Review: Engaging Happily Ever After
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 25, 2014
I'm a sucker for Happily Ever Afters and therefore I kept looking for one in this book. The characters were lovable and fleshed out enough for me to wonder about their pasts or their futures. Now for the leading characters...Graduate researcher Merissa Harrington stumbles upon a great pad at a good price. Too good. Turns out that the building is run by a high class call girl who only takes on special clients and hires just as carefully. Turns out that residents in the building are also just as carefully chosen. Guess who is the next person considered for the job of a call girl when a special case arises?Yup.Too shy to look into the BDSM lifestyle herself, Merissa takes on this special case because of the perks: temporary, exploratory BDSM with 8,000 pounds to boot and no strings attached. In fact, the client in question wants everything in private. So if all goes wrong, Merissa won't suffer disrepute. So, why not?Unbeknownst to novice Dominant Sully McCrae, his sister is the one who actually hires Merissa so that whoever Sully encounters to deepen his knowledge and practice of BDSM certainly would not defame him to the press nor be digging for his money.Although there are several strategic point-of-view perspectives, the book largely stays in Merissa's perspective. Because of this, I find some of Sully's actions and proclamation of love somewhat unbelievable. However, by the time I really got into the book and was invested in Merissa's feelings, I went along with the fantasy.One other thing that really bugged me was the editing. Every overlooked proof distracted me from the story, pulled me from the fantasy, and it took me that much more energy to overcome the annoyance and plough forward to reach the ending. I've lost count of how many things popped up, such as "flash or clarity" when the author meant "flash of clarity" or "There dom/sub relationship for me" when author meant "The dom/sub relationship" etc. Although these references appeared near the middle of the book, I've lost count of how many early on before or later after. Given that every book has a few of these, I just couldn't ignore how many came up for me and I thought I should cite at least something for other readers who may also have their English teachers harping in their heads way beyond the primary school years.Overall, I recommend this book for those interested in reading BDSM romance, because the scenes were descriptive and respectful of the lifestyle. Even though the author credits SuperBrat for the accuracy, the author definitely did a good job. :-)