Imogen Linn

Melody in Lingerie, book 1 of the Melody series by Imogen Linn gives us shy college student Melody who has a secret passion for sexy lingerie under her usually dowdy clothing. Her guilty pleasure is to go shopping for the lingerie where she meets a man shopping for his wife. She offers to show him what the lingerie looks like on her so he can compare it to what it will look like on his wife. It is only when she is in the dressing room that she realizes she is in for more than modeling.

I liked Melody. I liked how the man compared Melody’s outlook against his. It is when Melody sees what he is talking about that she can let loose and enjoy herself. She is naïve but she plays the man’s games so well. These were some hot sex scenes. She is then given the option to continue in the future or end there. The choice is hers. I know what option I would pick. I look forward to seeing what Melody chooses.… (meer)

Cliched main character with an undeveloped story premise. Why oh why, Melody, must you be the "shy and awkward" college student whose self-conscious of her "small hips and breasts" and feels like she's "too skinny"? As if we don't have enough of those characters in any kind of fiction already. To add insult to injury, the writing is completely riddled with "telling" statements, explaining Melody's thoughts with all the flair of a psychological report. I felt no fire from reading Melody's interactions with the unnamed man, just offense that a premise with such potential with marred by elementary creative writing issues.… (meer)