Review: Nice story with interesting twists
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 31, 2013
3.75 stars (a little better than my usual 3.5 stars rating but not quite 4 stars).This is the first book I read by this author. I found this story interesting with some nice twists in there. Alex is a writer that has been using S&M; as a way to self-punish for something that happened in his past. He doesn't think he will ever be able to be in a "normal" relationship because of how damaged he is. He has been seeing the same "Principal" Eric (he doesn't want to call him Dom or Master) for two years but he sees their relationship as pure business, a way to assuage his demons when his feelings of guilt and regret get to be too overwhelming. At the same time he has written this romance book series with an actor in mind. When the actor gets selected to become the lead in the series TV adaptation Alex finally gets the chance to meet his crush Sage. When Sage and Alex meet they are attracted to each other but Alex doesn't think they can have a normal relationship since he is messed up and still has the need to see Eric. This is also hard to deal with for Sage as he has a history of cheating boyfriends. There is also a mystery element as accidents start happening related to the filming of the series that involve people close to Sage and Alexander.OK, so the romance element was fairly OK for me. The mystery had a couple of nice twists that made it interesting IMO. So what didn't I like about this book? A couple of really just technical things. First, the book is supposed to be told in 3rd person POV. But then you find some sentences told in 1st person POV that just confused me. Where these thoughts by the character and if so why aren't they formatted differently to treat them as such. Or are they a switch in POV? Second, this book needed one last proofreading. There are some words missing, extra words, wrong verb used, missing verbs and really minor things that as such took away from my enjoyment of the book.