Review: I liked the message about submission that this book conveys
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 20, 2010
Warning: This review might contain what some people consider SPOILERS.Rating: 8/10PROS:- Dare manages to convey very quickly the depth of the men's feelings for each other. Within the space of a single scene, I could sense their love without having actually seen it develop.- The sex scenes are hot, and there's a decent number of them considering the length of the story. The author does a very good job of showing the difference between D/s and vanilla sex for this particular couple. The vanilla stuff in this book is awkward and forced, whereas the D/s scenes are natural.- I don't know all that much about werewolf lore, but I found several things in this story new and interesting (or at least, different from what I've read before). The idea of an arranged mating, for instance, is worlds apart from the instant attraction depicted in most werewolf stories I've read.CONS:- Because the story is relatively short, some of the plot points that I wanted to see drawn out a bit instead occurred very quickly--so quickly at times that they contained little dramatic punch.- Throughout the story, the POV switches mid-scene, but then stays in that character's head consistently through the end of the scene. It just would have been easier to follow the POV switches if there had been scene breaks rather than seamless jumps from one character's head to the other's.Overall comments: I would have liked for the story to be longer, but it's well-developed for the length that it is. There's a pretty healthy dose of angst: I'd say that for approximately 75% of the story, the two men are at odds with each other and are pretty miserable about it. However, the idea that someone who's an incredibly strong person, both physically and emotionally, can be a sexual submissive--and that he's not weak because of it--is very well done.