Review: Read the Rainbow Reviews
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 2, 2014
4 Stars, Reviewed by GinnieEmotional abuse is something few authors try to take on and even less can actually do the subject justice. I'm glad to see that Kim Dare could and that element made this story far richer because there was no instant healing or magical ability to fix how far emotional abuse goes into damaging everything about a person's reality. This type of abuse is so hard to portray correctly because it really does influence every decision and every facet of a person's identity until they question so much about themselves and who they were before the abuse started. That's why Donovan was so loveable right from the start. He's emotionally damaged and it takes a lot of work to bring him back. Tony is great at this and, like all of Kim Dare's books, the sex and kink works well to add to the story without being the absolute focus of it. Instead the focus is the relationship, right where it should be.