Review: light BDSM romance
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 6, 2013
Claimed(Club Sin) Stacey Kennedy.ARC provided by Netgalley.Presley had been in a relationship for eight years andmoves to be closer to her boyfriends new job when... she finds he'scheating. She's really lost confidence in the whole dating scene, andloses herself instead in the world of books enjoying the spicy, sexyBDSM romances she finds there. (I know who she feels, there'smillions of us that love our fantasy lives and book boyfriends!!) Herclose friend and flatmate Cora worries about her and suggests thatinstead of dreaming about that side of life she gets her to introduceher to Club sin, where Cora is a happy member and submissive.Presley is taken on by club owner and Dom Dmitri, aftera personal interview. He sees something in her straight away thatappeals to him, but he makes it clear that its simply a Dom/subrelationship - he's training her and nothing more. He doesn't wantany romantic complications in his life, being happy with the waythings are. She takes to the training well, and things begin to heatup, with them first exchanging phone calls during the week, thenmeeting for a meal. The dipstick ex is around too, and causingproblems for Presley. She has problems she's escaping from and Dmitrialso has past issues affecting his present life, can these twofinally get it together and work things out?I enjoyed this novel but didn't find it as erotic as I'dexpected from the description, both the BDSM ans the sex scenes werequite gentle. Although I felt for Presley I didn't really connectclosely with her, and the storyline itself was very slight for a fullbook. The book covers several weeks, and we touch in on events thathappen during that time, but there was no great highs and lows ( I doneed those low points...) and I felt the book was too much on onelevel for me. Its a sweet HEA romance but not enough emotion for me,though for those who like a traditional type romance with an extra ofsome light BDSM and sensuality this will be perfect. Horses forcourses, I want more but not everyone does thankfully.Its priced at 2.31 and though I dont have page infoI'd guess its around 150-180 pages from the time it took to read someets my VFM criteria as fairly priced.Stars: three.