Java Girl's review posted at Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews 
 3.75 stars 
 Ravenous, the fifth book in M. Force's Quantum series, is one of my favorite tropes--friends to lovers. It features Ellie Godfrey, older sister of movie star Flynn Godfrey and a Quantum employee, and Jasper Autry, a Quantum principle and award-winning film-maker. I loved Jasper and Eliie. I think they are my favorite couple of the series so far. Jasper is quite charming, witty, thoughtful, and just downright sexy as hell, while Ellie is a woman I'd love to be friends with-she's smart, funny, kind, warm, and handy in a plumbing emergency. They are both genuinely likeable characters, and are perfect together. When Ellie confesses her plans to have a baby to Jasper, he seizes the opportunity to take their friendship to another level. Their relationship moves at warp speed (much like all the relationships in this series), but I found I didn't have an issue with it, since they had been friends for so many years. Jasper's reason for keeping his distance, a secret he's withheld from his closest friends, seemed to have such a simple solution, that it made all the angst and drama seem unnecessary, and felt a bit contrived to me. However, it wasn't completely over the top or unbelievable, so ultimately, I guess it worked well enough. 
 My biggest issue with this book--the entire series, really--is that it's not as kinky as advertised. While these characters talk about their kink, and think about their past sexual exploits, the sex they're having in their present, with their heroines, just isn't that kinky. The sex is HOT, and very intense. Not exactly vanilla, but it's not what I think of when I think kink or BDSM. Ms. Force is an amazing writer. One of her strengths, in my opinion, is her ability to create interesting, complex, characters that readers really respond to. The characters in this series, the mains and the supporting cast, are what saves this series for me. Perhaps Ms. Force backed away from her original intention, or maybe her original intention was simply to delve into erotic romance. However, since the Quantum crew are all practitioners of BDSM, I expected a little more. Some important decisions are made in Ravenous which seem to indicate there is some validity to my theory and which are quite a departure from the attitudes presented in the earlier books, especially the first three. 
 I have enjoyed the last two books in this series quite a lot, and I look forward to seeing where this new direction for the Quantum crew takes us. 
 Review copy provided for an honest review.