My Thoughts: Blushing Violet is one of those stories you just gobble up. I started reading it, savoring the characters, the slow and sensual explorations but befrore long I couldn’t stop and read it until Carlos, Morgan Violet’s story came to an end.

Blushing Violet starts off in a quite ordinary way, one that even us real life, ordinary women could imagine: having had enough of loneliness and wanting to finally take a daring step, shy and girl-next-door young woman submits her profile description into a matchmaking site looking for a man who would suit her sexual tastes based on her favourite books.

Every woman wanted to be worshiped, she just wanted to be tied up and spanked when it happened.

Violet can’t believe her luck when instantly the system gives her two perfect match: Carlos and Morgan.

Carlos and Morgan are good friends and business partners, both dominant alpha males. They realize quite soon that the woman of their dreams is the very same Violet. As neither of them wants to give her up or fight and ruin their friendship they settle on letting Violet get to know them (separately) and choose between them. But Violet has no idea of Carlos and Morgan’s agreement and she feels awful and guilty for being attracted to two men and having the feelings they evoke in her.

Violet is a great character,  a heroine every woman can relate to: she is ordinary, naive and a bit shy, has body issues, her self-confidence is tattered and she can’t resist her attraction to these two larger than life sexy and handsome men, and her torment at being torn between two men was realistic and believable.

Carlos and Morgan were interesting characters. They were very different yet both of them was charming and handsome, and what made me melt was how both of them respected and cherished Violet. Despite the dom/sub dynamic they treated her with tenderness and utter care, rebuilding her trust and self-confidence. (At times I even found them a bit too sappy and in too sharp contrast with their macho dom personalities.)

“I carried you because I wanted to carry you. You feel good in my arms and I enjoy having all that softness pressed up against me.”

Blushing Violet is as hot as they come, but seeing this is a novel by Ann Mayburn you should expect no less, the scorching scenes and heart palpitations are a given. One aspect of Blushing Violet I enjoyed a lot was humour, and it came as a surprise with Violet’s vulnerability.

“We’ll wait as long as you want, do anything to earn your trust back.”
The proper thing to do would be to make them grovel and beg, ignore and punish them until she had her emotional vengeance. Good thing she wasn’t a proper woman.
“Your place or mine?”

Verdict: Blushing Violet is a titillating and romantic hot erotica story I enjoyed reading a lot!