Love Cuffs

Love Cuffs by Ashlyn Chase and Dalton Diaz
Publisher: Ellora’s Cave
Genre: Contemporary
Length: Full
Other: M/F, BDSM
Review by Xeranth

At thirty-eight, Hope Daniels is a Jersey cop with superhuman hearing and a controlling mother. And she’s about to marry any sane woman’s last choice of a groom. Right before she walks down the aisle, she hears distant screams. Figuring someone should be rescued, she bolts from her mother’s vision of a royal wedding. But when she breaks down the door of a BDSM club, she’s the one who winds up in handcuffs.

Dorian Markoff is intent on using a hypnotist to wipe the beautiful cop’s mind of his — and his club’s — existence. But the hypnotist is in Vegas so a mad romp ensues, involving lots of hot vanilla-ish sex that turns his BDSM lifestyle upside down.

Neither guesses what an adventure it will be to find the hypnotist, avoid one unintentionally snubbed Dominatrix, and explain it all to Hope’s mother. All while falling in love.

Love Cuffs grabbed my funny bone in a gentle but firm hold from the moment Hope left her tent. The humor is snappy and the authors had Hope using words and metaphors which showcased her rapier wit. I was captured by the heroine’s voice as sturdily as any handcuffs used in this very erotic tale.

The unique use of half chapter headers to highlight POV shifts worked well and for me ended up being a source of amusement and something to look forward to. Those half chapters belong to Dorian’s POV, the hero. He tells things in first person POV and I found it intriguing to hear things from a guy’s perspective about the scene before when Hope is the star. It was fascinating, like watching a sexual tennis match. The verbal volleys kept the pace rolling at a quick and entertaining clip and I couldn’t read fast enough.

It’s been a long while where a writer used the word ‘snort’ to great effect and I got a kick out of its irreverence. When Hope dove into a shopping bag of clothing purchased for her I almost fell off my chair. That scene alone highlighted the authors’ sense of the ridiculous and fun. And, oh, my gosh! Just wait until you get to the part when Hope drinks the champagne, it was so cute! I couldn’t stop grinning.

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Out of everything that I enjoyed and was entertained by in Love Cuffs, I guess the only trial for me was Fredrico. Not him specifically but the results of his visit. I kept hoping that he couldn’t pull it off or something. Of all the realistic and plausible scenes throughout this book, I sort of felt like Hope was seriously taking advantage of Dorian and at that point, I felt bad for him and mad at her. I don’t care if she loves him; she should not have gone through with it. Granted, the big secret ends up all being re-exposed anyway though I won’t say how. It’s the principle of the matter. If she loved him, she shouldn’t have gone through with it. It was at that point I wanted Dorian to go all Dom on her.

The secondary characters, like Juliet and Guy, not to mention Ivan, helped bring out Dorian’s character and played nicely off of Hope. Out of all of them, I believe Juliet’s character made the most impact. I got the best sense of her when Hope used this one-liner starting with ‘Weebles Wobble and they…’ (If you remember your kid’s toys), which had me grinning because it clued you into their relationship in the story. Also, I’d be remiss as to my curiosity about wolfie if I didn’t ask, “Just who or what was wolfie?” And will we ever see the canine culprit again? There was something about how he/it was written that totally has me intrigued. Is there something more?

I would highly recommend Love Cuffs for anyone who seeks erotic stories that embrace a healthy dose of humor and adventurous romance. It’s a fast read with a grasp of language that dips into a vast array of imagination and descriptions leaving you smiling, mostly hot and a lot satisfied.