planning to read the second to see where it goes, and if I’ll like it well enough to continue on to the third.  This kind of story isn’t for everybody.  If you like a little bit of magic with your romance, and if mystery is your thing, this is for you.  Just watch out for Henry because he’s got a mind of his own.