Review: not for me
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 13, 2014
Not Your Damn Submissive, BDSM Erotic Romance, Amy ValentiReview from jeannie zelos book reviewsI was looking forward to this – I love both erotic romances, and romances set in the film world but....I didn't enjoy it. I didn't hate it, it just didn't strike a chrod with me. Too many negatives for it to work my way.So, what went wrong for me? Well, the film star and film making setting never really developed. It was just backdrop, as if Connor was a star in name only. There wasn't the usual interaction that comes with famous people. Then Kat, she's 18 when she first reads a book with a BDSM romance and tells her then boyfreind about it. One book? That's all she read? Then did no research or anything? Of course the boyfriend is older, and takes advantage and she ends up badly abused, escapes, but then avoids anything BDSM related for the next ten years. I just can't see that scenario somehow – it provides a vehicle for the book, but seems unrealsitic to me.Then Connor, as I said – huge Film Star allegedly, so where were the paparazzi, the starlets flirting and hoping for some action, the autograph hunters etc ? Could he really pull off all this with Kat without anyone knowing, if he's as famous as he's supposed to be?When they did get together it was a bit backward and forward, and though I understood Kat over the panic/ball gag event, much of what she was saying or doing was just a puzzle to me. I didn't feel her actions added up to her emotions somehow. Connor was out of touch with her as a Dom initially, didn't take the care a good Dom should and a big black mark for that, though he did redeem that once he knew more – but it's his job as a Dom to find out that before starting.So, others have loved this, but sadly not me. Thats how books work, not everyone will love everything :-) and this is just my opinion.Stars: just a two, sorry. I doubt I'll try another by this author, though clearly she has a devoted fan base who love her work. That's all to the good, just that I need something different.ARC supplied via Netgalley.