Review: You will either LOVE it or HATE it. (I hated it).
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 1, 2013
This story was not at ALL for me. My guess is, either you will LOVE it or you will HATE it.I totally do NOT understand the main female character in this story!Maybe it's just because I am NOT one of those high-powered business women who has to be the big boss at work or whatever, but this story just did NOT do it for me. And yes, I've read stories in this genre before. And I have liked some of them very much. But for some reason, THIS one really rubbed me the wrong way.Why on earth would any woman want to be 'put in her place'? Why would anyone want to be controlled by some arrogant, smug, chauvenistic, domineering pig?!I just DO NOT understand this story, idea, lifestyle... I don't understand the female point of view, and I have to conclude that the male lead must have been seriously messed up somehow as a child in order to think that he should have the right to 'punish' women, whether they ask for it or not! I do not understand how the male lead can somehow seem like 'a good guy' and yet also make me so mad.I'm trying hard to understand the difference between 'submission' (being controlled WITH your consent), and ... I don't even know what to call it when you're being controlled WITHOUT your consent... abuse? But, clearly, I can't seem to make the distinction.If you have any trouble at all with seeing the difference, you probably will NOT like this story.I would be very interested to hear from readers who have read both this story, Under His Roof, by Sadey Quinn, and also Under His Command, by Kristine Cayne, which is also a Dom/sub type story, but one that I happened to really LOVE. Can someone who has read both, PLEASE try to help me understand why I loved Under His Command, but HATED Under His Roof?So, if I hated it so much, why the 4 star rating? Here's why:Based on the other reviews and number of stars folks are giving this story, I have to assume it's more 'me' than anything 'bad' about this story. I am reluctant to give it any stars at all since I hated it so much, but the writing was actually good, the plot was tight, the characters were pretty well-developed, and the alternating POVs worked very well as a vehicle to tell the story. The author left plenty of room for sequels and companion stories and yet the story was complete on its own. It pains me to give this story 4 stars but that is what I am going to do, because there is almost nothing I can fault the author for in this story. I just flat-out HATED it. If the main female character is based off actual women, that's just a mind-set that is completely foreign to me.(P.S. I'd give it 5 stars if the author had actually given us a sex scene; that IS after all, WHY I read erotic literature. So docking one star for distinct lack of descriptive sex scenes!)