Review: That Boy Next Door is into B/D!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 18, 2014
So I picked this up because it was free and I realize that I took a chance since it's the 3rd book in the series, which is like getting to a party late where everyone else knows each other and you know no one.So this is the story about Caleb and Jena who first meet when his friend Mark is in a motorcycle accident and she's the attending Neurosurgeon on Mark's case.  It's insta-attraction, but he's got a girlfriend.  Fast forward 6 months and she's now part of the Mark Moretti clan and Caleb is finding his attraction to Jena growing and he finally grows a pair and breaks up with the girlfriend so that he can pursue Jena.  Drama ensues because Caleb learns that you can't really enter into a sexual relationship with anyone that includes bondage without knowing someone really well and Jena's got a past that he doesn't know about.The author does a pretty good job of filling in some of the history on the other characters Mark and Ryan (on which the first two books are based) and the connection to Jena and Caleb.  While I still feel like I'm missing something, I don't think it's the back stories of Mark and Ryan, but what exactly makes these two characters a good couple besides the sex and B/D, which turns out to be their issue when it sets off a trigger to Jena's past.  I'm still not sure what makes them compatible except for this attraction. Did we learn more about them in the previous books and it got glossed over in this one?  Not sure.  But I felt like I was missing the depth in the characters that might make me understand why they "need each other to breathe" and why they "can't sleep without each other."I will give the author credit for not giving Caleb a past where's he was abused in some way and therefore needs to turn to bondage to get his rocks off.  He's just a normal guy who also happens to like control in the bedroom.Pretty good... and I liked the setup for Kevin and Andi, so I might pick up the next in the series.I take off a star for typos and wrong word choice, which means this book could only have gotten four stars for me and I knocked off another star for what I mentioned earlier.