Review: no
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 09 18, 2013
I thought this was going to be a very, very light-hearted, shortish M/M romance featuring a newly met couple, the usual misunderstandings, possibly a lover with a painful past and a highly improbable bulldog.It would have been allright. Sort of.The dog is actually so supernaturally meddling one has to think he must be an alien under cover working for an alien match-making agency looking for customers in our planet.Jordan, one of the lovers, is way too preoccupied with his looks and the author does a rather poor job of making him likeable.Cal has been hurt before and yet he is very eager to be hurt again. These two meet again and again with only the meddling dog as the only excuse but the fireworks are kind of wet and do not explode.Halfway through, more or less, the author seems to have a change of heart and decides to introduce rather heavy Dom/Sub elements into her story.#### MILD SPOILERS MAY FOLLOW ####Jordan, despite his being a full-time professional with a full schedule and a teenaged son to raise on his own, turns into Mr Dom and we understand Cal is a former sub who has been abused.A story that was far from watertight to begin with suddenly makes no sense at all with her author cramming far too many transitions in half a page.Jordan begins treating Cal as if he were a skittish colt to be tamed and the results border on the absurd.#### END OF MILD SPOILERS ####I really do not understand why so many lady-authors think gay men to be obsessed with roles and dominance.If they really must insist on these controversial themes, they should at least write enough pages for the psychologies involved to evolve and should take care their gay men did not feel like particularly tortured female souls in male bodies.