Review: Tex - BDSM interruptus for the Burnout series
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 3, 2014
I immediately went on to read Tex after finishing Shooter.  Dahlia West shares Tex's story about being a BDSM dominant and what happens after he meets Abby (Vegas). Whoa! Unlike Shooter, this book is ***VERY*** detailed in the BDSM lifestyle, so heed the warning the author gives and don't read it if you're expecting a book that is as sweet and sexy as Shooter is.Dahlia West writes about lost men and women and how they find each other. Each book focuses on some kind of real-to-life psychological or physical trauma. Tex has psychology training and is also a Dom, and when he meets Abby, who comes off as being submissive to him, he uses her training to delve into her psychological struggles related to her old life in Las Vegas.  The training is a myriad of situations which Abby agrees to but is uncomfortable with (and some I was uncomfortable with as well).  She does have a safe word and a safe gesture at all times, so the sex is consensual. We get to see them and their relationship develop, and what people consent to and do behind doors is their choice.Even so, I was happy to move on to Hawk's story, which is more in keeping with Shooter's story.  The Tex book was so different from both of the other books - it just seemed as though it should be separate from the series or in another kind of series.  But, again, the author does warn readers.  I was invested in these characters from Shooter, so I didn't want to miss what happened in their group, but I did find myself skipping over some of the more risqué BDSM moments.Again, there were a lot of missing words in sentences, and this stopped me sometimes when I had to go back and reread the sentence or paragraph to figure out what was going on.  (I didn't see this as much in Hawk, though, so hopefully the author now has a [better] editor).  Because of this, I dropped my score from a 4 to a 3.