Sway by Adriana Locke
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Well shucks. This book had all the ingredients to a fantastic book but the execution was off.
The ingredients-
*Sexy, successful politician with a heart of gold.
*Cute, honest single mom down on her luck.
*Adorable 10-year-old boy.
*Great supporting cast including some handsome brothers of the politician that could carry the series forward.
Unfortunately all the ingredients just didn’t come together in the right way.
Example- Barrett is the town mayor and is the eldest son of a very prominent family. The first turn off was his public promiscuity. I think the author wanted to emphasize how desirable Barrett was by mentioning his prolific former conquests. For me it didn’t jive with his character. People in the public eye usually have to be discreet with their dalliances. Especially since several of them run in the same social circles and he sees them at different business meetings. He also showed weakness and was naive when it came to who allowed in his inner circle. Barrett also buckled to his parents’ (mostly his father’s) business suggestions. Ummmm, he supposed to be a very successful and intelligent man. Why is he so subservient to his father’s demands?!? No bueno!
Spoiler alert-
I don’t want to ruin it for those of you who still intend to read the book so READ NO FURTHER because I have a spoiler coming up! There is a certain sex scene between Barrett and Alison that involves grapes. Let me be very clear that experimenting in different positions and with different toys can be fun (super duper fun in fact!) BUT I think it’s something that should be discussed amongst the consenting adults prior to them being used. I found it rather odd that Barrett just started popping the grapes in Alison’s vagina without a second thought. That scene just didn’t do it for me. In my OCD mind I was thinking ‘God I hope he counted those grapes to make sure all of them came out afterwards’. Otherwise being a poor single parent will be the least of her problems! She’ll start leaking some sort of weird vagina wine in a few weeks.