Skin Trade by Laurell K. Hamilton
My review
rating: 3 of 5 stars
I kept saying I was giving up on Hamilton’s books, then giving her just one more chance as each novel came out, hoping that at some point she’d give up the porn and write real novels again. With this volume, the effort is finally vindicated.
Don’t get me wrong–there’s definitely sex in Skin Trade. Sex with yet more new men, even! But it doesn’t start happening ’til well into the book, and when it does occur there’s a lot more justification for it than at some times in the past. It’s still explicit, and there are still likely to be more than two people in any given bed at a time, but if any of that squicked you, you wouldn’t be reading any of her work.
The book nearly earned four stars, but there were a few plot holes that bothered me too much to forget.
