Review: Dull
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 22, 2013
This story just didn't do it for me. It's very short, and the characters are not developed at all. If you've done a lot of reading about the BDSM lifestyle (or participate in it, I suppose), then you might find more subtext in the events that transpire in this short story. But I found that it lacked details and was pretty presumptuous of the readers knowledge (I don't expect a primer on the lifestyle, but I do expect much more characterization than he's a dom; she's a sub). I'm assuming the author is trying to play off the Fifty Shades fervor (haven't read those books, so I can't be sure), but the style didn't appeal to me.The sex in the book is actually rather boring. It provides relatively uninteresting details without anything that's particularly erotic, much less romantic. Yet we're supposed to believe that despite much personal interaction, the two main characters fall in love with each other.And I'll be honest, the guy on the cover wasn't much of a turn on for me because his face just looks sort of pinched and his body too overgroomed. That might have had some influence on my thoughts on this book (though really, the writing was the main thing). I don't usually like to judge a book by its cover, but with erotica or romantica, it sometimes can't be helped.