SEX, NOT LOVE (Best Laid Plans) by Vi Keeland-Review Tour

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RELEASE DATE: January 15, 2018

My relationship with Hunter Delucia started backwards.

We met at a wedding—him sitting on the groom’s side, me sitting on the bride’s. Stealing glances at each other throughout the night, there was no denying an intense, mutual attraction.

I caught the bouquet; he caught the garter. Hunter held me tightly while we danced and suggested we explore the chemistry sparking between us. His blunt, dirty mouth should’ve turned me off. But for some crazy reason, it had the opposite effect on me.

We ended up back in my hotel room. The next morning, I headed home to New York leaving him behind in California with the wrong number.

I thought about him often, but after my last relationship, I’d sworn off of charming, cocky, gorgeous-as-sin men. A year later, Hunter and I met again at the birth of our friends’ baby. Our attraction hadn’t dulled one bit. After a whirlwind trip, he demanded a real phone number this time. So I left him with my mother’s—she could scare away any man with her talks of babies and marriage—and flew back home.

I’d thought it was funny, until the following week when he rang the bell at Mom’s house for Sunday night dinner. The crazy, gorgeous man had won over my mother and taken an eight-week assignment in my city. He proposed we spend that time screwing each other out of our systems.

Eight weeks of mind-blowing sex with no strings attached? What did I have to lose?

Nothing, I thought.
It’s just sex, not love.

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REVIEW: SEX, NOT LOVE by Vi Keeland is a contemporary, adult, erotic romance story in the author’s Best Laid Plans series of novels. This is thirty year old architectural engineer Hunter Delucia, and twenty nine year old behavioral therapist Natalia Rossi’s story line.

Told from dual first person perspectives-Natalia in the present, Hunter in the past- SEX, NOT LOVE follows the building relationship between Natalia Rossi, and Hunter Delucia who met several months earlier at a mutual friends’ wedding- Anna and Derek Weiner. The smooth but dirty talking Hunter Delucia was quickly shut down by our story line heroine. Fast forward seven months wherein a persistent Hunter would push himself back into Natalia’s life with the impending birth of their friends’ new arrival. What ensues is the much more than ‘friends with benefits’ relationship between Hunter and Natalia, a ‘sex, not love’ relationship with an expiry date, and a heroine who has fallen in love with a man whose secrets are destroying any chance at his own happily ever after.

The relationship between Hunter and Natalia begins acrimoniously as our heroine refuses to fall for Hunter’s dirty talking attempts to flatter and flirt using sexual innuendo and outright, naughty suggestive ideas. Hunter Delucia doesn’t do relationships; in fact, his last long term relationship found our hero caught between family and love; betrayal and loss. Meeting Natalia Rossi throws Hunter for a loop but he steadfastly refuses to accept anything long term including the possibility of falling in love. The $ex scenes are intimate, erotic and intense but one again I have issues with the use of a certain four-letter word I feel is unnecessary in a romantic story line-of any genre type.

We are introduced to Natalia and Hunter’s best friends Anna and Derek Weiner; Natalia’s step-daughter Izzy, and ex-husband Garrett Lockwood; an assortment of ‘dates’ for our story line heroine; Hunter’s older brother Jayce, and ex-girlfriend Summer.

SEX, NOT LOVE is an emotional story line with a little bit of humor, fun, heartbreak and love. Hunter keeps secret a past shrouded in pain, remorse and devastating loss that affects his decision to never fall in love. The premise is energetic and captivating; the romance is passionate, provocative and intense; the characters are dynamic, spirited and playful. SEX, NOT LOVE is a engaging and lively look at one man who struggles with his past, present and future; and one woman who has fallen in love with a man who is unable to promise a happily ever after.

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Reviewed by Sandy

Vi Keeland is a native New Yorker with three children that occupy most of her free time, which she complains about often, but wouldn’t change for the world. She is an attorney and a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, & USA Today Best Selling author. Over the last three years, ten of her titles have appeared on the USA Today Bestseller lists and three on the New York Times Bestseller lists.

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