🄰🅅🄰🄸🄻🄰🄱🄻🄴 🄽🄾🅆 The Pleasure House by Kitty Thomas. ℛℯ𝒶𝒹 𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝓔𝓍𝒸𝑒𝓇𝓅𝓉 and ᑕℍᗴᑕᛕ ᗝU𝕋 Tanya Rae’s Review. @kitty_thomas

The Pleasure House
Kitty Thomas
Publication date: December 2nd 2020
Genres: Adult, Dark Romance, Romance

The Pleasure House is Kitty Thomas’s COMPLETE 5 book pleasure house series. (A $25 value!), All five books from the pleasure house series are included: Guilty Pleasures, Broken Dolls, Surrender, Pretty Lies, and Twisted Fates.

“Kitty Thomas is a one-click author for me!” -Anna Zaires, NYT Bestselling author of Twist Me

Guilty Pleasures:
She was a bored housewife until she was taken and trained for the pleasure of the highest bidder.

Vivian Delaney leads a life of privilege, but behind closed doors she feels isolated and trapped in a gilded cage. Unable to achieve sexual pleasure with her husband, she finds herself in the capable hands of Anton, a massage therapist intent on awakening her to her full sexual potential. By any means necessary.

Broken Dolls:

Mina Calloway always finds herself in the hands of the wrong master: Gentle at first, then brutally sadistic and abusive. She no longer believes it’s possible to find a man who will be gentle with her. After seeing a kink-friendly therapist for months, the doctor makes her an illicit offer she isn’t yet smart enough to refuse: “Let me find you a good master.”

Brian Sloan is a borderline sociopath with a dark and brutal past. Only taking his sadistic urges out on the women at a submissive training house allows him to sleep through the night. When Brian sees Mina, she should be ripe for the picking, but her damage is too similar to his own. Can he fight past his demons to protect the one person he considers worth saving?

Surrender:

Julie wants Gabe Griffin like fish want water, but what she wants is sweet domestic bliss and a white picket fence. What Gabe wants is to put a collar around Julie’s throat and train her in the finer points of being his slave.

At first too innocent, then too broken, can Julie ever surrender to the man intent on claiming her?

Pretty Lies:

“She told pretty lies to the wrong man and now she must give herself to him to save her sister’s life”

As a phone sex operator, Annette Waincott knows how to tease to get what she wants. That is, until she teases the wrong man at a club, claiming kinky fantasies she doesn’t really have. It must have been too much vodka and his tantalizing Russian accent. Too bad he believes her.

When the Russian accidentally kidnaps her twin sister as part of an ill-fated sex game, things quickly get real. In a desperate bid to free her twin, Annette offers herself to him in trade. He both terrifies and excites her, but she knows she can never trust him. The things he wants will push her to her limits and beyond. And this time, she can’t tell pretty lies and run away.

Twisted Fates:

When Lindsay Smith brought her to the house, it was to train and sell her. They both knew it. She’d agreed to this arrangement. She wanted to belong to someone. But Lindsay wanted her to be his.

Three days into her stay at the pleasure house, Shannon Foster’s life is forever destroyed by a sociopathic monster. Lindsay saved her life that day, but the scars bind her to the house without a future.

Now, eight years later, Lindsay saves her once again, only this time he’s playing for keeps.

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EXCERPT:

Brian had scarred her flesh. Lindsay could scar her soul. She couldn’t let him. She couldn’t let herself… want him. Not again. She’d had the stupidest crush on him when she’d first come to his office.

He backed her up against the leather table. Nowhere to run. Her heart pounded so hard in her chest she could hear it. She couldn’t think straight. She hated him. No… he was scaring her. No… God, why did he smell so fucking good? And the lack of a shirt… it was doing things to her.

He usually wore a suit. Business attire. Professional Shrink Wear. It covered up the physique he’d obviously worked hard for. She’d seen him in the gym on days off, or late in the evenings. Brian had the reputation for being the fitness buff, but Lindsay put in the time quietly without drawing much attention.

As recently as that morning, the doctor had just “been there”. Someone she despised, but otherwise nothing special. She hadn’t seen him this way since before the house. Shannon wanted to keep the more confusing hatred. This… yearning was more than she could stand.

“Why can’t you do this with me?” he asked with that professional practiced interest he was so skilled at.

“Because I fucking hate you.”

His hand moved to the back of her neck, threading through her hair, cradling her. He pulled her to him, his mouth covering hers in a kiss far more gentle than the danger in his eyes.

Against every normal instinct, she sighed and sort of… melted… against him. She missed this, so much. It had been so long since she’d been kissed like this—by anyone. It had been long before the house even. The last man who’d kissed her this way had been her last master. And he’d tossed her aside without a thought in the end.

