Review: a huge letdown
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 06 9, 2013
I liked the first one, mostly because it was two strong, evenly matched men.  I like the versatility, so rare in these books.  Other Eden Cole books have been more balanced,  I was not expecting this turn to D/s attitude, otherwise I would have avoided it.  The plot didn't really hold together and the MC were both unlikeable. I didn't expect this one to take Cam, a strong masculine character and turn him into a weak female character who all of a sudden decides wants to be submissive and be dominated, by two different characters.  All his take charge attitude of the past was all not really him, after all.  And Mato is just a lying, manipulative, a**hole, user the entire book, nothing redeeming about him at all.  As a previous reviewer said, his secret revealed he had not only lied to Cam as a character, the narration lied to the reader.  He knew all along why he was responding that way.  And, Cam should  have called him on that and his manipulation, which he even admitted to.  He used Cam for sex for several days, actually refusing to tell the secret which should have ended Cam's thrall to him.  He also was disrespectful to Lucas for no valid reason, even before Kyle.  And, then he ramps up the domination mode further on the last page saying Cam doesn't really have any freedom and must submit to him and please him every day and every night, and Cam just swoons and agrees, because he "loves him".Also, the reason for the experiment is not explained, it seems to be just a plot device that will get picked up in the next book, with Alexi, who seems more of a button-pushing jerk than Mato.