Review: tried too hard to be a romance
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 28, 2013
I picked this one up after trudging through a cerebral and not really sexy romance by MacGregor and just wanted some mindless fun.  Well that, and I've probably had this sex/servant slave fantasy about a number of stupid-hot colleagues and bosses over the years... how could I possibly resist this one?!I found the opening pretty funny and was drawn in by the voice here... narration was in first person and alternated between the two feminine leads.  It really got off to a good start.  But ultimately, there is a shift here that cooled down the story and I found myself a tad disappointed that this was trying so hard to be excessively a romance and not really sex-filled kink.  And the kink was way tame. Don't get me wrong, I love that there's an attempt at romance here and I'm not deeply into kink anyway... but I just wasn't really feelin' the build up too much.  The blah romance deflated the story more than enhancing it.  Love the premise, but there was something missing here for me... maybe the romance just wasn't that great and so the sex-void seemed to drag on much too long (because I always look forward to the sex when the story is average or bad).Characters are naked a lot and there is some teasing, but not much actual sex... and the teasing is more pornographic than sexy.  Whatever sex existed wasn't even particularly memorable.  They kept reading a dirty book in the story and I found myself thinking 'that's the book I want to read!!' lol.  It's pretty short and I read it in just a few hours.  Did love all the kneeling and that the slave was blonde, however... this story definitely has its moments.  I guess what I liked most about this book is really just the whole idea of enslaving a stupid co-worker who happens to be hot, lol.  I wanted to like it more than I actually did.I skimmed a few parts and thought the whole hiking scene didn't have to be here (some of the romance is just too contrived).  I kinda found myself mentally editing the story as I read and would have liked to see some things played out differently.... and though I lack an anal grammar gene and never obsess over these things in any of my reviews... there were enough errors here that were distracting enough to mention... but not enough to put me off.  I guess I don't read these Kindle-only authors too often so I'm limiting my criticism (too easy).Not unreadable.  This was one of those little guilty pleasures, however flawed.  There is a spark of something here I really liked-- the voice?  Moments of very vivid imagery?  But c'mon... more sex and a plausible romance, please...