Review: Not bad, but it wasn't great either.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 4, 2014
I admit that I had great expectations for this story since I was curious about Ben as a Dom. I can't say that I loved every aspect of this story, but the concept and the characters were some of my favorites.Ben was an interesting mix of confident and clueless. He knew what he wanted and he had learned from one of the best how to be a Dom, yet he didn't notice what was in front of him from the very beginning. You have no idea how many times I felt the need to shake some sense into him. Yes, I understood where he was coming from and why he thought Scott could do better but it still some of his behavior annoyed me. The jury is still out on him--I can only forgive him so many times! Maybe if his motives were not about money and some of his other complexities would have made it to the page I could have come to overlook some of the stuff he did. And that's only as a person, because what little I saw of him as a Dom, didn't impress me much. I believe that it would have helped if I could have seen more of his Dom side. I think that facet of his life was not fully explored.Now Scott was another matter altogether. Whereas I admired Ben for his strength, Scott endeared himself to me because of his vulnerability and innocence. I loved his curiosity to learn about life, his uncomplicated way of seeing things and how openly he displayed his emotions.But truthfully, I don't think Ben and Scott were a good match. Try as I might I just could not see it. Although I enjoyed the interactions between Ben and Scott, I didn't feel that their connection was established completely. Maybe this had to do with the fact that most of the time they spent their time apart and I only got told and not shown about some of the times they shared.The story as a whole was not bad, but it wasn't great either. I found that there were things left unresolved, events that were unnecessary and a lack of emotional connection between the MCs.All in all, a good story with interesting characters.