Review: Just alright!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 6, 2014
First, I would preface this by saying that this was very well written, and I would read another book by the author once the theme is not a teenager and an adult!*Spoiler - sort of*First, I couldn't connect with and really didn't like the lead female character, Chey, as she was way too young and too immature to be the feature of this kind of story. If the intention was to present her as a sexual woman it failed miserably.To me she was a teenage 'horndog' whose every emotion or thought was about sex or how horny she was and she seemed to be one throw away from cheating. In fact, she was very duplicitous at the beginning of the relationship that turned me off!Because her character was so immature, I wanted the BDSM relationship to work and thought that that was what the author was going to use to demonstrate to the audience how Chey matured. But alas, no. That relationship was a persona that Chey adopted when she went to Damien's house and even then she wasn't good at. It wasn't a believable struggle of someone who voluntarily surrendered to their Dom, or the emotional/sexual connection of two like-minded adults. No, it was the pretense of a little girl to get what she wanted. Actually, he wasn't good at it either and I felt like the author was learning about the lifestyle and was trying to educate me by telling me instead of showing me. Another thing that turned me off was Damien's character. He began the story as a Dom but went through such a shift that he changed into a whipped houseboy.Overall, I couldn't connect to the story and didn't feel any authenticity between the characters and the relationship they were supposed to be portraying.