Masquerading Hearts by Victoria Blisse
House of Erotica
Erotica
Reviewed by Vanessa




Jack and Laura have been together for six months after a spectacular first meeting.  Over the course of their relationship Jack claims that he loves Laura and that she is his soul mate.  Laura was never promiscuous, but she did things with Jack that she never dreamed of doing before.  One night she goes takes him his cell phone as he is out with the guys.  She hears his voice in an alleyway, and she heads that way to see him.  Laura is shocked to find him doing a barely legal-blonde skank!  She is devastated and kicks out what little of his belongings reside in her house, and goes on a self-destructive path of seeking revenge.  Laura decides that she will give Jack some of his own medicine by sleeping with many, many different men.  All Jack had wanted to do was explain that it’s not what she thinks.  Will Laura get her ultimate revenge, and will Jack ever get to explain?

Masquerading Hearts is a hot, steamy erotic read.  However, it was too short to fully satisfy me in the end.  I was left wondering about things and thinking that Jack’s excuse was a little unbelievable. I couldn’t understand that if this guy truly loved Laura, why he didn’t fight harder.  I know he tried to contact her, but it sounded as though they may have worked together and for three months he didn’t once corner her in the office?  Then of course one incident seems like he was just taking advantage of what she was doing to him and the other, well, as far as I knew, he didn’t know she would be there.  So why wasn’t he pining for her in Masquerading Hearts?

I didn’t care for Laura’s ways of getting revenge either.  She claimed she wasn’t promiscuous, but by what is shown in Masquerading Hearts . . . well you would have never guessed.  Some things weren’t fully fleshed out either, and I wasn’t sure if Jack had a type and Laura fit that type or didn’t fit that type.  There was no real description of her or him.  They could have been any one in Masquerading Hearts.

I never felt the love in Masquerading Hearts, but the free-for-all lust was there.  I have to say that the climactic scene was the ultimate in revenge, but by that time, it wasn’t revenge on her part.  She actually felt something for the other individual, and I would have been fine if she’d walked away from Jack at that point in Masquerading Hearts after his off-the-wall explanation.  Because, really, who wants some guy who can’t even fight off a woman?