Review: Pretty good mystery and great chemistry between the two men
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 5, 2011
Warning: This review might contain what some people consider SPOILERS.Rating: 8/10PROS:- How-to books say that authors should begin every story with a "hook" to draw readers in right from the start. This book is an excellent example of this concept: from the second paragraph on, I was utterly hooked.- I was immediately intrigued by Roger. He's meticulous in everything he does, from his grooming, to his crime-solving techniques, to his organization skills. I could hardly wait for Sean to enter the picture and turn Roger's neatly ordered existence upside down.- Sean took a while to grow on me; I didn't dislike him, but he didn't stand out much at the beginning of the story. He weaseled his way into my affections, though, slowly and surely, just like he weasels his way into Roger's life.- I thought the BDSM scenes were incredible--not necessarily in the descriptions of the actions, but in the details about the emotional impact that those actions have on the participants and spectators.- There's an interesting angle to the murder investigation because Roger's knowledge of BDSM gives him an area of expertise about the killings that none of the other detectives have.CONS:- I had a pretty good idea of who the killer was early on in the story. (I wasn't positive, though, so the details still interested me as they were revealed one at a time.)- The narrative voice was a little hard for me to stay up with sometimes. Most scenes are told from one character's perspective or another's, but then some scenes have an omniscient narrative voice that moves back and forth between different points of view.Overall comments: I enjoyed this quite a bit. Some other reviewers have been disappointed in the mystery, but I thought it was decent. (Then again, I'm not the world's most adept person at guessing who did what and how all the details fit together in murder mysteries.) I really liked the relationship, though: Roger is possessive of Sean without being caveman-like, and Sean is wide-eyed but eager to learn every last thing Roger will teach him.