Dirty, Happy Book Reviews: The Delicious Torment

It’s no secret that I’m a huge Alison Tyler fan. Her style of writing never fails to get me where it counts. (That’d be my brain, but I’ll forgive those who didn’t think of that as the organ of choice.)

I already wrote about Dark Secret Love but haven’t yet discussed The Delicious Torment.

This book is the sequel to Dark Secret Love, picking up where the previous novel ended, delving deeper into the relationship between Sam and Jack. The prose snaps, sharp and vivid. Tyler has a way of drawing the reader into her narrator’s head, so the reader feels what she feels, holds their breath, waits for the smack of the paddle right along with her. And Los Angeles is always right there in the background, curling through the story, watching, waiting.

Needless to say, I love these books, The Delicious Torment and Dark Secret Love. Was super excited to hear the third in the series has a cover. Yey! 

These are books that should definitely make anyone’s erotica canon, as they transcend the realm of romantic fuck stories and offer some true literary quality to the genre. As well as offer guidelines for how some relationships don’t need to be typical, so long as partners are getting their needs fulfilled, whatever those needs are.