Review::: Tarnished Author: Ethan Radcliff

by Sarah Reads - 3:30 AM

Title: Tarnished

Author: Ethan Radcliff

Release Date: March 17, 2015

Published by: Bitten Press, LLC

Genre: Erotic Romance

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✦✦Synopsis✦✦

Joe Murphy is a boxer. He’s twenty-eight years old and what most women would call hot. He’s a player, and his lifestyle is ruining his career. Joe always hooks up with the wrong women, head jobs and debutantes looking to further their own careers. Joe’s had it, he’s crashing and he’s doing nothing to stop his decent into his own personal hell. Darlene Russo is a single mom and a huge boxing fan. Except she can’t afford to attend any of the bouts, she watches from afar, she’s a cleaning lady for the biggest sports arena in Brooklyn, New York. Darlene finds the drunken boxer, and helps him get home. The next morning she wakes up in his bed, scared and confused. Their night together comes in on her, the lovemaking and their use of no protection. Her worries were just beginning and Joe Murphy would face the test of his life.

✦Excerpt✦
Joe knew when he opened the door to leave his dressing room there would be some hot pussy waiting for him. He needed more than one piece of ass tonight and he needed a little blow, just a little to keep him hard. That shit was better than Viagra. There it was again, his cock, doing all the thinking for him. Fuck it; he needed a diversion, at least for tonight. Pussy was definitely the medicine he needed to cure his depression.

Rating: 4 of 5 Hearts

This is the first book I’ve read by Ethan Radcliff and it won’t be my last. I did not know what to expect when I friend asked me if I would sign up for his release. I must say I was impressed. This story did not feel like a short story. Ethan kept my attention from the moment it started until the moment it ended.

Yes, the story was hot! But it was so much more than just steamy sex. Don’t get me wrong. I love the steamy scenes but I need more when I am reading.

The lead character Joe Murphy realized that he had pondered away his talent, money for a life full of sex and drugs. He had never felt desire for someone or desire to succeed in life until he met a woman late one evening. She evoked something in him that he never knew existed. He wanted to fight it because he was a big tough guy who didn’t do feelings. But he couldn’t stop thinking of her and he pursued her.

When we are first introduced to Joe he has just lost a fight. A fight he should have easily won. He knew it and so did everyone else. And what better way to lick his wounds than to divulge in the two things that cost him the match. I was shook my head at him. Though, I completely got why he did it.

When Joe heads back to the arena and bumps into Darlene Russo, he knew he should not pursue her but he cannot help himself. A man has needs right? Only problem was just one taste of Darlene left Joe craving more and more of her. She was different and he knew it.

I loved watching Joe's inner turmoil as he tried to fight his desire and want for Darlene. She was better than him in his eyes. Even if in her eyes he was better than her. She was everything he wanted in life. Darlene was happy, loved her child, and lived each day to the fullest. I was giddy when he realized he had to change for her… for them to be an US.

Darlene was such a spitfire. She put Joe and anyone else who needed lined out in their place. She opened Joe’s eyes so he could strive to be the man he truly wanted to be in life.

The ending of this story made me all smiles. I really wished there was more of this story. I would love for it to be a full novel one day.

✦✦Ethan Radcliff✦✦

I've been writing since I was a kid. I love creating and tried my hand at art, not bad but not good enough. A guy's gotta eat. Through high school I wrote erotic stories, kept them in a notebook, let a few of my girlfriends read them. Yeah, played football, baseball, but my brain never stopped thinking of sex. I guess we think about it all the time. Been on face book for a while never did anything interesting when I was on until I started to see all the writers and then some poets posting their erotic prose. Men who were writing erotic romance and stories, I knew it was my time to get out the old note book and throw on some poems. Some are old and some are new, the ones about BDSM are newer. In high school or college I wasn't on that train of thought. I see a picture it sets me off. A see an attractive women it sets me off. The jiggle of a full ass or heavy breasts, gets me going. Yeah, my mind always is on a beautiful face or body.