Title: To the Very Last Inch
Series: The Professor’s Rule, #5
Author: Heidi Belleau & Amelia C. Gormley
Genre: Erotic Romance / BDSM / Ménage
Length: Novelette (57 pages)
ISBN: 978-1-62649-128-1
Publisher: Riptide Publishing (March 3rd 2014)
Heat Level: Explicit
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥4 Hearts
Reviewer: Thommie
Blurb:Just days after their scorching reunion, Professor Evander Carson has kicked his one-time pupil James Sheridan to the curb—and tried to sabotage James’s new relationship with Satish Malhotra. Something isn’t right here, but James isn’t sure he should bother trying to figure out what. Carson isn’t good for him and will never change. He needs to accept that and move on.
Satish knows something is up, too, but he thinks the relationship between Carson and James is worth saving. To do the right thing, Satish will have to make James and Carson confront the secrets they’ve hidden for years and help them to overcome the pain and mistrust they’ve caused.
But if Satish succeeds, where will that leave him and his intensifying romance with James? Will the three of them be able to find the right balance, or will James be forced to choose between the pain and submission he craves with Carson, and the sweet, vanilla stability he’s found with Satish?
Purchase Link: http://www.riptidepublishing.com/titles/very-last-inch-professors-rule-5
Review: And the series (sadly) come to an end with this last installment that makes up for so much confusion, frustration and wistfulness the previous four books evoked.
In this final part, the authors engage flashbacks in their storytelling in order to shed light to the various “why’s” that had been born, especially concerning Carson’s motives and feelings and the entire background of this enticing little story. We realize yet again that the whole situation with Carson, James, and Satish is set in the very short time frame of some days, yet I had all but forgotten it with the way we went back and forth in time through each book.
For me this last book was very successful and managed to satisfy all my hopes for these characters. It is weird how invested I became with them, how much I came to like and adore each and every one of them, though I have to admit Carson had my heart from the first book even as he seemed quite the jerk back then. We get to see Carson’s true motives and that is so wonderfully written, humanizing him and making him finally, finally approachable, letting his sweet and caring side truly shine.
This little line here: “How could you assume I meant to demean them, when I offered them my greatest treasure?” is a very good example of the hurt Carson suffers when he realizes just what James thinks of him and how much misunderstanding exist between them. There were points while reading this book that I simply wanted to shake James up, and while I liked Satish on the other books, I came to literally love him here. The intensity that came forth, the tangible tension and the way the managed to reach me as a reader were beyond enjoyable. I came to admire the writers for their mastery.
The only frustrating thing and I know I’ve said this again, is that this story was so short. I’m saddened it’s done and over with, I still crave more and more, though all are said and done and the ending was more than superb for me. The sweet balance between vanilla and kink, the love that already exists and the new one that is brewing and simmering, the dynamics that come forth in the end, they all were to my likening and made for a fantastic read start to finish. Fans of the series don’t need the suggestion, but if you’re stumbling through this review and/or series by accident, if you like intriguing and spicy erotic romances, then I urge you to pick it up. It was one hell of a ride and the most enjoyable short length series I’ve read lately.
Strongly recommended!