Review: Hot, hot, hot…smokin’ hot!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 24, 2014
4.5 StarsHot, hot, hot…smokin’ hot! A police detective who is out to his friends about his BDSM lifestyle and a new woman friend to their group who recently got out of a mentally abusive relationship go head to head and toe to toe as she claims his lifestyle leads to a physically abusive relationship and he aims to prove her wrong. This book is an interesting look when a Dom plays with someone not in the lifestyle and outside of a club for an agreed upon limit of four scenes. Down On Her Knees has scenes with a little bondage, spanking, flogging, and a lot of role playing. I really loved the premise of this book and the chemistry between these two just increased as their play became more intense.The hero, Rafe Davenport, is one of those heroes that you love one minute but want to strangle the next. There is no doubt he’s an accomplished Dom and I very much enjoyed the scenes he worked up for Courtney. Following the death of his fiancée years ago, Rafe now only allows himself a limited time with a woman. He has no plans to give his heart away for fear he won’t recover. He won’t allow himself to feel anything for anyone so when he does start to feel he shuts down immediately and doesn’t always do or say the right thing. He has a group of friends he sees regularly but he doesn’t even allow them to get to close.Courtney DeLollis can’t figure out why Rafe affects her so much. She doesn’t approve of his sexual lifestyle yet, he intrigues her. She sees what he does as a way of controlling women, just like her ex-boyfriend controlled everything in her life but she can’t deny the way he makes her feel. After a brief encounter he proposes an arrangement that she can’t help but accept telling herself it will be a safe way to ease back into the dating scene once they are done.The BDSM scenes were entertaining and interesting as we saw Courtney discover that even though she was letting go and putting someone else in charge of her pleasure she held the true power. Watching her self esteem rise was completely gratifying. I was highly amused at how always in control Rafe often found himself losing it with Courtney.It’s hard not to love a story where two people determined not to find love do so despite the odds and these two were pretty dead set against it. Down On Her Knees mixes the right amount of pleasure and pain to produce a thoroughly enjoyable and well executed story.Review copy provided for an honest review.