Just yes­ter­day I was ask­ing that more epubs have best­seller lists as I’d like to know what other peo­ple are read­ing. Well, now I know and wish I hadn’t. I kept an open mind because sto­ries that fea­ture ménage à trois are not usu­ally my fan­fare. But if you ask me about plot? It’s absurd. Ask me about dia­logue? Ridicu­lous. What about the sex? Hot, hot, hot. But is that enough?

Oh, Hell to the no.

Here is the cap­ti­vat­ing back blurb that should have had red flags wav­ing at me but I didn’t see it:

Bri­anna Wyatt may be a vic­tim of her father’s machi­na­tions, but one look is all it takes for Cole Mas­ters and Tyler Can­non to offer her their own style of ménage a trois blackmail.

Bri­anna Wyatt’s father is black­mail­ing her into doing what he wants by threat­en­ing to send her brother to an insti­tu­tion. She would do any­thing to keep that from hap­pen­ing, includ­ing go along with his demented scheme of her get­ting preg­nant by Cole Masters–a man who’s been rumored to share a woman with his best friend, and who leaves Brianna’s inno­cent senses in shambles.

Cole is sure he’s about to be blackmailed—why else would a man whore his daugh­ter? But there’s some­thing about her that nei­ther Cole nor his best friend, Tyler Can­non, can deny. They want her, and don’t hes­i­tate for a sec­ond on mak­ing their own offer. Her brother’s pro­tec­tion for her body.

When dan­ger flirts with Brianna’s life, there is noth­ing they won’t do to keep her safe. Includ­ing lis­ten­ing to what their hearts are saying.

This ebook rep­re­sents the per­fect exam­ple where you have hot sex with no believ­able plot what­so­ever. For some read­ers there is noth­ing wrong with that. The plot was utterly ridicu­lous and I couldn’t read another word. I did take Jane’s advice and skimmed to the sex scenes and sure enough they were hot. Maybe some read­ers just want the sex, screw the story (no pun intended there). As for me, I’d like a bal­ance of both, thank you.

Every­body in the story “black­mails” each other. Some­times, I won­dered if they knew what the word “black­mailed” meant because I think that word got bandied around a lot, hence the title. The plot was weak, char­ac­ters were ridicu­lous, dia­logue the same. This was a DNF and the fault is mine. I should have read the warn­ing at the bot­tom of the page before I hit the sub­mit but­ton. There are ménage à trois sto­ries that are done well (Hello Emma Holly) and some that are just plain awful (Bye-bye Ms. Ann­marie McKenna).

Ms. McKenna might be laugh­ing right to the bank as her book sits right on top the best­seller lists. Thanks to morons like me who didn’t read the back blurb first. *head desk*