Review: Sold (The Auction)
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 14, 2012
Though I enjoyed reading it enough, it wasn't really anything special.  There were about half a dozen grammar errors, mostly relating to tense, and in such a short work, those errors stood out more than they otherwise would have.The auction to which the title refers was over fairly quickly, and the weekend at a resort which couples won was never referred to again.  Too bad. It could have made for some intriguing situations.Once the couple hooked up, there was too much time spent describing the toys and paraphernalia and his dungeon, and a lot of time on the female lead's intellectual responses, but hardly any time spent on how he was reacting, and very little time spent on actual sex.  If I recall correctly, there are in reality only two sex scenes in the entire book, and most of both of them is spent talking about the toys and how gladly she is submitting to his will.  I like to read about kink as much as anyone else, but this wasn't really very well done.  I like to know that both people are enjoying the foreplay and the sex.There's not really much buildup to the relationship, and the end of the story feels kind of tacked on, as if she'd run out of toys to describe and needed to end the book gracefully.Someone else mentioned that this story was only good for eliciting a physical reaction.  I didn't even get that much out of it.  It really was an interesting concept/premise, one I wish the author had taken more time to explore.