While She Was Sleeping... (Mills & Boon Blaze)

by Isabel Sharpe

[wyvernfriend]

While the relationship, once it got properly going was actually quite cool, the start of the book was problematic for me.

I'm putting this behind spoiler tags for sex and sweary language warning purposes.

I don't quite label it rape, they were both completely out of it and he did mistake her for someone who he had been flirting with all evening, but it's pretty fecking close. He wasn't contrite enough and even if he didn't get his penis in her vagina, and only used his fingers it still was a bit twitch inducing and left a nasty taste in my mouth even though I mostly enjoyed the rest of the read.

Alana Hawthorne is visiting her sister, Melanie, and she takes a sleeping pill (not hers and stupid move 1) and falls asleep in her old room in the house. Sayer Kern is staying with her sister, he's at a party and there's something off with the drink. He goes home to his bed and half-wakes to find a woman in bed with him, he uses his fingers to get her to orgasm. Alana thinks that it's all a dream until she wakes and then she's disturbed to find that it was all real. He's supposed to be her sister's boyfriend.

Apart from the skimming over the violation, this isn't a bad story. I eventually liked the characters and the relationship but the squick at the beginning didn't fade.