Heavy Metal Seduction: Voices and Lies

When Alicia Addison’s family starts to plan her wedding to her convenient but boring boyfriend, she’s torn between living up to family expectations and running screaming into the night. Alicia's a romance novelist who wants the fantasy she creates in her stories, or at the very least a more palatable reality than she’s living. When the object of her greatest fantasy, Derek Kadin walks into her sister’s B&B, their instant chemistry sets in motion a sequence of events she would never have imagined. Derek just happens to be the lead singer of Alicia’s favorite heavy metal band. He’s booked a room under an assumed identity to avoid fans. What’s a woman to do when reality collides with her ultimate fantasy?

No doubt at some point in our lives we’ve had a fantasy about a rock star. In Heavy Metal Seduction: Voice and Lies, Tonya Ramagos takes that idea and writes one of the sexiest love stories I’ve read. It’s an enjoyable read because Tonya Ramagos has created not only a likable but believable celebrity in Derek. He’s gorgeous, passionate and self confident, but still funny and sincere. However, Alicia, on occasion came across as insecure, which didn’t fit someone with Derek’s dynamic personality. Heavy Metal Seduction: Voice and Lies has a good deal of sex in it, which is sensuous and exciting. The downside is Tonya Ramagos goes from extremes; sometimes their lovemaking is erotic with explicit thoughts, descriptions and dialogue and then in the same scene it’s described with euphemisms. If a story is intended to be erotic with explicit and graphic detail then I prefer it to be consistent throughout; the mix was just confusing. It was distracting enough to effect my overall enjoyment of the book. Thankfully, Tonya Ramagos writes with such vivid description she keeps you engaged to the point of not wanting to put it down for fear you’ll miss something. Her characters have depth and personality and faults that make you feel with them and for them. With the witty dialogue and fantastic descriptive style, I just adored this story and once I started it I couldn’t put it down.

Reviewed by: Sin