Review: Kate & Drake
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 15, 2013
This is like Fifty Shades Lite! It copies much of BDSM education you get with Fifty Shades without the strong connection to the characters. Really, Drake sounds super hot & he is an amazing dominant, but he is no Christian in my book. Drake is a prominent surgeon and volunteers for Doctors without Borders when Kate meets him at her father's fundraiser. Kate hurts her ankle, he patches her up, glimpses at her garter belt & hose & it is a done deal. Kate went to Africa for research for school & hasn't been the same since - she witnessed all the poverty, hunger & violence, and even experienced some pain of her own with a wanna-be Dom. But she learned she might just like a dominant personality but with experienced man. To research these lifestyles for a paper Kate asks to interview a real Dom and guess who she is set up with?? Kate really drags this out, puts up a big fuss, can't come to terms with being a feminist on the street & a submissive in the bedroom. She makes a big mistake & leaves the Dom/sub agreement out & is pretty much blackmailed. Kate has a lot to lose - her father is a judge & would never understand her kinky curiosities. Drake's career would be in serious jeopardy & he is very close to Kate's father too. So they sneak around as Drake shows Kate how to be submissive but Drake is really fast and loose with the rules right from the beginning. The only time he makes her stick to the rules is when they are at a kinky party. After a while Kate comes to call him Master and follow the rules since it is the best way to get what she wants out of Drake. During the holidays Kate starts to become really depressed at the idea of never crossing over that line with Drake, of having a collared relationship but no real life relationship. Thankfully it looks like Drake & Kate might be happy together after all & they might get the relationship support they need. Well written but I couldn't relate to the characters that much & when they were apart it didn't break me up.