Addicted (Outlaws, #2)

by Elle Kennedy

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Elle Kennedy's again puts a titillating twist on dystopian with her Outlaws series.

I haven't been able to make up my mind whether or not I would agree with the fact that a post-apocalyptic world would be so sexually liberated.

In Addicted, Lennox and Jamie grew up in the same outlaw camp and were close. This friendship became an inseparable bond after both of their parents died. Over the years, both have been tempted to become lovers, but they each knew that sex could complicate their friendship and it was best left to fantasies.

Something changes when Lennox and Jamie go with Rylan and Pike to Reese's camp to help train some of her people to protect themselves. Reese has agreements with place with the Enforcers which has allowed her camp to grow into a town. Reese's almost homey town is allowing our outlaws to relax and for the first time actually feel safe. Time here is messing with Lennox and Jamie and their strict, no touching policy. Both are starting to realize that the one person they want the most is right in front of them.

They start to cross the line from friends to lovers and Lennox believes they can keep that part of their lives separate from their life-long friendship but everyone else knows that believing sex won't effect their friendship is more of an illusion than feeling safe outside of the cities.

As the days go by, Lennox becomes more possessive and more protective of Jamie. When he begins to act as if Jamie can't protect herself and she starts to feel like a burden rather than a partner, it might just be the end of their relationship, but will it also be the end of their friendship?

THOUGHTS:
Elle Kennedy creates an exciting and dangerous post-apocalyptic world in her Outlaw series. There is always an element of danger and the problems arise just when everyone starts to feel safe. Safety in the outlying lands is an illusion. Between the Enforcers who have decided to stop giving outlaws the option of moving into the cities and now just kill them and the bandits, who have no qualms taking whatever you have, be it your food, your woman or your life, there is no real safety to be had in this new world. And she proves to us that no one is safe.

While everyone of age seems to be very free sexually, going as far as group sex in the rec center surrounded by the rest of the town, rape is still an everyday fear faced by the survivors, again with the danger coming from both Enforcers and bandits.

I haven't decided if all the sex is over-the-top erotica-style or if it is simply a matter that any day could be your last, so go ahead and join a willing group having sex on the pool table. The only thing I keep getting hung up on in the meticulous grooming, the sexy underwear and clubbing-style high heels and dresses, and the endless supply of condoms. When you are raiding houses for food and clothes, it seems a little frivolous to scrounge for club wear, especially when you have to pack up and run over and over again and fit everything you own in a backpack. I guess when you have a camp set up, you start to think "I need to wear something hot at the rec center or I won't get laid" but I have a feeling if you dropping your ripped jeans and flashed your grandma panties, you wouldn't lose willing takers on the free sex, as long as you bring your endless supply of condoms. Condoms must be the only thing still being manufactured at the end of the world since Lennox went through a case of them just with Jamie.

All kidding aside, with the exception of a few moments of "Hey, don't do that. That's not sanitary. You'll get an infection." This is a very enjoyable series both as dystopia and as erotica.

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