BLOG TOUR: REVIEW AND EXCERPT: Opulence by Angelica Chase

When I was twenty-eight years old, I wrote my own winning lottery ticket. A simple idea thrust me onto the fast track to wealth, and into a world I had only ever dreamt about. I submerged myself in the unfamiliar, a life that seemed all too alluring … until it lost its appeal.

I made my fortune, built my castle, and then exiled myself within its comforts once reality set in.

Far too late, I discovered I was drowning in a sea of hungry sharks. Given the choice to sink or swim, I chose the latter … and it cost me everything.

Devin McIntyre, the most dangerous shark of them all, was the last nail in my naïve coffin. His beautiful smile and amazing cock tainted me in ways I could have never imagined.

I craved him. I needed him. I loved him.

Miserable with the outcome of my prosperity, I set out to change what disgusted me most—the first decision being to rid myself of Devin. Little did I know that taking that first step would make me a slave to a man far more tempting … or that my addiction to Devin would threaten to ruin it all.

If you are not a fan of cursing, erotic and extremely explicit sex, cheating, immoral behavior, dysfunction or sexual scenarios that may make you feel uncomfortable this is not the series for you. FILTHY EROTIC ROMANCE

“Fucking ride it,” he ordered, digging his fingers into my hips. I took in his lusty gaze as he eyed my bouncing chest. His wavy, dark brown hair glistened with a small amount of moisture from his exertion, sweat trickling down the front of his tuxedo shirt. His dilated pupils were a far cry from the dark blue depths that normally mirrored a stormy deep sea. He licked his full bottom lip as he thrust up hard, making me scream out.

“This is what you wanted,” he chided as he battered me with his cock, pounding it in from underneath me as I whimpered through the intensity of his thrusts. He made use of the leather chair he sat on, using the firm cushion to piston his hips upward and bury his length inside of me. He was beyond a skilled lover, and when Devin wanted to punish you, you damn sure knew it. Feeling him on the brink, I moaned in protest as he pulled out quickly and ordered me to my knees. “Suck me off.” Kneeling in front of him now, I looked up to see him eye me expectantly. Without waiting for me to fully open my mouth, he pushed to the back of my throat as he came in hot spurts, and I choked it down willingly. “So fucking dirty,” he murmured, massaging up and down my throat with his fingertips as his pumping slowed. He pulled out, rubbing the last drop over my lips. “Every drop,” he demanded, pushing his tip back slightly inside my mouth, forcing me to take the last of it in. “Nothing better than you, Nina,” he whispered sweetly, though the words were anything but. The truth was, I hated this beautiful man. I hated that I wanted him so desperately. At one time, he’d meant everything to me. Now I longed for the day I could break free, but I craved him like a drug.

I fed his need for dominance; he fed my inner whore.

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A material life and all of its grandeur and magnificence can be deceiving as well as lonely – it may seem like a wealthy existence is one of substance, but it’s not in any true sense of the word; it’s a façade and it’s deficient of anything real or worthwhile, and no one knows that better than Nina Scott.

Nina is a self-made businesswoman who finds herself swimming with sharks and becoming someone she doesn’t quite recognize. Her success and her pseudo relationship with a man who uses her body has left Nina an outcast and a loner, untrusting of everyone around her and unsure of how to alter her situation, especially where Devin McIntyre is concerned.

The Nina readers are introduced to at the beginning of the story is one some will not like – she’s the other woman…she’s compromises herself in many areas of her life. But the part about Nina that readers also need to recognize is that she is 100% cognizant of who/what she has turned into, and she doesn’t like it any more than readers do; she just doesn’t know how to reinvent herself yet again and pull herself away from this lifestyle.

But maybe the mysterious Aiden can help Nina with that endeavor.

At the end of Opulence, Nina nor readers know too much about who Aiden is besides a musician and a bar owner, but at this point, it seems a bit inconsequential because he allows Nina to escape the life she doesn’t want and just be Nina.

But usually when things seem too perfect, they tend to be exactly that, and with the added sketchy behavior of Devin when it comes to Nina’s acquisitions, it will be interesting to see what’s in store for Nina as the series continues.

Opulence lavishes readers with a complex heroine whose inner whore seems to be in direct opposition to the woman she wants to be because it makes her choose destructive paths. But her sexuality is something that also gives her power and freedom. With the release of Reverence coming up, I expect things to heat up in multiple areas of Nina’s life – with Aiden…perhaps with Devin – I don’t think he’s truly done with her yet or will allow her to drop him despite it being best for everyone…and with her business dealings because Devin’s control over them has definitely compromised them.

I also can’t wait to see what Nina does with the information she learns at the end of the book. Readers are definitely in for an erotic and thrilling second book!

A complimentary copy was provided in exchange for an honest review.

4 poison apples