A Taste of Sin

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Pub Date 06 Dec 2016 | Archive Date 11 Mar 2019

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Description

Desiree Nichols has never been afraid of doing things the hard way. In high school, she was an out lesbian who faced down any bullies who dared challenge her. She jumped in with both feet when she unexpectedly fell for a boy in college. And years later, she didn't hesitate to race back home to Miami, freshly dumped, to help her family in the wake of her mother's cancer diagnosis.

While supporting her mother through the cancer crisis, Dez gets a little help of her own from the girls she grew up with--a group of hedonistic honeys whose love for pleasure runs as deeply as hers. With them by her side, she buries her pain in wild Miami parties and even wilder women. The last thing she expects is to fall for her twin brother's best friend, a woman her brother is already head over heels in love with.

Who says going back home has to be boring?

Desiree Nichols has never been afraid of doing things the hard way. In high school, she was an out lesbian who faced down any bullies who dared challenge her. She jumped in with both feet when she...


A Note From the Publisher

Jamaican-born Fiona Zedde is the author of several novels, including the Lambda Literary Award finalists, Bliss and Every Dark Desire. She loves French pastries, English cars, Jamaican food, and writes a lot. Find out more at FionaZedde.com.

Jamaican-born Fiona Zedde is the author of several novels, including the Lambda Literary Award finalists, Bliss and Every Dark Desire. She loves French pastries, English cars, Jamaican food, and...


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I thought that this book was a very enjoyable read and I can’t wait for other books by this author.

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A Taste of Sin is erotic raw aggressive sex and slow around the story. The story is still well written and the sex scenes aren't for the faint of heart. Some ladies may need a cold shower after the sex scenes.

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With Zedde you can be assured of luscious women and almost suffocating treacly sex. Which may or may not be a good thing, depending on what you’re looking for. The emotionless couplings and group sex doesn’t work for us.

Desiree Nichols is an idle layabout blessed with great looks. She has a group of friends who are all rich enough to do nothing but pursue sex, drinking and do drugs for as long as the day is long. Dez and her friends are written like the degenerate and depraved heroes in Harold Robbins’ books. There is no way you can feel anything for Dez despite her mother’s illness, dad’s disappearing on her and her breakup from a very twisted relationship with a gay boy.


Dez’s character and lifestyle almost made this a DNF for us…till Victoria came along. Victoria is beautiful, normal and sweet. She was reason enough to continue and complete this book. Though the feeling that she deserved better than Dez never left.

While we cannot whole-heartedly recommend this book, we cannot completely write it off either, simply for Victoria.

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Great book easy read but a lot of cliche references and unfortunately very easy to predict. The twist came a lot later than I expected

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In all honesty, I had trouble with this read. I'm no stranger to erotica reads, but this just wasn't my taste. There's a lot of sex, and it's aggressive and explicit. Maybe a little too explicit.

I had trouble connecting to the characters, didn't really enjoy the aggressive drinking, drugs, wealth, and irresponsibility. I hate to say it, but it almost felt like this was lesfic written by a guy for a guy's enjoyment, not for women.

Not my cup of tea. 2 stars.

An ARC was provided to me in exchange for my honest review.

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Desiree Nichols is forced to come back home in Miami when she finds out her mother has cancer. Back at home she goes back her old ways of endless sex and the last thing she expects is to be drawn to her bother's best friend. Would that be enough to change her old ways?

This book was a little too slow for me. The sex scenes were also very raw. A little too raw for me. The characters didn't seem to have much depth and it was hard to connect with any of them.

Overall, it was entertaining but not a book I would read again.

I received this ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

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