Review: mission: failed
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 09 18, 2013
This M/M BDSM short story gets at least one thing right:being a Dom (let us use the term "Master", though, it is more honest) is not a licence to hurt and inflict abuse, sexual or otherwise.A Master first and foremost takes care of his slave's needs and protects his well being. That is the purpose of getting the control the slave determines to relinquish to him.Sexual fun and power trips come much later.The rest of this work is opinable.Like most authors who chooses this perilous genre, Ms. Alan entirely fails to make her reader understand WHY a perfectly normal, a little boring young man like Xander suddenly discovers he craves to submit to a stronger man.Characterization in general is this work's weakest point.The supposed best friend is unsufferable and shows a total lack of concern for him; Paul, the Dom, is hardly in control of anything and side characters are unlikeable to say the least.Plot is also rather weak with too many transitions omitted or neglected.Writing is not bad and there are paragraphs where a nice humour comes to the fore. Had the author been so wise as to write a "normal" romance the end result might have been completely different.