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hannas_heas47's review
5.0
Thanks netgalley for a free read in exchange for a review.
Loved it, what a short but charming story. Unique and well written with a sensual twist. It must be hard to be a photographer and have that type of injury. The storyline was neat, and the story premise is what caught my eye. I loved this authors fetish queen books, and I was glad to read this one as well. Overall entertainment was five stars. I read it straight through in one sitting. Good job.
Loved it, what a short but charming story. Unique and well written with a sensual twist. It must be hard to be a photographer and have that type of injury. The storyline was neat, and the story premise is what caught my eye. I loved this authors fetish queen books, and I was glad to read this one as well. Overall entertainment was five stars. I read it straight through in one sitting. Good job.
eslismyjam's review
4.0
This must be the sixth novella I've read this year and I don't even LIKE novellas. Though this book was perfect as it was, short and sweet and to the point, I liked it so much I wanted more. The draw here is the heroine, Debbie, and her unique disability: the inability to recognize faces. The author deals with this very unique situation masterfully. The romance is intense and steamy, but there is no insta-love because the characters have known each other for a long while before the book opens. That normally doesn't work for me because I don't feel connected to the characters emotions. It's hard for me to understand in the abstract why they like each other without directly experiencing. I'm not sure why, but not reading about the background of their relationship works here. It could be because the author does a good job of pulling the reader into the mind of Debbie character. In a few short pages you feel like you understand what it is like to live without ever recognizing anyone's face, not even your own mother, and you also understand her feelings for Marshall and where they came from.
catdance23's review
3.0
2.5 stars
I had really low expectation going into this book. REALLY LOW!!! I mean look at that cover. I know. You're not supposed to judge a book by it's cover but admit it....you do. Everyone has been sucked into a crappy book based on a gorgeous cover and vice versa. Plus, it has the word nekkid in the title. I mean come on! Last, I hate novellas. I mean even from my favorite authors I don't like them. So I was really expecting to hate this. I only got it because it was free. I figured if it was bad no harm done. I hadn't spent any money and since it's short it wouldn't take up much of my time.
I think it's because I had such low expectations that I ended up thinking this was OK. It had some bad points. Like, why do all best friends have to be slutty? And why is the best friend slutty and the MC is not when she has a filing cabinet full of picture of penises (peni?) of the men she has slept with. The murder mystery was almost an afterthought and could have been developed a little more. There were parts of the sex scenes that were awkward and not sexy. With all that said though it wasn't horrendous. I could see some potential in the story.
So OK. Not a complete waste of my time.
I had really low expectation going into this book. REALLY LOW!!! I mean look at that cover. I know. You're not supposed to judge a book by it's cover but admit it....you do. Everyone has been sucked into a crappy book based on a gorgeous cover and vice versa. Plus, it has the word nekkid in the title. I mean come on! Last, I hate novellas. I mean even from my favorite authors I don't like them. So I was really expecting to hate this. I only got it because it was free. I figured if it was bad no harm done. I hadn't spent any money and since it's short it wouldn't take up much of my time.
I think it's because I had such low expectations that I ended up thinking this was OK. It had some bad points. Like, why do all best friends have to be slutty? And why is the best friend slutty and the MC is not when she has a filing cabinet full of picture of penises (peni?) of the men she has slept with. The murder mystery was almost an afterthought and could have been developed a little more. There were parts of the sex scenes that were awkward and not sexy. With all that said though it wasn't horrendous. I could see some potential in the story.
So OK. Not a complete waste of my time.
rosepetals1984's review
3.0
Quick review for a quick read. "The Nekkid Truth" is a stand alone novella by Nicole Camden and I actually thought this was a little better than the "Fetish Box" trilogy that I read a while back from the author, though I'll admit I still saw issues in this one that kind of plagued the aforementioned series. At least this was a stand-alone story that could be taken for what it offered on its own, and it had an interesting premise to go on.
I'm going to set aside the cover image because while that might be relevant to the steam factor in this book, it has a little less to do with the actual story in the book. The novella centers around crime scene photographer Debbie Valley, a woman who lacks the ability to recognizes faces after a horrible accident. Instead, she identifies people by their voices, scents, and more notably - their bodies. She leaves nothing to the imagination on the level of being able to identify her lovers by certain parts of their bodies...ahem. But on the whole, she's always had a thing for one of the detectives at the station she's lusted after a long time - Marshall Scott. So when opportunity presents itself while the two are working a case together, she jumps at the chance to make her move, though she has to reconcile some notable issues including her respective condition in the process.
I genuinely liked the construction of the characters in this novella as well as the heroine's voice - both of those stood out to me from the get go. I also thought the premise was interesting, since I'm fond of mystery/crime stories. I didn't mind the steam factor to go along with it (though maybe it was a little too obvious it would kind of go into certain mature humor directions - I was kind of hoping it'd do something a little different, but meh). The one issue that I think I had with this was after a time, the focal point of the plot got sidetracked a little by the steamy scenes between the leading characters. Don't get me wrong, they were good, and I was convinced of the chemistry between the leads for what the story offered, but where the external elements were in the forefront at the beginning of the story, they almost became background noise towards the end of the novella, so the consistency could've been a little better than what it was.
I almost think this could've been a fine crime/mystery/erotic novel if it'd been given longer treatment and development. The intrigue is there, but I think it almost passed a little too quickly in places for the story to feel a little fuller than what it did. Nonetheless, I thought it was a better experience than my first read from Camden, and I'd like to read more from her in the future.
Overall score: 2.5/5 stars
Note: I recieved this as an ARC from NetGalley, from the publisher Gallery/Pocket Star.
I'm going to set aside the cover image because while that might be relevant to the steam factor in this book, it has a little less to do with the actual story in the book. The novella centers around crime scene photographer Debbie Valley, a woman who lacks the ability to recognizes faces after a horrible accident. Instead, she identifies people by their voices, scents, and more notably - their bodies. She leaves nothing to the imagination on the level of being able to identify her lovers by certain parts of their bodies...ahem. But on the whole, she's always had a thing for one of the detectives at the station she's lusted after a long time - Marshall Scott. So when opportunity presents itself while the two are working a case together, she jumps at the chance to make her move, though she has to reconcile some notable issues including her respective condition in the process.
I genuinely liked the construction of the characters in this novella as well as the heroine's voice - both of those stood out to me from the get go. I also thought the premise was interesting, since I'm fond of mystery/crime stories. I didn't mind the steam factor to go along with it (though maybe it was a little too obvious it would kind of go into certain mature humor directions - I was kind of hoping it'd do something a little different, but meh). The one issue that I think I had with this was after a time, the focal point of the plot got sidetracked a little by the steamy scenes between the leading characters. Don't get me wrong, they were good, and I was convinced of the chemistry between the leads for what the story offered, but where the external elements were in the forefront at the beginning of the story, they almost became background noise towards the end of the novella, so the consistency could've been a little better than what it was.
I almost think this could've been a fine crime/mystery/erotic novel if it'd been given longer treatment and development. The intrigue is there, but I think it almost passed a little too quickly in places for the story to feel a little fuller than what it did. Nonetheless, I thought it was a better experience than my first read from Camden, and I'd like to read more from her in the future.
Overall score: 2.5/5 stars
Note: I recieved this as an ARC from NetGalley, from the publisher Gallery/Pocket Star.
librarianryan's review
3.0
I will start off saying that I liked this story, but was disappointed at the same time. Nicole Camden can write tales I love, this one I think is just too short to fully flush out the tale. I would have loved to know more about the accident, more about the murder, more about the facial recognition, and more detailed erotic scenes. Those skipped by super fast.
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