I look her body up and down as I circle her.Mine?I smile a devious, deviant, I’m gonna make you sorry you ever started playing this game with me smile.And then I take her hand.I lead her to the elevator.We go up to my apartment.I tie her wrists together with rope.Raise her arms above her head.And chain her to the ceiling.It’s my turn.
HIS TURN is the conclusion to the TURNING series and I truly was not expecting the emotional rollercoaster ride it took me on. After the events from the previous books, Bric is struggling to find his new normal. He finds himself a reluctant participant in a new game with Jordan and Nadia. There were things I liked, things I didn’t. Moments when I couldn’t wait to see what happened next and times when I didn’t think I could go on. This is the first series I’ve read from Ms. Huss and I definitely am a fan of her writing style. Everything is not as it is made to appear. While it is unconventional, it wasn’t as over the top as I assumed it was going to be. I LOVED THAT! I loved that Bric was Bric and while we see his softer side in Elias, he is who he is. As their relationship grows and changes so did my connection to them. Towards the end, I often felt like I was Nadia and found myself crying as if I were the one dropping off. So to Ms. Huss I say BRAVO. After all that is why we read and immerse ourselves in make believe. I’m not going to lie, even though there is a sense of closure I reallyyyyyy would love some catch up time with all the couples!!
Bric was bit lost after loosing his 2 best friends to their games in the past. So this time it was his turn and he found his plaything in Nadia. This was the first series I read from J.A. Huss and let me tell you that I wasn’t disappointed at all. It was Hot as Hell. So definitely looking forward to read more from J.A. Huss.
I really enjoyed this book, “His Turn (The Turning Series Book 3)” by JA Huss. It tells the story of Elias Bricman, after he feels that he has lost all of his best friends, especially Smith and Quin, who he has known since he started college. He’d been playing the game with them for many years, up until the last year when Smith and Chella fell in love, and up until Quin and Rochelle fell in love and took away their baby daughter, Adley, who Bric had gotten very attached to. Bric is feeling very alone and depressed. His friend, Jordan, who is a member of the Club, had attempted to play the game with Bric for a short time before Rochelle returned to Denver. Jordan sends Bric a girl named, Nadia, on Christmas Evening, all dressed up with a gift tag tied to her wrist, to try to cheer him up. Jordan instructs Nadia not to speak to Bric, and to submit to him. Jordan knows that Bric likes to be dominant, and he wants to play the game again with Bric and with Nadia, who he likes a lot. Nadia is a 23 year old ballerina with the Mountain View Ballet Company in Denver, and prides herself on being in control at all times. She likes Jordan, so she did as he asked on Christmas evening. Bric found Nadia attractive when she came to him with the gift tag on her wrist that night, so he took her up to his apartment.
From this point the story becomes much more complicated, with many twists and turns, but it is fascinating and psychologically complex. It is erotic and sexy, but it also explains so much about Elias Bricman that I do not want to give away. J.A. Huss did a great job of tying up all of the loose ends in this series, and let us know why Bric is the way that he is. A great book and a wonderful series! I highly recommend this book!
It was a great story about a girl who put herself into a life of someone else gets to find love and help three men heal and move on.
The entire story is hard core erotica but the characters and the writing style keep you turning the pages and waiting to get to the end so you can consume the next book. I have read the entire series and have never found a series quite like this one! JA Huss you have written erotica with an actual story line and happy ending. Would highly recommend the series for anyone that enjoys their late night erotica!
Book 3 in this fabulous Turning series, and this book I just couldn’t wait to get hold of – its all about Elias ‘Bric’ Bricman!! For me he was the one I needed to know more about after the first 2 books, because you really don’t know anything about him at all even after reading them both – he is the most closed off, but he got himself in a mess after Quinn’s story, he got hurt but couldn’t admit it. So he’s after a new game with new players.
Jordan turns out to be player 1, who we met a few times in the other books, but who you only finally learn a lot more about in here. And it won’t be what you think until right up to the end – you will see when you read it!! Julie got me here, not what I was expecting!!
Jordan introduces Nadia to Bric as gives her to him as a present one night. And so the games began.
But Nadia is not a natural submissive and is a keen player herself, and has her own game in mind. Of course Bric relishes this challenge and sets out to win this game, and all costs.
Of course the sexy times with these 2 or 3 is ridiculously hot, just phew, change of pants please!! But what got me most and ripped me apart was Bric. He has everything, but has got nothing. He is running from his past which no one has a clue about. He is longing for something, but has no clue how to go about getting it. My heart broke for him. Yes he could be the world’s biggest asshole, but how that man suffered and was lost, really got to me. I was emotionally wrung out at the end of this book!!
Another fabulous 5 star read from JA Huss!!
I’m on the fence with this one. Nadia just bugged the shit out of me. I mean, I would like her one minute then I would want to throat punch her the next. I don’t think Bric was a good friend, at all. Eventually there comes a point where messing with people and pushing them away gets old, and lonely. Sure Nadia and Bric spend most of the book fighting and pretty much hating each other, I just wish they had more time with their really weird HEA. I think they got their HEA? Yeah, no. I don’t know. I’m chalking it up to this book is just different. Not that it was bad or anything, it was just different than what I thought it would be. It does make me really interested in Jordan’s book though.
In this book I wasn’t happy with the ending. I didn’t like the the new girl character. She didn’t seem to fit, and I was confused with why this dominate character was accepted, when in the other books, it wasn’t like that. Plus the relationship between the male characters to me was more of the story than anything. But like I said in the other reviews, I would rather know more about the male characters relationship then anything. It would be cool if there was a story about their college years.
