Review: Immersed in Pleasure – Tiffany Reisz

The Manhattan Mermaids: Believed to be the most beautiful women in the city, they entertain wealthy, powerful men in an exclusive club called Fathoms….and are all virgins. Derek Prince doesn’t believe they really exist, until he meets the stunningly sensual Xenia. She drives him wild with desire, but giving in to temptation means losing her position at Fathoms. Derek is incredibly turned on by the thought of being Xenia’s first…but will he be willing to wait for her?

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Release Date:  March 2012
Publisher:  Harlequin
Source:  NetGalley
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Reviewer’s Thoughts:

Mermaids in Manhattan?  Yep, a wealthy man picks the most beautiful women in the world to be ‘mermaids’ in his exclusive club.  They are very well paid, live in a posh apartment and don’t have to worry about much…except keeping their virginity.  That normally wouldn’t be a problem for Xenia, but once she meets Derek Prince, she knows she may have just met the one person that would make her give everything up.

This was a quirky read, but I did enjoy a spicy story told from a man’s perspective.  Derek was a man who had pretty much given up on every finding ‘the one’ when he ran saw a very wet Xenia at the exclusive club.  He couldn’t explain the draw to Xenia, but he didn’t fight it.   One would think than a man over the age of 20 would go running in the opposite direction once he discovered the woman he was interested in was a virgin, had to submit to a weekly virginity testing massage and wanted to remain a virgin so she could keep her job.  But not Derek.   He agreed to date Xenia, get to know her and wait until she was read to leave Mermaids.

Xenia was an interesting character.  I had thought she was from another country, because there seemed to be an ever so slight difference in the way she talked.  To me, that attributed to her naiveté about some things and her very open sensualness about being a mermaid.  Boy was I surprised when I found out she was from Ohio.  Which then lead to me to question why Xenia was the way she was…but unfortunately we didn’t have answers for that.

While this was a little different than what I normally expect for this type of book (meaning I thought the main couple would actually be the ones having the sex), it was still a story that captivated me enough to keep me wanting to know what happened next.  I would have like a little bit more development between Xenia and Derek, I understand the author can only put so much in the allotted space.