Review: Great concept
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 11, 2014
When I read the synopsis of this book I was super excited- a BDSM themed reality show? What a great idea! The concept of this story- multiple Doms competing to be the "top Dom" was absolutely brilliant and original.Author/character Lucian Bane attends a tryout to be cast on Pay-Per-View's upcoming Dom Wars and meets fierce yet vanilla Tara.  Lucian and Tara soon find themselves cast as a pair and there couldn't be a worse combination!  Despite their differences the experience doesn't turn out how they expected...Like Tara and Lucian this book didn't turn out how I expected.  I love the concept but I couldn't connect with the characters and became very confused as pretty much all of the BDSM elements in this book were misconstrued or didn't make sense.  The show was casting for Doms yet contestants were put in a D/s position- well wouldn't it be Switch Wars then?  I also couldn't get over Tara's demeaning attitude and ridiculous statements like"But a Dom is merely a personality trait, sir. I didn't read anywhere in the manual where you can't be your own boss.""I'm the Dom. This Dom likes to do sub things."Furthermore, she ridicules others at the competition and refers to aftercare as "stupid" and for "wussies."  I didn't find these traits along with her personality appealing.The male characters I felt were cast into roles that were too black and white.  The "alpha" and strict Dom was a man who was abusive and cruel to his subs.  While Lucian (the character) was a gentle and emotional Dom- to the extreme of crying during a scene.  There was no grey area for Doms- strict yet very in-touch with humanity and those are the type of Doms I like to read about.Overall this book just didn't work for me. Although, I couldn't connect with the characters or content I would read a different themed book by this author in the future.