Review: 2-Star Read - Disappointing
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 29, 2013
I would really like to say that at $2.99, this was a good deal.  Reading the book description, there was potential for an entertaining read.  However, in my opinion there are books priced at 99 cents with much better value.5-star books:  I almost never give a story a 5-star rating if there are typographical errors in it.  There are too many readers who would love to be a beta tester (me!) to have those kinds of errors in today’s electronic age.  This book contained numerous typos.4-star books:  So, if a book has a great storyline but has typos, normally a 4-star rating would still be a good find. This story is not a 4-star book.  There is one place where information is missing, as if the author meant to go back after researching the types of BDSM equipment commonly used and add those details in.  That suggests even more than a lack of editing and thorough research, but perhaps the author didn’t actually go back through what she wrote to see if there was an even flow to the story and language used.  Emotionally as reader, I felt the author failed to make me believe she was knowledgeable enough to include anything about bondage, dominance, sadism, and masochism to include a storyline with it.3-star books:  I wanted to give this story 3 stars.  Even a 3-star story for the right price might be worth it.  I just couldn’t.  Despite the interesting teaser, the book failed to meet expectations.  It read like a formula book that used a check list of what works in modern paranormal, erotica stories.  A touch of BDSM, shifters, conflict between humans and shifters, drugs, strong women, weak women, a cast of characters that you can later build on and use for future books, police corruption, a bad politician who is set to gain power at the expense of the inherently bad shifter society, ….check, check, check.  A good story flows with descriptive phrases interspersed throughout so that the picture forms in your mind as you read.  A great story binds the characters to you as you fall in love with them, or in some cases as you grow to hate them.  There were too many examples of “this character felt this or did this because….” instead of finding a way to blend what the characters believed or their past experiences in to the flow of the story.IMHO, this author has potential.  For me, this story fell short of anything greater than a 2-star rating.