Eva is jealous, Gideon is controlling and there are times when they inadvertently say or do exactly the wrong thing to set each other off with their individual issues. Even from early on though, it is clear that the two of them are developing unhealthy tendencies. The attraction between them both is strong and instantaneous and it isn’t long before the two are involved in mind blowing, passionate sex. She has a disturbing and troubled past but she has done the hard work of trying to get herself into a good place mentally and now she wants to build on that to make a good life for herself. She is keen to work hard, to be successful on her own merits and to find her place in the city. Yes, it is a bit, make that a lot, stalkerish.Įva has just moved to New York and started a new job in an advertising agency. Gideon’s business interests are varied and he isn’t afraid to use whatever he can to manufacture meetings with Eva, no matter how coincidental she thinks they might be. It doesn’t take him long at all to find out who she is and where she works and to manipulate things so that they meet again. When Eva Tramell meets Gideon Cross she is literally knocked off her feet, and then figuratively knocked off her feet at how good looking and how sexually appealing he is! Gideon is the head of Cross Industries and owner of the Crossfire building in which Eva works. The bonds of his love transformed me, even as I prayed that the torment of our pasts didn't tear us apart. And we would become the mirrors that reflected each other's most private wounds. I was flawed and damaged, and he opened those cracks in me so easily.
I craved his touch like a drug, even knowing it would weaken me.
I was drawn to him as I'd never been to anything or anyone in my life. Gideon Cross came into my life like lightning in the darkness-beautiful and brilliant, jagged and white-hot. Let’s look at the two books individually and then I will make some general observations: I was at a bookstore recently and there were also lots and lots of other books and authors that were shelved together. In this case, the book that I usually refer to as ‘the book that shall not be named’, Fifty Shades of Grey, has opened the door to mainstream publishing of erotica for books like Tiffany Reisz’s Sinner series and these two books, Bared to You and Reflected in You, that form the start of the Crossfire series. We have seen it happen time and time again - for example with the success of The Hunger Games came a whole slew of YA dystopian novels. One of the inevitable consequences of a massively successful book or series is that it opens doors that might otherwise have been closed for other authors and books.
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