Review: D/S relationship on the rocks
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 12, 2014
Bared is a story about a dom and submissive who meet at Club Sin. Cora the submissive had walked away from her previous dom feeling they were better as friends, Aidan lost his submissive after she was killed by a drunk driver.  He feels guilt over her death and wallows in it.  Cora just happens to be a counselor.  Their relationship at the club becomes exclusive and over two years Cora helps bring Aidan "back" and she falls in love with him.  They only have a relationship at the club.  Eventually the lack of balance between how they feel causes their d/s relationship to suffer.I enjoyed the book and it was refreshing that it was the dom with the issue instead of the sub.  Cora is self confident and knows what she wants.  Since this was a longer book there was more character development than usual in a story of this type and we even get peeks at Cora and Aidan's work lives and Cora's family.  It was also interesting how the BDSM stuff mainly stayed at the club and that home life was quite vanilla.I can't give it a higher rating because the club scenes, while well written, just didn't hit the mark for me.  The club itself wasn't given much detail and action primarily stayed on the main couple in the two scenes they had there.  The ending wrapped up a little too fast as well and the resolution between Aidan and Cora have would have been more realistic (without more development) if Aidan had gone with his first thought.While it doesn't impact my rating, I found inconsistencies with the blurb and what appeared in the book I received from Netgalley in exchange for my honest review:But his dominant faade conceals a devastating loss—something he instantly recognizes in his personally trained submissive Cora Adams (she has no loss, she's in fine shape for the first 2 years they are together in their D/s club only realtionship). Sworn to unearth her secrets, Aidan uses his seductive skills to ignite her wildest desires until Cora yields to the pleasure she can find only with him (yes, he does want to know what's up with Cora, but he takes her hiking and they have vanilla sex).Cora came to the BDSM club to act out her sub-and-dom fantasies without ever revealing the heartbreak (she didn't have heart break when she came, she had a clean break up with her previous dom, though later on her unrequited love for Aidan caused problems). He refuses to allow her to submit to any other man—nor does she want to (he doesn't refuse, she tried out a few other doms, but they both decided their relationship would be exclusive because they meshed sexually).