| Title | : | The Voyeur |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | - |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 46 |
| Publication | : | First published November 11, 2017 |
Until he discovers that she’s the younger sister of one of his best friends which means she’s in the “hands off” department.
Annie is tired of guys staying away from her because of her overprotective brother. She’s determined to convince Patrick that she should not be off limits and that his hands should definitely be all over her body.
This is the first book in a four book series. The series ends in HEA at the end of book four. It's a steamy, contemporary romance meant for those eighteen and up. So, if you like your books hot enough to make you tingle, check this out.
This book gives you a chance to see if you like the characters, the writing and the story before you shell out any hard earned cash. I like to think of it like Costco - sample before you buy. The Amazon "look inside" doesn't always give me enough to make a decision on if I like the characters enough. I hope this will. If not, you're not out anything but a little time. Hope you enjoy the story.
The Voyeur Reviews
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Annie works as a maid at a sex club.
Patrick takes advantage of Annie’s aroused state when he catches her observing a couple who are having an intimate moment. The mood is broken when Annie’s co-worker interrupts Annie and Patrick’s brief encounter.
This story offers dual POVs and can be read in less than an hour, but it’s part of a series so this story is incomplete. Nothing about the characters really stand out but the story’s tone is light and playful.
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This isn't a complete story, though it can be read and appreciated as a vignette. It's back to front for that to really work, since it starts with the really hot sexy scene and then moves to the scene setting and character introduction.
Whilst I'm not really a fan of splitting a book into parts and selling it as though it were a duet, trilogy etc, each part of this is quite cheap and you can buy a "box set" that is a reasonable price for what is the equivalent of a single novel. Using the "look inside" feature on Amazon, it appears that book 2 picks up where book 1 finished.
The writing was decent and there felt more to this than just erotic titillation, though Patrick did seem alotlittle tit obsessed. I'm not desperate to jump in and finish the story, but that's more because I already own far too many unread books on my kindle, but I'm not ruling it out either. -
FREE on Amazon today (11/16/2017)!
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I liked what was going on and want more. it was starting to get rolling.
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Ellis O Day has done it again. Here Patrick is thrown together with Annie and is smitten, but when he realises she is the sister of one of his best friends, he is placed in an uncomfortable quandary.
The sexual attraction is mutual but he wants to respect her and he's also a little worried she'll break his heart.
A strongly sexual and steamy romance; my only problem with it being that the exquisite agony of the dénouement isn't played out over a longer story. Yes, it's that much fun! -
A better little sister than I had or wanted
A nice light read, allows the mind to anticipate what s coming next. The storyline just flowed from one page to the next. The end of the book came much to fast. -
The Voyeur - a review by Rosemary Kenny
The eponymous voyeur is not as you might expect, a man, but a young woman named Annie, in this micro-novelette, (only 46 pages). The Voyeur is just the prequel of a four book series, by Ellis O. Day, set in Le Petit Mort, (literally 'the little death' or orgasm) sex club.
Annie's main handicap in life is her ex-Marine older brother, who controls her libido as if with an invisible, 'Hands off my sis! neon sign'. No wonder the only action she gets is mentally, from watching the clients 'in flagrante' at the Club where she works as a maid.
Catching her at it, so to speak is Patrick, who's immediately smitten with the feisty, would-be-kinky, not so typical maid, who's clearly gagging for it! But guess what? Her brother's not only her 'keeper' but also Patrick's best friend, so Annie's doubly out of bounds and 'touch-me-not'!
Can Patrick and Annie keep their hands (and everything else!) to themselves , or at least hide a liaison that's strictly no-no? You'll have the buy the whole series to find out if they get their HEA, but at least you'll have a lot of steamy fun along the way...oh, and tell all your friends to join in the fun and buy their own copies to drool over too! -
This is the reason I have novelettes. The story just gets really good and it ends. I did like the story about the sister of a marine buddy looking for a job to keep her out of trouble. So he hires her at his sex club to do housekeeping. But partner Patrick finds her watching some of the clients. Oh Oh.
