REVIEW: Irrepressible Jasmine by Sami Lee

Irrepressible Jasmine (Wild Crush) by Sami Lee: To begin with, I love the title, because it describes the main character, freelance bar manager and business promoter Jasmine Campbell to a tee. Jasmine is a beautiful and somewhat promiscuous thirty year old woman who carries around a lot of emotional baggage. She is a bit unconventional and definitely marches to the beat of her own drummer. Jasmine’s wildness and need for kink began back in high school, after her mother passed away. Her mother was her rock, keeping her sane and happy while her father ignored her and worked long hours. Jasmine always felt like a thorn in her father’s side and as she got older, what little relationship they had degraded, and now it is virtually non-existent. Her younger sister Summer still lives in their hometown of Leyton’s Headland. Summer along their stepmother, do their best to try to connect all of them together as a family.

Aaron Sanderson is one hot, real estate broker. Taking over his father’s business when he retired was never his goal in life, but it has worked out quite well so far. He was a geek and class clown growing up and now he is every woman’s dream come true. Aaron is happiest when he is playing the field. He knew Jasmine way back when and had a crush on her. To this day, he finds himself getting aroused whenever he thinks back to being part of a threesome with Jasmine and his best friend Tyler, who at the time was also Jasmine’s boyfriend.

Jasmine is a submissive and her last Dom was brutal, so she is extremely cautious about exploring new relationship opportunities. Now ten years after high school, Jasmine is back in town to manage her sister’s naturopathy practice while she is traveling with her surfer boyfriend, who just happens to be Ty. Jasmine needs the time to sort out her life and career. She slowly but surely gets involved with Aaron and they both teach each other a few things, as they fall in love.

I enjoyed this book, even though it took me a little longer than usual to get through. Ms. Lee has a real handle on the characters and I felt like I knew them very well by the time I finished reading this story. The first half is quite enthralling, as each character’s identity is established as the plot evolves. Then the pace slows down and the sexual encounters between Jasmine and Aaron take center stage, which I found to be a little too much and repetitive. Ms. Lee pens extremely hot sex scenes, but the plot gets scarified because of it. The last third of the book is quite good, with a few twists and turns that surprised me. If you enjoy a story with a lot of spanking, some light BDSM, along with well-defined characters, this book is for you.

Book Info:

Published July 15th 2014 by Samhain Publishing, Ltd. |  (Wild Crush)

After an affair with a Dom turns sour, Jasmine Campbell returns to Leyton’s Headland to build up some good karma by keeping her sister’s business afloat. For that, she needs help from real estate developer Aaron Sanderson—an old school mate who’s grown up movie-star handsome.

When Jasmine knocks on his office door, Aaron can barely contain his triumph. In high school he had an unrequited crush on Jasmine, but ten years on he’s better at close encounters with the opposite sex. He thinks he knows just how to handle Jasmine—with an aloof demeanor and a firm hand.

Little does he know just how firm a hand Jasmine needs.

Jasmine figures a fun vanilla fling will cleanse her sexual palate. Yet her lover proves himself surprisingly adept at satisfying her submissive desires. And soon she’s in serious danger of doing the one thing she swore never to do: fall in love.