Review: An Unexpected Pleasure
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 31, 2014
If you chose this book thinking, "Oh, okay, another book about three-somes," then I think you're going to as surprised as I was.  This book turned out to be a serious study of the roles of three people inexorably tied together.The Dom and submissives nos. one and two.It's a really non-judgemental, deep probe into a relationship where each role was so clearly defined, so comfortably occupied, that it was almost, but not quite, a caricature.  Ms. Barber took what could have been a staid look into the lives of three disparate people and wove them together in a beautiful story of boundaries, independence and freedom in the form of vulnerability.My only criticism is that I feel a real disconnect with Henry that I don't feel with Jay or Alice.  It might be intentional, I don't know, but it is driving me crazy.  I want to know more about what he's really feeling.I commend Ms. Barber and look forward to book two.