Review: Too short to accomplish anything
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 6, 2013
Warning: This review might contain what some people consider SPOILERS.Rating: 5/10PROS:- I enjoyed reading about a BDSM club that's not the Hammer. Don't get me wrong: I love the Hammer universe, but it's very much a fantasy...incredibly upscale, high-end with only very wealthy patrons. The characters and setting here are more down to earth, more accessible.- I liked the narrator's confidence. (I think some readers will find him off-puttingly arrogant, though.) I also liked that he admits that he needs Nikolai as badly as Nikolai needs him.CONS:- The story is way too short for this sort of character. We never even find out why Nikolai is so standoffish.- I wanted to see inside of Nikolai's head. Aloof characters can be complex and interesting, but the first-person narration makes that impossible here.Overall comments: This shows the beginning of what could be an intense connection, but it doesn't give the characters any room to develop. Stories this short (approximately 750 Kindle locations) almost always leave me feeling dissatisfied because there's not enough room to develop the characters adequately. That is certainly the case here, and perhaps even more so than usual: someone as bratty/pushy/difficult as Nikolai is needs more than a few chapters for me to be convinced of any kind of transformation.