Voyeur
 

Voyeur

by Lacey Alexander

Suffering from writer's block and with no lover to speak of, novelist Laura Watkins is in a funk. She needs a getaway and a release. Fast. Fortunately, she finds both in the retreat of a friend's isolated Colorado home. It's hers and hers alone for as long as she needs it. Then she comes upon the webcam, and her curiosity is aroused. So is her secret fantasy-to be watched by a stranger.... (read more)

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Overview: Amazon Reviews

hot and naughty
  • Rated 5 stars
Reviewed by an Amazon user, 2008-10-29
just the thought of watching thats naughty but this book was a page turner and it will keep u wanting more Most of Lacey Alexanders books are Hot
disappointing
  • Rated 1 stars
Reviewed by an Amazon user, 2008-09-26
This starts off well, with an interesting premise. The webchats are a bit tough to follow in the beginning with flyboy1 and flyboy2 as the monikers. But the sexual tension ratchets up and it's looking promising. Then hero and heroine meet and it all falls apart. Plot vanishes. Sexual escapades abound with no real feeling. Sure this is erotica but it's supposed to be an erotic romance. Where's the love? I never felt any between them. The book nears its end and I'm hoping for some emotional breakthrough, some payoff for me slogging through the whole thing. Instead the author desperately tosses in yet more sex acts in the form of a menage a trois with the hero's depressed friend. This is a romance?

Since I detest authors (and publishers) who don't clap a warning about menages on their books, I won't be buying any more of Ms. Alexander's.
Voyeur
  • Rated 4 stars
Reviewed by an Amazon user, 2008-08-26
I LIKE LACEY ALEXANDERS' WRITTING. THIS WAS A GREAT STORY WITH GREAT SEXUAL INTERACTION.
Loved it!
  • Rated 5 stars
Reviewed by an Amazon user, 2008-07-10
This is my first book by this author and I have to say that I really enjoyed it, loved the story and the writting.
I'm looking forward to her future books & I highly recomend this one.
not my kink, but still compelling
  • Rated 5 stars
Reviewed by an Amazon user, 2008-03-25
Mystery writer Laura Watkins has writer's block. So she jumps at the chance to spend some time in a secluded mountain cabin belonging to a friend of a friend. Late the first night, she's still blocked, and decides to spend some time alone with her fantasies. She knows the owner has set up a webcam to keep an eye on the house, but decides he wouldn't be watching that late, anyway. And even if he is.... well, just the thought of it is tantalizing.

The next morning, she gets an IM from Flyboy, and sure enough, the cabin's owner, corporate raider Braden Stone, had seen her last night. She's simultaneously embarrassed, intrigued, and turned-on, and they begin a cyber-affair.

Laura's getting squicked by the whole thing, but she's also hooked and very aroused, and her writing is flowing faster than ever before. Still, her sensible side tells her it's time to either stop or move on to the next level--in person.

Which ratchets up the heat even more.

Braden pushes the edges of Laura's comfort envelope, but never crosses the line into coercion.

What made Voyeur really stand out wasn't the sexual acts themselves--it was the emotions and how it changed Laura's, and to a lesser extent, Braden's lives. I appreciated Laura's realistic reactions, and particularly the notion that the affair could only go so far online and that to progress, they had to meet in person.

The mystery novel was also a nice part--the events in the novel Laura was writing echoed the events in her life, and illuminated them. Very nicely done.

As for the not-my-kink issue--it takes skill to write sex scenes that will be hot to someone who doesn't share the fantasy. I think the key here is that Laura's character is written so clearly that we know how everything makes her feel, and those emotions and sensations are passed on to the reader.

I'll be looking for more Lacey Alexander books, as well as those by her alter-ego, Toni Blake.

ETA: Oh! I have read a story by Toni Blake. I gave it "points for inventiveness in the sex scenes." Heh.
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