Book Review: Shutter by Trista Ann Michaels

• Title: Shutter
• Author: Trista Ann Michaels
• Type: Contemporary Romance
• Genre: Erotic suspense
• Sub-genre: ménage/woman in jeopardy
• My Grade: C (3.2*)
• Length: about 68,000 words; near Novel length
• Rating: xx
• Where Available: ebook at Loose-Id

Trista Ann Michaels runs hot and cold for me.  For each book I like, there’s one I don’t.  In  Shutter we have a heroine, Bethany Marx, who survives rape and attempted murder – stabbed 3 times, by her step-father and lived to testify against him, sending him to prison.  Her mother disowns her, blaming her for what happened.  She’s rescued from a strip club by a Hugh Hefner type, Jacob, that that’s takes in ‘strays’ and helps them back onto their own two feet.  She becomes a centerfold, a popular model and eventually goes to college to become a photographer for the magazine.  Unbelievable, but there you are.  Not a single mention of scars from the near fatal stab wounds.  Amazing emotional recovery – which is only slightly easier to believe than the lack of scars.  Now Beth is faced with wanting 2 men, Derrick, Jacob’s cop son, and Nathan, Derrick’s best friend and usual partner in their threesomes.   Despite Derrick’s difficult relationship with Jacob, he’s always around.  Given the hours a police detective works, that’s surprising.  They’ve been dancing around each other for nearly 2 years, and Beth is ready for some action.