Joyfully Reviewed

I dunno, maybe it's because I spent the morning with my critique partner and was left feeling a little out of sorts...or maybe I'm feeling out of sorts because the NEW NOVEL growing roots in my head is leaving room for anything else, but this review didn't overly excite me...not a bad review, not a great review, just a little ho-hum for my taste...

Let me know what you think...

Bella of Joyfully Reviewed has this to say about Sacred Revelations:
"Celia Brentwood has been through hell and back. Brutalized by her former boss, she’s rescued by her Master, Garrett Lawrence, sometimes known as Ice. After recovering from her injuries, she agrees to seek her darkness at the hands of Dominant Sadist Thomas Stephanopolis, also known as Lord Fyre.

Lord Fyre has her for three months, during which time she comes to realize she loves both men and can’t bear to not have both of them in her life. The two men complete her, two halves of her, Fyre and Ice, darkness and light. Will the men share her, or will she find herself losing both of them?

Sacred Revelations is the story of one woman’s dark journey of emotional and physical pain and rebirth into herself. It’s a raw and often a disturbing look into Celia’s psyche, all at once delicate and strong. Loving two very different Dominant men, first Garrett, then Thomas, as Lord Fyre, it takes a journey into her own darkness to appreciate Garrett’s light.

Celia battles many demons in this story, including her religious family, her past and the battle that rages within her regarding her masochistic, submissive desires. There is sex involved, but that really doesn’t seem to be the focus here. What really seems to surge to the forefront is the dark tone of the story, the agony and the ecstasy of Celia’s inner discovery of love: of herself, and of the two men who love her in return. The tumultuous twists of this complex plot made Sacred Revelations a difficult read at times. However, if you enjoy intense plots with BDSM/Menage themes, you’ll enjoy Sacred Revelations."

Hmmmm...when she said, "There is sex involved..." I was left wondering if she read the sex scenes...because each scene had specific intent that revealed another layer...

and when she said, "The tumultrous twists of this complex plot ... a difficult read..." did she mean literally "hard to read" or "Emotionally distressing"...?

Reading her review, I was left wondering if she enjoyed the story herself, was she affected, touched, or left completely unchanged?

I guess it's going to be one of those days...
Tonight I am starting The Novel...and alcohol may be involved...you know it's going to be a tough writing experience when you have to start drinking before the title is even typed...as a matter of fact, I may not have mentioned it before but I pull a lot of personal emotion and angst out of my own soul to feed into the writing so that my characters come to life...this one seems to be drawing emotion from me before I even start writing and usually I just yank it out of myself on a scene by scene basis...maybe that's why I'm procrastinating...

Or maybe it's just gonna be one of those days.