Review: 4.5 stars. A very emotional story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 27, 2011
4.5 stars.I really enjoyed this book because the relationship between Owen, the Dom, and Sterling, the sub, develops slowly and because it sort of starts from wrong premises.At the very beginning of the book Sterling tries to channel his frustration about his strained relationship with his father into a BDSM relationship, thinking of being a natural Dom. During his first night in a club he understands that he craves being a sub and he sets his eyes on Owen, his former professor, who initially refuses him. Sterling is stubborn and he stalks Owen until the Dom accepts him.Their relationship is very interesting because probably it's not easy to bring to submission a young man, like Sterling, who wants things his way, but Owen has the patience and restraint of a saint. Sterling is naturally undisciplined, but it's because it seems impossible for him to accepts the rules imposed by Owen at their face value, he wants to know the whys and hows, in a way he wants their relationship to be balanced. Owen is not a perfect Dom, and with that I mean that he is not one of the masters that get everything right at their first try, reading their subs as if they were books. On the contrary, he has his doubts, he realizes that he has to cave in sometimes, what I liked about him is that he really wants to help and teach Sterling. I'd say that this book falls on the lighter side of BDSM.I can't give a full rating because it wasn't really overwhelming for me. Maybe Owen was too gentle and too wise, but I think he should have pushed Sterling a little more, just to make everything a little bit more intense.