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Ickkkk…. I really struggled with this one…
There were parts that were hot and really enjoyable. But the constant back and forth between the main characters was really annoying. One of my pet peeves is when a super simple situation is blown up and lasts for the entire book. -
Cliffhanger, common plot, common characters, good editing
The first installment of this 4-part serial ends at 67%. Nothing much really happens. A maid who's the younger sister of the hero's former brother-in-arms gets caught slacking on the job: she watches another couple have sex. He persuades her to linger for some heavy petting. They're disturbed by the heroine's supervisor. He learns who she is and decides that he can't pursue a relationship with her. Except for the circumstances of their meeting, the plot is common and so are the characters. Kudos to the author for good editing, which is the only reason this gets a second star. I detest cliffhangers. -
Disappointed that this "book" ended at 51% and the rest was excerpts from the author's other series. Since this book was free, it makes sense to use it as marketing, but it's really just a short story. If I had paid for it, I would have been very upset.
As to the actual story, it leans a bit into the territory of step sibling, which isn't my thing. Of the story's set in this universe, this felt like the weakest entry. -
Teaser
I swear I think some of you authors only write just to make more money. This is the first chapter of a whole story, I would have been so pissed if I paid for a chapter, even if it is a great chapter. Yes this chapter is an excellent read however I would not buy it. I hope I dont have to buy the rest of the series in chapters. -
2023 read, #2. A growing amount of my freelance clients are the authors of cheap quick genre novels, meant to be consumed by their audience through the Kindle Unlimited program (a relatively new feature of Amazon, in which for one flat monthly fee, members can read as many quick cheap genre novels as they can possibly get through in 30 days); and so that has me starting to heavily read in these specialized genres for the first time in my life, especially when it comes to crime, fantasy and romance books, since I've never been a natural fan of these particular genres myself in my personal life, which means I have a lot of catching up to do if I want to service my clients as well as I can. So for example, early this week I got the latest promotional email from marketing company BookFunnel.com, which a couple of my clients use, letting me know of the latest hundred or so romance books that I can now download for free through their service, in return for signing up for these authors' newsletters; and instead of ignoring it like I usually do, this time I went over and actually downloaded seven titles from the unending page of
identical overly Photoshopped covers of shirtless hunky badboys, and thought I would try blazing through them as fast as possible just to get an idea of what the average KU customer goes through when hunting and pecking through these endless slush piles themselves.
This is now my fifth book of the run (see also Pearl Tate's
Mate Exposed, Cecelia Mecca's
The Blacksmith, Candy Quinn's
Shipwrecked Beauty, and Bella Beaumont's
Can't Stop Won't Stop), and another one that turns out to be a lot more erotica than romance, based around the interesting franchise-friendly premise of three former Army buddies who decide to open a sex club after they get out of the military, then as their first nonsexual hire bring on their dead comrade's now adult and hot little sister, who all three immediately form a fascination for (two paternal, one sexual). Unfortunately, though, this book mostly plays out exactly like I was worried these books were going to when I first decided to take on this project -- that is, with a plot that's almost non-existent, within a setting that's so sketchily drawn that it feels like little more than a generic office but with naked people, featuring confusing characters who all vaguely look and sound alike (I found it almost impossible to keep the names of the three bros straight in my head), a forced sense of conflict that amounts sometimes to little more than people standing around screaming at each other, and sex scenes that feel simultaneously too tame and too brash, like a 14-year-old who's never had sex trying to describe what he imagines it must be like.
Also, I wasn't much of a fan of the inherent sloppy sexism in the three guys -- how they find it no problem to treat most women like inanimate objects, except if it's the sister of someone they actually know, at which point all three get weirded out about the very idea of her possessing a sense of sexuality. But as I've mentioned in numerous other reviews now, one of the big surprises for me in this reading project is that all of these novels so far, without a single exception, have gleefully embraced the kind of puerile, horrifying misogyny that movements like #MeToo are actively fighting against, making it the height of irony for me that these exact kinds of stories designed to fulfill men's most sexist fantasies are read (and apparently loved) almost exclusively by women. All of that combined gets the book a disappointing 2 stars from me, but hopefully we'll be on to bigger and better things tomorrow when I finally take on my first Sexy Vampire story, such a long staple of romance that it can be traced all the way back to the Victorian Age when romance novels were invented in the first place. I'll see you here again soon for that! -
Vic, Ethan and Patrick had been in the marines together. Served on many, many missions together. They were brothers who continued to watch over each other. Vic and Ethan had gone on a mission together that had gone badly. Vic hadn't come back the same and a few years later, eventually disappeared. Vic may be gone, but Ethan and Patrick were honor bound to watch over his family.
