Sunday, July 20, 2014
1 Bed, 2 Weddings, 3 Husbands by Reece Butler
Title: 1 Bed, 2 Weddings, 3 Husbands
Author: Reece Butler
Publisher: Siren Publishing, Imprint Ménage: Everlasting
Genre: Historical, Ménage a Trois/Quatre, Western/Cowboys
Publication date: January 2012
ISBN: 1-61926-373-4
# Of Pages: 250
Rating: 3.5 lips (Birds)
Heat: 3 peppers (M/F/M/M, Oral and anal play, Ménage a Trois/Quatre)
Series: Bride Train, Book 5
Victoria Edison made her way west hoping to escape her less than proper upbringing, but when she’s forced to marry for propriety’s sake after spending three nights alone with 3 men on the J Bar C Ranch, she feels anything but.
Reluctantly agreeing to marry Victoria because his partners have taken to her, Jed Adams figures that it doesn’t hurt that the stubborn woman can cook and keep house too. Just as the four of them are settling in to their life together, a vindictive businessman has their marriage annulled; making it a real possibility that Victoria will lose any respectability she’s gained. Jed, Clint, and Riley will lose the woman they’ve come to love and rely on unless she remarries Jed in front of a preacher. Unlikely to happen as he’ll have nothing to do withpreachers due to his tortuous upbringing with a deceitful bible thumping father.
Will the quartet be able to preserve the love they’ve found while Victoria and Jed face their own personal demons?
1 Bed, 2 Weddings, 3 Husbands by Reece Butler is the fifth book in the Bride Train Series, and while it references characters introduced in previous books it’s a story that can certainly stand alone. The plot centers on Victoria Edison, her three husbands, Jed, Clint, and Riley, and the challenges they face because of their difficult pasts and non-traditional relationship. I found Victoria’s insistence that she be perceived as proper and respectable in others’ eyes a bit monotonous and unnecessary; she’s living in Tanner’s Ford where polyamory seems to be somewhat commonplace. However, the willingness she shows in loving and creating a true home for the three men was touching, even in spite of Jed’s insistence that she was not what he wanted in a wife. Clint and Riley offset Jed’s initial distance with love and a lot of physical affection (beyond the sexual) and I think that made the plot meatier.
The four of them certainly burn up the sheets (and a few other places in the old homestead), sometimes in ways I didn’t expect. I thought it was interesting that the author took the time to create certain sexual/physical preferences with each of the men, and that no matter how hot they got, there was always a tender, yearning element to their bed play. They truly cared about each other both in and out of the bedroom.
1 Bed, 2 Weddings, 3 Husbands was as much a tale about facing personal demons as it was about exploring and owning your sexuality in spite of societal norms present at the time the story is set. If you love a tough rancher who’s tender when it counts (times three!) I think you’ll enjoy this book.
Review originally published by TwoLips Reviews
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