I greatly enjoyed Carrie's and Doc's story, the infamous Baumgartners from Ms. Kitt's Baumgartner series. Like the other three books, this one has great sex, excellent writing, and very naughty characters. I loved the new perspective of Carrie this book gives, for instance. We've always been introduced to this confident and sensual woman, but now we get to see the less sure and more serious side of Carrie, one that I found enchanting. Doc is as sexy and as daredevil as always, and I really liked seeing how he fell for Carrie. I liked Maureen as well and her separate story. It was great to see her with Carrie for it helped understand her as she is in the other books much better. I was, however, a bit disappointed at the lack of plot development. Yes, this is a great prequel, but I think Carrie and Doc are much more complex characters than this book portrays them to be. While this book has great sex, on the surface that's all it seems to have, which is not true. We get a hint at how complicated a woman Carrie is when she reveals a little bit about her foster care experience, and yet we just breeze through her story, and through the process it took for them to fall in love. I just wish we had gone deeper into who they are as separate people, before we got them as a couple. Also, the sex, though fantastic, seemed unreal to me sometimes, in the sense that it was just too "right" for college kids. I didn't really see a difference between Carrie's and Doc's dynamics, once she got over her shyness around him, from the other books and I think there should have been. Still, this is a great addition by Ms. Kitt, and all the fans of the Baumgartner series must read this great prequel.

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Sensuality rating: Explicit

Reviewer: Athena
May 13, 2011