Review: BDSM-lite erotic romance
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 20, 2013
Hurting to feel is a very quick read. I have not read allot of BDSM erotica but from what little I have read and from reviews I have read on other popular books in the genre; I would classify this as a BDSM-lite erotic romance. The 2 main characters Nathan and Addy are pretty messed up; and that is not in any way a comment on their sexual inclinations. Their issues are much bigger and run much deeper; with an offshoot of their general messed-up'edness being that neither really understands or has a handle on their own sexuality. These 2 would benefit big time from a few years of therapy and perhaps a bit of xanax.The story was just "alright" for me because I felt Nathan's character could have been more developed, Addy's backstory with regard to her mother and her paternity was ridiculous and her reaction to it made absolutely no sense at all. (Spoiler) A grown woman so afraid that a complete stranger was going to kill her if he found out he was her father (which in fact he actually wasn't) that she runs from a chance encounter and goes home to vomit? Really? (End Spoiler). I also found Nathan to have a bit of a twisted "poor me" quality to him. Always "Ooh my darkness, my darkness, no one can understand me, no one can handle me, I am destined to walk the earth alone". A bit melodramatic if you ask me.The other thing that drove me crazy (and I know this is nitpicky, but it annoyed me) was the author's obsession with certain descriptors: chins and breaths to be exact. Midway through the story I was thinking that an audiobook version would make a perfect drinking game. The players would do a shot every time someone pointed their chin, lowered their chin, raised their chin, grabbed and pointed someone else's chin and again when someone hitched a breath, inhaled, blew out a breath, exhaled...be 3 sheets to the wind by the time the story was finished.