Annie was Vic's baby sister. Even though she almost had her Bachelor's Degree in Culinary Arts, Ethan wouldn't let her work in the kitchen at La Petite Mort Club. There were too many men in the kitchen. REALLY?!? So instead, she was given a job in housekeeping and since she needed the money, she accepted the position rather than a handout.
After cleaning one of the sex rooms, she went to the one way mirror and was watching a couple scene when Patrick saw her and walked in the room, thinking she was just another maid at the club, tried to entice her into playing with him while they both watched the other couple.
Crap!! What a blow these two have been given right out the box. The scene we read is HOT, the emotional repercussions that follow are easily felt, understood and clearly relatable from all parties. This first book is a great way to start "The Voyeur Series" -
Annie works as a maid at La Petite Mort sex club. She is trained in the culinary arts but Ethan wouldn’t let her work in the kitchen too many men. Patrick caught her staring into the window watching the two people. He came up behind her and spoke with her about did she like watching.
Patrick told her his name and she would not tell him hers. Annie knew who this man was a friend of her brothers. Annie’s boss had been looking for her and when she found her it would be hell to pay and she needed the job. Patrick goes to talk to Ethan and when he walks into the area he sees Annie and walks over to her. Patrick tells her what he wants to do with her. Freaked out that Ethan would find out that she was with Patrick would not be the happy about the situation. Patrick then finds out that Annie was he friend Victors baby sister. Ethan leaves Patrick in charge of the club and told him to watch over Annie. -
Great imagery, however, the torment that Patrick put on himself for falling in love with his friend sister is a bit much...I was like damn she is a grown ass woman, who is beautiful, sweet, nice, stubborn, and have an attitude that can take on anyone or anything...Hell she was the youngest out of all her brothers and they did raise her to take care of herself so stop the bullshit and admit your feeling so everyone can move on and be happy...Nick perspective of coming to terms with his little sister dating was breath-taking and it was nice that he tried to pass the knowledge to his friend before it was too late...But the pain he put Annie through before realizing the truth was horrible....Overall these books were short but filled with so much intensity, love, compassion and honor I couldn't help but to read the entire series to see what will happen next for Annie and Patrick...I wasnt disappointed....
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Be prepared that it is part of a series. HEA is not until end of series. It was fun to read. Exciting, steamy, emotional and so much more. To be caught at what she is doing would be something you can't really explain good. And he who caught her is hot for her because of it until he finds out who she is. I recommend it if you like series books. I was given a review copy and voluntarily review it.
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I loved this into to Patrick and Annie. Annie is the little sister to a young man who was a Marine. Her brother's friend (a Marine too) owns the club. Annie has had a crush on Patrick it seems like forever. Patrick is very attracted to her but "tries" to back away when he finds out her identity.
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I have really been enjoying the characters from this series. This would have gotten 4 stars if it would have been longer. Patrick is another Dom friend of Ethen, Terry, and Nick. He walks in on a maid watching a couple in a playroom. Unbeknownst to him she is the younger sister to Vic. He has a hard on for Annie that will not fade. He is in charge of the club for two weeks. Can he keep his hands off of her till Ethan returns?
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3.5 Stars
I knew this was a short read going into it at only 46 pages, but what it really is is a part one of the whole story. So this is another one of those authors who likes to grab you into a story, but only give you the very first part. Just enough to try to entice you, but ends up losing you because you are a smart reader and won't play those games. -
The Voyeur, The Voyeur book one by Ellis O. Day. Very short, hot, story. The story got my attention right away! I liked the characters. My problem with it is, it���s so short and ends with a cliffhanger! In these cases I believe the series would always be much better as one larger book. I hate cliffhangers especially in little short stories like this one.
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This was a freebie, but I've read other books by Ellis O Day. Sometime the serials give you like 4 mini stories that feel complete, but this serial just sort of gives background in this first installation. So I guess that means I have to read the rest right? My recommendation with Ellis O Day is just buy the sets all at once and read it like a novel. Happy Reading!
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Watching..
Poor girl not only her brother keeping men away but his friends too! Well maybe not all his friends! Good characters...interesting storyline. I'd like to see what happens between these two.
