Asking for Trouble (Black Lace)

by Kristina Lloyd

Book Overview

"When Beth Bradshaw - the manager of a fashionable bar in the seaside town of Brighton - starts flirting with the handsome Ilya, she becomes a player in a game based purely on sexual brinkmanship. The... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0352333626
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Virgin Black Lace
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 0.8" x 4.3"

Customer Reviews

NOT a silly piece of sex fluff

The book starts when Beth (the heroine), moves into her new flat in the grungy working class, avant-garde, seaside neighborhood town of Brighton, England. While putting up curtains, she notices a strange man (Ilya, the hero of the story) in the flats across the street staring at her from his window mocking her every move. When the annoyed Beth decides to flash the stranger, she's surprised by his response. Scared and a bit shaken by his actions she decides it wasn't the best move for a woman living alone. Then the phone rings... Guess who?... Right from the start I knew I was going to like Beth and I was going to like this very realistic psychotically dark & dangerous, sexual thriller. 30 year old Beth, not looking for a serious relationship at the moment (she's busy managing a trendy, fashionable bar & enjoying a normal single life) finds her self attracted to the handsome, but mysterious Ilya. After their first intimate (and slightly scary) encounter Beth reveals her deepest darkest fantasies to Ilya. They both agree it might be fun to meet on occasions to fulfill Beth's fantasies with no strings attached. Beth's fantasies roughly have to do with being made to do sexually degrading things and treated like a sleazy slut - nasty, hot, hard sex that involves multiple male partners, being sexually dominated and sometimes rape. However, Beth makes it clear from the start that the rape fantasy wouldn't be part of the game as it should stay a fantasy... Will Ilya play fair? Beth and Ilya agree if they should find the game, at any point, boring or going too far, they are to say the safe word and the game ends immediately and the relationship stops. Beth believes she's the one in control in the beginning (remember, she can stop it any time with one word) but Beth becomes dangerously addicted to these games and especially addicted to Ilya. Beth knows Ilya also has the option to stop the madness and she finds her self less and less willing or unable to extricate her self. She keeps Ilya and their dirty little sex games a secret. Even her best friends and her work mates know nothing about either. Soon the games get more and more hazardous and degrading as Ilya's shadowy past catches up with him and he's determined to use Beth. There is one scene where Beth is called to Ilya's rundown bed & breakfast hotel - it was frightening and I wasn't sure I would be able to read it through...*panting* That was only one of many intense scene in this deliciously brilliant nervy novel. At times I wanted to reach into the book and take Beth by the shoulders and scream, stop it now before it's too late. But, how do you stop yourself when a gorgeous, complicated, mysterious man takes your most depraved sexual secret fantasies and makes them real, exciting and dangerous. Kristina Lloyd had me believing these characters and their situations were REAL. I mean sometimes I wonder if it isn't based on someone's true experience. It certainly had that ele

Hot and Steamy, yet down right raunchy

My copy of this book has pages marked, the spine is well creased, and looks at least five years old. But it's not. in fact, i bought it two months ago. Kristina did a good job of weaving some of our raunchier fantasies, the ones you don't share with a soul, into steamy, passionate couplings between Beth (the main character) and Ilya, the dark handsome stranger. Yes, it si degrading, and yes it took my run of the mill darker fantasies, much further than I would even think about, but those scenes left you feeling connected to Beth, made you feel like you endured the humiliation, degradation. Not for the faint hearted, but definietly for the open minded. An excellent read that I just can't get enough of.

Welcome to dark, dirty, but never boring

This is by far one of the best Black Lace books that I have ever read. It is true that I found myself wincing at some parts for Beth as she took on the unspeakable. And yes, every working woman in the dawn of the millenium may find it offensive and if not, horrifying. But, let your feminist guard down a little just for the book and explore. With every chapter, you look for more. I admire the character for her bravery. The little wild child in us all. This book basically allows us readers to experience what we all deep down inside fantasize about. Those dark fantasies that you never tell our mother about. Thank you, Kristina Lloyd for this journey.

stylish, contemporary, and unpredictable

When Beth Bradshaw moves into a new flat she soon becomes aware she's being watched by a guy who lives across the street. Most people would call the police, but Beth gets involved with the guy - who turns out to be weirder and scarier than she could have imagined. This book is a breath of fresh air in the sometimes predictable world of erotic fiction. It's set in my town - an English seaside resort - and for me Kristina Lloyd has really captured the feel of the place: shabby and sleazy with a frisson of danger and excitement. It's a stylish, contemporary page-turner that kept me guessing till the end.

Asking for More Books by Kristina Lloyd!

This is one of my favorite Black Lace books. (Emma Holly is my other preferred Black Lace Author) The events are not always believable, but they are exciting and tantilizing. The main character is a bit of a deviant, but looks square compared to her lover. A fun read.