Product Description

Marly's love for Cade has spanned her teenage years, and survived strong and intact into womanhood. Her fantasies and daydreams have sustained her, but she's no longer content with merely imagining the touch of his hands, the taste of his kiss. It's time to seduce the tough, sexy cowboy. She's heard the rumors for years, the tales of his sexual preferences. She's prepared herself to accept his desires. Prepared her body for his touch. But she wasn't prepared for the choice to come... Cade's dark desires, his sexual excesses are based in the past. In a time when pain, shame, and blood stains his very soul. He carries a secret shared only with his brothers. A secret that has scarred the bond, the ability to be a brother or to accept the love of the men he was raised with. He knows the only way to prove his loyalty, his love for those brothers and Marly will be the key. She has a choice. She can surrender to Cade's needs, his soul deep desires, or she can walk away. A choice only Marly can make. A choice that will change her life forever.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4046 in Books
• Published on: 2008-07-25
• Released on: 2008-07-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 271 pages

Customer Reviews

A good choice.
Marly's Choice is a good, hot read. It's less romance than erotica, but that was okay with me! I liked the fact that it was a self contained unit, just one story, and the reading was easy. Ms. Leigh does a great job of pulling the reader into the story and getting things going rather quickly. The buildup was great, too, and intense. I'd suggest this one to anyone who likes erotic literature, as well as Whatever He Wants.

Nearly 5 stars
Despite the editing errors and the premise of an alpha male demanding his woman submit sexually to his brothers because of their abusive youth (did push my comfort zone somewhat) I would have given this story 5 stars and understood, or tried to understand, the need these 3 men had to connect through their women.

If only Marly's Choice hadn't had a scene where Cade tried to set up a real orgy (with another woman & man and his brothers, himself & Marly). For me, that attempt blew the brothers "need to connect" through sex with their siblings' women all to hell and back. It really turned me off and made the whole premise of the "need to connect" ring as phony as a three-dollar bill. Fortunately the remaining books in this series avoid any "outside the family" sexual attempts.

Aside from that one scene the rest of the book was good. The characterizations were fascinating, the sex was hot, the story interesting. Love Lora Leigh's writing and can't wait for more books.

Debauched & Dumb
I read MARLY'S CHOICE in record speed: I started reading it at approximately 10 p.m. last night and finished at not even 2 a.m. this morning. Not so fast. I flew through pages that constituted Leigh's feeble attempt to create the suspense befitting a "mystery" or "thriller," which fell completely flat. The characters are as well drawn as the actors in a porno are deep. The obligatory storyline is more like an excuse to throw in gratuitous and sometimes borderline-perverse 'love' scenes. There is no balance or thought to realism. No depth. No character development...that makes any sense.

The scheme that Leigh sets out is something like this: Three boys are forced to endure abuse and sexual depravity. When these boys grow into men, the Augusts, Cade, Brock and Sam, they are haunted by what has happened to them. One of the most startling aftereffects of their abuse is their inabilty to show each other love.

According to Leigh, the way the August brothers experience love, feel complete, and resolve emotional distress is by sharing the "one true love" of one of the brothers. For instance, if Marly is Cade's one true love, then Brock and Sam have to join in for a menage-a-quatre. Ridiculous! This is the 'solution' that the brothers have arrived at after many years of excess. They supposedly 'need' this brotherly orgy to take place in order to put their psychological demons to rest.

The August brothers convince Marly that she needs to sleep with them all in order to show her love for Cade. And, believe it or not (I don't) the other brothers miraculously love Marly too--"not as deeply" but in their own way.

It would have been less absurd to me if Leigh did not set out this silly premise holding out the appearance of a legitimate plot. In brief, the dominant nature of Cade was very exciting and even the dirty way that he had of talking and dealing with Marly would have been more palatable if he weren't contemporaneously professing deep love and respect for her. If he convinced Marly to share relations with his friends, this would have been less disturbing. Leigh's justification for their behavior via the weird brothers' coventant to share was beyond contrived. Why couldn't they just go bowling or hang out together? Talk? There aren't any other ways of showing love??!

One scene in particular was over-the-top disturbing and ridiculous: Cade wants to bring the bad guy out into the open. Keeping in mind that this is the same bad guy who nearly molested Marly when she was younger, Cade's idea of provoking the man includes ravaging Marly with plugs and dildos so that he can see it all in plain view. Well, that makes perfect sense (NOT!).

I gave MARLY'S CHOICE three starts because I really liked the dominant edge and alpha male attitude of the male lead. I even liked his dirty mouth and mind. Additionally, I knew not to expect a mentally stimulating story, though I may have hoped for more. What I didn't like was the paper thin flimsy nature of the plot and inconceivable course of events. I wish Leigh would not try to put a gossamer gloss on what is clearly erotic porn. Someone should have told her that putting deoderant over body oder just makes it worse.

Read TEMPTING THE BEAST if you like the hot love scenes. I should warn you not to expect much better as far as story or characterization.




Hot Scenes. Hollow Story.