Review: Is this a joke?
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 12, 2013
The writing was clunky, the plot was passable (your standard "cop investigates a series of murders linked to a kink club and discovers his inner-sub/Dom/etc"), the characters eh, but most of all, it was not a believable representation of BDSM.Problems:-What is wrong with using the character's names? There are epithets everywhere in this book: the dark-eyed man, his sub, the Dom, the blonde-haired man ... I promise you, readers notice the character's names far less than they do the various and numerous epithets.-Zack, the Dom, wears all leather and thinks he has to be aloof in order to personify what he thinks of as a Dom.-In the main character's first sexual interaction with each other, there is no discussion of either soft/hard limits or a safeword, before Zach starts using Cassidy's throat very harshly (if you understand what I mean, darn censors!).-Also in their first interaction, there is absolutely NO preparation given to Cassidy before Zack sticks his "large" member in. None.-Then, when they did get to their first actual BDSM scene together, while Zach told Cassidy about his safewords, there was still no discussion of Cassidy's soft/hard limits. The cherry on top is Zach telling Cassidy he wants to start him off easy by saving the CBT for another day and then flogging Cassidy until Cassidy starts crying!Wow. I'm sorry, but this reads like a mockery of BDSM. I've read my fair share of m/m stories featuring BDSM , including a few I really enjoyed that had unrealistic representations of BDSM or threw a few of the rules out (safewords/limits/etc), but those stories had reasons built either into the plot or the characterizations of the characters to pull it off.This had neither. Do not buy this if you want to enjoy a good BDSM book.