*** ARC kindly provided by Diversion Books, via NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review. ***
The Raven Room is the first book written by Ana Medeiros.
Julian is a child psychologist and professor. He loves lots of non-committed sex and his kink is in causing pain to his women. He’s in an open relationship with bi-sexual Meredith. They are both using each other for sex for some time now but since Meredith heard about The Raven Room she’s intrigued and uses Julian as a means to an end to get the story that should start her career as a journalist. Julian finally caves and takes Meredith to the mysterious, secret sex club The Raven Room. Here he first sees Alana. There is an immediate magnetism between them and after a chance encounter they start seeing each other more often. This is where I’ll stop telling about the story because I don’t want to spoil it for you but I do want to point out that this is NOT a love triangle!
This story is told from different POV’s. Besides Julian, Meredith and Alana we get to know several interesting side characters. One of those is Meredith’s stepmom Pamela. She’s investigating murder, possibly linked to The Raven Room… which is sort of a side-story in this book but relevant. Meredith uses Pam to find out more information on Julian, Alana and the 2 little girls from Julian’s past. But is that a smart decision?
Besides that we also get to meet Julian’s friend Peter and his wife Grace and ‘their’ kids Eli and Seth. I’m not really sure yet what their role in this story will be but I guess we’ll find out in the next books.
This was a well written, exciting book with hot sex and a few nice twists & revelations. I had a small suspicion concerning Alana but I’ll have to wait until the second book to find out if I’m correct. Hopefully that second book will answer all the new questions that popped up while reading …
Be warned this is NOT a romance and there is no HEA (yet)!
Me and my book addiction 