You couldn’t trust a kiss like this. It was a lie to lower your defenses. A trap. It could never mean all the things it promised. But she wanted to believe it. She wanted to fall into it and pretend and believe just for a little while. Would that be so wrong?

Shannon pulled away from him, and then, as if to put extra punctuation on it, she put her hands on his chest and pushed him away. “This isn’t real. I don’t want your pity.”

He gripped her chin and forced her to look up at him. He was so tall. Had he always been this tall?

“Hear me. I want you. So get this pity nonsense out of your head. I want you. I’ve always wanted you. From the first moment you walked into my office. Now disrobe and get on the table like I told you to.”

The Pleasure House by Kitty Thomas
Tanya Rae’s rating: 5 of 5 stars

Guilty Pleasures is a deliciously sexy as sin romance! This book had me hanging on every word and not wanting to put it down!

There was a huge twist to the story. I just kept thinking, what if while I was reading and it did happen the way that I wanted the direction of Guilty Pleasures to go. This book was 5 stars all the way! I loved it!!! Be warned that there is a little taboo thrown in. But then it wouldn’t be a Kitty Thomas book if it didn’t have it. Now on to Broken Dolls, book 2!

Broken Dolls is the second book in the Pleasure House Series. All of these stories in this series can be read as standalones. Although, I do recommend starting at the beginning with Guilty Pleasures.

I stayed up late to finish this book! I couldn’t put it down until I finished reading Broken Dolls.
This is Brian Sloan’s and Mina Calloway’s story. Wow! What a story!!! Brian is a guy that I didn’t want to like. I found that my heart went out to him. Even though I didn’t consider him a doll and I know that Mina was considered a broken doll. Brian is broken too.

I considered Brian a monster. He actually loves Mina and tries to save her! Lord knows he spent a lot of money for Mina! I found myself loving Broken Dolls!!! Another 5 star book!!! I am looking forward to reading Surrender next. It’s Gabe’s story!

Surrender is book 3 in the Pleasure House Series. You can read this book and the whole series as a series of standalones but I would think if you do that you are missing out on the stories of the other characters that play important roles. This is Gabe Griffin’s and Julie’s story.

I have loved Gabe the best out of the others that we have been introduced to in the previous books. I am not alone in that opinion after reading Surrender. Gabe does have some a-hole moments though. Julie was an innocent and then she was broken. Gabe rescues Julie but to what kind of life was she rescued too. Yes that is vague but I don’t want to give anything away.

This is another book that I couldn’t put down. I am loving this series and I am glad that these other characters spoke to Kitty Thomas that they needed their stories told too!

The next book is Pretty Lies, book 4 and is Annette Waincott & Anton Volikov’s story.

The next book is Pretty Lies, book 4 and is Annette Waincott & Anton Volikov’s story. We are back to the beginning (a prequel) of how things all got started. It was great to read this book now. It explains it all! It even delves into how they got their cook and what happened to Shannon. Even though each of these books can be read as standalones. I highly recommend reading the whole series.

1. Guilty Pleasures
2. Broken Dolls
3. Surrender
4. Pretty Lies
5. Twisted Fates

I am hooked on the Pleasure House Series. I know that I am getting close to the end since this is the 4th book and there are only 5 books in this series. In Book 1 we got a start of all their stories and a friend of all the owner’s, Michael. So far we have had Anton, Gabe, Brian & bits and pieces of Lindsay’s story. I don’t want it to end! This has been dark erotica at its best!!!

Twisted Fates is the 5th and final book in the Pleasure House Series. This is Dr. Lindsay Smith and Shannon Foster’s story. Brian (part owner of Pleasure House & resident sociopath) destroyed Shannon’s chances of ever getting sold. Now 8 years later is where Twisted Fates starts. Shannon is tired of living the way that she has been. Always afraid of what others think about the damage that Brian did to her. Lindsay ends up saving Shannon again.

I have really enjoyed reading this ENTIRE series! I couldn’t keep my mind on anything else other than reading and what was going on in these books! I honestly can’t say which of the books in this series is my favorite because I love them all! Each of these books can be read as standalones and they can be read in any order. I have heard they are coming out in a box set! What a wonderful way to read this incredible dark erotic romance. And you never know who may show up in another one of Kitty Thomas’ books!

At the end of Twisted Fates there is a sneak peek into The Con Artist and guess what Saskia Roth shows up in Twisted Fates! So that is why I say you never know. Of course Twisted Fates is a 5 star read!!! I love this book and series!!!

Author Bio:

KITTY THOMAS writes dark stories that play with power and have unconventional HEAs. She began publishing in early 2010 with her bestselling COMFORT FOOD and is considered one of the original authors of the dark romance subgenre.

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