Oh holy hotness J.A. Huss is amazing! I have loved this series from the very beginning and this last book is no exception. Bric has met his match with Nadia and she is nothing short of his equal in every way. You will be pulled in from the very first chapter and will be begging for more even at the very end. I devoured this book because I just couldn’t put it down. This read has everything you come to expect from one of Julie’s books….. hot as hell sex, off the charts chemistry and characters you’ll fall in love with. So don’t miss out on the third book because you’ll regret it!
My honest opinion… I was really looking forward for Bric story.. he was and is a HUGE character I think in the same level as smith..
Bric had so much potential, he was the gentleman, the sexy one, the one who had super mega taste in everything, the guy who likes his women to look amazing and treat them amazing… he was the Dominant one, he was the gentleman but controlling commanding etc.. in someways .. he was the one who deserved a super meg freaking super model with an Einstein brain.. or at least a ballerina with more love in her heart..
There were too much mind games and no love .. I missed the love words, the flirt, the whole passion.. the pre before the end..
So this one was a little hard for me because Nadia drove me nuts I wanted to b***h slap her so bad, but she gradually grew on me and by the end I was loving her. As for Bric I hated him in the first book in the series was falling for him in the second book and was totally head over heels for him in this book. He was a complete and total jerk but I still loved him. This was a great end to this series although I hope to see more like Jordan’s story maybe.
****I received an ARC of this book for an honest review****
Awesome!!!
Delicious Dynamic of Desperate Deviance!!!
Brava! Brava! JA Huss!!! The alliteration in my review title is in tribute to the skill, insight and bit of mind effery with which you entertain your readers.
In reading the singular genius of this book the reader will notice that Ms. Huss breaks all the rules of a D/s relationship, how a romance blossoms between lovers, even the rules of the very “game” that Bric fancies himself playing with both Nadia and Lawton.
We first meet Lawton and he is described by Bric as:
“He’s in his prime. Twenty-eight years old. Built like a [effing] MMA fighter, tall enough to be intimidating, wealthy enough to be confident, and good-looking. But he’s also smart enough to know how to rein all that in. Present himself as someone who is just another humble servant, ready to please.”
The other new player of the “game” is Nadia and she is not quite the submissive in denial that the writer of the deep “dark” romance usually creates for us. Bric’s assessment of her is:
“Nadia Wolfe. Twenty-something. Beautiful. Talented. Ballerina. Control freak. New in town. Rising star. Player of games.”
Nadia is a control freak and she has true Dominant personality and erotic traits. I just love her last name, “Wolfe”- a female predator…a female wolf. The reader begins to notice that unlike the other women in this series, she was almost pathological in her “need” to win the “war” of heart-wrenching mind-effery that is the game.
We all remember well from the first two books in the series, the fierce brutality of mind manipulation Bric would and will employ when playing the game, hardly ever conceding to any other player. Yet, in this book Nadia introduces us to “Elias”aka Bric who gets played.
It’s escalating warfare between Nadia and Bric with Lawton seeming to act as the “go-between” for the both of the them.
Actually the reader joins in on the torment of the “mind-eff”, having our emotions twisted one way and then the other way. It is not until the end we realize how much Ms. Huss took us to school.
In the end we find out who is truly the master of this game and the unbelievable motive behind their need to play the game with the other players. This is not the usual fare one expects in the “darker” romance. Ms. Huss, with her creative plotline and gorgeous language shows the reader an upsidedown but believable look at the psychology of the usual D/s erotic romance, the necessity for trust and maybe a warning of the danger to anyone who continually and carelessly uses their sexual desire and satiation as a drug, disassociating themselves from reality i.e. the “game”.
Of course what good is a mind-eff without the panty “vaporizing” laser intensity of the most deliciously dirty, “no holds barred” erotic encounters between and amoung the players that this author creates for the reader. It’s a dance in the dark. Yet, in this deep, dark, denizen of desire shines the brightest, most beautiful silverly-white intense light. It is in darkness that light shines most brightly.
How could any lover of the “darker” romance pass this one by? Simple. You cannot. If ever there was a romance you needed to read, it is this one. One click to bask in the light found in the darkness of this romance.
Wow. As per usual JA Huss just blows me away! I cannot believe its the end of the series! Elias definitely got his turn 😉
Smith was a surprise, I didn’t imagine when I started this series that he would be the first man down.
Quin was easy to love, wore his heart on his sleeve, basically all American and deep down good man.
But, Elias Bricman, Bric, just hold me in your arms and confess your deepest, darkest, secrets and fears and I promise you I will be your light. My heart *BOOM*
The conclusion of the Taking Turns series transported me to that moment in the dark, wrapped in his warm embrace, listening intently, sharing truthfully, experiencing all the guilt and pain. Confession for Nadia and Elias cracks the hard shell they’ve each built around themselves, letting in the light of forgiveness and hoping that remorse and willingness will pave the way to starting over.
J. A. Huss is a master at stirring up emotions with her wonderfully crafted stories and characters…His Turn was emotionally gutting…anger, fear, loneliness, manipulation, but the vulnerability, forgiveness and acceptance at the heartwarming conclusion mended my broken heart back together. In the immortal words of JA Huss…time to grow up, game over.
If you’ve never experienced this author, I highly recommend you do and the Taking Turns series…yeah, you can start here.
Just when I think I have my favorite JA Huss book picked out, she finds a new way to move me.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an ARC of His Turn.